[charlesdaniels]

Personally, I have found that even old.reddit.com is pretty much unusable these days, to say nothing of the horrible new mobile site, which for some reason is also the desktop site.

I have found Teddit[0] is much more usable, and much less privacy-invading. Of course Teddit does not allow posting or commenting though, so depending on your use case it might not be suitable.

0 - https://teddit.net/about

[kgwxd]

old.reddit.com is good if you're not logged in. But if you create an account and disable a ton of things like:

allow subreddits to show me custom themes, show user flair, show link flair, allow my data to be used for research purposes, allow reddit to log my outbound clicks for personalization, let other users see my online status, Use new Reddit as my default experience, and everything under "set personalization preferences"

And enable "compress the link display" which in turn disables thumbnails. It's basically just like HN.

[gbrown_]

Sadly the outbound preferences will be going away too it seems.

https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/lqtecn/update_to...

[kgwxd]

I caught wind of that a few days ago. I wonder if it will effect rss feeds, which is usually how I open links. I might be willing to put up with just never clicking a link through the site, but if the rss feed hits their servers first, that'll be the end of Reddit for me.