[loudandskittish]

Thank you! I followed the link on my phone and WTF is this bullshit? There's a popover that tells me to either download the app or "Return to /r/popular" ...despite not having come from there in the first place. No way to just close it and, you know, read the content. At least, no obvious way.

[ajdude]

It's gotten so bad on iOS I registered an easy-to-type .com TLD and spun up a libreddit instance on it. Now I just have to double-tap "reddit" in the url and bang out 6 random characters and hit "enter". I was so happy when the new iOS came out with extension support, now I just redirect the tld to that instance automatically.

[asdff]

I request desktop version on mobile for reddit. The dark patterns break functionality otherwise. even pinching and zooming on old.reddit.com is better than that.

[bennysomething]

Also there is the "old Reddit" add-on for various browsers , auto changes the URL to old.Reddit.com

Unfortunately this is currently incompatible with current Firefox on android

[elcapitan]

Like most useful plugins.. :/

[Klonoar]

I ported my extension for these redirects to the new iOS Safari extension model. You can choose to also use the old i.reddit.com interface as well it that’s your thing.

https://secretkeys.io/oldr/

[rnjesus]

oh thank god. i had ben looking for this extension for ios. just bought it, and it works great — thank you

[GhettoComputers]

Can you further explain? I jailbreak and use a redirect to the Apollo app, didn’t know the new iOS could do extensions. Amazing. old.reddit.com is much nicer too.

[ajdude]

Yep! If you check out the iOS 15 page and scroll about half way down, it talks about extensions: https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-15/

I'm currently using HyperWeb[0], which does a great deal of automatic redirecting, ad-blocking, etc. (and other automation, if you get the pro option) though there's plenty of other extensions working their way into iOS support now[1].

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hyperweb/id1581824571

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2021/09/21/here-are-the-best-new-safari-...

[GhettoComputers]

Thank you so much! I still haven't updated and probably won't to get an untethered jailbreak but I know this will get bigger and I will use it in the future. Wonder if webassembly will help too.

[ciarcode]

I think this is finally the time to switch to Safari from Chrome for me.

[Klonoar]

I ported my extension for these redirects to the new iOS Safari extension model. You can choose to also use the old i.reddit.com interface as well it that’s your thing.

https://secretkeys.io/oldr/

[graftak]

Apollo now has a built in safari extension to do exactly that; redirect Reddit url’s to the Apollo app.

[prawn]

I get all those plus I've noticed a Reddit page crashing and reloading the page on mobile Safari once I've scrolled down a few comments. Every page does this without fail for me. I use those and the "Return to /r/popular" messages to remind myself that it's almost never worth my time and to go read something else.

[sharken]

The Reddit page loads without issues on Android with the Chromium-based Brave browser.

It sounds like Reddit and iOS is a really bad combination.

[nguyenkien]

That the new reddit. They really want people using their app, despite the website work ok.

[isoprophlex]

... for some value of "ok", after the horrible redesign some years ago

[cma]

It's part of the Web 0.0 movement.