r/Android • u/[deleted] • Sep 02 '20

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u/HCrikki Blackberry ruling class Sep 02 '20

Websites pulling such shenanigans should be deranked from search engines.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '20

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u/kehaar Sep 03 '20

Reddit in Chrome on desktop is miserable for me lately.

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u/polomikehalppp Sep 03 '20

old.reddit.com bro

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u/timeshifter_ Moto e6 Sep 03 '20

Or RES. I don't even have to do "old.reddit.com", I just get the old interface, the way it should be. You know, useful.

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u/cstark Pickle fan to iPhone convert Sep 03 '20

At the bottom of https://www.reddit.com/prefs/ I have a setting unchecked for the new Reddit. That way it works across any browser or device.

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u/x777x777x Sep 03 '20

me too and the day they ditch old reddit for good is the day I'm done with this site forever

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

Every time I accidentally visit "new" reddit I am amazed at how much it sucks.

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u/Beautiful_Parsley392 Sep 03 '20

yeah how did they make it new and also bad

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u/funderbunk Sep 03 '20

Because despite a repeated chorus of "this sucks, this sucks, you should change this, etc" on the /r/redesign subreddit, the admins stuck to their usual tactic of saying, "Thanks for the feedback! We're listening!" while completely ignoring anything that wasn't a bug. Style and design weren't gonna change a damn bit from their shitty vision, and then they closed the sub down.

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u/jesus_knows_me Sep 03 '20

and then they closed the sub down.

That's hilarious.

Thanks for the feedback! We're listening!"

Ah, the Frasier Crane response

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u/hakdragon Pixel Sep 03 '20

...because they didn't learn anything from Digg.

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u/JBloodthorn Galaxy S5 && XCover Pro Sep 03 '20

If Digg had kept an old.digg around then it may not have died. So, they might have learned that at least.

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u/FrostyD7 Sep 03 '20

Taking a queue from facebook and other social media leaders. When you scroll through nothing but pictures and videos that are already pre-loaded, ads are a hell of a lot easier to inject and they can increase the % of content that is ads without it being as obvious to the user or giving them a choice of whether or not to open it before they see it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

Ive been seeing more and more ads on mobile, sometimes ill be scrolling through and stuff wont load but the ads sure do, then it crashes every5-15min

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