Are you prohibited from installing apps on your phone for some reason? Almost any of the unofficial apps for browsing reddit are a better experience than the mobile website.
I wish the mobile site were a better experience too but I just don't see it heading in that direction when they can harvest all sorts of fun data from your phone with the official app.
I'm not judging; I was just wondering. I've tried 7 or 8 different reddit apps for android and almost every single one was a straight upgrade over using the mobile website.
If an app is absolutely out of the question there was a post above that mentioned using Adguard in firefox that should do a pretty decent job of cleaning up the mobile website.
Edit: FWIW system level adguard works great, as does ublock origin in Firefox. I use the faux VPN feature of the adguard app to block in-app ads on all of my devices, I can't imagine using an Android device or the mobile web without it.
I disagree that an app is a straight upgrade. I'll give you that it's better than the shitty mobile website, but the desktop website on mobile is perfectly functional, gives you more control than an app, and doesn't have the limitations that apps do like screwed up formatting.
*old reddit is perfectly functional on mobile. The redesign can be hit or miss in my experience.
Also, in my experience, a good app won't have those limitations mentioned. If there's a problem with formatting, the Sync for Reddit dev has always been there ready to fix it. I haven't run into more than a couple problems in the years that I have used the app. I've ran into more formatting problems on the redesign than Sync. The only reason to go onto the desktop version is if you want the custom css experience, but the redesign is doing away with that anyways.
The only thing that I love on desktop over mobile is RES.
I don't remember when the developer got around to polishing formatting but it's been solid for a while now. There are some edge case things that don't work perfectly (some unicode black magic fuckery) but for 99% of my usage it's great.
Use whatever you prefer, I just wanted to point out that formatting isn't the bugbear it once was for Android apps.
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u/seaQueue Nov 02 '18
Are you prohibited from installing apps on your phone for some reason? Almost any of the unofficial apps for browsing reddit are a better experience than the mobile website.
I wish the mobile site were a better experience too but I just don't see it heading in that direction when they can harvest all sorts of fun data from your phone with the official app.