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Being forced to download the Reddit app onto my phone to view any 'NSFW' post, even though I'm on my desktop (lemmy.ca)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A friend sent me the link but I guess I'll have to tell him to send me screenshots in the future.

old.reddit still lets me view it. For now....

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[-] [email protected] 197 points 4 months ago

Reddit has become full garbage.

[-] [email protected] 117 points 4 months ago

To be fair, its been shit for a real long time.

We all just put up with it far longer than we should have.

[-] [email protected] 53 points 4 months ago

Yeah. From when I first joined reddit to until I left, I've never ever seen the video player actually fucking working. It's like a McDonalds ice cream machine, always broken.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago

At least there's a reason for McDonald's ice cream machines not working, even if it is blatant and disgusting corporate greed from Taylor Company.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

If anyone wants to spend 30 minutes learning about McDo's ice cream machines, boy have I got the YouTube video for you!

(Piped link)

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

I never understood why people complained about this. Reddit videos always worked fine for me in RiF. Then I found out they don't work in the official app. WTF?

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

You got that right.

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[-] [email protected] 188 points 4 months ago

old.reddit will be killed off before the ipo in March

mark my words

[-] [email protected] 113 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Spez explicitly promised they wouldn't get rid of old reddit.

Which I took to mean they intend to ruin it by cramming all the shitty new features into it and taking away the things it does better.

Edit: I don't trust spez lmao I just think what he said might be a hint for how they will fuck reddit up going forward

[-] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago

lololol wouldn't be the first time by far he's broken an explicit promise

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

imagine thinking business leaders in the US have any honor or credibility.

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago

I don't know, old.reddit feels like it probably serves some internal purposes, and it's a safe fallback for when they inevitably release buggy shit on the new site.

old.reddit will probably be broken or maybe even restricted more and more as time goes by (it already has been) but I don't see them killing it entirely.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Sounds likely that in the future, they will release changes that will break old and they will decide not to fix it.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Old Reddit is the only place moderators have any 3rd party tools. When Reddit kills it, many more mods will quit. Large subs will be completely unmanageable

[-] [email protected] 114 points 4 months ago

If you change the URL to old.reddit.com you can get past this BS and view the post anyway even without logging in. You just have to use the old version of the site which has a lot less of the stupid stuff they've added.

[-] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago

There's also browser extensions like "old reddit redirect". They ensure you're always on the good version of reddit.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

Or Reddit Enhancement Suite

[-] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

It's probably best to not recommend RES anymore it's been in maintenance mode for around 2 years and is no longer being maintained. Honestly I'm amazed it has been become broken and unusable yet.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I mean...it hasn't, though?

RES still works just fine. Why would I stop recommending something that works?

What a bizarre thing to suggest. Don't use software that's in maintenance mode? The whole point of maintenance mode is so it keeps working so people can keep using it.

I'll stop recommending it when it breaks.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

The day RES quits working is the day I stop using reddit at all. Right now it’s a mix of the fediverse and some reddit, but not having RES (or old.reddit) would kill it for me.

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[-] [email protected] 88 points 4 months ago

It's a data harvesting company now.

[-] [email protected] 60 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This worked for me:

Start your own subreddit so you're a mod,
mark it nsfw,
don't need to post anything

and you should be able to access any nsfw in your feed when off-app.

[-] [email protected] 132 points 4 months ago

This also worked for me:

I stopped using reddit, because it turned to shit.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

They could also just login on desktop

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Wow I kinda assumed they'd done so, but looking at the screenshot you're right

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[-] [email protected] 57 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Do you really want our pity for still being on that shitty platform?

[-] [email protected] 60 points 4 months ago

Pity, no. A shared expression of annoyance at a platform we all used to enjoy becoming further and further enshittified, yes.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Annoyingly there are still some good threads related to questions I've asked etc.

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[-] [email protected] 43 points 4 months ago

Like Facebook making you get messenger. No thanks

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

That was the start of my end of using Facebook for sure

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Same. Then in 2020 I did a full stop when I saw my mom post some unhinged conspiracy bullshit

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago

"let us track you to view this post"

[-] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago

Does old.reddit.com not resolve anymore?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I just use load desktop site on Firefox mobile and it's fine.

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago

Holdin the bewbies hostage for your data...

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

This really irks me, because it applies to subs related to weed or other non-sexual content, including some games. I've also been hit with the same prompt to open the official app for subreddits that are "under review" or new.

I only go to reddit from search engine queries to get answers for a topic.

I just posted on reddit for the first time since the API disaster to get support for the watchmaker app (that is the dev's official source for support).

I noticed a weird glitch happening to me (mobile site on Firefox) in which if I edit a comment, it loses all formatting. Like, every space between 'paragraphs' dissappears, and so did the block quotes. It just put ">" in with the jumbled up mess...

[-] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

For the moment you can replace the 'www' in the page link to 'old' and reload. the old ui doesn't show these annoying warnings. You can also try some libreddit instance.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

Probably just need to sign in. But if you don't have an account already, then it's shitty that they force you to use the app to create an account.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

I can highly recommend rdx for browsing reddit without an account

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Since Old Reddit will be dead soon, have a look at kddit and Eddrit. They're like Libreddit, but not blocked (yet). However, you should try to avoid using them, as they get ratelimited quite easily.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Libreddit is alive if you selfhost your own instance.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Libreddit should fix this

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