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‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google
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There was slant for a bit. Turned out to not be as reactive to market distributions.
Stack exchange has some good stuff going for it.
The browser add-ons for redirecting to old.reddit are doing good work. Best add-ons 2023
Yeah, I've used one, but there is also sloowly accumulating bitrot there. It's not getting any work done on it, and Reddit was pretty clear that they weren't going to do more work on it.
Submissions of image collections have some bad link; they didn't exist back when old.reddit.com was the norm.
www.reddit.com and old.reddit.com handle underscores in URLs pasted straight into Markdown and auto-linkified differently (one requires that they be backslash-escaped, the other that they not be backslash-escaped).
There's some kind of inline image stuff in the new UI, IIRC, that doesn't show up on old.reddit.com. I was surprised when I bipped over to the new UI and saw it.
You can hack a dark mode in in various ways, but it's normally a light theme.
Not really specific to just the old Web UI, but third-party client issue is a factor for phone users. Reddit's web UI on mobile isn't fantastic. old.reddit.com is okay for desktop use, but it's not really a great solution for phones.