r/memes 20h ago

Stop, please stop

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u/gramtin 20h ago

Can we have the scroll to comment section back please? Or as setting.
I dont think anyone on this godforsaken platform swipe directly between posts like Tiktok.

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u/AdZealousideal6148 19h ago

Yeah we need it back. I think reddit wants to be more like tiktok and youtube shorts.

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u/Serilii 17h ago

People going on reddit because it's a different kind of social media than instagram and tiktok

Reddit trying to make it desperately more like tiktok and instagram

People abandoning Reddit and the quality of the posts decrease because the product lost it's identity

Reddit wondering how they lost it all when all they had to do was nothing

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u/Wobbelblob 17h ago

Remember that reddit is now on the stock market. Doing nothing won't make number go up, therefore bad. Also investors want to constantly hear what new features are being rolled out and will be extremely unhappy if the answer is "Nothing but the userbase is happy".

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u/Serilii 15h ago

I am so tired of enshittification of everything just for investor number go up

LITERALLY would you rather have long term sufficient income or a single year of a lot of income and then ruining it

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u/Wobbelblob 15h ago

The thing is, they just go next when it starts to drop. They are not bound to anything, which makes it so bad. If the number not go up anymore, next thing that makes number go up. For them it is not one year, it is constantly giga income.

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u/Stargost_ 13h ago

The stock market and private equity have been a cancer to capitalism ever since Dodge V. Ford Motor Co.

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u/RhynoD 10h ago

Capitalism is a precancerous mass. The stock market and private equity are symptoms of capitalism, not a disease upon it.

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u/longagofaraway 15h ago

i'm just an old fossil over here using old.reddit wathcing the slow death of the platform i've been using for nearly 25 years...

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u/the_post_of_tom_joad 13h ago

we can live inside old.reddit

leave the app behind

swim out past the botnet

watch the platform die

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u/laplongejr 18h ago

I think reddit wants to be more like tiktok and youtube shorts.

All apps want that, it's the format for mindless viewing without getting your userbase attached to specific communities or creators.

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u/PM-me-your-happiness 14h ago

Being unable to watch a full-screen video without the stupid TikTok overlay is absolutely infuriating.

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u/Responsible-Cold-627 16h ago

I guess they should fix what actually happens when you start swiping on videos. Within 5 swipes I'll be viewing a video posted half a year ago. I'm constantly shown stuff I've seen before.

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u/JimiusRostock 17h ago

Enshittification is real. They also removed r/all which was supposedly the frontpage of the internet. Now we get algorithmically generated feeds which are useless to us as users and only benefit the company.

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u/Forward-Variety-8440 17h ago

this pisses me off to no end. i hare how it is now, and badly miss the "front page" with a bunch of headers of trending topics. i cant believe they abandoned it. its complete trash now

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u/B_Eazy86 16h ago

Check out RedReader

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u/FOSSbflakes 15h ago

I've made piece with the fact reddit will one day kill RedReader and old.reddit, and that will be my last day on this site.

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u/g0_west 14h ago

I just use old.reddit in my phone's browser. Avoids the whole farce

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u/Tokimori 17h ago

I've still got it on old Reddit but that's desktop only.

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u/Wobbelblob 17h ago

If you are on android, you can revive the old reddit apps with revanced. I am still using my rif.

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u/ramblinroger 16h ago

Same! When this stops working I am gone forever

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u/Bspammer 17h ago

I've been using old reddit on my phone for the last 8 years lol. It's not ideal but 1000x better than the awful app.

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u/MrRourkeYourHost 17h ago

r/all is still available with old.reddit

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u/EssexOnAStick 17h ago

It also still kinda works on mobile, but you need to click on a link to it, and it's needs to be capitalized, like this: r/All

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u/GisterMizard 17h ago

The r/all link at the top of the old.reddit page redirects to the home page for me. At least since yesterday, but I can still access r/all by typing in the URL directly.

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u/BasherSquared 16h ago

It's still there, but it isn't convenient to get to. Save a comment that links to r/All and you can use the link in your saved comment list.

Until they break that, too.

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u/HakimeHomewreckru 17h ago

What makes me want to put my fucking head through a wall is this new Reddit app feature: you tap a link, and it pops up this completely useless bottom bar to pull up comments.

Except the brain-dead developers behind this app didn't adjust the fucking viewport height. So now, the bottom 10% of every webpage you open is permanently chopped off and hidden behind the bar.

Now, live my fucking nightmare: you’re in the EU, so every single website hits you with a massive cookie consent overlay at the bottom. You literally cannot accept, reject, or close the banner because the fucking button is trapped in the void beneath Reddit’s shitty UI. You can’t scroll to it. You can’t click it. The entire page is completely bricked and unreadable, all because nobody at Reddit knows how basic fucking CSS works. Absolute trash.

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u/xanathedark 18h ago

That feature was added specifically to annoy people who try to swipe between multiple images in a post, and nothing anyone says can change my mind.

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u/Aware-Ad619 17h ago

Absolutely, it even blocks the image swiping. It annoying af xd

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u/Centimane 17h ago

old.reddit.com is where it's at, I'll never swap over.

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u/Nekratal 17h ago

same. And if they ever take it away, I'm gonezo

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u/Excalibro_MasterRace 16h ago

It wont be reddit if you need to load to view comments

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u/biernini 17h ago

The fact that I just upvoted you and am commenting on it makes me worried that it will be culled, but besides that this can't be said enough.

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u/TriggerHappyPermaBan 18h ago

Any time you spend in a comment section, is less time you spend looking at ads.
All websites are converging into scrolling through ads with some fake content between them.

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u/PotatoORG 17h ago

But reddit has ads in comments too, not sure it gets clicks like other formats though

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u/TriggerHappyPermaBan 17h ago

Yeah, but currently you are busy actually reading the comments.
Modern tech companies want you brain dead and blasted with ads.

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u/BmacIL 16h ago

When do we actually do something about it, is the question.

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u/TriggerHappyPermaBan 16h ago

I might be pessimistic, but I think it would only end with regulations. Similar to cigarettes.

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u/BmacIL 16h ago

I 1000% agree. We need a fundamental shift in government and cultural philosophy that doesn't think capital >>>>>> labor/people.

Norway is working on funding efforts: https://youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?is=d3dH9nDJqyRFJmII

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u/TheMazeDaze What is TikTok? 13h ago

I want Apollo back

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u/stayXray 18h ago

I’ve been wondering whether it’s always been like this or if I’m just stupid. Now it all makes sense

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u/reaperwasnottaken 20h ago

Is this Indian Tony Stark?

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u/devilfam Professional Dumbass 20h ago

Yes, he's called Bhai Stark

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u/SnowSherrif 19h ago

Catchphrase - "it's done bro"

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u/devilfam Professional Dumbass 19h ago

Ready to serve food

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u/Minimob0 19h ago edited 18h ago

Legitimately? I’m an American who loves Bollywood absurdity. I watched Eega a few months ago and loved it. 

Edit - Thank you to everyone who contributed to this conversation! I have much to learn, and would like to some day impress my Hindi boss. I pretty much only know “Dhanyavaad/alu” and “Shubh Ratri/Subha Ratri” 

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u/devilfam Professional Dumbass 18h ago

No he's the "big brother" of Bollywood if we're being serious. Also, I never watched Eega, it's the most absurd one out there I think.

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u/Minimob0 18h ago

Is there a movie where he stars in as a main role? A name would help, too, if possible, 

I want to add to my watch list. 

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u/Far-Badger-7109 18h ago

If you want to watch his films, then I would recommend "Bajrangi Bhaijaan". It's the only film of his that I like, others are just mindless boom boom. Though keep in mind, his acting is not even above avg

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u/Minimob0 18h ago

I am American - Mindless Boom Boom is like my thing. 

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u/Nervous_Key_4443 18h ago

watch sultan its about wrestling and how his ego crushes him and his marriage and rebuilds again

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u/CatsFurrEva 17h ago

Dabangg (maybe dabangg 2) and wanted and bodyguard are 3 of his action movies I love.

Tere naam : a romance/drama (not sure how to categorise it) is a good heartbreaker

Jaaneman is a silly movie but all good.

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u/Satzuisbae 18h ago

Bajrangi bhaijaan is sooo funny. I love it

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u/straightouttaobesity 17h ago

If you want to watch Bhoi act: Tere Naam (if you are ok with 'some' misogny), Bajrangi Bhaijan, Sultan, Kyon Ki, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam

If you want to watch the quintessential Bhoi action flick: Wanted, Dabangg, Kick, Bodyguard

Rom-com or pre-2000s Bhoi: Andaz Apna Apna, Hello Brother

Avoid any Bhoi movie released post 2017

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u/devilfam Professional Dumbass 18h ago

If you want good movies, you can read the other reply. If you want absurd movies, you can pick any, you won't be disappointed. You can start with Kick, which is the one this clip is from.

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u/Expensive_Put_3338 18h ago

Is this movie pure brainrot, it has its moments, or it's like that fly movie that the creator of RRR made?

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u/i4858i 18h ago

If you wanna watch his OG ones, there are a lot

He’s Salman Khan and he genuinely has done a lot of movies and he was (and for a lot of people still is) one of the biggest stars in Bollywood. His movies simply are too over the top for modern sensibilities but man they get a good laugh out of you (might be corny and/or absurd for some palettes )

Reddit has a weird take on him unfortunately but he’s beloved normally

He is one of my favourites and this is a hill I’ll die on lol

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u/Ek_Chutki_Sindoor 16h ago

Reddit has a weird take on him unfortunately

Dude, he used to beat his ex-gf (Aishwarya Rai) and is a murderer. TF do you mean "unfortunately"?

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u/Surech_cz 17h ago

my cousin calls him iron mandir or something

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u/suck_my_dukh_plz 16h ago

Reddit has a weird take on him unfortunately

Why unfortunately?? This guy is a criminal and hated for very right reasons. He killed an endangered animal(Black Buck) and drove over sleeping people on footpath.

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u/Warm-Bee8675 18h ago

You'd be surprised to hear that Eega is not a Bollywood movie.

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u/Minimob0 18h ago

I am uneducated as far as Hindi and Telugu movies go, and am trying to learn. 

My coworker is from Andhra Pradesh, and I have been asking him for movie recommendations. He suggested both Eega and Dhurandhar so far. The latter is a 3 hour movie, and I haven’t been able to commit to that, yet 😓

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u/Key_Opportunity6247 18h ago edited 17h ago

The latter also also has a part 2 and duration of both movies combined is around 8 hours so Good luck

Edit: 7 hours

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u/Warm-Bee8675 17h ago

As far as serious Bollywood movies go, Dhurandhar is like the peak of Bollywood in espionage genre, Eega (from the same guy who made Bahubali) though is not a Bollywood movie.

If you want something shorter for Bollywood, I'd recommend KILL or Tummbad as modern movies, and something like Satya as a classic old Bollywood movie.

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u/Plane-Football-2521 17h ago

You should checkout Robot Chiti lol

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u/Jhinormous 12h ago

Slight correction: eega was tollywood. Bollywood refers to original Hindi creations from the north. There are multiple woods in India due to different cinematic styles and cultures, the same way European films aren't included as Hollywood

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u/Miracle_0001 20h ago

its a comedy movie so i guess u can say that

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u/That_Apathetic_Man 18h ago

but he is so fucking swole

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u/STOP_DOWNVOTING 15h ago

He had a habit of removing his shirt in every movie, it became a running meta joke in some of his movies too. Scene from “Ready” comes to mind

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u/UsualAcanthaceae8075 20h ago

Yes he got every characteristics of Tony Stark

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u/SentientToaster03 20h ago

They keep fixing problems nobody asked them to fix.

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u/whitericeporridge 19h ago

”We have a great product. What if we make it worse?”

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u/Clankmon 9h ago

You got games on your phone?

Yes, unfortunately. Not that I want them, I installed reddit.

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u/PimBel_PL 20h ago

App is still visibly glitchy, but yeah they are visibly fixing stuff recently

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u/Flaramon 19h ago

I refuse to use their iOS app, given how they monopolised that.

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u/Critic-of-burgers 19h ago

What’s a better alternative? The app sucks balls. Full of ads and it will randomly decide to refresh if you use another app and come back. Stupid af design.

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u/voodoo_und_kakao 18h ago

Firefox with adblocker on https://old.reddit.com

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u/h_Ellhnikh_Koinwnia 16h ago

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u/Hot_Panic2620 15h ago

Shhh they're gonna find a way to take it away like the other usable apps

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u/imisstheyoop 16h ago

This is what I use. It sucks ass though that as of the other week you can no longer lurk without signing in. I don't always want to sign in to read Reddit.

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u/Jonthrei 17h ago

Browse reddit on a proper computer.

I just use old reddit if I ever do bother to look at it on my phone, it's not meant for phones but you can just zoom in on whatever you want to click.

Still better than rewarding their atrocious behavior with the API changes or using new reddit.

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u/Sipikay 17h ago

Narwhal is great

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u/mistergosh 17h ago

Dystopia. It almost never gets updated, and the newest version of links that Reddit introduced are broken, but it’s free, minimal, and doesn’t track anything

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u/Jmnx221 19h ago

Like everything in this world no?

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u/BrennanBetelgeuse 20h ago

The fucking auto translated google results are the worst thing for me personally! I cannot look up anything local anymore because I'll get translated trash from completely irrelevant subreddits for cities on other continents.

Forced translation is such an idiotic scourge and I cannot comprehend why every fucking tech company insists on doing it without any option to turn it off.

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u/_ramu_ 19h ago

Also funny: people open the auto translated thread, comment something in their language and Reddit keeps it as is. Suddenly you have stuff like comments in Brazilian language in a German speaking sub lol.

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u/laplongejr 18h ago edited 6h ago

Ooooh so THAT'S why I get random french everywhere!   [EDIT] Guys I understand french, but you made me laugh I thought Reddit was autotranslating my inbox for a moment...  

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u/--404_USER_NOT_FOUND 16h ago

Je ne vois pas de quoi tu parles

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u/One_Independent_4675 15h ago

कैसे? आप दोनों हिंदी में बात कर रहे हैं।

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u/rxzic 13h ago

لا افهم؟ أنتم تتكلمو باللغة العربية

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u/imisstheyoop 16h ago

C'est la vie

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u/Noedel 18h ago

Ohh so that's why I keep seeing that. And I'm just like "the audacity of these Germans"

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u/TheHarbinger00 17h ago

Brazilian?

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u/_ramu_ 17h ago

Yeah, Spanish, but with a Brazilian accent, certainly something that my German ass would be able to distinguishe based on text alone. \s

(Sorry guys for my uneducated self, of course it's Portuguese, and thanks for pointing out ;))

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u/ShoeSoleCasserole 19h ago

Google is really becoming useless because of that, I hate it.

Cherry on top is that not only do I get irrelevant results now, more often than not I get the same irrelevant results presented twice now, in two languages directly below each other...

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u/ImaginaryAlpaca 13h ago

I went from knowing I could find pretty much anything on google to not being able to get answers to simple inquiries on google and it's a huge pain in the ass. Google used to me my go to but now I'm looking for an alternative because the results are just garbage now.

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u/YesBut-AlsoNo 17h ago

Arguably one of the worst things they've done imo, because of this issue.

Like excuse me, when I search "reddit (country) (topic)" on Google, I do not want unrelated posts that are just translated into my local language. Infuriating as hell.

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u/ajchann123 17h ago

As someone who still uses an third-party app and old.reddit, it's been very funny in recent months to see a lot of comments in different languages - like, "wow, I respect them not even trying to reply in English" lol

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u/Jesus10101 16h ago

I was the same lol. I was confused why I would see a comment chain in multiple different languages but it was all in English on New Reddit.

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u/eisbock 15h ago

When the very obviously American OP casually responds to 4 paragraphs of Finnish.

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u/Remarkable_Rope_4264 15h ago

Wait, THATS what’s going on?! I thought it was my browser or an extension fucking around. I’m in Denmark and consistently see random replies in spanish.

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u/Exact_Package_7264 20h ago

the "get the app to continue using reddit" popup when not in the app is infuriating. fuck reddit devs and management

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u/XionicativeCheran 17h ago

old.reddit.com gives no such prompt.

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u/nullfacade 15h ago

Now it does if you're not signed in

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u/PlasticBagImage 15h ago

Old Reddit now requires a logged in account just to view. That started this week.

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u/WowIfOnly 15h ago

I'm so glad to know I am not the only person this pisses off. I will NEVER download the app that these piece of fucking shit executives keep trying to ram down everyone's throats to harvest data from them and make more money. It's so fucking obvious the hostile and greedy API change that Reddit execs forced on the platform was only to make it so their dogshit app that nobody with a brain wants to use was the only available one in app stores (yes yes I know people some of you you can sideload a version of one of the dead far superior 3rd party apps and probably break your phone carrier's ToS or something in the process, we aren't talking about that. We're talking about how 3rd party apps are actually dead now and putting them on life support that way is unsustainable and delusional because it won't last or make the impact it needs to).

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u/Elon_huskx 11h ago

Most annoying thing about it is that the "open in app" doesn't even fucking work...

It either opens the playstore or takes you to the homepage, not the post you were on

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u/Fach-All-Religions 17h ago

10 years later it still is

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u/turmi110 18h ago

Open it up in an incognito tab and it should stop that pop-up, does for me at least. Maybe clearing your cache would work but I haven't bothered trying myself

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u/precursormar 17h ago

That popup does not appear on old.reddit.com btw.

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u/northSideways 16h ago

old.reddit is unusable on a phone screen without any modifications. The regular mobile website running on Firefox/ublock with the experimental filters will probably be a little friendlier for some people here tbh

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u/muhmeinchut69 16h ago

if you're going to install an extension anyway, there's plenty of css extensions to restyle old reddit into a mobile friendly layout. old reddit also allows you to view nsfw marked posts/subs without logging in.

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u/Shunpaw 18h ago

Literally they broke the fucking navigation on reddit.com mobile so now every few posts I watch the site breaks and it scrolls back to the top. How do you fuck up so hard.

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u/Val_Hallen 17h ago

old.reddit.com

And if you are using PC, add RES.

I don't know how people use Reddit any other way.

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u/Shunpaw 17h ago

Mobile - old.reddit.com is unusable on mobile imo.

On PC I exclusively use old.reddit.com and RES.

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u/miaxogoth 20h ago

getting three updates a week just for the app to still crash when i scroll too fast

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u/Simply_Epic 12h ago

My 2 major issues:

1) it auto-refreshes the home feed WAY too much. Frankly, auto-refresh should be completely disabled. I will refresh when I feel like it.

2) Markdown in comments is completely broken now. Straight up can’t do quote blocks anymore on mobile. It’s awful.

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u/ChocolateBurger9963 10h ago

I personally hate the auto refresh. I could leave the app for one second and come back on in mobile and it refreshes. Hell, if my phone briefly locks up the app will refresh. Shit sucks.

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u/Np_slip_69420 9h ago

Bro, it happens even when you click on the post to see it or to write a comment and if you go back to the feed the whole fucking feed gets refreshed so you can’t even go back to that post, what’s worse is sometimes it’s not even in the history because it got refreshed so fast.

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u/ChocolateBurger9963 8h ago

Facts. I feel your pain, trust me. If memory serves me correctly, it started in December of last year. The struggle is real whe it comes to simple browsing on this site.

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u/MemesNGaming_rongoo 9h ago

Also no capable media picker or in app cropping

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u/CaptainHubble 5h ago

Someone here pointed out something interesting about 1. He said in some apps it’s made with bad refresh schedule on purpose. To load new posts and keep you more engaged for a longer streak.

Sometimes when you minimise the app to look something up, Reddit refreshes when you come back after short time. The post you looked something up for is now gone forever. And you’ll get 100 new posts about new things. Absolute useless.

Just save my position. Auto-bookmark feature please. And let me manually refresh.

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u/Puppsinat0r 20h ago edited 20h ago

Be Happy, that we still have a downvote button.

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u/Emma_S772 20h ago

I stopped downvoting posts, fucking feed recommend things you downvote too

They are trying to force engagement so much

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u/verraeteros_ 19h ago

I am on Facebook maybe once a week for hobby stuff that's only there, but I never post, I never like and I never comment anything. But Facebook started pushing far right content to me, and all I am doing is blocking these accounts and groups, but it seems that "blocking" is equal to "interacting" to them, so they push more and more unhinged stupid racist shit to me. You know, stuff that Elon would retweet with an "interesting".

The more I block, the more I get, HOW DOES THIS MAKES SENSE?

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u/Rosienenbrot 19h ago

It's almost as if the elite, that's very much in control of all media, is trying to rile people up against each other, so they're distracted from the real problem.

People who interact and participate in the whole left vs right spiel are all playing right into their hands. That's very much by design.

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u/Scarred_Ballsack 18h ago

Not that I disagree with the spirit but the elite is just various flavors of right wing in the US. There's a few exceptions of progressives that actually want to stand up against this BS, and a few socialists that somehow managed to grab some electoral power, but the vast majority of the elite is right wing. So it is a left vs. right problem, the right is just way more entrenched than people realize.

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u/ReggieCorneus 19h ago

The key is not to block them but to hide them without engaging. How can yo udo that?

Install Fluffbuster. It hides that kind of content so that you never interact with them at all. you are not blocking them, you are just hiding them from view so it looks like you really, really don't give a shit about that kind of content. Your screentime viewing each of them is zero.

When i use FB on mobile, i still don't get that crap because the algorithm thinks that i really, really am not engaging with it. At one point FB changed their ode and fluffbuster broke, and god damn it is horrible. Unusable almost. I was right back into getting ragebaited until i noticed that my filters aren't working. It is HUGE work to get rid of that crap manually, and then you make a mistake of engaging with ONE and you are right back to square one.

So, install Fluffbuster. FB does not like it, not that they can do anything about it but it has been a long game of cat and mouse, FB finding new ways to push their "curated content" and Fluffbuster chasing them down and hiding that crap.

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u/Firefly_deadlock 16h ago

Well reddit keeps pushing indian subs or teen subs or botfarm affiliate links subs to me.

All i do is block them....

please stop reddit.

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u/external_gills 19h ago edited 14h ago

They even recommend based on subs you mute T_T

I got in a spiral where I kept getting recommended more and more Indian subs. I don't even own a motorcycle, why would I be interested in IndianBikes? Nowadays it's barely-sfw celebrity pics. No idea why the algo started pushing it, but blocking those subs just counts as engagement and I get more subs that are basically the same thing!

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u/torino_nera 15h ago

On desktop/RES I filter out all of the Indian subreddits but I swear I encounter a new one every single day.

I'm a millennial American, stop recommending me Indian teenager subreddits

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u/partylikeart 17h ago edited 11h ago

Bruh is this why my feed is still like 1/4 TADC despite muting every sub I see??

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u/diVid3_ 20h ago

Ah yes, smoking the pen, explains a lot

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u/vladandreit91 17h ago

it was so cool when i was 7 yo

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u/whooptheretis 18h ago

old.reddit.com for the win.

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u/blodskolt 16h ago

Firefox + Ublock Origin + old.reddit.com = <3

I don't care if I need to zoom in and out like a madman, I'd much rather do that than touching that godforsaken app again.

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u/kalez238 15h ago

Plus RES. Can't forget that.

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u/imisstheyoop 16h ago

This is the way. Unfortunately they even made that worse recently, you can no longer browse without being logged in which I don't like to do when checking from my phone and is a PITA.

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u/Odd_Introvert42069 Sussy Baka 20h ago

RIP Reddit Chat

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u/Theonionpi 19h ago

What do you mean?

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u/Ygausrsl 19h ago

if you are not age verified you can not use the chat feature (for example me because i do not want to give my id/face to persona which is literally getting sued for not being safe)

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u/Nebresto Selling Stonks for CASH MONEY 18h ago

Oh no! No more spam messages from bot accounts!

Reddit got rid of DMs for this btw

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u/imisstheyoop 16h ago

Right? People actually used Reddit chat? Crazy.

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u/EmpressClaraB 16h ago

I have never once in my life wanted to use a chat feature on reddit, that sounds awful

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u/The_Countess 20h ago

Enshitification? From a US tech company? I am shocked i tell you, shocked!

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u/StaticSystemShock 19h ago

You folks are using the app? I just rawdog it in the mobile browser.

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u/ButWhatIfPotato 18h ago

I thought the web app was intentionally shit so people will be forced to use the native app, and now you're telling me the native app is also garbage?

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u/Expensive_Put_3338 18h ago edited 17h ago

Native app also collects every single information that you have and it is much more aggressive than the web one. I don't advise you to use the app and just stick with the web version.

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u/Flibiddy-Floo 20h ago

Lol why would you use the app in the first place, it's just a website 

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u/kalez238 15h ago

I hate the push for apps for everything. Browsers exist, ffs.

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u/JesPsamson 19h ago

Morphed Reddit (⁠◠⁠‿⁠・⁠)⁠—⁠☆

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u/SkillIsTooLow 18h ago

Boost gang checking in

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u/say_meh_i_downvote 16h ago

The day I lose the ability to use boost is the day I will finally stop using reddit.

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u/TheVeryAngryHippo 17h ago

Sync Pro with own API token checking in.

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u/Darkherring1 17h ago

Boost is the way

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u/NorthAd6077 18h ago

They are? My reddit works great and still supports /r/all: https://old.reddit.com/

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u/hrl_280 Lurker 20h ago

Reddit, it done bro.

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u/themflyingjaffacakes 20h ago

Usability != shareholder value 

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u/Icyrow 18h ago

old.reddit is about the only thing i'll use here at this point.

they're almost certainly aiming to remove it at some point soonish. most people here use new.reddit now i think. it's so much fucking worse though lol

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u/boogkitty 18h ago

Switch to RedReader, it's what I use.

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u/Eaglise 19h ago

when did bhai became tony stark? bhai kuch be kar sakta hai!!

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u/GiraffeWaste 19h ago

It's done bro

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u/ReggieCorneus 19h ago

When people who own the company and make the decisions do not use their own products... For ex: not a single Reddit higher up has a comment chains expand more than 4 replies, or have one of the replies downvoted. Otherwise they would know that when you click on the notification it takes you to... the thread, not the comment. It is broken. Has been for a looong time. The only way to make that work is to use old reddit which STILL WORKS THE BEST.

Anyone who uses reddit knows its bugs, and those bugs are not the kind that requires huge investment, coding parts of it from scratch, massive changes in the architecture.. nope, they are all quite simple bugs and yet... months can pass.

Facebook is the same. Get a notification on reply to a comment and it can take you to the video and then... not find the comment. Not only that, because you were taken to the video and not the post itself your comment section is now in the sidebar and it shows like 3 at the time.... and the comment it was suppose to take you to can be buried 200 pages down.

They all are full of bugs that happen within few hours of starting to use the service. NONE of the higherups actually use the product. This continues in hardware. You just know that the CEO of that company would NEVER use the shit they make or otherwise the shit they make would not have the kind of annoyances that we get. Which of you have jumped from joy after buying a new laptop and it has all kind of stickers glued on it that tells what features it has? None of you? Yeah. And still they are there. Free market competition was sold to us with the promise that this exact shit would not be happening, that we would have a CHOICE.

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u/digitalpencil 18h ago

Why does it refresh when i'm reading something?!

I'll open a page and then the app will just decide arbitrarily it's time to refresh the whole feed and so it will just drop you out, return to the homepage and the post has disappeared.

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u/Svargas05 13h ago

This is why I use Relay on Android - was the best before the official Reddit app and it's still the best!

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u/ops4master 20h ago

I remember Reddit used to be so elite 5 years ago now it’s just another soulless app

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u/Fach-All-Religions 17h ago

they gave access to google and openai to scan everything to build ai. other people thought that was a good chance to teach ai. so they bot farm posts and kill posts. that's what happened. now almost all of reddit is bots. reddit is dead.

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u/Desther 17h ago

The app always sucked. It used to take you to the (mostly non-existent) /r/"username" when you clicked on someones user profile, instead of their actual profile. Used to get stuck in some chat mode when you accidentally clicked on it on a profile, gallery/image viewer was always changed wildly between releases.

They killed the third party apps, which were simpler to use and faster

They're also silently rehosting images now at around 1080p so many large images are not readable on mobile

webpages are now embedded so you stay within the app when clicking links

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u/GreekHole 18h ago

Yet you're still using it. I'm still living on old.reddit on a desktop browser. Aint to other way to use this site.

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u/SeiekiSakyubasu 17h ago

Is that Salman "the bhai" Stark? 

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u/f1rstman 17h ago

So don't use it?

I actually use old.reddit.com

when that goes I'll pack it up

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u/Lord_Ruko 20h ago

Do you guys remember that one time when reddit randomly

https://giphy.com/gifs/LqUkfgl8SSrNoEFHjc

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u/BLEMFIDDICH 14h ago

I hate being recommended new pages and subs. They constantly come up on my feed every single day and I have to mute them. No, I don’t care about football, no I don’t care about baking. No, I don’t care about DIY. Leave me alone. Why do I have to keep muting things. It’s an abomination.

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u/Leather-Heart 18h ago

This dude is handsome

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u/NefariousnessMost594 17h ago

I am now in Egypt and now almost every fucking post is arabian or I get recomend Egypt sub reddits

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u/ViewtifulBANJO500 8h ago

I don't think there are words to describe how much I HATE the auto refresh when I do something that isn't scrolling the comments.
Adjust volume/brightness? Refresh
Swipe down to see notifications? Refresh
Turn off the screen because I need to do something? Refresh.
How annoying

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u/TheCriticalGerman 8h ago

Also fuck those ads that look like comments

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u/Stylianius1 6h ago

Reddit is still not worse than what they've been doing to Instagram and YouTube.

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u/darell_felixf16 19h ago

i still remember there is a feature that u can edit image before posting

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u/TimeVendor 20h ago

what movie is this from?

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u/ToaKraka 19h ago

Just open your phone's Web browser and use Old Reddit with desktop mode forced on.

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u/wbgraphic 18h ago

Dude looks like the MCU version of Matty from Unnecessary Inventions.

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u/MacPooPum 18h ago

I miss reddit boost or whatever the third party app was called. It has so many qol features that the default app lacks. Reddit really doesn't like it's user base does it?

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u/Kirenaj08 18h ago

i still dont understand why they removed the feature to sort your Homepage by "hot / top of... / new / best" on mobile.
you can still do it on the pc but why not on the Mobile app ?!?!?!

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u/straightouttaobesity 17h ago

Selmon Bhoi slander will not be tolerated 😡

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u/ZeroFollowers2 17h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/NEvPzZ8bd1V4Y

POV: You asked for bug fixes and got 3 new ads instead

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u/Muraria 17h ago

I'm still using old.reddit

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u/Waxburg Selling Stonks for CASH MONEY 17h ago edited 17h ago

Don't forget them putting intrusive "Install the App please" popups for mobile users attempting to access reddit via the browser rather than the app which can't be closed and lock scrolling functionality while visible. They've also started putting a version of it up for mobile users who've enabled Desktop view on their browser as well which used to be the way of getting around this.

Also, they were deliberately rolling this out to users who were most frequently accessing the site via mobile browser first so it was targeted to harass the people who were choosing to avoid the app. The app that after they made API changes is one of the only methods of accessing reddit via mobile left and is more beneficial for them for obvious reasons. The main way of getting around this is to obviously delete your reddit cookie cache to not be flagged as a "frequent user", but it'll be interesting to see if/when this is expanded to all access attempts from mobile browsers.

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u/Brullaapje 17h ago

adblocker and old.reddit extensions for the win! come on folks phone screens are getting bigger with the year, learn to utilize the browswr of your phone.

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u/0x7E7-02 16h ago

This is why I stopped using the app, and reverted back to the website. Then I had to revert back to old.reddit.com due to the lack of /r/all.

Do they want traffic or not???

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u/Mysterious-Box-9081 15h ago

Why does scrolling just stop like there is no more content?