Comment by spidercat
10 days ago
"anonymous" is the key word. old.reddit still works (though it seems to get progressively jankier), but it's now requiring a login.
10 days ago
"anonymous" is the key word. old.reddit still works (though it seems to get progressively jankier), but it's now requiring a login.
Reading the claim that they're requiring login to old.reddit.com "for safety" made me laugh out loud.
When are they going to admit that the redesign sucks and there's a reason everyone keeps loading the old reddit interface? Who has the ego that can't handle the truth, that their UI/UX design is garbage and loathed?
The random phrases turned into links that are never helpful means I can't trust any link in comments now, there's that stupid AI box that never has useful or helpful info, conversations are a nightmare to try and read through.
I will never understand how it is that a site which exists almost entirely for conversations, made a new UI that severely fucks with "read the conversation."
It was activated for my region yesterday and it did wonders for breaking my reddit addiction.
Then I tried the normal view and ... wow, so many auto-playing video ads disguised as regular posts.
It's using an algorithm to determine whether or not to allow anonymous access. It looks like it's considering origin IP, browser useragent, among other things. I've had login prompts show up once or twice, but when I'm using my regular browser in incognito mode and not connecting through a third-party VPN, it continues to allow logged-out access.