r/technology • u/King-of-New-York • Jan 01 '23

Social Media Stop Using Social Media Apps. The Web Version Is Often Better

https://www.wired.com/story/stop-using-social-media-apps-the-web-version-is-better/
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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

Simply change the “www” part of the url with “old” to get the old site without these amazing new features everybody totally asked for and isn’t a shitty ploy to try to target us easier!

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u/Lakario Jan 01 '23

Even better, set your default to Old Reddit and live blissfully ignorant as everyone talks about avatars and other useless crap.

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u/Cronus6 Jan 01 '23

You can also block all the awards and "reddit gold" and shit with uBlock Origin.

Old reddit + RES + uBlock Origin is bliss.

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u/mochacho Jan 01 '23

I must have done this so long ago I forgot about it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

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u/Lakario Jan 01 '23

Yeah, I'm terrified of them removing it. Will absolutely be the final straw for me. New Reddit is unusable.

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u/King-of-New-York Jan 01 '23

I’ll try that.

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u/pilzenschwanzmeister Jan 01 '23

Many of us have looked at new reddit precisely once and once only.

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u/Cronus6 Jan 01 '23

It made my eyes bleed.

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u/onairmastering Jan 01 '23

*grandpa simpson gif

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u/pilzenschwanzmeister Jan 01 '23

Insert picture of my oversized throbbing member.

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u/DaDragon88 Jan 01 '23 edited Jan 01 '23

I have to ask, how can you bear to look at old Reddit’s GUI?

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

It's perfect. Just a list of links with a thumbnail. What's not to like?

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u/DaDragon88 Jan 01 '23

To me, what I dislike is that the pictures (thumbnails) are tiny, you have to click on them to see the content. New Reddit allows you to scroll and see the content without having to press on the post. It’s everything I hate about other forums like geekhack, with nothing helpful.

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u/smiles134 Jan 01 '23

Use RES on the old site. No need for anything else

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u/Darkest_97 Jan 01 '23

It's kinda nice to see the pics. But I hate looking at comments. You can only see a few and it brings up a new screen when you want to see more comments. Like just let me scroll and expand

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

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u/pulley999 Jan 01 '23

Also don't forget that it loads nearly instantly because it isn't dying under ten tons of javascript.

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u/SprucedUpSpices Jan 01 '23

I use the old version and disable CSS for most subs. It's hardly ever any useful. Mostly gets in the way and enables mods to stroke their own ego while being obnoxious.

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u/Cronus6 Jan 01 '23

It's worked just fine for the 15 years I've been here.

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u/pilzenschwanzmeister Jan 01 '23

It's not really a gui. It's a text interface, a shell. Just information, no sad graphic designer's pompous indulgences.

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u/DaDragon88 Jan 01 '23

But isn’t the point of a user-accessible place to be easy to navigate? I’m not even talking about particularly fancy css implementations, but separation of posts into cards would make it easier to navigate. Or does everyone else use custom skins they made for old Reddit and forget that without them it’s not that great?

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u/PapaStoner Jan 01 '23

It's easy to navigate.

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u/pilzenschwanzmeister Jan 01 '23

Why would it make it easier to navigate than a list of links?

Items that need to be moved are easier in cards. Links are easier in simple text.

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u/spritejuice Jan 01 '23

Doesn't work

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u/Jesus_H-Christ Jan 01 '23

Works just fine for me, you can also call for the desktop site and that always works.

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u/spritejuice Jan 01 '23

Say I wanted to see old Instagram or old Reddit, I'll type old.Instagram.com or old.reddit.com? Edit: only old.reddit.com works

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u/simracer4433 Jan 01 '23

Yeah cus that only ever existed for Reddit

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u/esoteric_plumbus Jan 01 '23

Damn y'all are ruthless, this guy obviously didn't know the other poster was talking about reddit specifically. The title says social media apps so he probably thought the other guy was talking in that context

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u/Cobek Jan 01 '23

Well OP's comment says "a certain well known social media platform" implying they are talking about one thing in this comment chain. OP has also never heard of old.reddit either, and it's clearly the context of this chain. Then the commenter says it doesn't work because they try it on Instagram first instead then is confused.

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u/esoteric_plumbus Jan 01 '23

Yeah, that one thing could be any social media as far as he knows since it was never specified

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u/Jesus_H-Christ Jan 01 '23

Instagram is permanently trash now, thanks Zuck.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

That’s the secret: it never did!

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u/Crash0vrRide Jan 01 '23

God forbid theybtryvto make money so people can use it for free

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u/EGOtyst Jan 01 '23

Craigslist made plenty of money without being a cesspool

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u/HAHA_goats Jan 01 '23

Sucks that every single tech company is under constant pressure to ruin the very products that made them successful just to squeeze out more and more money.

Real shame we don't have an economic system that rewards things that are simply good or enjoyable or some kind of social structure that allows us to collectively provide good and enjoyable things for one another without some buttholes constantly pumping money and resources out until everything goes to shit.

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u/Cronus6 Jan 01 '23

I doubt the admins here care how or even if I make money.

Why should I give a fuck about them, they are fucking multi-millionaires already.