Nope not crazy at all, I do the exact same. I’m not sure what exactly needs to change about the mobile reddit design (I’m not a UI designer), but it’s just obviously worse when compared to using the desktop version, even on mobile.
The reddit website on mobile has gone from incompetent to extremely embarrassing. If I ever worked there, I would be embarrassed to put Reddit on my resume right now.
I don't really understand how a site worth billions has such bad programmers. Everything about it is bad. It's slow, it crashes frequently, basic things go missing like the image you were trying to view, you frequently get "whoops that page no longer exists" simply reopening your browser on a thread you were viewing the previous day.
But go to the desktop version, and it all works fine.
They even inexplicably implemented AMP, even though the whole point of the site is up-to-date comments, not a cached one sitting on google.
The only competent part of their team seems to be ops, as it has finally stopped falling over.
This doesn't mean "welcome to reddit's site, which is new on mobile", it means "welcome to reddit's mobile site, which we have just revamped". They've had a mobile site for years.
I exclusively use `i.reddit.com` on my phone so that I hit the old mobile site. It is amazing how much better it is than the slow and confusing piece of trash the new UI is.
Based on that article, I'm guessing this is only a thing in the new mobile site. There are a somewhat ridiculous number of ways to browse reddit these days (desktop new/old, mobile new/old, app at least) and they all seem to offer a different set of features. I've used i.reddit.com on mobile for many years now and it hasn't been impacted by any of the nonsense that reddit has been pushing lately (yet).
As much as old reddit is a clear winner ok desktop it is pretty awful on mobile. Personally I actually prefer the new site on mobile (although it is awful too) but I understand why sone people still prefer the old site on mobile.
Their original mobile site (now inaccessible) from more than ten years ago was even more minimal. The original m.reddit.com was replaced with the compact version (i.reddit.com) you've linked, and subsequently replaced by their awful current mobile site.
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