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swarnie_ · 2020-06-11 09:16:33+00:00

old.reddit.com along with the RES plugin and an ad blocker almost make the site usable.

I have no idea how people use the new layout with a standard browser.

CincinnatiMan | karma 620 | avg karma 2.72 · | 2023-06-13 15:57:54

Reddit is perfectly usable on the browser with old.reddit.com

cvrjk | karma 150 | avg karma 5.0 · | 2020-09-04 11:13:18+00:00

If you have an account you can set this as the default. old.reddit.com + RES works really well for me. I really hope old.reddit.com does not go away.

yownie | karma 521 | avg karma 1.56 · | 2022-11-25 11:29:30

along with the new layout reskin / redesign.

Everyone I know just uses old.reddit.com

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trextrex | karma 684 | avg karma 4.25 · | 2021-06-03 12:46:35+00:00

The old Reddit UI is still available under the old.reddit.com domain. I use browser extensions to automatically redirect to the old saner UI every time I visit Reddit.

tragomaskhalos | karma 2305 | avg karma 3.43 · | 2021-12-24 08:20:00

I always use old.reddit.com - I find the default site virtually unusable

kevincox | karma 12943 | avg karma 3.08 · | 2021-05-18 17:08:19+00:00

If you log into Reddit you can configure reddit.com to use the old interface. (at least for now).

SturgeonsLaw | karma 4071 | avg karma 4.64 · | 2020-07-05 07:12:29+00:00

I'll forever use old.reddit.com

Between that subdomain, RES and a custom userstyle, Reddit is quite a pleasant experience.

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patleeman | karma 192 | avg karma 2.02 · | 2022-02-16 14:28:51

I'm so accustomed to old reddit that I don't think I could ever switch. old.reddit.com and old reddit redirect browser extension helps make it seamless.

Aardwolf | karma 6728 | avg karma 2.93 · | 2023-03-23 21:02:52

I use the old reddit redirect plugin in firefox. If they ever take away old.reddit, that'll be very sad, since reddit will be practically unreadable then for me (due to the large and too image/video-focused new layout), and it still is some of the best sources of actual non-blogspam human generated content

weard_beard | karma 370 | avg karma 1.23 · | 2023-06-11 22:57:50

This is how I discovered old.reddit.com still works. And it has none of the broken javascript or A/B app pushing code in it.

beeskneecaps | karma 338 | avg karma 2.45 · | 2021-12-15 21:38:56

old.reddit.com with redditenhancementsuite.com extension is still the best way to browse. I'm impressed that they've kept the old UI for so many years. The usage must be significant to keep it around.

wing-_-nuts | karma 4834 | avg karma 3.48 · | 2022-02-15 10:49:45

old.reddit.com and RES is the only way. Every time I have to use their new UI I die a little inside.

dlvktrsh | karma 14 | avg karma 0.47 · | 2020-12-15 12:02:32+00:00

there are extensions that force old.reddit.com that u could use on most of the browsers

LeoNatan25 | karma 3174 | avg karma 2.35 · | 2023-06-16 10:36:25

old.reddit.com is what most people want anyway, maybe with the added gallery controls they added.

zouhair | karma 1696 | avg karma 2.3 · | 2023-06-11 23:14:16

And when you use RES[0] there are hundreds of other tweaks for the old.reddit.com that makes it a million time more easy to use.

[0]: https://redditenhancementsuite.com/

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ObsolescentMonk | karma 2 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2021-06-26 14:19:14+00:00

I find myself using `old.reddit.com` more than is needed. Reddit sometimes requires Javascript to read a post properly, and I hate that.

kstenerud | karma 20600 | avg karma 4.89 · | 2023-09-29 02:20:01

There are browser plugins to redirect to old.reddit.com.

monetus | karma 1159 | avg karma 1.47 · | 2019-02-01 15:43:17+00:00

Old.reddit.com still works okay for now.

satisfaction | karma 73 | avg karma 0.92 · | 2020-08-19 13:41:20+00:00

I still use old.reddit.com. new reddit is sooooooooo slow