So maybe that’s why they want you in the app? They know their website is terrible?
I warmly recommend that one. Except that since the latest firefox mobile release it hasn't yet been ported. But given that it does exist on the desktop version, I guess it's only a matter of time until it reappears for mobile firefox as well.
For mobile usage I use the third party app, Apollo[1], highly recommended.
For desktop I use a couple of third party extensions to improve the experience & normalize the UI, Old Reddit Redirect [2], RES [3]. I then disable subreddit css and enable dark mode. Any subreddit I visit looks exactly the same as any other, it really allows you to focus on reading content.
- https://apolloapp.io/ [1]
- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec... [2]
- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-enhancement... [3]
Fair warning that you still get kicked into the new mobile version when selecting some content links.
Open source and neat design
Loads lightning fast, can load thousands of comments on a page without loading bars or context switch. Don't even care if I have to pan and zoom it still works better than the mobile app.
Starting to feel like the idea of a mobile app being a universally better experience is a software industry mass hallucination. A handful of things apps work way better, modern banking comes to mind but sites styled like reddit and HN are just better in a browser with desktop view and high information density.
My eyesight’s not great. If I can’t pan&scan your content (or continuously vary text size to suit my needs in the moment), you wont have me as a user. Very few native apps on mobile work this way, so I don’t use most of them.
