If you can get rid of the instant redirect when you are viewing a comment notification, you'd be back where it started, with a decent and good, functional layout again.

In other words, so I don't have to hold the back button, and select the notifications address out of the recent history as there is an immediate redirect if you just hit the back once.

Reddit, with your infinite dive towards enshittification, why do you insist in super sizing my UX? Every update keeps pushing larger and larger element & font sizes, wasting precious screen space with super sized text in divs consuming too mucu room. It's a pain in the ass to scroll for anything past 2 threads. Which oatmeal brained C level exec is getting a shiny gold star for pushing this cesspool of a UX?

It may seem small, but this shit is annoying. If I'm already I'm the comments, why do I need to tap another button to read more than two of them?

After waiting so long for reddit to start making improvements to mobile web version Ive completely lost hope in mobile reddit devs. So Ive decaded to try make it usable myself using public tools (stylus and tampermonkey) and using old.reddit.com (difference in perfomance and amount of bugs between old reddit and new mobile version is staggering, devs should be ashamed of their work). Since I dont really want to mess with custom scripts the only way to make it look okayish is custom css styles.

So lets move to how keep reddit at least usable.

1. First step is to use firefox (or any other browser with chrome/firefox extensions support)
2. Next you need to install a tampermonkey extension and create (or import) a new script which will change <meta vieport> tag to make it scalable with mobile devices. You could find use my script or any other ready script which does it or simply make it yourself (just save this code to script.user.js and import it later to Tampermonkey extension)
3. After that its time to make reddit look good. For this Ive used a stylus extension and changed some styles to be more readable on small screens. If you know what you doing then you could either make new styles yourself or modify mine. So get a script and import it to extension.
4. Custom subreddit styles make unexpected changes to site breaking my tweaks (and i couldnt be bothered to make it work honestly). So you need to disable checkbox for 'allow subreddits to show me custom themes' on https://old.reddit.com/prefs/
5. Optionally you could also install Reddit Enhancement Suite for even functionality (such as endless scroll and improved previews)

Thats basically it, I probably will try to improve my styles further (and do a code refactoring of it).

Link to github there you could find script for tampermonkey and styles json for stylus: https://github.com/firzen13/old-reddit-styles-tweaks/

Here are some of screenshots of what you could expect:

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https://preview.redd.it/64716bb0zbvc1.jpg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3e02a7a6789f944ef83cad232f6c070186afa7f

The mobile web version in its new layout has been unusable for WEEKS now. Constant “We had a server error…” messages and “Internal Server Error” prevents you from doing ANYTHING of substance on the website. I have a feeling that nobody at Reddit even bothers to check the mobile web version under this layout, and if they do, they are probably some of the most braindead devs EVER.

It is actually a feat that such a mainstream company can ignore such a debilitating issue for so long. And there are so many reports too if you look in the right place. Search up this issue on r/help and r/bugs and any post pertaining to this error should still have people replying with this issue. Any developer worth their salt should know that people will use every platform of a certain website, and that it is their responsibility to keep it maintained.

If ANY of you over at Reddit reads this, then please actually take action and fix your way beyond broken mobile web platform. But I know you won’t care anyway. My words could even be entirely useless and be seen by nearly no one. But that’s life I guess!

Is anyone at reddit actually listening and fielding the problems with the new mobile website?

If so, please let us know because so far has been crickets and reddit is giving the impression that it either does not care about the mobile user base or has horribly incompetent programmers and poor management.

This is not a "we don't like the new look" issue. This is a "the website doesn't work anymore" issue.

Also comments on user page broken.

The rapid changes happening on the mobile web client are awful. It's indicative of a junior team with poor development skills and practices, not of one of the biggest websites on the internet, especially one that recently IPO'd.

The appearing and disappearing buttons, dodgy preview windows, unreliable ability to go "back" a page, all of which seems to change like the wind. The preview expand button was there, then wasn't (and previews now didn't work), then there again, now it's gone again.

Figure out what the users want. Implement that. Test it with a small group of users internally with a clear and direct route to give feedback rather than a subreddit where it feels we're shouting into the wind, then if they agree it's good, deploy it.

My latest gripe, by the way, is you can't preview the first page of a posted album now for whatever reason. You can only start at page 2, and it won't let you navigate back to page 1.

Edit: A quick double check on the last point suggests the preview doesn't work properly when you first try, but does on the second.

I'm using the mobile website after the shutdown of compact Reddit and there's an annoying bug I noticed.

I prefer browsing Reddit while logged out and my feed is a simple multireddit sorted by New (something like https://www.reddit.com/r/mobileweb+compact/new/). There's some kind of caching that prevents me from seeing the latest posts, which are then loaded in bulk after 30-60 minutes. I know this because I tried disabling the website cache through DevTools and the posts started coming in as soon as they were published.

I did various tests and the problem occurs when browsing a multireddit while logged out (single subreddits are fine and logging in solves the issue, also old Reddit isn't affected). I reproduced the issue in several Chromium browsers and Firefox.

Usually this isn't a big problem but it can be when I want to see the latest posts in real time (think of a sports subreddit during a game). Did anyone else notice this?

For some reason when I open the site in my mobile browser and try to make a post it just refuses to post it? I get an "Are you human?" prompt but even when I confirm it just goes right back to the draft and doesn't post. I'd rather not get the app as I'm not on Reddit often, but I'm annoyed and confused about why it won't post unless I use my laptop. Anyone know what's going on with the mobile browser?

I tried every way i could concieve to get the homepage to sort by HOT and have CARD view instead of compact.

Also comments sort by TOP instead of best.

I don't know who thought that it was a good idea redesign the mobile version to look like the app, but it has been the worst idea for this website.

If I scroll a bit too much everything gets laggy as hell. It takes seconds to go back from a post to r/all

Also, I have to pray the gods every time I go back so that it doesn't reset and sends me back to the top of the page.

Plenty of other things doesn't work/are buggy, but these are the most important ones.

Fix this shit, or give us back the old layout. It was perfect. Put it into another domain, do something. This shit is unusable.

hello hello

we are all really mad cos of the UI update but i guess is here to remain. so at least try to make it nice to use.

They changed the way the image preview works. before, if you clicked on the image, it would open it below, like the new icon on the left.

but if i click on the image now it opens it as a "popup" this one sucks big time, cos i have to close it to continue using the site.

clicking on a preview now is really bad cos i have to then close the image with the X on the top left, the best option is to use the new icon, but that one beign on the other side of the screen is really really bad and hard to reach.

so please, revert it so that clicking on the image on the right opens it as the new icon

pretty much revert the change

Every post is showing as if it's an image post now, even if it's a text post. The preview is just a blank slot for a photo.

So the Reddit dev clown car has dropped off a new broken feature: I can no longer access my post history.

Great job, guys!

Ok, so the change to making images full screen when tapped and having the little expand button on the far left was bad. But now they've removed the expand button entirely?! This has to be a joke

In the past, the preview images when tapped on would simply expand on the page, while now they go into fullscreen mode while also expanding normally in the background, which makes it awfully inconvenient if you want to expand and contract the image, as something that took 1 tap before now takes 2

Edit: forgot to mention, my phone is Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 5G, using Firefox

Seriously. Now links don’t even take you to the page without requiring a total refresh. Idunno what’s going on but the mobile site has really taken a turn for the worse.

i dont care youre trying to emulate facebooks or tiktoks ui, if i wanted to use those, i would.

Also notifications and back button still broken.

I think it's been clearly shown they pay no attention to this sub.

It was on the right of the screen, not the left.

It's much easier now to just expand content out, but given the majority of the world is right handed, most people using their phone one handed will struggle to reach the expand button for each post.

Just move the expand button to the right and it will be a good update. I like that i now can avoid clicking non-expanding links, i just don't like that I have to use my phone with two hands.

hello!

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just my quick 2 cents.

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the last update, with the expand image on the left, is one of the worst thing i've ever seen. you had the perfect mobile website and you had to butcher it with enshittification. wcyd.

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also, sometimes css does not load and i get a webpageg with no styling. is that intentional as well? lol

Not sure what they're doing. The mobile experience has gotten so dogshit in the past year

I have this issue with my crypto wallet, a deposit was made to my account and this people from crypto have not released my funds yet, is been over eight days now. I am very upset and tired it's my money, why are they holding to it is no their money. Can you guys help me out to get them listen to me and finally release my money.

Thank you. Can

The comment text box is inexplicably rich text enabled, and given that the dark mode toggle button is also broken, you cannot read the text pasted from some websites in said comment box due the formatting is retained from the source site for literally no reason.

Anyone have a workaround for yet another fundamental user experience being broken?

Seriously just fire the team and save yourself some money

Press and hold the menu bar, and pull it down until you see part of a loading animation, then quickly pull it back up before it ends. This "unlocks" the page without have to reload or even exit. Make sure to do it quick, before the page reloads. You have to do this on every post you wish to read.