On: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative...

[vinay427]

You're not kidding. This webapp is so fast (after the initial load) that I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if the Reddit mobile website intentionally adds sleeps/delays as some have jokingly suspected in the past. On this site, I can actually scroll through posts or collapse comment threads without wondering if my touch input and/or browser are frozen.

[bserge → vinay427]

New Reddit doesn't need sleep/delays, it's already slow as molasses heh.

If not for old.reddit.com, my time on Reddit would've gone way down :/

[takeda → bserge]

My understanding was that s/he was referring to the new UI. Actually Reddit makes it hard to be on the old interface, I have to use browser extension to completely avoid the new UI.

[bserge → takeda]

There's a setting in preferences - as long as you're logged in, www.reddit.com links will still load the old design.

Logged out though, yeah, I manually replace "www" with "old" whenever I open a link...

Reddit is unavoidable these days since everyone's moved there and there's a lot of good content :/

[revnode → bserge]

I wish that was the only problem with the new Reddit ... it frequently crashes my browser. No other website does this.

[emersion → revnode]

This sounds like a browser bug tbh.

[arcturus17 → vinay427]

Not my experience... Touching “Communities” on my iPhone takes a while to load.

Edit: to add, while touching the buttons for the different sections, it seems sometimes my touches are not registering, requiring me to try again.

[TulliusCicero → vinay427]

A brand new site doesn't have many features yet. The more features you add the slower it'll get.