Yeah. From when I first joined reddit to until I left, I've never ever seen the video player actually fucking working. It's like a McDonalds ice cream machine, always broken.
I don't know, old.reddit feels like it probably serves some internal purposes, and it's a safe fallback for when they inevitably release buggy shit on the new site.
old.reddit will probably be broken or maybe even restricted more and more as time goes by (it already has been) but I don't see them killing it entirely.
Old Reddit is the only place moderators have any 3rd party tools. When Reddit kills it, many more mods will quit. Large subs will be completely unmanageable
If you change the URL to old.reddit.com you can get past this BS and view the post anyway even without logging in. You just have to use the old version of the site which has a lot less of the stupid stuff they've added.
True, I don't use reddit on mobile at all anymore, since they killed 3rd party clients. No way in fuck would I install any social media company's program on my devices. It's open source apps for social media, or nothing.
Old reddit works fine in Firefox on the desktop. I use that when I'm bored enough to.
For the moment you can replace the 'www' in the page link to 'old' and reload. the old ui doesn't show these annoying warnings. You can also try some libreddit instance.
This really irks me, because it applies to subs related to weed or other non-sexual content, including some games. I've also been hit with the same prompt to open the official app for subreddits that are "under review" or new.
I only go to reddit from search engine queries to get answers for a topic.
I just posted on reddit for the first time since the API disaster to get support for the watchmaker app (that is the dev's official source for support).
I noticed a weird glitch happening to me (mobile site on Firefox) in which if I edit a comment, it loses all formatting. Like, every space between 'paragraphs' dissappears, and so did the block quotes. It just put ">" in with the jumbled up mess...
The "I built a reddit porn browser" has gone to shit with the amount and type of integration of ads. Desktop is fine with ad blocking, mobile is cancer.
I'm not linking it on purpose.
Since Old Reddit will be dead soon, have a look at kddit and Eddrit. They're like Libreddit, but not blocked (yet). However, you should try to avoid using them, as they get ratelimited quite easily.
For mobile I finally ended up patching Sync, primarily for more comfortably browsing when it comes up in search results, but I did notice it enabled nsfw as well.