How do I see comments on reddit website?

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I am unsure which forum to put this topic in. I hope that this is right one. 🙂

I used to occasionly look at reddit for tech topics such as UBlock origins releases. However, when I went to look at reddit now, I only see a topic and no comments. I even unblock reddit scripts on noscript and nothing changed.

Did the reddit redesign the website to be only used for registered user? Or is it because I am using Waterfox Classic and the redesigned site did not like that? It worked fine when I last look during late Jan and early Feb, I think.

I saw that there is a old reddit site and it works fine. The problem is that I usually enter reddit from searching on website on a specific topic. Do I just add old to reddit web adddress?

Thank you for your patience 🙂

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Using Chrome with uBlock Origin I can read comments.

Not registered.

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I’m a registered user of Reddit so this might not help you. I use “old” Reddit with Firefox, and had used it with Waterfox Classic before I went back to Firefox. I use Adblock Plus on Firefox. So far, I’ve never had any issues reading, or posting, comments on Reddit.

You may want to try using another browser.

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Reddit’s redesign does not play well with older versions of Firefox. If you want to use it with Waterfox Classic, you are correct: simply change http://www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com in the URL. Otherwise, you will need a newer browser to use new Reddit.

I am not even sure if recent Firefox works completely with new Reddit. I left Waterfox Classic behind years ago (because of the increasing incompatibility with various sites), but even then, I had issues with the editor in Reddit. Pasting text was hopeless. I think it was Firefox (proper) I was using at that point. I have moved around among the various Firefox and Waterfox versions, so I do not remember exactly which it was.

More recently, I have no specific memories of Reddit malfunctioning, but again, I use it only rarely.

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I see. I guess that my browsers are too old for new reddit. 🙁 Oh well.

Thank you for your comments 😀 Have a great day!

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Picky wrote:

I guess that my browsers are too old for new reddit.

I think your browsers are too old to be used.
You should always use the latest version of browsers and update the moment updates are out.

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When we were saying Waterfox Classic is too old, we were talking about (and I think we were on the same page here) the age of the code base and feature set, not that the browser itself was not up to date within its own context. Waterfox Classic is still, as far as I know, being maintained now, though in terms of feature set, it’s based on Firefox 56.

 

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Same thing for my Seamonkey.

I’m using the most current version (2.53.16 released on 1 April) and, even thought it’s based on Firefox 102 ESR, which most sites “claim” they still support, I’ve found a lot of web pages have now been optimized for “chromium based browsers” and no longer display/work like they did before!

In addition to reddit, another site I regularly visit that no longer displays properly is cnn.com.

On April 19th I started getting the “portable” version of their site (meant for cellphones/tablets) that looks like this:

Instead of the “desktop” version meant for PC’s that I was getting before that looked like this.

I still get the desktop version if I visit the site using Edge, Chrome, Opera or any other “chromium based browser“, so this is a deliberate change they made to their site to only show the desktop version for Chromium based browsers.

BTW, in case anyone suggests it:

I tried changing my browsers’ “user agent string” to various other browsers, include Edge, Chrome, Opera and Firefox 111, and it didn’t help.

I then took a look at the “page source” using both Seamonkey and Edge and found they were exactly the same!

That means they’re not using the browsers’ user agent to determine which version of the page to display but something in one of the many javascript modules that get called when you visit their page. And, whatever it is that determines which version you get, it’s obviously not part of the older versions of Firefox.

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I’m using Firefox 113.0.1 and I have no problem with the desktop version on desktops and laptops. Must be the older version base of the ESR.

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Yeah, that’s what I figure.

Strange thing is, I compared the computer section of the “current” CNN supported devices page with the Wayback Archives snapshot from Jan 01 2023 at 03:27:38 and they’re both exactly the same!

And while it doesn’t specifically mention Firefox ESR, Seamonkey did always give me the desktop version until their April 19th “site refresh“.

I’m guessing whoever programed the code for the refresh started using commands from some module that’s not part of the older ESR browser.

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I am using Waterfox G5, based on Firefox 102 LTS, and I got the desktop site on CNN as well.

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No problems reaching cnn.com with Chrome 114 and portable Firefox 102.11.0esr (64-bit).
In both case I got to https://edition.cnn.com/ site.

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I ran a test using freshly downloaded and installed portable versions of both FF 102.11 ESR and SeaMonkey 2.53.16; both were the default installations out of the box and then a modified installation to allow for more privacy and fewer intrusive ads and the like.

With FF 102.11 ESR, which ran in the 64 bit configuration by default, I was presented the desktop version of CNN’s site, both with the out-of-the-box configuration and with the settings ratcheted down to preserve privacy and reduce the amount of ads presented.

With SeaMonkey 2.53.16, both out-of-the-box and ratcheted down for more privacy and fewer ads, I saw the same version of the site as @bigal67 (alejr). As happened to him, when I modified a setting within SeaMonkey to claim it was Firefox compatible, and, later, to claim that it was Firefox, there was NO difference in CNN’s site. Before anyone asks, yes, I completely dumped the cache, cookies and ALL history and offline data between visits after changing the setting so that I’d have a fresh view of the page including any changes that may have occurred between page loads after launching the browser each time.

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