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How does anyone even use Reddit? Why is the site so broken? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I hardly use the site and I just tried making an account to ask a question on a hobby subReddit.

The site is plagued by errors, every five seconds "We had a server error"

Any time I tried to post "You post was automatically removed" no explanation. And this isn't a "you posted something against the rules" kind of thing because the posts I was trying to make were the same as the one other people were making on the sub. Half the time even when I tried to comment on a post the "server encounted an error".

Not to mention the site blocks you if you try to use a VPN.

Is it because I'm using mobile Firefox? Who cares? If Lemmy can function fine on a mobile browser, Reddit, one of the most famous and popular social media platforms on the internet can.

So I deleted my account. Why bother having a Reddit account if you can't even use it? I know complaining about Reddit is cringe and overdone, but damn I had no idea how far the site had fallen.

I swear these popular sites are trying to destroy themselves. There is no logical reason they should be this broken. It's almost like these corporations are purposely trying to break the internet.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago

One of the things I love about Hexbear is that it works fantastically under Firefox on Android. It loads fast and it loads with a great layout. It's obvious that whoever is maintaining the layout code is testing against mobile Firefox, and if anyone reading this is involved in that testing, I really appreciate your work.

I deleted my last Reddit account a few weeks ago. I kept it around that long because there's a surprisingly useful and active and non-chuddish subreddit for my home city. But I decided to just bite the bullet and stop going there.