The app is complete garbage, and the dark patterns on their mobile webpage are insidious.

If I have to wait to go to my desktop to see something on reddit, most likely I’ll forget about it and not visit at all. Or I’ll go through the old.reddit on mobile which isn’t great.

But it’s only a matter of time until they remove old.reddit.

Perhaps web scrapers can come to the rescue in some way? Maybe a self-hosted instance of a scraper that pulls the data for each page you’d like to see, kind of like a proxy between your client and reddit? Would be a fun project to try out.

It would just be "better" to call the private/internal APIs that reddit's clients use themselves.

This is more or less what Nitter does for providing alternate twitter frontend https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

Teddit: https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit

Libreddit: https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit