2y ago

My reddit web viewer still works! Story: When reddit killed 3rd party apps, I uploaded a web viewer I have been using for myself to Github pages for everyone to use...

rdx.overdevs.com

rdx - A Lightweight mobile Web Viewer for Reddit

I posted about that here and forgot < https://lemmy.world/post/896361> but today when I checked cloudflare analytics it showed about 1000 pageviews in last 24 hours. Looks like some people are using it so just wanted to let you guys know that it works, no ads. no popups nothing.

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Stop using Reddit
- I would if lemmy was even close to an actual replacement.
  
  What is it missing?
- There just are no alternatives to some things on there. So I'm stuck having to check in at least once every day.
  
  "Having to"? Sounds like addiction tbh.
- I like how the other comments to you are essentially: "I use it" and "it is good"
- Did you expect the fedi to be more popular? Lol
  
  So you like fat hores.
Hey.... and if anyone is interested in a chrome extension to automatically redirect reddit links to this please tell me, I have made one and I am using it for myself for now, if people want it I will upload it to the extension store.
- Definitely upload it.
  
  While you wait, I've found a solution which works perfectly for me. I use the firefox extension Redirector with these settings. Now I don't have to ignore every video on lemmit that's hosted on Reddit because I don't want to give them pageviews, I can just watch them on RDX instead! get all the Reddit content I want without ever actually visiting Reddit.
- yes please!
- Redirection extensions exist
- Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=99cVnYY9Iqs
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
- Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=99cVnYY9Iqs
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
probably shouldnt advertise it too much, increasing traffic and thus making it a target for reddit to make it stop working
I use lemmit. That way the reddit content comes here to Lemmy, and I have everything I want here in one place. I just started using a browser plugin to redirect any links that direct to reddit from lemmit to direct to RDX instead. This was only an issue with some videos and stuff that were hosted on reddit, normal links would skip reddit completely by default with lemmit. Now with RDX, I can really avoid reddit altogether!
- I was curious about this kind of idea. Isn't all reddit content owned by reddit, and isnt pasting their intellectual property onto a different platform not really super legal? (I fully support it)
  Being able to extract all of the question/answer threads on reddit to boost the value of lemmy from a search index perspective seemed too good to be true as a solution.
  
  Unless Reddit's TOS is vastly different from other social media sites, you keep ownership of your content and give them a perpetual license to host it on their site. That way, if you post something illegal, it's still your problem and not theirs.
  That being said, copying non-link content is technically copyright infringement from the original poster. It'll probably never amount to anything.
  
  Maybe too good to be true, but I'll ride that train to the end of the line! As for comments, it's not possible, and anyway, I think it's better to start our own conversations here.
What is the advantage of your viewer over a regular browser?
- No reddit popups, ads, banners, faster, easier, only focuses on the content.
  
  An application for every website. Each "focusing on the content". All that does is move the browsing to the OS.
No content is loading for me
- It just sends one xhr request to reddit. Unless you have blocked reddit or disabled javascript it should work. Can you please right click > inspect element > console and paste the output here.
  
  I haven't blocked reddit and can access it just fine. I'm not sure how to inspect the source on Firefox mobile though.
  
  Using Firefox with private browsing, I get this:
  
  Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://www.reddit.com/r/all/.json?limit=20. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed). Status code: (null). The resource at “https://www.reddit.com/r/all/.json?limit=20” was blocked because content blocking is enabled. rdx.overdevs.com
  Works fine in normal mode though.
- Neither for me, just a blank page with a header.
  
  Can you please right click > inspect element > console and paste the output here.
- Yeah same here on ff mobile. Works fine on chrome. I don't think there is a console on the mobile version?
thanks, I'm one of those who use your viewer! it makes viewing content much more bearable on mobile. I only wish there were a way to redirect all reddit links to your site on mobile.
I've been using this since third party apps went down, thank you! Unfortunately videos haven't had audio in a while but I still much prefer it over the official site.
Also a way to export/import subscriptions would be helpful for use on other devices or browsers.
- Videos will have audio tomorrow. If reddit provides a way to export subscriptions I will implement the import function.
  
  Awesome! I didn't mean exporting subscriptions from a reddit account but from rdx itself. I was thinking that the list of subscriptions that appears when you press the + button could be exportable if possible.
Relay (the last 3rd party app, I believe) still works too. They were supposed to start charging but I check in every once in awhile – because unfortunately it's still one of the best websites to get an honest answer to a question written by a human – and I haven't paid a cent.
- Infinity worked until 2 days ago for me
  
  Relay's still working
libreddit also works
Wow, that's super awesome! Bookmarked immediately
Doesn’t this just direct traffic to Reddit? Why do you want to do that?
- Indirectly? yes. But there are some subs like r/progresspics r/gainit etc that haven't moved to other platforms and have good content on them related to the niche the serve. Also the occasional google search that takes you to reddit.
- No Reddit account, you aren’t using their shitty app; IDK, seems like a win to me.
  Reddit “traffic” doesn’t really mean or do anything for them(mainly at this scale).
  
  but it could be effort towards lemmy, instead of going to reddit to see some content you can actively create content or comment on lemmy so that hopefully the content you liked on reddit will start to grow on lemmy, it takes effort but its the only way for it to work
Thank you
I cannot get the audio to work for videos. According to the network analyzer, it's because of 403 errors. This is only the case for all of the audio files.
- I will fix the audio tonight.
  
  Cool! Take your sweet time btw. Tomorrow, next year, next big bang. Sall good.
Nice

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