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The modern Reddit feed is a slot machine's psychology applied to a link aggregator with a data harvesting mechanism built on top. Yuck. And now they are randomly blocking old.reddit.com and gating it with account requirements. Double yuck.

Sheddit gets rid of all of that. What's left is a list of links, ranked, with the scores and the comment counts and nothing whatsoever trying to extend the session. It re-renders modern Reddit into the efficient and readable old.reddit.com layout -- on the fly, in real time -- as you browse. It works on the page you already loaded. There are no API calls, no login, no account, and no server in the middle — the extension reads the post and comment data modern Reddit has already put in the page and draws the old layout from it. If Sheddit cannot render a page, it gets out of the way and leaves Reddit exactly as it was.

Currently expanding support to logged-in browsing (work in progress)

What's new:

0.50.0 — the signed-in corner, against today's Reddit

Fixed: log out never found Reddit's control. Reddit's item is a plain focusable box inside a custom element, none of the shapes Sheddit searched for; it is named now.
Fixed: when log out failed, the fallback showed your avatar on a dark page instead of Reddit's menu — the avatar sits inside the menu button and matched the same search.
Fixed: your username was never read; the corner said "logged in" everywhere. Reddit stamps the name on the page from the first byte in one place, and Sheddit reads it there — and only there.
Fixed: the top-level reply box. Reddit's collapsed box now has a hidden post button, which defeated 0.48.0's test for "open"; Sheddit reads visibility instead. And focusing the field inside the box opens it where a click did not, so a reply to a fresh thread goes through from Sheddit's box. Blank lines in a reply now post as paragraphs.
Fixed: a black band under short pages in the classic theme.
Known: load more on your own profile overview sticks; a post on that overview is not shown. Both need a reading from the page.


See the full changelog: https://github.com/kookaburrabarrel/sheddit

OPEN SOURCE
GPL-3.0-or-later. The entire source, including the test suite the layout is checked against, is at https://github.com/kookaburrabarrel/sheddit — so every claim above is something you can verify rather than something you have to take on trust.
Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Reddit, Inc. "Reddit" is a trademark of Reddit, Inc., used here only to describe what this extension works on.