I am posting the updates here because most of the users of RDX came from this community only.
Multiple updates have been made to https://rdx.overdevs.com since I last posted here including:
- Importing subscriptions from Reddit
- Saving posts for later
- Share button
- hls/dash videos
- better search
Previous posts:
So, are spez and his goons gonna come after you now?
If it’s popular enough maybe. For now it’s averaging 17-18k visits monthly so not even a drop in the ocean. But yeah i can’t post the direct link to rdx on Reddit. I have to post Github link.
This is about the best thing I could have hoped for, so I really hope it doesn’t get taken down! (but then again, the for-profit Fandom wiki farm hasn’t taken down Breezewiki or other mirror sites yet, so maybe corporations figure this sort of thing isn’t worth the effort to take down.🤞
Added themes to RDX so you can style it your way.
It doesn’t seem to work for me. When I put a sub in there I get a blank page.
Check the console of your browser. Browser’s aggressive privacy controls may be automatically blocking the json call to reddit’s api. (right click, inspect element)
Doesn’t work for me on mobile (IOS) too, unfortunately. I have adguard, firefox focus extensions on safari, and use Mullvad’s DNS blocking. I’ll have to go check which of them is breaking it, but I hope I won’t need to turn off anything huge for it to work. Either way, thanks for this, I’ve been using SinkIT for reddit to get a better mobile viewing experience, and this may be a better alternative.
Does not work on android with Firefox at all
I just opened a link in Firefox, it worked. Even works with install function
it does if you disable tracking protection for the website (the setting’s available when you tap the padlock icon next to the URL).
Same.
Works for me.
Iphone 13 - Safari
The „buy me a coffee“ link seems to work, though…
I am getting a blank page.
In the console:
Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://www.reddit.com/r/all/.json?limit=20' from origin 'https://rdx.overdevs.com' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.
Tested with both ungoogled-chromium and firefox without cookies
There’s an addon for Firefox to disable CORS for certain sites. Need to use that.
This is perfect! I lurk on mobile, and their mobile site is horrendous. I’ll be using this from now on!
You can add it to your homescreen and then the navigation bar stays fixed so it’s easier to navigate that way. Also it uses localstorage to save your settings/subs etc and ios clears the localstorage after 7 days of the last visit to any website. Adding to homescreen prevents that too, on Android localstorage is saved permanently.
Added themes to RDX so you can style it your way.
What is a reddit?
An old social network, kind of like livejournal or digg.
Any reason I should use this over something like Stealth? Have to be honest with you, I’ve been using it for a good while and I can tell right away that it appears a better experience than this.
Also sorry if that is offensive, it’s not my intention, I’m just bad at being polite sometimes…
Any reason I should use this over something like Stealth?
From my quick google search I can see that Stealth is an Android App ( i can’t seem to find an iOS version) while rdx is a website you can fire up in any browser. if apps are your thing Stealth is certainly better. Anyway, Stealth and RDX both are open source and free. You can use whatever you like.
Alright Sheldon. Cool your heels!
Awesome.
Works on Brave but not LibreWolf for me, and does not work on either when using a VPN.
It literally just makes one API call to fetch the data from reddit, that could have been blocked by privacy settings of your browser. You can look at the browser console for more information.
Reddit these days tries to detect hosting services and VPNs and blocks certain API calls from them.
This is wonderful! I occasionally go back out of curiosity (aka to confirm it’s still trash) but refuse to engage. I’d hoped I could find an extension that would prevent accidentally upvoting or commenting. This is much better. I’d give you gold but “we don’t do that here.”
Kudos, Dev!
Thank you so much. Also you can use any browser redirect extension to redirect reddit links to rdx. match https://www.reddit.com/r/(.*)/comments/(.*) redirect to - https://rdx.overdevs.com/comments.html?url=$0
match
https://www.reddit.com/r/(.*)/comments/(.*)
redirect to -
https://rdx.overdevs.com/comments.html?url=$0
Added code blocks for ya
Thanks, I am lazy.
Added themes to RDX so you can style it your way (colours and fonts).
Dude, get out of my head. I’d just been on and stumbled onto themes while looking for a way to better format for desktop. Love the addition.
Was just on my way here to pull you leg and say you’re single-handedly responsible for my consuming large amounts of Reddit content again.
Haha!
looking for a way to better format for desktop What are you looking for? more content on the desktop. The width of the content is fixed to 500 now because that’s good enough to read on larger monitors. Thinking of making it 700px. Any other suggestions?
Does it require an account on reddit
Nope. It doesn’t require an account anywhere.
doesn’t require an account
It also doesn’t allow using an account, right?
I’m impressed by the way — nice work!
Does rdx only support card style view or is there a way to toggle it to classic?
For now yeah. I will add a compact/classic view toggle in the next update.
This is really cool, thank you for making it. I opened in Firefox on my Android and used the Install feature FF has, and it’s really slick.
Awesome!
Is it possible to collapse comments?
Edit: figured it out, double tap to collapse comments.
Just a double tap(mobile) or double click(pc) would do that. I know it’s annoying when copying text on desktop, I will add a fix for that.
Added themes to RDX so you can style it your way (colors and fonts).
Awesome!
Quick question, is it possible to open a reddit link in RDX?
For example a reddit link from Google search results.
Thank you so much. Also you can use any browser redirect extension to redirect reddit links to rdx. match
https://www.reddit.com/r/(.*)/comments/(.*)
redirect to -https://rdx.overdevs.com/comments.html?url=$0
Awesome, thanks!
That makes searching reddit usable again.
I’ve been selfhosting this for months, it works great. Only thing is that most of the time I scroll through the same post like 20 times a day, i don’t know why.
I don’t think that’s not the app, that’s reddit normally.
Even on a browser, I see multiple instances of the same post.
Thanks for the info, glad to know it’s not just me.
P.s. you have your markdown reversed with the links - the text needs to be in the square brackets with the link in the parentheses.
[text](https://example.com)
Thanks, fixed them.
I have geddit and my issue is it loads r/popular and can’t show r/all.
If yours shows all I’m in.
It by default shows r/all OR https://rdx.overdevs.com/subreddit.html?r=all and tap the sort button(three lines) button on the right, hit subscribe.