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:

  1. Importing subscriptions from Reddit
  2. Saving posts for later
  3. Share button
  4. hls/dash videos
  5. better search

Previous posts:

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…

If you want to lurk on Reddit, you can use this web reader I built for myself when I got inspired by the Apollo app years ago

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      9 months ago

      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.🤞

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      9 months ago

      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.

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    9 months ago

    This is really cool but i’m not going back.

    The only time I’ll accept going to Reddit is when the information I’m searching for links there.

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      9 months ago

      That’s where I’ve been at as well, and even then I try other sources first since now many times comments are deleted. Mine included, lol

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      9 months ago

      NSFW is enabled by default, just go to any nsfw sub you know for and click allow this content.

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    9 months ago

    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…

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    9 months ago

    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

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      9 months ago

      There’s an addon for Firefox to disable CORS for certain sites. Need to use that.

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        9 months ago

        Same issue in safari iOS. I don’t want to use an extension for that.

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        9 months ago

        is ok to have workarounds, but i am pretty sure this can be implemented on the app side too. Thanks for the hint tho, at least if i need it i can use it

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          9 months ago

          I’ve also made an application for something like this. The only way to change this on the app side is to route all Reddit calls through the app server itself instead of doing it on the browser, essentially making the app a complete proxy. The only thing it does is increase traffic requirements and require everyone to host their own instance.

          An addon to disable CORS just for this site is really easy and imo the most sensible approach.

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        I would love to fix this, most people who have this issue are using enhanced privacy/tracking protection settings that block the reddit url or have VPN/proxies turned on. Unfortunately reddit blocks that traffic in the guise of preventing spam/scrapping.

        Now I can put up a server and bypass the traffic through my VPS and make the reddit content available to rdx(which libreddit used to do before reddit tightened their API). But soon enough they will ban my server, I will have to buy another and this keeps going on and on. That will be too much effort for too little gain.

        However if there are already some servers that make the reddit JSON available through some proxy, I am all for adding it to the app. However I couldn’t find anything that will even last a week.

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          Hey thank you for the response!

          Ahh that makes perfect sense, completely understand. Maybe making and linking a short guide at the bottom of the page would be helpful? Something to say “Not Seeing Anything?” And then it links to like a paragraph or two explaining why.

          Just a thought for not so bright users like myself :s

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            Something to say “Not Seeing Anything?” And then it links to like a paragraph or two explaining why.

            Done!

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    When I opened in my lemmy client (aka works in safari for iOS) it loaded just fine but posts don’t seem to populate when I open in Firefox/firefox focus

    Infinite scroll would be a nice optional too

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      9 months ago

      Firefox has enhanced privacy protection that block loading of the single reddit json file.

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      Infinite scroll would be a nice optional too

      For now, you can go to the settings page and change the number of posts displayed per page.

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        Ah that’s helpful! Any thoughts on why it doesn’t work on a vpn?

        Edit: I see in another comment that it’s Reddit that blocks vpn traffic. I’ve noticed that lately, lame

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    This is absolutely amazing, the actual Reddit site is so buggy on mobile. half the time can’t even get it to scroll or show more comments. this will circumvent the need for Reddit entirely when looking for specific or niche info. thanks for sharing!

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    9 months ago

    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.

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    9 months ago

    Awesome.

    Works on Brave but not LibreWolf for me, and does not work on either when using a VPN.

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    9 months ago

    Hey - thanks for doing this. There’s one sub for a specialty 3d printer I want to keep tabs on but the sub is “unreviewed“ and unavailable on the web as it may contain inappropriate content (it doesn’t, unless you count people bitching about component troubleshooting). It’s available on your gateway. It seems to bypass all content restrictions, convenient for mobile browsing.