Nextly: browse Reddit contents blazingly fast with the keyboard
Reddit itself has been designed to make contents linked on the site accessible. Each category on the site lists a title, maybe a preview picture and a couple of links for each post made on it. While that is great for browsing the site, it is not so great if you want to access each individual post on the site or on the sites it links to. That's especially true for image and other media related categories on Reddit.
You can improve your workflow on the site with extensions or userscripts, Reddit Enhancement Suite comes to mind, or hop over to Imgur to browse all picture subreddits right on the site by adding the /r/name path to the imgur.com domain name (example imgur.com/r/wallpapers/).
Nextly offers another opportunity to you. While it has not been specifically designed for Reddit, it works very well on the site but also on other popular sites such as Hacker News, BBC, ESPN or the New York Times. Here is how it works. You click on the Nextly link above which takes you to the Reddit hub on the site. Here you can start to browse Reddit's frontpage stories immediately using your keyboard. Just hit right arrow to jump to the next story or left arrow to go back one.
If you prefer to click, you can do so at the top to browse the top stories on the site. While that is great for the frontpage, you probably want to access subreddits as well. This can be done easily in two ways.
You can click on the settings icon at the top left to open the Nextly stream and there on Reddit to display Reddit streams in the sidebar. A click opens them on the page and you can browse the as usual this way. A better option in my opinion is to add the /r/subreddit path right to nextly.com/ to jump to your favorite subreddit right away.
If you are the first user to access a stream, it needs to be activated which takes a couple of seconds. Once done, you can browse it just like any other Reddit stream on the site.
Several other keyboard shortcuts are available to make your life easier and your browsing faster. You can press N to open the page in a new tab in the browser, and use the t, s and f commands to share the contents on Twitter, per email or on Facebook.
The browsing works well for image-based groups but also for any other type of group on Reddit. I'd like to point out though that you do not really know what is in store on the next page. While you may look at the titles at the top all the times, it somewhat lowers the use of the service as you won't be able to browse the posts this fast anymore. You may however land on pages that you prefer not to visit, especially if you browse general news site forums on Reddit or image groups were NSFW posts are accepted in.
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.
When will you put an end to the mess in the comments?
Ghacks comments have been broken for too long. What article did you see this comment on? Reply below. If we get to 20 different articles we should all stop using the site in protest.
I posted this on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/] so please reply if you see it on a different article.
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Article Title: Reddit enforces user activity tracking on site to push advertising revenue
Article URL: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
No surprises here. This is just the beginning really. I cannot see a valid reason as to why anyone would continue to use the platform anymore when there are enough alternatives fill that void.
I’m not sure if there is a point in commenting given that comments seem to appear under random posts now, but I’ll try… this comment is for https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
My temporary “solution”, if you can call it that, is to use a VPN (Mullvad in my case) to sign up for and access Reddit via a European connection. I’m doing that with pretty much everything now, at least until the rest of the world catches up with GDPR. I don’t think GDPR is a magical privacy solution but it’s at least a first step.