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:
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.
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!
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!
This is pretty rad, thank you!
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.
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.
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
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.
Same issue in safari iOS. I don’t want to use an extension for that.
Same for me. Won’t use with a workaround, this should be fixed
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.
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
Something to say “Not Seeing Anything?” And then it links to like a paragraph or two explaining why.
Done!
So uh any plans for nsfw browsing? i liked browsing random or multiple nsfw subs
NSFW is enabled by default, just go to any nsfw sub you know for and click allow this content.
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
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https://www.reddit.com/r/(.*)/comments/(.*)redirect to -
https://rdx.overdevs.com/comments.html?url=$0Added code blocks for ya
Thanks, I am lazy.
hmmm, doesn’t seem to work ! I get a the layout but no content
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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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.
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
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.
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
Firefox has enhanced privacy protection that block loading of the single reddit json file.
Nice! I still lurk on some communities which are only on reddit, thanks!
Will there be a .onion version?
The biggest feature I missed when they killed libreddit
I will have to figure that one out, may take some time. Or if you already know how to put some html pages on an onion server you can copy the files from Github and upload them yourselves, I will link to it happily.
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!
Thank you!
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.
One reason could be you being subscribed to a dead subreddit. See what it does when you subscribe to subreddits is create a Multireddit of all the subs. Now if a dead sub’s last post was some months ago t will keep showing in the feed until you unsubscribe.
I isually browse Popular or All, and it mostly happen when I click on Next Page. I’ll try unsuscribing from all the subs.
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.
