tl;dr – add a “p” before the “.com” to any subreddit you visit and voila, you have a fullscreen presentation of all the images.
I like to show my friends cool stuff on the internet but browsing is a real conversation killer. You can’t really lean back, talk and have fun with friends while operating a website, surely not one as clunky as reddit. Even though RES does help.
So I just had to make this “hands-free” reddit mode. Where I can see:
- Cats http://redditp.com/r/aww
- Amazing views http://redditp.com/r/earthporn
- Tempting dishes http://redditp.com/r/foodporn
- Advice http://redditp.com/r/adviceanimals
- *cough* other stuff
Easy!
Welp, not that easy, there was a lot of CSS to handle and the design right now is dead ugly but functional. Also, many stories on reddit aren’t images and I skip those that aren’t in a quirky way. If the url’s 4th character from the right is a dot, I display it. That’s a hack that works for imgur (which is most of reddit’s images) so I’m using it for now until I have more time to fix it. Any suggestions are more than welcome – help improve redditp on github! Also, comics are a pain to watch right now. I might implement some sort of scroll wheel zooming in the future, though that really is a bit of a different use case that might deserve a different site.
I guess not too surprisingly the first 200 visits where mostly to gonewild. You internet you….
edit – here are some stats from the launch night
redditp launch night stats
I have been using redditp for some time now and I like it. But is there any way to show sorted by new? On the github page it says it accounts for ?sort commands, but reddit does new with /r/subreddit/new and those fail.
Thanks!
Thanks for the report. What do you mean by “fail”? Does the page not load at all? Are certain images missing?
I noticed only one problem inspecting http://www.redditp.com/r/gifs/new/ that it was showing ?sort=rising and not ?sort=new like my cookie settings. But that can be fixed by explicitly stating the sort. E.g. http://www.redditp.com/r/gifs/new/?sort=new or http://www.redditp.com/r/gifs/new/?sort=rising IIUC. If you prefer you can also report bugs here https://github.com/ubershmekel/redditp/issues
I just wanted to thank you. I was having trouble finding a program for this, and I was daunted by the possibility that to have it, I may have to write it. This is amazing. Exactly what I wanted. You brought my search to a happy conclusion.
Is there a way to use redditp based on individual subscriptions? IE to log in to reddit and have redditp generate slideshow from my subscribed subreddits. Regardless, this is a great tool. Thanks very much!
That’s what redditp.com does. It pulls your reddit.com, subscription based, list of links via an ajax request.
I guess I must be doing something wrong, then? I only get images from the default front page.