Evil-Reddit

Lightweight and distraction free way to browse Reddit.

Preview

Index

• Features
• Install
• Build
• Known-Issues
• Troubleshooting

Features

• Media oriented
• Low memory footprint
• MP4 videos instead of GIFs
• Easily customizable

Install

1. Clone repository or do so with git

git clone https://github.com/Elvyria/Evil-Reddit

2. Get artifact from latest successful workflow, unpack and move all .js files to Evil-Reddit/web/js
3. Get server for your platform from and drop it into root folder.
4. Launch server from root directory

./server [port=3006]

5. /r/unixporn, /r/awwnime, /r/...

Build

git clone https://github.com/Elvyria/Evil-Reddit
cd Evil-Reddit/web
yarn install
yarn product
cd ..
go build -ldflags="-s -w"
./Evil-Reddit [port=3006]

Known-Issues

• Some subreddits doesn't provide hints and image previews turning all image posts into links.
• Videos (.hls streams) cannot be played in Chrome due to blocked controls.

Troubleshooting

• Firefox
  • Cross-Origin Request Blocked - Disable enhanced tracking protection for page