Less Distracting Reddit

Kill Reddit front page + other features to make Reddit a little less distracting.

What is Less Distracting Reddit?

Less Distracting Reddit is a Chrome extension that hides various features of Reddit to help you stay focused and spend less time on the site. It allows you to hide the front page, r/all, r/popular, and the browse page of all subreddits, along with other distractors. This open-source addon works on both new and old Reddit, and you can enable only the features you want.

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Extension stats

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Users: 149 ▲ 5

Rating: 5.00 (4)

Version: 0.5 (Last updated: 2020-01-29)

Creation date: 2020-01-29

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

storage

Size: 22.79K

Ranking

# 59922 ▲ 517

Other rankings

#5719 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 20 #39 in reddit keyword 46 ▼ 1

Other platforms

Less Distracting Reddit (v0.5)

4.18

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Extension summary

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Hide various features of Reddit in order to hopefully make your stay as short as you originally intended.

No matter which options you choose, you'll still be able to read posts and their comments. This avoids the annoying situation when you use a website blocker only to find that the useful information you're googling can be found only on Reddit.

Features:

Works on both new and old Reddit
You can enable only the features you want
Hide front page
Hide r/all and r/popular
Hide browse page of all subreddits
Hide various distractors like "More posts from r/some community" or "Discussions in r/some"

This addon is open source. The repository is hosted at https://github.com/jaksim/less-distracting-reddit. Suggestions and code contributions are welcome.

User reviews

Stopped working

The SalothRpg, 2024-02-15

It works!

Marko Lovic, 2023-08-23

Removed the front page which is exactly what I wanted. This still lets you use reddit for the specific usefule subreddits but prevents you from doomscrolling the frontpage!