# Reddit Enhancement Suite

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Reddit Enhancement Suite and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free extension for old Reddit that people say makes the site tolerable, with features like tracking your lifetime upvotes. Some features reportedly break.

## Why people recommend it

- Makes old Reddit tolerable (2 comments): "Old.reddit, the Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES), custom userstyle CSS and uBlock make Reddit tolerable." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015871)) "I use old on desktop with RES" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46142809))
- Retro early-internet look (2 comments): "The early internet aesthetic is why, as much as I dislike the site's culture, I continue to use reddit + RES." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46364855)) "It's glorious... like a time machine to before Reddit enshittified itself" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47769909))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [DeArrow](https://hackerapproved.com/p/dearrow.md): 40 recommend
- [Bypass Paywalls Clean](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bypass-paywalls-clean.md): 32 recommend
- [Old Reddit Redirect](https://hackerapproved.com/p/old-reddit-redirect.md): 20 recommend
- [Orange Juice browser extension](https://hackerapproved.com/p/orange-juice.md): 18 recommend
- [Stylus](https://hackerapproved.com/p/stylus.md): 14 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Reddit Enhancement Suite", https://hackerapproved.com/p/reddit-enhancement-suite/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).