Which is almost impossible on mobile with the tiny (+) target on the latest iteration of new Reddit. If you miss then, as you say, it opens a new page instead, which has random unpredictable effects on the browser history for some reason. You can sometimes click on the whitespace above the comment to do the job, assuming the username isn’t so long as to fill all the whitespace.
Actually writing all this out really brings it home how much of a clusterfuck Reddit’s UI is.
Which is almost impossible on mobile with the tiny (+) target on the latest iteration of new Reddit. If you miss then, as you say, it opens a new page instead, which has random unpredictable effects on the browser history for some reason. You can sometimes click on the whitespace above the comment to do the job, assuming the username isn’t so long as to fill all the whitespace.
Actually writing all this out really brings it home how much of a clusterfuck Reddit’s UI is.