Welp good bye old reddit
I’m still using old reddit, but I’m very excited about the return of Digg and partnership of Kevin Rose and Alex Ohanian. Hopefully that scares Huffman and somewhere in the Great Beyond, Aaron Swartz is smiling.
The only reason I’m here in the first place is because it’s ridiculously obvious that they’re killing old reddit soon. Every time they add some new bullshit feature it breaks our reddit just a little more and it becomes less and less usable. Meanwhile new reddit is also becoming less and less usable as they try to make it Facebook 2.0. It’s all getting enshittified very quickly.
If I may say that I hope more people support Lemmy. We need to get away from Reddit and it will be difficult. I’m kinda new to Lemmy and I plan on donating.
My copium is that the website was initially built in a way where they can’t delete old reddit without breaking it.
I have no reason to believe tbis. Not that it matters to me.
old.reddit is literally the only thing that keeps me coming back. i hope they kill it. i’m sick of scrolling for ten minutes just to find a post worth clicking on. i’ve got netflix for shit like that.
I only stayed on Reddit as long as I did because of Old Reddit. New Reddit simply isn’t worth it.
yup. New reddit is a cancer. Old reddit may be old and antiquated, but it’s a SHITLOAD better than new reddit. Not that i use either anymore
I never cared about new reddit vs old reddit, because it always looked the same on Baconreader. I couldn’t continue after I lost that. I really wish there was a Lemmy fork of it, it was my favorite.
Connect is pretty good so far, not quite the same.
Doubt
When they say “people,” does that mean, 1, 20, 8 million, or what? They will define it and I’m sure this is a way of saying they’re getting rid of it so there isn’t a grand exodus.
Yea this sounds like preparing to make excuses and claim “no one was using it” (aka less than 1 billion users). I’m expecting it to be removed in 2026.
yet they’re keep making it harder to use. they removed the old login form for no reason lol (it still works if you add back the removed html so it’s obv no security bs)
time for me to take a shit out of my ass
Does it only work on a desktop now? Even before I stopped using reddit regularly, the old.reddit domain stopped being in the old reddit format, and looks no different from just going directly to reddit.com.
Yes, it still works in browsers.
There’s a browser extension that forces it.
I guess this does matter to me, because every time i see new reddit, I take the requisite 10 seconds to retype the URL and change to old reddit. I never log in anymore, but I do make sure its old reddit.
The real story is buried in there:
Reddit is going to ask for a bit more identifying information from its users, too.
Yeah not going to happen.
Old reddit has been mentioned.
He’s definitely gunning on shutting it down
