Reddit says the beloved site is used for some “bad behavior.”
Viewing a site without logging in is now considered “bad behaviour.”
Viewing a site with a layout and style that doesn’t rape your eyeballs is now “bad behaviour.”
Those are the only two fucking reasons to have ever used Old.Reddit.
Coming soon to my ad filter
Yes, that will make me stop reading the only sub I still read there. That will get rid of my bad behaviour.
If you want to rewrite your comments you should do it while you still have the chance with something like power delete suite, since it relies on old.reddit.
Best method in the past was getting GDPR files and doing it with shreddit, but getting api keys is hard now.
Shit. Good point.
I dont think many old users are still on the platform. Look at thr platform growth and its eclipsed the old.reddit years. They will lose a few million but theyve got hundreds of millions using the new ui
There’s the proposed theory of 90% of the community are just lurkers, 9% contribute occasionally, and 1% contribute most of the content.
Might not seem like it doesn’t matter, but depends on who are the ones submitting most of the material to the site than lurkers.
Doesn’t matter. They’ve been replacing the content people with repost bots and AI bots for years and most people won’t notice if half those power posters leave as a result. Many of the power posters would stay on Reddit anyways short of being charged $10/post simply for the feeling of being important which they derive from being influential.
Thats not even getting into how the US Air Force has been astroturfing Reddit for over a decade with most active city Eglin Air Force base and would therefore put paid effort in to keep it afloat and their psyops reaching minds. Heck tons of organic posters leaving gives them a chance to seize mod positions and make trustworthy names for accounts under their control.
I think you’re right but I also have to imagine the old. users are disproportionately contributing quality parts and replies to the niche communities that make reddit “sticky”.
I’m ok if reddit keeps the users that want an endless feed of memes and low effort content.
I only go there to ask in Japan-related subs about tax/business/legal questions and try to help others (though I’ve mostly stopped). Several of us tried to get the people to move but they won’t. Without the knowledge that some of the people (some of whom do related legal/accounting work for a living and others with decades of experience), there’s no point.
A this point if you use Reddit, you’ve earned whatever’s coming.
That’s a weird take. If they fuck up old reddit much more I’ll just stop using reddit. Or I could stop using it preemptively. There’s nothing coming. It won’t affect me much.
Or whatever came… For me it was getting banned for commenting “Rothschilds” and nothing else, on a video news report Post about a majority Jewish city council voting to defund public schools in the majority black neighborhoods. At one point, the camera zoomed in on a nameplate of one of the city council members… Rothschilds.
I saw it and posted a reply, seemingly without thinking… “Rothschilds”.
In seconds I was banned, for hate speech
I was banned for saying that Elon Musk did a nazi salute, in the comments of a video of Elon Musk doing said nazi salute.
Ditto.
So many people with similar stories. They didn’t even give me a reason, my account was old.
I still use Reddit as it still provides a bunch of things the FV doesn’t at this time, but at the same time I welcome another wave of refugees when the evil empire pulls their next major boner.
That said, I’m not sure we’re quite ready for them in terms of specific communities having healthy active readerships and active mods. Maybe they can help revive what’s become a load of dormant c/'s across the FV, I don’t know.
I think if they manage to fuck up
old.reddit.comthat would have a bigger impact on people looking for alternatives than the API changes had as that mostly affected posters.I never understood old reddit, why is it so loved?
Before phones and mobile apps became the norm, people browsed reddit on a desktop browser, and old.reddit is formatted to work with that type of view. No-frills, more efficient use of screen real estate, and everything is easy to reach. It’s the people who used reddit when it was like that who are loyal to it.
Nowadays, most reddit users probably don’t even know that it’s a website, and they only know it as an app on their phone. And the new reddit interface is optimized for mobile, which is terrible and inefficient when browsing on a desktop.
I used reddit back then and mostly on the firefox. Broswrr and I like the new ui too
Maybe I am different
I think reddit problem is not ui. It is many many other shit.
I don’t get it either. I exclusively used Reddit via third party apps. Never once had any desire to use old.reddit.
Old.reddit UI fills the entire width of the screen, and default view is compact. You see more of the feed at a glance without having to scroll as often. When it comes to comments more of it is displayed when it comes to nested comments before clicking.
New reddit takes up a lot of space. And clutters up the side with stuff like related posts when you check the comment section.
Another big one is reddit enhancement suite which lets you tag and block things only works on old.reddit.
It was the dumber, non Web 2.0 version of the site. It didn’t have any of the new UI’s user activity data harvesting apparatus or progressive loading features or fake posts (ads) or Adblock mitigation and so forth. It looked like a 2000s website but anyone who used Reddit in that era wasn’t going to care. Redlib is better if you need to check something on Reddit.
This confirms the reason they haven’t shuttered it already is because they still rely on it for their codebase
