Reddit removed "low usage" features from old.reddit

Remember when Reddit said they wouldn’t touch old.reddit?

People understand they can just leave that site, right?

Good, this will push more people to alternatives

Mark my words. This is just testing the waters

People should talk about Lemmy more. Irl, on other social media, in game chats, etc.

My guess, break existing old links on other sites so that they can show a graph with a drop in usage of less-ad-riddled way to access the website and drive more to the ad enabled views.

I love the two comments calling out that this thread was posted to the help subreddit rather than any of the other more appropriate subs for changelogs.

Like come on, you know that wasn't an accident.

-.-

Fuck spez.

They have already been trying to bully old.reddit users for quite some time by forcing a regular cookie acceptance prompt which automatically changes the settings to new reddit.

Hey look, another hole in their foot.

I'm very disappointed about the removal of r/randnsfw.

For what it's worth, the primary reason I joined lemmy.world, in particular, was their offering of old.lemmy.world

I'm old and stuck in my ways. I love the old-timey feel of the "old" UI in light mode with endless scrolling turned on.

I'm already less and less on reddit except for a few nieche subs. The day old.reddit is gone will be the last time I visit that site.

Tbh these really are low-usage features, I didn't know about any of them, aside from the snoovatars that I've always found stupid. So I don't think anyone could be pushed away from the site because of this.

OTOH, if they're low-usage, why remove them? Do they spend too much bandwidth, CPU, whatever??

they even got rid of the login button lol. having a small userscript to insert the login button as html works tho as the method/css remains.

The live version of that link only has 50 comments wtf

you will use the web 2.0 bloated javascript filled internet and you will like it.

Another day, another disappointment from Reddit. I deleted my account the day you made your instance and thankfully things over here picked up pretty fast. I haven't felt a need to go back.

tbh if you need to see a reddit post use a frontend like redlib it doesn't have signing in with a reddit account but atleast you can browse a post without tracking

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redlib/

being able to sort saved posts into categories was my favourite Reddit Gold feature.

So... being able to use the site at all then?

They've already outlined their general plan for removing old.reddit. It was buried in the middle of an announcement post like 2 years ago. It's just a matter of time and usage at this point. This is probably a slow creep method.

It's sad to see something so much time has been dedicated to, become shit. I guess it was like building sandcastles, afterall.

I saw someone call them making .old shitty a few days ago.

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