Reddit will keep old Reddit online ‘as long as people are using it,’ says CEO
Reddit will keep old Reddit online ‘as long as people are using it,’ says CEO
My copium is that the website was initially built in a way where they can’t delete old reddit without breaking it.
Reddit is no better than Facebook, X, or Instagram these days. Out of control moderation with false accusations done for no particular reason. I hope they get rid of the sole reason people still bother with reddit. Maybe if they could figure out how to moderate without falsely accusing people of things, I'd care.
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.
Old reddit has been mentioned.
He's definitely gunning on shutting it down
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
What a liar. I hope that pasty cat f***** suffers a slowly from feline AIDS. Seeing as he's the reason the feline population even caught it.
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.
Welp good bye old reddit
if they said that about 3rd party apps 2 years ago i would never found Lemmy
I actually continued to use a 3rd party app up until a few months ago. I created a Lemmy account when all that happened 2 years ago, but I didn't use it much. Glad to see it's been improved, well until recently finding out the creators of Lemmy support Russia.
Who cares what they support ? If their code is good, that's all that should matter. Because that allows you to disagree with them on other instances even though their home instance is heavily moderated.
That’s the beauty of an idea, though. The worst people can have good ideas and good people can benefit from them. In certain cases, they can use the ideas against the creator themselves. I just consider it a fact of life and avoid giving those people my money directly where possible.
Who cares? Lemmy is open. There's already many alternatives that are connected, mbin, piefed, etc.
Edit: I don't agree with their views, but this platform is now bigger than them, and they designed it to be that way. I have to respect that.
Yeah, it's disappointing to know some of the things the Lemmy devs support but this being a federated platform means you don't really have to be on Lemmy to interact with the posts and users here. Piefed and Mbin work just as well and are fully independent projects so you could try those instead.
Red Reader is an open source, ad free, third party Reddit app that has been allowed to continue free use of the API due to its usage amongst the disabled community.
I've been using it for nearly a decade & continues to get ignored by folks for some reason.
It's also in the official Play Store, I believe.
I use RedReader sporadically for browsing Reddit. I like it's compact UI style and customizability. Even when I had proper paid Boost for Reddit back in the day, somehow, the UI of RedReader made it more intuitive for me to use it.
I think one can technically use Boost still via patching it, but it's a grey area and not worth going after when RedReader exists.
Either case, the official Reddit app has to be purposefully coded to be as unoptimized and useless as possible. The bloat, the wasted white space; it all stands testament to the travesty that is modern software design.
Boost still works as long as you patch it with your own API key
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.
Cool, it’d be nice if spez dies in a fire.
This vibe reminds me of the Reddit I enjoyed back in 2010. No, we can't always be toxic af everywhere (sometimes it's a fun little treat), but at the same time, not everything needs to be a goddamn bubble-wrapped "safe space."
The before times. We were so innocent then. So cute.
Doubt
This is a change from “we will keep it online forever” which is common for a pigboy
why does it matter once you've been banned for saying something and they won't tell you why and you can't appeal the decision?
they're actively moving users OFF of their platform.
Same, that's why I'm here. I got fed up with repeated 7-day bans for 'promoting violence' when I was doing no such thing. Then I appeal it and they're like 'no you promoted violence'.
It's what they did to me. They made up an excuse because I was critical of Musk.
I don’t know I left voluntarily and overwrote all my comments with garbage data.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
There's a browser extension that forces it.
Yes, it still works in browsers.
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)
Who cares. Reddit is dead.
Worrying about Reddit on Lemmy reeks of insecure-ex when your new girlfriend is way hotter and actually nice.
The Japan-related subs where people share visa, legal, medical, financial and other resources are super important to those of us living here and, despite many times asking, will not move over. Moving over without the people holding that knowledge is pointless. So, as much as I dislike it, I still have to use a very limited section of reddit for things like that (being a new small business owner in Japan be hard).
You might want to just block this community then.
There are still some niche subs that Lemmy hasn't replaced yet, and this is a place where we can discuss Reddit without having to worry about shadowbans, automods, or other means of Reddit admins quelling discussions that they don't like.
Yeah I’m dumb
Many niche communities have not migrated to Lemmy or any other platform. The value isn't the platform, it's the people that make the content. Until reddit is truly dead, it will continue rotting itself from the inside out, and that affects all of us who still need to use reddit for the niche.
Network effects are a hell of a drug
Yeah, you know what's nice about Lemmy? Not being shadow banned, or banned for expressing a legitimate opinion that's appropriate considering the topic at hand. I mean, it still happens on Lemmy, but at the community level, it's not pervasive throughout.
