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View submission: Anybody else deterred by the streak?
old.reddit.com *is* "old Reddit".
You can either flick the preferences option to "opt out of redesign" and stick to the original Reddit experience before it got redesigned and ended up looking like Instagram threw up all over a Twitch stream, or you can just go straight to old.reddit.com for the same user-experience.
Alternatively you can browse "new Reddit" which is the horrible, information-sparse, gamified, gimmicky one that they periodically redesign so they can keep trying to roll out features designed to manipulate you into increased engagement.
Old Reddit isn't going anywhere any time soon. It would cause an apocalyptic amount of butthurt and likely cause a site-wide exodus of many of the oldest/most engaged community members and mods, which would leave Reddit an empty husk of itself.
So, you know, now I mention it.... post-IPO there's a real chance they'd do it if it ever looked to their advantage.
Well... *shit*.
Comment by NPEscher at 21/10/2024 at 16:11 UTC
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Oh yeah, I just saw relay in the post above mine, I never really learned how to read
Comment by bg-j38 at 21/10/2024 at 17:43 UTC
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Yeah I've been using old reddit since.. well, the beginning. (This was my alt-account until I stopped using my original one due to being not very anonymous.) I use it in my phone browser as well. The apps and the new website annoy the hell out of me. If old reddit goes away I'm not going to say I'd disappear completely but I'd likely have far less engagement.
Comment by poptart2nd at 21/10/2024 at 23:18 UTC
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a site-wide exodus of many of the oldest/most engaged community members and mods, which would leave Reddit an empty husk of itself.
this is already happening. Killing 3rd-party apps really hurt my ability to mod, as well as many others i know.