created by pierre2menard2 on 01/02/2025 at 05:36 UTC*
25 upvotes, 5 top-level comments (showing 5)
I'm a user who entirely browses using old.reddit.com with RES (with the oldlander extension for mobile browsing) and I've noticed more and more divergence between old and new reddit. It's a bit odd to me to see people mentioning avatars, banners, userpages and the like - it often feels quite disconnecting. I'm not precisely sure how to interpret this - reddit is one of the few websites where different users will see completely different interfaces with completely different experiences, and it just feels odd to run into that wall.
Has anybody else noticed this divergence recently? It's becoming harder and harder to understand what other redditors see on the same website.
Comment by strawman2343 at 01/02/2025 at 06:37 UTC
39 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I've been using reddit for probably around a decade now. In the last year or so it has really accelerated pace with all these weird little gimmicks. The avatars were the first one i noticed. Now there's all these achievements, comment streaks etc. It's weird.
The experience i remember was better. It was addictive because of the content. People would have well structured discussions on just about everything. There was no need to drive user engagement with gimmicks.
I'm probably going to delete this app after i figure out how to randomize my old comments. It's just not even fun anymore, and you don't really learn anything new. It's just bots reposting old popular content, people making shallow comments, and non stop propoganda.
Comment by Jasong222 at 01/02/2025 at 15:47 UTC
4 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I still use rif, Reddit is fun app. One thing about that is that it doesn't show gifs, only a link [gif] that will open if I click it.
I am supremely grateful for this, as I cannot stand all these meme/gif response comments.
I just see a long text comment thread. Perfect.
I also don't see awards. Kinda miss that, kinda don't. There's way too many and it clogs the screen, but I'd like to see it sometimes.
Comment by kurtu5 at 01/02/2025 at 11:29 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I see this too.
"Nice hat"
Comment by Pamasich at 03/02/2025 at 11:59 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I mean, that's just natural. Old Reddit is simply kept alive as a snapshot. Active development has ended long ago. Meanwhile, Reddit keeps adding new features. If you stop developing one side but keep developing the other, it's only natural that one of them will have increasingly more features than the other. It's the price we have to pay for being able to keep using Old Reddit. The reason you don't see this on other sites, is because other sites don't go to the trouble of offering an old and new version in the first place. They would have the same phenomena if they did.
Comment by rhythmic_noises at 01/02/2025 at 11:52 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I only notice it in this sub. People come here crying about their "feed" and I don't know what that even means. I browse reddit using my multireddits.