Comment by Vet_Leeber on 10/09/2021 at 21:33 UTC

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View submission: Opt out of followers, front-end improvements to Reddit search, and an experiment to inspire new communities

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Other than a desire to slowly run us off the platform or force us to convert to new reddit, is there any particular reason why important settings like this aren't being added to the old preferences page? Seems like it'd be trivially easy to do so.

There are users opted into settings because they literally can not even see the option to disable it without changing themes.

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Comment by CoffeeNutLatte at 10/09/2021 at 22:57 UTC

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Old Reddit is designed to be a community lead forum, while new Reddit is designed to be a social media site. Only one of them brings in the big bucks I guess.

Comment by Reddit-username_here at 11/09/2021 at 12:34 UTC

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is there any particular reason why important settings like this aren't being added to the old preferences page?

Why would they want to keep developing for a site they're trying to do away with? Think of it from the perspective of another business, let's say video game consoles. Then substitute what you're saying.

"Is there any particular reason why important settings like these aren't being added to the PlayStation 2?"

Because PlayStation is done supporting PS2.