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Disable Awards (Desktop Only, New Reddit)
Why was this limited to *New* Reddit?
Is there a functionality conflict which prevents implementation on Old Reddit?
Comment by [deleted] at 23/07/2020 at 21:27 UTC
13 upvotes, 1 direct replies
They promised they'd never kill old reddit.
They certainly didn't promise any new functionality would get put in old reddit. Although thankfully they have implemented some things.
It seems to me they could take new reddit and fork a version where they themed it to look like old reddit. Keep the great new programming that means they can add features, and bring them to something that looks and acts like old reddit. Surely that'd be possible and stop all the grumbling from people like you and me who use old reddit and who HATE the look of the redesign.
I understand - they need the redesign to get new users and make money. Understood. Gotcha.
But we users who have been here for 5-15 years need the reddit we're used to.
We RES users depends on RES features to make reddit worth using.
We old reddit users are not drags on profitability - so many of us have reddit gold - er, premium. So many more would sub or re-sub if we had an old-reddit style theme on the redesign and would embrace it again.
Maybe they'll see that eventually.
They ARE doing a lot of great things. But a lot of things are being missed, too. Many many many promises over the years broken and ignored. ...and yeah, many great things, too.
Comment by gschizas at 23/07/2020 at 21:26 UTC
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Not a reddit employee, but old reddit is a very old codebase, and it's quite hard to do any development for it. I have (painstakingly) installed the old code (it was open source at the time) in a VM and it was very, very hard to find the actual place to do any code change (and you were probably wrong).
The major drive between the architectural changes was to separate the presentation (the web site and/or the mobile apps) from the backend (the API), so that all frontends use the same API. Old (desktop) reddit had almost no separation between what is frontend and backend, which made such changes much, much more difficult.
Comment by maybesaydie at 24/07/2020 at 20:18 UTC
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No they just plan to starve out old reddit