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The day you remove the option to use the old layout is the day I leave reddit, tbh.
Comment by JDgoesmarching at 02/06/2022 at 22:37 UTC
16 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I think the bigger deal is when they start removing or sabotaging their APIs for third-party apps. It’s the perfect short-sighted cash grab that feels inevitable after Reddit IPOs.
Such is the march of progress.
Comment by pudding7 at 02/06/2022 at 18:56 UTC
165 upvotes, 8 direct replies
Same. I hate hate hate the web design trend of huge chunks of blank space, and less information on the screen at any give time.
Comment by FreakyT at 02/06/2022 at 20:36 UTC
21 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I didn't even mind New Reddit at first, but it's gone from being a decent reskin to the kind of horrifying abomination that is the dream of every tech product manager — intrusive notifications everywhere, injecting random content into pages to *increase engagement*, etc.
Comment by Resvrgam2 at 02/06/2022 at 19:54 UTC
40 upvotes, 5 direct replies
Frankly, I'm surprised that the Old Reddit numbers are as low as they are. Looking at my subreddit stats, Old Reddit pageviews are about even with New Reddit pageviews. Given how hard they push New Reddit, that is a pretty big indicator that New Reddit (and all its new "features") is underwhelming.
Comment by foamed at 03/06/2022 at 00:59 UTC*
8 upvotes, 1 direct replies
The day you remove the option to use the old layout is the day I leave reddit, tbh.
Reddit is going public on the stock market very soon, they definitely will get rid of old.reddit and restrict access to third party apps in the future.
Quote:
But until we have a web experience that supports moderators (which includes feature parity), consistently loads and performs at high-levels, and (to put it simply) the vast majority or redditors love using, Old Reddit will continue to be around and supported.
Also know that reddit is starting their own Etherium based crypto currency[1] which users and moderators will earn "money" from. And if you didn't know they also have their own NFT's[2] which they will tie in with the avatar system.
1: https://www.reddit.com/community-points/
If you think spam, bots, ban evasion, karma farmers and power mods are bad now then just wait until they fully implement this garbage.
Quote:
Community Points currently exist on a testnet version of the Ethereum blockchain, which uses similar technology to Bitcoin to validate ownership and control of tokens based on who holds them.
Community Points are distributed every 4 weeks based on contributions people make to the community.
**Who gets Community Points?**
Community Points are distributed across multiple groups.
* Contributors receive 50% of Community Points.
Just wait, we've seen nothing yet. The whole site is going down the drain as soon as they go public.
Comment by simjanes2k at 03/06/2022 at 01:50 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
"We have no plans to remove old.reddit"
"Anyway, here is our plan to remove old.reddit!"
Comment by shmishshmorshin at 02/06/2022 at 20:25 UTC
9 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Same. I’m curious what metric they’re using when they said only 4% use old Reddit. If that number is really accurate, it feels like a matter of time they get rid of it. I even use old Reddit while on mobile, I’m that invested lol.
Comment by Peter100000 at 02/06/2022 at 23:33 UTC
4 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Same here, I am part of the 4% (I HIGHLY DOUBT that number is accurate).
I don’t like where this is going
Comment by [deleted] at 02/06/2022 at 19:19 UTC
14 upvotes, 2 direct replies
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Comment by no_witty_username at 02/06/2022 at 20:21 UTC
6 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Literally what I was thinking as I was reading about the changes. Also I don't know about the whole 4% thing. Maybe its true and I am out of touch but I personally imagined a lot more people are using old reddit layout.
Comment by [deleted] at 03/06/2022 at 00:32 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Apparently we're only 4% which I find surprising
Comment by baltinerdist at 02/06/2022 at 22:38 UTC
-2 upvotes, 2 direct replies
This is going to sound callous and I’m sure I’ll get downvoted to hell, but just go then. Why wait? Every developer hour Reddit spends on the 4% of users clinging to old Reddit is an hour they don’t spend improving the experience for me and the other 96% of users here.
You may not like new Reddit but clearly millions of other people are perfectly fine with it. I’ve been on the site under assorted usernames for over a decade and I have no qualms with new Reddit. Did it suck at first? Sure. But it’s been literally years since it was launched. At some point, they are going to reach a pivot where the ad revenue on old Reddit is no longer higher than the dev cost and poof, it’s gonna disappear.
“We have no plans to get rid of old Reddit” is a lie. They absolutely have a plan. It would be bad business not to. That plan doesn’t kick in until a particular spreadsheet cell on the CFO’s laptop turns from black to red.
Comment by linwail at 02/06/2022 at 19:37 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Yep. The new layout is awful
Comment by [deleted] at 02/06/2022 at 22:37 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
At this point I'm not even sure if they remember that reddit has a desktop website.
Comment by gatemansgc at 02/06/2022 at 22:47 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Yeah many parts of new Reddit won't even LOAD for me, it's the only way to use Reddit on my computer.
Comment by CrashCrashDummy at 02/06/2022 at 20:53 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Yep. The new layout is completely unusable. If the old layout ever goes away, so do I.
Comment by smughead at 02/06/2022 at 21:49 UTC
-3 upvotes, 2 direct replies
They adjusted so the experience didn’t turn into Craig’s list. You could argue that experience hasn’t changed a bit; still a classified page solution, but other marketplaces have come in and eaten their lunch. If you don’t want it to change, that’s fine, but don’t expect the site to last either.
Comment by Regular_Froyo9342 at 02/06/2022 at 19:01 UTC
0 upvotes, 0 direct replies
on bananas
Comment by ikubaru at 02/06/2022 at 22:56 UTC
0 upvotes, 0 direct replies
But you are still here?
Comment by BushDidSixtyNine11 at 02/06/2022 at 21:24 UTC
-3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
No you wont
Comment by Zack_of_Steel at 03/06/2022 at 09:06 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
New reddit is atrocious, the app is awful, mobile is trash.
Comment by BuckRowdy at 03/06/2022 at 15:05 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
That day is coming, make no mistake. They say they 'have no plans' to get rid of it, but we all know plans can change at a moment's notice.
Comment by squabbledMC at 16/06/2022 at 06:24 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
don't worry: there are lots of subdomains that still host that old layout since the majority of them haven't been updated besides www and old. and even if all subdomains were patched (which would be hard since there are so many), you can add ?embedded=true to the end of any URL to force it to load a (somewhat buggy but usable) version of the old layout. only issue is you'd have to keep adding it but a tampermonkey script could probs fix that
Comment by IrishFlukey at 29/07/2022 at 21:21 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Yes, Old Reddit is good. They definitely need to keep Old Reddit. New Reddit has some nice things too. When I open Reddit and land in New Reddit, I open Old Reddit in a second tab. It is something a lot of people do, getting the best of both.