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Some redditors prefer using Reddit’s older web platform, aptly named Old Reddit. TL;DR: There are no plans to get rid of Old Reddit.
60% of mod actions still happen on Old Reddit and roughly 4% of redditors as a whole use Old Reddit every day.
11 year old account here who religiously uses old.reddit.com for everything, thought there were more than 4% of us, but am happy to be a dinosaur.
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.
Let's just say "Forever", and leave it at that?
Comment by tipu_sultan01 at 02/06/2022 at 18:54 UTC*
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11 year old account here who religiously uses old.reddit.com for everything, thought there were more than 4% of us, but am happy to be a dinosaur.
Dude I am a relatively new account and my first introduction to this platform was on new reddit. I was baffled how such trash design of a website could be so popular. Then my friend introduced me to the RES extension which made old reddit design the default view even on new reddit urls and I was blown away at how clean everything looked. I will never understand how anyone can use new reddit, it's a nightmare to navigate and looks so bloated.
I obviously have no proof for this but I think the admin is lying when he says only 4% of users run the old version. Lol.
Comment by Durinthal at 02/06/2022 at 18:55 UTC
31 upvotes, 2 direct replies
They want to get rid of old reddit, but the redesign sucks so hard for power users (including many mods of major subs) that they would riot. So it stays *for now*.
Comment by kriketjunkie at 02/06/2022 at 19:10 UTC
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To be fair, even just 4% of redditors = millions of people. So that’s a lot of dinosaurs[1].
1: https://i.redd.it/n4eeeafe99391.gif
Comment by vemundveien at 02/06/2022 at 19:11 UTC
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thought there were more than 4% of us,
It includes mobile where old reddit is hardly possible to use, so it would be interesting to see numbers for desktop only.
Comment by rdiss at 02/06/2022 at 19:04 UTC
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Only 4%? I've been here a dozen years and will never use anything other than old. When that goes, so do I.
Comment by m1ndwipe at 02/06/2022 at 22:04 UTC
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11 year old account here who religiously uses old.reddit.com for everything, thought there were more than 4% of us, but am happy to be a dinosaur.
I suspect the bit Reddit doesn't want to say outloud is that virtually all returning and regular users use Old Reddit, but lots of randoms from Google who hit one page in response to a Google search and never come back are much less valuable and create no content, but outnumber regular users.
Comment by LeNainKamikaze at 02/06/2022 at 19:02 UTC
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Haha exactly all of that!
Pretty sure it's gonna fall on deaf ears (or maybe more aptly, blind eyes) but the only thing I'm really missing and wish they'd port to old.reddit is how posts are made with new.reddit. Specifically the ability to post image galleries natively. I know imgur can be used, but I've noticed a tendancy in some subs to prefer native galleries, so I end up opening a new.reddit tab to create one every time
Comment by Omnitographer at 02/06/2022 at 21:16 UTC
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I would love to know what percent each of voting and commenting users are using old Reddit. Reddit may have millions of daily visitors, but how many do nothing more than click links to content? Maybe u/kriketjunkie could offer insight on that?
Comment by kanimaki at 02/06/2022 at 19:27 UTC
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Yeah I can't stand new Reddit and cringe every time I accidentally get shown it on my browser when I'm logged out (or when I switch over temporarily to vote on tournaments). I definitely thought there were more than 4% of us.
Comment by Juandolar at 02/06/2022 at 19:02 UTC
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They have to be counting mobile users in that metric. I cannot imagine there are that many users happily suffering through the new Reddit experience.
Comment by CrispyJelly at 02/06/2022 at 19:25 UTC
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4% of "redditors" but I wonder about the % of users who actually post and comment. Could be that most of those 96% are lurkers or even visitors withou account. When I see somebody post a reddit link in the comments it's for old reddit.
Comment by mdgraller at 02/06/2022 at 19:07 UTC
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There are no plans to get rid of it, but there are probably plans to make plans to get rid of it :)
Comment by Prannet at 02/06/2022 at 21:26 UTC
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11 year old account here who religiously uses old.reddit.com for everything, thought there were more than 4% of us, but am happy to be a dinosaur.
9 year old account and the minute old reddit goes is the minute I go. I know we're not the target audience anymore but still.
I remember Digg. I don't miss it.
Comment by pyjamatoast at 02/06/2022 at 21:24 UTC
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10 year old account and fellow Old Reddit user checking in. If they can simply add a "classic" design option to new reddit, that looks just like old reddit with the same font, spacing, etc., I'll be happy to switch over. Until then, old.reddit it is.
Comment by Nowhere_Man_Forever at 02/06/2022 at 19:41 UTC
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The day they remove old reddit is the last day I use reddit. The new interface sucks so bad.
Comment by FLTA at 02/06/2022 at 21:32 UTC
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11 year old account here who religiously uses old.reddit.com for everything, thought there were more than 4% of us, but am happy to be a dinosaur.
When I first started using Reddit, I was browsing it exclusively through desktop. As time went on, I used mobile more and more until now where it is practically the only way I browse Reddit. I do use a 3rd party app reader (which better embodies the spirit of Old Reddit than the official app) after Alien Blue stopped receiving updates and became too buggy of a mess to continue using.
Comment by lordofbuttsecks at 02/06/2022 at 20:09 UTC
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If old reddit goes away that will be my sign to leave.
Comment by folkdeath95 at 02/06/2022 at 23:23 UTC
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I’m an old Reddit user and if it goes away maybe I’d scroll on my phone sometimes but I won’t use new Reddit
Comment by KeepRedditAnonymous at 02/06/2022 at 23:58 UTC
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4%
Yeah there is no way its only 4%. I don't believe that at all.
