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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 19:01 UTC*
24 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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.
Unless they're fudging numbers on the back end, mods can see percentages of traffic to their subreddit by platform (outside of API usage would would include third-party apps, I believe). For /r/anime old reddit usage is roughly around 10% but from conversations with some mods of other subs that's unusually high by comparison.
Edit: for fun, here are the exact numbers from /r/anime in May 2022:
┌───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬���─────┐ │ Platf │ Total │ Total │ Total │ Total │ Uniqu │ Uniqu │ Uniqu │ Uniqu │ View │ │ orm │ Pagev │ % (Ov │ % (Mo │ % (De │ e Pag │ e % ( │ e % ( │ e % ( │ s/Un │ │ │ iews │ erall │ bile) │ sktop │ eview │ Overa │ Mobil │ Deskt │ ique │ │ │ │ ) │ │ ) │ s │ ll) │ e) │ op) │ │ ╞═══════╪═══════╪═══════╪═══════╪═══════╪═══════╪═══════╪═══════╪═══════╪══════╡ │ New R │ 12,98 │ 35.3% │ - │ 74.6% │ 1,302 │ 34.8% │ - │ 85.6% │ 9.97 │ │ eddit │ 7,026 │ │ │ │ ,483 │ │ │ │ 0 │ ├───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼─────���─┼───────┼───────┼───────┼──────┤ │ Old R │ 4,413 │ 12.0% │ - │ 25.4% │ 219,8 │ 5.9% │ - │ 14.4% │ 20.0 │ │ eddit │ ,961 │ │ │ │ 82 │ │ │ │ 70 │ ├───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼──────┤ │ Mobil │ 3,882 │ 10.6% │ 20.1% │ - │ 1,132 │ 30.3% │ 51.1% │ - │ 3.43 │ │ e Web │ ,371 │ │ │ │ ,393 │ │ │ │ 0 │ ├───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼──────┤ │ Reddi │ 15,46 │ │ │ │ 1,085 │ │ │ │ 14.2 │ │ t │ 7,769 │ 42.1% │ 79.9% │ - │ ,213 │ 29.0% │ 48.9% │ - │ 50 │ │ Apps │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼──────┤ │ Total │ 36,75 │ 100% │ 52.7% │ 47.3% │ 3,739 │ 100% │ 59.3% │ 40.7% │ 9.83 │ │ │ 1,127 │ │ │ │ ,971 │ │ │ │ 0 │ └───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴──────┘
In case it wasn't obvious the percentages in the bottom row are the mobile/desktop split.
Comment by anna_or_elsa at 02/06/2022 at 19:57 UTC
11 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The big complaint is it looks old-fashioned.
True it does. But it also does not come with a bunch of stuff I don't want. I see complaints in /help and /beta and I think "Reddit does that?"
I hate the size difference between the titles and other information on the page. It makes my eyes focus, refocus, and focus again as I scan to the next title or whatever bit I want to look at. If I zoom the page to read the small text the already too big title and white space get even larger.
Then there is the complete lack of sub (community or whatever it's called now) filtering. Every day in /help and other subs "How do I filter subs". And the short answer is you can't. Tell people you can do it in old Reddit and you get voted down. So enjoy your modern interface as you have to scan past stuff you find distasteful if not outright object to.
Comment by plscallmeRain at 02/06/2022 at 18:58 UTC
34 upvotes, 4 direct replies
I will never understand how anyone can use new reddit
most people only use mobile, which new reddit was designed for: to scroll like it's tiktok with text.
Comment by Hyndis at 02/06/2022 at 19:13 UTC
5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I also used old.reddit, but find that clicking links will send me to the new reddit without me knowing. This very link had that happen. I was on old.reddit, clicked this link to see this announcement and now I'm on the new reddit.
I still have the old style enabled in my account settings though, so I still see the old layout. If they're going by access for URL then the 4% number alone isn't useful.
Comment by Halaku at 02/06/2022 at 19:05 UTC
5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
It's the younger generation who grew up on TikTok and don't know any better.
I just use old.reddit.com for my bookmarks, and usually forget **nu**Reddit exists unless I want data that old.reddit won't provide.
Comment by LeNainKamikaze at 02/06/2022 at 19:05 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I don't even know what's from RES or native when using reddit, since I found out about it after only a handful of reddit browsing sessions back in the days and have been using it ever since. It makes the whole experience so smooth, and I don't even use 10% of what they offer...