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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by Trasmatta on Friday December 04, 2020 @11:23AM (#25304104)
Same, and I feel like it's inevitable at some point. Either some day someone will do the math and determine they can get a lot more ad revenue if they force everyone to use the new design, or they'll decide the cost of maintaining two versions of the site's frontend is too high.
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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by newsbinator on Friday December 04, 2020 @02:41PM (#25306757)
Is there much to maintain on old.reddit.com?

It lacks all the features that make new Reddit annoying and slow, and it doesn't need to gain any new ones.

It's basically a graphical version of the core api, which is solid.

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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by Trasmatta on Friday December 04, 2020 @03:18PM (#25307243)
The cost is probably relatively low (but not negligible). I could imagine a future though where they decide to make some big breaking changes to the API, and decide it's not worth updating the old site.
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