Re:Old.reddit.com Isn't Working
by noname120 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @05:24PM
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Most likely a bug. Even if they decide to decommission old.reddit.com at some point, they will at least redirect to reddit.com if only to avoid SEO penalty.
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One thing I've learned about bay area companies: You can never be too cynical; they'll almost always be way ahead of you.
The typical easy way is to have many "unfortunate mistaken outages". This is how Google via Maps and Mail handled Opera 6+ times (iirc), how Facebook handled Opera Mini 8+ times with the login javascript doing more and more esoteric things, etc etc.
I believe Firefox has witnessed something similar in the past few years couple of years with popular properties.
I wouldn't put it past the Reddit team to try to do something similar to push away people from their old, less monetizable interface.