Saved me. I am used to open a pic-link into a new tab to see pictures. The "normal" reddit is almost dysfunctional for me. (I am using noscript to narrow down to actually really needed things, but reddit wants too much and even with scripts allowed needs pletora of clicks to even only get a normal thread of comments and it seems to load half of yet another OS into my browser, which takes too long)

Everytime I somehow go to reddit without the old. subdomain I think "How does anyone use this? How is it still around." Just happened to me again yesterday.

I submitted it with a normal Reddit link. @dang did some mechanism automatically replace the Reddit link with old.?

There are various userscripts (and add-ons?) that replace the links with its inline images.