I'll say it again, the day they block me from old.reddit.com, is the day I leave the site permanently.

I've already made this migration after they started requiring a login. It's been pleasant.

Migration where?

The fediverse is one place

> Migration where?

Off the doom scrolling device and back to reality!

Yeah my plan is to spend the next few months really thinking about what I need from Reddit, and trying to replace it with books.

Why are you still there? Even if you are the 1% still on Old Reddit, you are looking a site created by the 99% on the app (or New Reddit). And that's why it has become a wasteland of image posts and inane 180-character quips. Conversation has declined even on more serious subs because the new interfaces hide most comments from uses by default.

I like /r/rust, /r/writing, and /r/sydney. I also like browsing by top of all posts for subreddits about things I don't know much about, like /r/sociology, or /r/meditation.

I don't think these are enough to make me want to stay on the site, because I can join the Rust Programming Language forum. I'm sure there is a similar analogue for the writing and Sydney subreddits.

Use redlib. It's crazy how much better the interface is than both old and new reddit.

same here. How to kill a platform 101.

Greedy fucks. I've hated them ever since they took RIF away from me.

> How to kill a platform 101.

..but the platform is owned by shareholders now. Who needs the original purpose and intent that got them here when they're sitting on the golden data egg in the age of AI, a page from the Tesla/Space playbook..

I wish this was /s

I had a 2005 (launch year) Reddit account. I deleted it when the API shenanigans happened and haven’t looked back. I have my browsers all set up to redirect Reddit.com to a Redlib instance. I will never visit or participate in the site again.

My biggest regret is that I didn’t anonymize & overwrite all my comments, so AI fuckery has access to them forever.

Edit: forgot the obligatory fuck /u/spez

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1wubgvt/continuing...

As a quick reminder:

First there was Reddit, which had an API, a mobile version (i.reddit.com) and a desktop one.

Then there was the redesign, after which there was new reddit, old reddit (old.reddit.com), and mobile reddit.

Then they removed mobile reddit.

Then they restricted the API.

Then they made old reddit available for logged-in users only, which they are now restricting even more.

It's obvious that they're slowly boiling the frog until there's only one bloated interface left.

Embrace, extend, extinguish.

"Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE),[1] also known as "embrace, extend, and exterminate",[2] is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found[3] to have been used internally by Microsoft[4] to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used open standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and using the differences to strongly disadvantage its competitors. - wikipedia

Hasn't the redesign been around for like 8 years at this point? Kind of crazy they kept it around for so long.

Because it's still a big hunk of traffic, and moderators report relying on it (it loads significantly faster). They have bolded text relating to moderators in the annoucement: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1wubgvt/continuing...

It has been a godsend. The new design is bad in all the ways that most modern designs are bad: lots of needless padding, ads everywhere, poor information density. After they effectively killed third party apps, old.reddit.com has been the last bastion of a design intended for power users.

It's the only thing usable for mods.

The new interface intentionally hostile, doesn't provide a way to read the entire thread, replies in a compact way.

Related:

Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912499

this is some smarmy shit:

> we'll stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026

3 sentences later:

> RSS has been a beloved part of the open web for a long time, and we’re grateful to everyone who used it to stay connected to Reddit.

https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1wubgvt/

I can't believe that some people value their time so little that they moderate reddit in the mid 2020s.

That do it for free

For days, even after login, neither the automatic redirect, nor the 'click this link' page redirects properly if it all. Clicking it multiple times, sometimes works. The login also seems to expire quite frequently. So it's even worse than stated.

I Selfhost redlib. Throw behind Tailscale and force redirect to it when hitting Reddit links. No issues

The sooner they get rid of it, the sooner I'll stop using reddit and finally be free...

Just had a 15 year account get permabanned for repeated auto-moderator false positives. For example, quoting an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie being interpreted as a "call to violence". Most appeals get ignored. The permaban appeal was approved, but the ban remains in place and I can't seem to reach anyone there to look into it.

I was pretty upset at first, but I'm starting to see the positives of no longer being able to comment. I spent way too much time getting worked up over pointless arguments. For whatever reason, Hacker News doesn't seem to produce the same impulse.

Something I noticed today...

Fired up Reddit app on my phone and here's what I saw:

1 - Post from Subreddit I subscribe to.

2 - Post from Subreddit that Reddit promoted into my feed. Not really anything I'd be interested in.

3 - Non-targeted Advertisement. (Literally an ad about some kind of medication I think, I didn't click.)

4 - Post from Subreddit that Reddit promoted into my feed. Not really anything I'd be interested in.

5 - Post from Subreddit I subscribe to.

6 - Non-targeted Advertisement.

The pattern went on that way; every 3 posts was an ad. And fully half of the posts were from Subreddit I don't follow.

1/3 ads. 1/3 content I didn't want. 1/3 content I wanted.

I think that may be the end of Reddit for me. I don't really get a lot out of it before, and I get dramatically less when they force feed shit I don't want into my feed. What even is the point of subscribing to feeds if they're just going to put slop in that you don't subscribe to?

Also, I swore you used to be able to opt out of the feed promotions, and I swore I had those disabled, but today I can't find the settings to disable them. Cool. Cool cool cool.

In honor of the way we talked on Reddit... fuck u/spez!

Can someone please download it all pre-2019 and put it on torrents or something?