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Just out of curiosity, why "ud"? It seems like any two letter subdomain works in the same way.

by stronglikedan 8y ago

duxup 8y ago
Honestly, I think that was just one I bookmarked at some point and there it is in my history ;)
- lessclue 8y ago
  It's actually old.reddit.com but they probably have some sort of a wildcard rule.
  - duxup 8y ago
    Thanks!
  - folkrav 8y ago
    This is probably it : any two letter combination seems to work.
    - godelski 8y ago
      Testing it out I found something interesting. You can put in subreddit.reddit.com and it redirects to reddit.com/r/subreddit. But any 2 char prefix works sends to old.reddit.com (a.reddit.com -> reddit.com/r/a) e.g. hackernews.reddit.com -> reddit.com/r/hackernews Why does this subreddit exist?
      - thaumasiotes 8y ago
        > hackernews.reddit.com -> reddit.com/r/hackernews > Why does this subreddit exist? Considering the prevalence of the rebuke "HN is not reddit" on HN, probably for people who want to talk in a more reddit-like style.
    - Nullabillity 8y ago
      It was (originally) for localization: ja.reddit.com would (for example) give you a Japanese interface. Eventually they realized what a horrible idea l10n is for a community-oriented site, and dropped the translations, but kept the `lang` that it would apply attributes. Eventually subreddit moderators figured out that you could use this to provide multiple variants of the per-subreddit CSS, such as dark modes, custom filters, and other silliness[0]. [0]: For example, see /r/CrappyDesign with (https://old.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/ https://old.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/) and without (https://of.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign https://of.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign) Comic Sans.
- delecti 8y ago
  Other than "np", as in "np.reddit.com", which is used for "no-participation mode", I think the other two-letter sub-domains are used for language codes. I think at one point in reddit's history doing things like de.reddit.com could give a german site, and so on. I'm not sure what "ud" would refer to, but I assume it's similar.
  - pvorb 8y ago
    Maybe "undefined"/"undetermined"?
  - Avery3R 8y ago
    np is implemented as a language code. Subreddits have to change their stylesheets for that language for it to work.
ehsankia 8y ago
I have no idea what ud is, I use old.reddit.com

Just out of curiosity, why "ud"? It seems like any two letter subdomain works in the same way.

duxup 8y ago

Honestly, I think that was just one I bookmarked at some point and there it is in my history ;)

lessclue 8y ago
It's actually old.reddit.com but they probably have some sort of a wildcard rule.
- duxup 8y ago
  Thanks!
- folkrav 8y ago
  This is probably it : any two letter combination seems to work.
  - godelski 8y ago
    Testing it out I found something interesting. You can put in subreddit.reddit.com and it redirects to reddit.com/r/subreddit. But any 2 char prefix works sends to old.reddit.com (a.reddit.com -> reddit.com/r/a) e.g. hackernews.reddit.com -> reddit.com/r/hackernews Why does this subreddit exist?
    - thaumasiotes 8y ago
      > hackernews.reddit.com -> reddit.com/r/hackernews > Why does this subreddit exist? Considering the prevalence of the rebuke "HN is not reddit" on HN, probably for people who want to talk in a more reddit-like style.
  - Nullabillity 8y ago
    It was (originally) for localization: ja.reddit.com would (for example) give you a Japanese interface. Eventually they realized what a horrible idea l10n is for a community-oriented site, and dropped the translations, but kept the `lang` that it would apply attributes. Eventually subreddit moderators figured out that you could use this to provide multiple variants of the per-subreddit CSS, such as dark modes, custom filters, and other silliness[0]. [0]: For example, see /r/CrappyDesign with (https://old.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/ https://old.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/) and without (https://of.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign https://of.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign) Comic Sans.
delecti 8y ago
Other than "np", as in "np.reddit.com", which is used for "no-participation mode", I think the other two-letter sub-domains are used for language codes. I think at one point in reddit's history doing things like de.reddit.com could give a german site, and so on. I'm not sure what "ud" would refer to, but I assume it's similar.
- pvorb 8y ago
  Maybe "undefined"/"undetermined"?
- Avery3R 8y ago
  np is implemented as a language code. Subreddits have to change their stylesheets for that language for it to work.

ehsankia 8y ago

I have no idea what ud is, I use old.reddit.com