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I can't stand the new reddit. I always browse the site with https://old.reddit.com/ https://old.reddit.com/ Just replace www with old.

superkuh 7y ago
old.reddit.com is okay, but it now requires the temp whitelisting of 2 or sometimes 3 javascript domains. Not just reddit.com like was required in the past. Given that, it's just easier to use the ceddit.com javascript interface to pull from the API and get the actual old reddit experience. But even worse than the redesign is the new corporate culture of censorship. I left after they banned r/gundeals. They're boiling the frog over there. Nowadays I mostly use RSS feeds and if I want to talk about something I post on the notabug forums (federated+p2p capable).
- mayniac 7y ago
  I hadn't seen notabug before. Visited the site and this was the current top post (censored by me): "Should I complain about a nXXXXr cashier braying like a donkey?" That's not a great first impression... As a side note, anyone know how to do multiple asterisks on HN? Backslash doesn't seem to work as an escape character.
  - superkuh 7y ago
    No doubt. The people at notabug, mostly, are the most abrasive assholes that have been pushed out from other sites. They're not good people. You gotta be the change you want to see. I often post about technology and science there. But I'm simply not enough to make the frontpage always tolerable to people that can't ignore assholes. Sometimes there are strings of racist posts but that's still better than corporate censorship. The people aren't the point. The technology is. It's a federated server system using the GUN distributed database. And posts can be transferred from instance to instance via p2p between browsers. If you want to start a notabug server you can run it with an iron fist and censor all you want. But notabug, at heart, is about not censoring. Even for people who suck and say shitty things.
    - mcphage 7y ago
      > But notabug, at heart, is about not censoring. Even for people who suck and say shitty things. Then you can keep it. What I look for in a social media site is learning interesting things, and having rewarding conversations with people. Notabug sounds like it's neither of those.
    - archagon 7y ago
      I like this kind of decentralized social tech a lot. But, IMO, a social network built like this just won’t work if the default instance you see is a hive of scum and villainy. It tells you exactly which way the leadership leans, and I doubt many people want to participate in a community mired in far-right “politics”. For there to be any adoption, the front page of these kinds of services needs to be friendly and tightly moderated, à la Mastodon. No amount of being the change you want to see will help if the roots are rotten.
  - r721 7y ago
    Voting is PoW-based on notabug, so users can upvote themselves multiple times (spending their CPU time). It also means top posts are not really most popular posts, just that the OP was stubborn enough to upvote himself into positive score when downvoted a couple of times.
jimhefferon 7y ago
Me too, but you must know that they will turn it off at some point.
- fernandotakai 7y ago
  i wonder if someone will replicate the old reddit using reddit's api. i mean, there are full featured mobile clients, i wonder if the api licensing would allow it.
- joelthelion 7y ago
  I think I'll just stop regularly browsing reddit at that point. Hopefully tildes will have grown enough by then.
- myhf 7y ago
  Why? thesixtyone.com never turned off their "old" subdomain
  - hombre_fatal 7y ago
    Well, thesixtyone turned off their entire service.
- imglorp 7y ago
  Anyone know if they have public metrics on www vs old visitor traffic?
  - CamelCaseName 7y ago
    I'm not sure about public data, but here is what I'm seeing from one of my larger subreddits: https://i.imgur.com/YPUvYiu.png https://i.imgur.com/YPUvYiu.png Looks like new is gaining on old.
    - basch 7y ago
      i would expect a default to always gain, people get worn down constantly changing default settings, and new users dont know about it because it isnt well advertised.
joelthelion 7y ago
Note that there are browser extensions that automate this, for both old and compact on mobile.

superkuh 7y ago

old.reddit.com is okay, but it now requires the temp whitelisting of 2 or sometimes 3 javascript domains. Not just reddit.com like was required in the past. Given that, it's just easier to use the ceddit.com javascript interface to pull from the API and get the actual old reddit experience. But even worse than the redesign is the new corporate culture of censorship. I left after they banned r/gundeals. They're boiling the frog over there. Nowadays I mostly use RSS feeds and if I want to talk about something I post on the notabug forums (federated+p2p capable).

mayniac 7y ago
I hadn't seen notabug before. Visited the site and this was the current top post (censored by me): "Should I complain about a nXXXXr cashier braying like a donkey?" That's not a great first impression... As a side note, anyone know how to do multiple asterisks on HN? Backslash doesn't seem to work as an escape character.
- superkuh 7y ago
  No doubt. The people at notabug, mostly, are the most abrasive assholes that have been pushed out from other sites. They're not good people. You gotta be the change you want to see. I often post about technology and science there. But I'm simply not enough to make the frontpage always tolerable to people that can't ignore assholes. Sometimes there are strings of racist posts but that's still better than corporate censorship. The people aren't the point. The technology is. It's a federated server system using the GUN distributed database. And posts can be transferred from instance to instance via p2p between browsers. If you want to start a notabug server you can run it with an iron fist and censor all you want. But notabug, at heart, is about not censoring. Even for people who suck and say shitty things.
  - mcphage 7y ago
    > But notabug, at heart, is about not censoring. Even for people who suck and say shitty things. Then you can keep it. What I look for in a social media site is learning interesting things, and having rewarding conversations with people. Notabug sounds like it's neither of those.
  - archagon 7y ago
    I like this kind of decentralized social tech a lot. But, IMO, a social network built like this just won’t work if the default instance you see is a hive of scum and villainy. It tells you exactly which way the leadership leans, and I doubt many people want to participate in a community mired in far-right “politics”. For there to be any adoption, the front page of these kinds of services needs to be friendly and tightly moderated, à la Mastodon. No amount of being the change you want to see will help if the roots are rotten.
- r721 7y ago
  Voting is PoW-based on notabug, so users can upvote themselves multiple times (spending their CPU time). It also means top posts are not really most popular posts, just that the OP was stubborn enough to upvote himself into positive score when downvoted a couple of times.

jimhefferon 7y ago

Me too, but you must know that they will turn it off at some point.

fernandotakai 7y ago
i wonder if someone will replicate the old reddit using reddit's api. i mean, there are full featured mobile clients, i wonder if the api licensing would allow it.
joelthelion 7y ago
I think I'll just stop regularly browsing reddit at that point. Hopefully tildes will have grown enough by then.
myhf 7y ago
Why? thesixtyone.com never turned off their "old" subdomain
- hombre_fatal 7y ago
  Well, thesixtyone turned off their entire service.
imglorp 7y ago
Anyone know if they have public metrics on www vs old visitor traffic?
- CamelCaseName 7y ago
  I'm not sure about public data, but here is what I'm seeing from one of my larger subreddits: https://i.imgur.com/YPUvYiu.png https://i.imgur.com/YPUvYiu.png Looks like new is gaining on old.
  - basch 7y ago
    i would expect a default to always gain, people get worn down constantly changing default settings, and new users dont know about it because it isnt well advertised.

joelthelion 7y ago

Note that there are browser extensions that automate this, for both old and compact on mobile.