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Then why provide old.reddit.com?

• ScottFree 7y ago
  If I had to guess, they're keenly aware of the demise of digg and don't want to follow in their footsteps. They're probably tracking what percentage of their users are still using the old design.
• clircle 7y ago
  To temper the uproar
• orev 7y ago
  Because they know if they didn’t they would lose tons of users immediately. They’re betting that many of those users will slowly get used to the new site, or they can remove access to the old site in smaller groups instead of all at once. They also could be trying to work out bugs on the new site and the old one gives them a decent fallback for people. Also could be that some of the more obscure functionality of the site has not been ported to the new design, so they can link into the old one for those pages.
• MrMember 7y ago
  They remember what happened to Digg.