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Was fine? It still is old.reddit.com. You can set your profile to use it by default. Just don't accidentally click the "Get New Reddit" link in the top left els
by systematical 6y ago
Was fine? It still is old.reddit.com. You can set your profile to use it by default. Just don't accidentally click the "Get New Reddit" link in the top left else you have to edit your settings again.
- fludlight 6y agoIt's fine until they discontinue old.reddit.com at some point in the near future.
- kabacha 6y agoBy then hopefully reddit alternatives like Lemmy[1] become viable 1 - https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
- nicoburns 6y agoYeah, I didn't think the Lemmy project would go very far when I first saw it. But the implementation is very impressive (performance seems comparable to HN), and the self-hosted model seems like it could be quite amenable to communities staying in control.
- chacha2 6y agoThat seems like the exact same design as new reddit.
- scambier 6y agoSimilar UI, but really different UX.
- jakearmitage 6y agoHow do you make such a thing distributed? Seems to be using a database. If you host on one domain, how does it send the changes to other nodes?
- systematical 6y agoYep not looking forward to this day.
- DoingIsLearning 6y agoThey must have usage stats. I think they are well aware that a lot of older users (some likely heavy _content_contributors_) will simple walk away if they do this. You can't sell ads if you don't have original content that drives traffic to your pages.... old.reddit.com as well as '.compact' are the price to pay to prevent a digg type exodus.
- morrbo 6y agoSomewhat happened a few days ago. Reddit in the browser (ie. M.reddit.com) got a redesign which has screwed loads of stuff up (can't even see usernames of those who have submitted posts on /hot) which makes everything cartoonish, moved the "share" buttons to where voting used to be, and is overall just a bit crappy - without mentioning some of the bugs they have such as a giant white bar on every page. It sucks because I love reddit, but it will be EOL for the people who made it what it is in about 3-5 years
- DavidSJ 6y agoThe use-by-default setting never seems to stick for me. But so far it’s still been possible to substitute old in the URL.
- fossuser 6y agoYeah, they forcefully unset it every few days. One of the more insulting parts of their UX. I bet forcefully unsetting it bumps their usage metrics for the new site though.
- systematical 6y agoMine never unsets, unless i accidentally click that damn button. I often mistake it for the reddit homepage link.
- AdmiralGinge 6y agoI set a custom uBlock filter to be rid of it.
- kingofpandora 6y agoIt has never unset for me.
- jay3ss 6y agoI've created a Firefox extension that allows you to change Reddit subdomains easily (without having to type). Unfortunately because of covid, the queue for approval can days or weeks right now.
- 1_player 6y agoIt sometimes logs you out and resets to the New Reddit. These extensions (Old Reddit redirect) are life savers: Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirect/dneaehbmnbhcippjikoajpoabadpodje https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec... Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoThanks for that. I don't browse reddit as a rule, but I occasionally land there when applying google-fu to a problem so this removes some tedium from my life.