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old.reddit.com is still around, for now, and does not have any of this garbage.

frereubu 5y ago
I'm starting to find that title links to posts with multiple images just link back to the page you're on. It feels like it's just going to slowly disintegrate. Which I think on balance I'd be happy about because I spend too much time on there anyway.
kgwxd 5y ago
old.reddit is ok, but it's rarely used for links. I know there's a plugin, but I can't stand the idea of adding plugins for things like that. The only reason I have a reddit account is because you can change preferences to be even better than old.reddit (e.g. turn off custom themes, disable outbound click tracking, no thumbnails, compact list, etc.). It basically looks like HN after what I do to it. I know it's all arranging deck chairs on a sinking ship but I hope a decent rescue ship gets here before it's all gone.
marto1 5y ago
And you just KNOW it's going to disappear. Not immediately of course, some slight visual breakages here and there. Then some hotshot manager is going to point out how it doesn't bring any "value" to the company and how in fact it actually hurts reddit's image. Then it will be gone.
- beaconstudios 5y ago
  And then somebody makes a substitute UI that calls the api, then reddit tries to take it down, then someone builds an open source version, then github gets a C&D letter and the creator makes blog post about it that reaches the front page of HN. I'm looking forward to the journey.
  - scott_w 5y ago
    The first part happened: https://teddit.net https://teddit.net ;-)
  - mdaniel 5y ago
    > then someone builds an open source version Damn, I went to dig up the URL for reddit's source and it seems it is no longer open :-( https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
    - r721 5y ago
      Saidit is an old reddit fork with small changes (the biggest one is no downvotes): https://github.com/libertysoft3/saidit https://github.com/libertysoft3/saidit
- mike_d 5y ago
  From my time at Reddit I can say the reason it has lasted this long is there are no hotshot managers. Chris Slowe is the hand guiding the ship day to day, with a bunch of really passionate hackers underneath him. They are maintaining like 4 different code bases and keeping feature parity as best they can with a team that could still comfortably go on a ski trip together (compare that to the 60k+ at Facebook). The users hate change while also demanding new features. The business makes no sense. Steve is off doing... something, to ads or something and make investors happy so they keep the ship afloat. UI is going to hell to drive DAU metrics for investors. Banning shitweasels brings down the wrath of the conservatives. Yet they are still working their assess off to keep a mound of spaghetti from bursting into flames with 1/10th the staff they need to do so.
  - throwawayboise 5y ago
    Good to know that a major social media platform is built on the same shit and bailing wire that most of us have to deal with every day. Sort of makes me feel like the SV companies really aren't any different than anyone else, they just (typically) have a lot more money.
Syonyk 5y ago
It doesn't... but the nature of Reddit has been clearly driven by the "new" interface. There's a lot less text-based technical content, and a lot more image/gif meme-based content because that's what the new interface is optimized for - and it goes out of its way to make it very, very hard to see the deep text nested comments that are the dominant feature of the old interface (and HN). So, while you can browse the place with the old interface, the nature and trends of Reddit are mostly driven by the new interface. Which is fine, if they want to go that way, it's just a shame that what used to make it any good is dead or dying.
rcfox 5y ago
old.reddit.com is clearly beginning to rot: 1. The new Reddit seems to have a different markdown parser which allows surrounding unindented code with ``` lines. This doesn't render on old Reddit. 2. New Reddit seems to be saving links with escaped underscores and correcting for it at render time? I've started to see people posting broken links like https://example.com/some\_path\_with\_underscores https://example.com/some\_path\_with\_underscores when it should be https://example.com/some_path_with_underscores https://example.com/some_path_with_underscores 3. Posts with multiple images sometimes don't work? I haven't been inconvenienced enough by this yet to investigate.
- scrooched_moose 5y ago
  I've started having weird redirects on any v.reddit.com posts too - they redirect back to main page instead of taking me to the video. I haven't fully tested what combinations don't work, but it feels like the beginning of the end of old.reddit.com.
- jarcane 5y ago
  The report dialogue has also been broken for awhile now, and the new support for image+text posts was backported in a pretty ugly way too.
mcbutterbunz 5y ago
It'll eventually be removed with the reasoning that its hardly used and most traffic uses the new Reddit and now they can focus on improvements without having to support this legacy code.
- fullstop 5y ago
  And then something else will replace it. They'll digg themselves their own grave.
  - ineedasername 5y ago
    Maybe Ycombinator will incubate a rival that uses the HN model.
    - tomrod 5y ago
      I thought they already did, this little company called Reddit that went on to benefit from the banality of digg.
  - ds206 5y ago
    "digg themselves their own grave" ;)
    - fullstop 5y ago
      Ha, thanks for picking up on that! I was hoping that someone would notice. :-)
- thatswrong0 5y ago
  And then I will stop using Reddit for the most part (although it's still the best resource for finding authentic reviews of things / services.. I Google "<thoughts on something> reddit" more often than not these days). Which is probably for the best for my productivity / sanity tbh The redesign is still a slower, worse experience, especially on mobile.
- Qwertious 5y ago

I'm starting to find that title links to posts with multiple images just link back to the page you're on. It feels like it's just going to slowly disintegrate. Which I think on balance I'd be happy about because I spend too much time on there anyway.

kgwxd 5y ago

old.reddit is ok, but it's rarely used for links. I know there's a plugin, but I can't stand the idea of adding plugins for things like that. The only reason I have a reddit account is because you can change preferences to be even better than old.reddit (e.g. turn off custom themes, disable outbound click tracking, no thumbnails, compact list, etc.). It basically looks like HN after what I do to it. I know it's all arranging deck chairs on a sinking ship but I hope a decent rescue ship gets here before it's all gone.

marto1 5y ago

And you just KNOW it's going to disappear. Not immediately of course, some slight visual breakages here and there. Then some hotshot manager is going to point out how it doesn't bring any "value" to the company and how in fact it actually hurts reddit's image. Then it will be gone.

beaconstudios 5y ago
And then somebody makes a substitute UI that calls the api, then reddit tries to take it down, then someone builds an open source version, then github gets a C&D letter and the creator makes blog post about it that reaches the front page of HN. I'm looking forward to the journey.
- scott_w 5y ago
  The first part happened: https://teddit.net https://teddit.net ;-)
- mdaniel 5y ago
  > then someone builds an open source version Damn, I went to dig up the URL for reddit's source and it seems it is no longer open :-( https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
  - r721 5y ago
    Saidit is an old reddit fork with small changes (the biggest one is no downvotes): https://github.com/libertysoft3/saidit https://github.com/libertysoft3/saidit
mike_d 5y ago
From my time at Reddit I can say the reason it has lasted this long is there are no hotshot managers. Chris Slowe is the hand guiding the ship day to day, with a bunch of really passionate hackers underneath him. They are maintaining like 4 different code bases and keeping feature parity as best they can with a team that could still comfortably go on a ski trip together (compare that to the 60k+ at Facebook). The users hate change while also demanding new features. The business makes no sense. Steve is off doing... something, to ads or something and make investors happy so they keep the ship afloat. UI is going to hell to drive DAU metrics for investors. Banning shitweasels brings down the wrath of the conservatives. Yet they are still working their assess off to keep a mound of spaghetti from bursting into flames with 1/10th the staff they need to do so.
- throwawayboise 5y ago
  Good to know that a major social media platform is built on the same shit and bailing wire that most of us have to deal with every day. Sort of makes me feel like the SV companies really aren't any different than anyone else, they just (typically) have a lot more money.

Syonyk 5y ago

It doesn't... but the nature of Reddit has been clearly driven by the "new" interface. There's a lot less text-based technical content, and a lot more image/gif meme-based content because that's what the new interface is optimized for - and it goes out of its way to make it very, very hard to see the deep text nested comments that are the dominant feature of the old interface (and HN). So, while you can browse the place with the old interface, the nature and trends of Reddit are mostly driven by the new interface. Which is fine, if they want to go that way, it's just a shame that what used to make it any good is dead or dying.

rcfox 5y ago

old.reddit.com is clearly beginning to rot: 1. The new Reddit seems to have a different markdown parser which allows surrounding unindented code with ``` lines. This doesn't render on old Reddit. 2. New Reddit seems to be saving links with escaped underscores and correcting for it at render time? I've started to see people posting broken links like https://example.com/some\_path\_with\_underscores https://example.com/some\_path\_with\_underscores when it should be https://example.com/some_path_with_underscores https://example.com/some_path_with_underscores 3. Posts with multiple images sometimes don't work? I haven't been inconvenienced enough by this yet to investigate.

scrooched_moose 5y ago
I've started having weird redirects on any v.reddit.com posts too - they redirect back to main page instead of taking me to the video. I haven't fully tested what combinations don't work, but it feels like the beginning of the end of old.reddit.com.
jarcane 5y ago
The report dialogue has also been broken for awhile now, and the new support for image+text posts was backported in a pretty ugly way too.

mcbutterbunz 5y ago

It'll eventually be removed with the reasoning that its hardly used and most traffic uses the new Reddit and now they can focus on improvements without having to support this legacy code.

fullstop 5y ago
And then something else will replace it. They'll digg themselves their own grave.
- ineedasername 5y ago
  Maybe Ycombinator will incubate a rival that uses the HN model.
  - tomrod 5y ago
    I thought they already did, this little company called Reddit that went on to benefit from the banality of digg.
- ds206 5y ago
  "digg themselves their own grave" ;)
  - fullstop 5y ago
    Ha, thanks for picking up on that! I was hoping that someone would notice. :-)
thatswrong0 5y ago
And then I will stop using Reddit for the most part (although it's still the best resource for finding authentic reviews of things / services.. I Google "<thoughts on something> reddit" more often than not these days). Which is probably for the best for my productivity / sanity tbh The redesign is still a slower, worse experience, especially on mobile.
Qwertious 5y ago