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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 t

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
If they do (and it wouldn't surprise me), people will start making third party desktop clients (or rather, they'll start getting popular). If they ban those, then we'll see some major migrations methinks.
VRay 5y ago
Yeah, it's really infuriating.. Reddit consumed most of the cool niche forums on the internet, and now it's slowly mashing them all up into a bland Facebook clone
- malka 5y ago
  Embrace, extand, extinguish. Never, ever trust an incorporated company.
  - throaway3141593 5y ago
    Does that include the Mozilla Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation?
- Scoundreller 5y ago
  A lot of those niche forums were already being killed by VerticalScope and InternetBrands. It’s a lot of what lead to Reddit’s popularity in the first place.
  - Dracophoenix 5y ago
    I don't think I've hear of heard of VerticalScope but I aware of Internet Brands. What niche forums did they kill?
    - Scoundreller 5y ago
      VS bought out a lot of the automotive forums. Also now owners of RedFlagDeals if you're a Canadian. Surprisingly difficult to find a complete list. There's 100% an opportunity for someone to bring on a bunch of subreddit admins into starting a new automotive forum network. Reddit and Facebook don't work well for car stuff. https://old.reddit.com/r/4x4/comments/hw1p3a/vertical_scope_forum_killers/ https://old.reddit.com/r/4x4/comments/hw1p3a/vertical_scope_... Also a bunch of tech and gun forums. Supposedly over 1000 properties, but it's not like I'm going to recognize that they own "mothering.com"
ineedasername 5y ago
I wonder what their relative market share is. Lots of the people that have been on Reddit for years may user old.reddit. I certainly do. I really can't stand their hostility to no using their app on mobile though. The UX seems purposely difficult to drive users towards the app, for the obvious reason of greater access to user data most likely.
- dmoy 5y ago
  One of their biggest hurdles to overcome is, I gather, that a lot of the super large subreddits' moderator teams are exclusively on old.reddit.com for moderation. If they break old.reddit.com completely right now, a lot of the biggest subs would implode with bots, spam, and angry human word-vomit. If they fix the moderation story for new reddit, I'd imagine they have a pretty quick path towards obsoleting old reddit by just not caring about anyone else still on old reddit. They've already 'fixed' modmail for new reddit. So I think they're actively working on that problem.
  - ansible 5y ago
    > They've already 'fixed' modmail for new reddit. So I think they're actively working on that problem. Though that has had some funny issues. One thing I noticed was the enrollment for the new modmail. It is on the settings page on old reddit for a sub, but I couldn't find it anywhere for the new reddit UI. Wacky.
    - dmoy 5y ago
      For sure, it's not a perfect solution. Hence 'fixed' instead of fixed haha.
- boring_twenties 5y ago
  For Android at least, there are multiple free-as-in-freedom reddit client apps available. Two I know of are Infinity and Slide. Both are way better than the mobile website, and I'm sure better than the official app.

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

If they do (and it wouldn't surprise me), people will start making third party desktop clients (or rather, they'll start getting popular). If they ban those, then we'll see some major migrations methinks.

VRay 5y ago

Yeah, it's really infuriating.. Reddit consumed most of the cool niche forums on the internet, and now it's slowly mashing them all up into a bland Facebook clone

malka 5y ago
Embrace, extand, extinguish. Never, ever trust an incorporated company.
- throaway3141593 5y ago
  Does that include the Mozilla Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation?
Scoundreller 5y ago
A lot of those niche forums were already being killed by VerticalScope and InternetBrands. It’s a lot of what lead to Reddit’s popularity in the first place.
- Dracophoenix 5y ago
  I don't think I've hear of heard of VerticalScope but I aware of Internet Brands. What niche forums did they kill?
  - Scoundreller 5y ago
    VS bought out a lot of the automotive forums. Also now owners of RedFlagDeals if you're a Canadian. Surprisingly difficult to find a complete list. There's 100% an opportunity for someone to bring on a bunch of subreddit admins into starting a new automotive forum network. Reddit and Facebook don't work well for car stuff. https://old.reddit.com/r/4x4/comments/hw1p3a/vertical_scope_forum_killers/ https://old.reddit.com/r/4x4/comments/hw1p3a/vertical_scope_... Also a bunch of tech and gun forums. Supposedly over 1000 properties, but it's not like I'm going to recognize that they own "mothering.com"

ineedasername 5y ago

I wonder what their relative market share is. Lots of the people that have been on Reddit for years may user old.reddit. I certainly do. I really can't stand their hostility to no using their app on mobile though. The UX seems purposely difficult to drive users towards the app, for the obvious reason of greater access to user data most likely.

dmoy 5y ago
One of their biggest hurdles to overcome is, I gather, that a lot of the super large subreddits' moderator teams are exclusively on old.reddit.com for moderation. If they break old.reddit.com completely right now, a lot of the biggest subs would implode with bots, spam, and angry human word-vomit. If they fix the moderation story for new reddit, I'd imagine they have a pretty quick path towards obsoleting old reddit by just not caring about anyone else still on old reddit. They've already 'fixed' modmail for new reddit. So I think they're actively working on that problem.
- ansible 5y ago
  > They've already 'fixed' modmail for new reddit. So I think they're actively working on that problem. Though that has had some funny issues. One thing I noticed was the enrollment for the new modmail. It is on the settings page on old reddit for a sub, but I couldn't find it anywhere for the new reddit UI. Wacky.
  - dmoy 5y ago
    For sure, it's not a perfect solution. Hence 'fixed' instead of fixed haha.
boring_twenties 5y ago
For Android at least, there are multiple free-as-in-freedom reddit client apps available. Two I know of are Infinity and Slide. Both are way better than the mobile website, and I'm sure better than the official app.