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Old.reddit.com Isn't Working
- throwawaysea 5y agoI don't use Reddit often, but wow the "new" Reddit design is incredibly jarring and difficult to navigate. Are the majority of users really liking this experience?
- jedberg 5y agoAll the new users get that interface by default, and when they first launched it you had to specifically opt out, which not everyone knows how to do. I don't think they have any experiments where they give a new user the old interface to do a proper A/B test, so I don't think you can conclusively say that people like the new interface better than the old, or vice versa.
- dijit 5y agoThe new design serves the needs of the company over the needs of the users.
- tpmx 5y agoSame. Is this the end of a reasonable reddit layout?
- Gobd 5y agoRegular https://reddit.com https://reddit.com also doesn't work so I'd say this could also be a larger problem.
- jedberg 5y agoThat's probably because you have it set to show the old interface by default. Go to new.reddit.com and it should work fine.
- noname120 5y agoMost likely a bug. Even if they decide to decommission old.reddit.com at some point, they will at least redirect to reddit.com if only to avoid SEO penalty.
- tpmx 5y agoOne thing I've learned about bay area companies: You can never be too cynical; they'll almost always be way ahead of you. The typical easy way is to have many "unfortunate mistaken outages". This is how Google via Maps and Mail handled Opera 6+ times (iirc), how Facebook handled Opera Mini 8+ times with the login javascript doing more and more esoteric things, etc etc. I believe Firefox has witnessed something similar in the past few years couple of years with popular properties. I wouldn't put it past the Reddit team to try to do something similar to push away people from their old, less monetizable interface.
- cyanydeez 5y agohow apple handles anything pwa related
- ericra 5y agoSame for me. Teddit (https://teddit.net/ https://teddit.net/) is a reasonable alternative to old.reddit.com provided you don't care about being logged in. I'm not affiliated with them, but I have used their Reddit front-end quite a bit and like the style.
- jedberg 5y agoFor those wondering, this is highly unlikely to be intentional. The "you broke reddit" only comes up when there is a major software error. It's one step above a python stack trace. An actual decommissioning would be coupled with a redirect or a note or something.
- xist 5y agohttps://twitter.com/redditstatus/status/1412522436440952836 https://twitter.com/redditstatus/status/1412522436440952836 Nothing to see here. Hanlon's razor.
- Khelavaster 5y agoAre they going to finally fix their HSTS settings?