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I found reddit from the great digg.com exodus. They didn’t learn.

• agiacalone 5y ago
  Slashdot did the same thing even before digg. I miss those days sometimes.
• donio 5y ago
  The fact that old.reddit.com continues to be available suggests that they did.
  • metamet 5y ago
    To this point, I would probably stop using the desktop version of the site if they nixed old.reddit.com.
    • ramphastidae 5y ago
      I’m a fan of teddit.net
    • geuis 5y ago
      Same. I only use old mode for both mobile and desktop. It’s super annoying that about once a week they drop me back into their utterly awful mobile web experience. Then have to go back to settings and choose request desktop site yet again. Most recently they’ve switched image galleries to using their new desktop design, so simply trying to view images often pops up this new and totally incompatible experience. Earlier today the left/right nav icons stopped working so I just gave up on trying to view those images.
      • NotPractical 5y ago
        https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect
        • patrickk 5y ago
          Alternatively as a User script: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/40897-old-reddit-please https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/40897-old-reddit-please
        • geuis 5y ago
          Unfortunately this extension is basically useless. If I’m on a real desktop, I don’t need to visit old.reddit.com. I have that set in the user preferences. (Currently using Chrome on desktop.) I use mobile safari on mobile, which this extension doesn’t work for.
      • kzrdude 5y ago
        i.reddit.com works pretty well for phone browsers, quite minimalist and mostly not broken.
• Shared404 5y ago
  Which raises the question. Where will people head from the reddit exodus?
  • raydev 5y ago
    Nowhere. People comparing it to Digg more than a decade later are wildly out of touch with the current state of the internet.
  • Gareth321 5y ago
    There are lots of interesting potential new homes popping up, including SaidIt.net, Tildes.net, Gab.com, even Parler.com and/or whatever Donal Trump has announced. Problem for all of them is their lack of critical mass. Reddit is slowly squeezing users and communities out to appeal to advertisers, but they haven't had their Digg moment yet. That would be something like killing old.reddit.com. Such a catalyst would cause a huge portion of their userbase to leave. So far, they've been too smart to do that, but I can foresee a bunch of new management entering the business after IPO and making those "tough" changes. I'm also seeing various communities simply making their own websites. rdrama.net, for example, is surprisingly successful. kotakuinaction2.win is also doing quite well. I'm sure there are other, even better examples. At first I was resistant of this fragmentation, but I quickly came to embrace this reversion to the internet of yore. It wasn't so long ago that we would go to individual sites to discuss certain things. It's a relatively recent phenomenon that we've embraced monolithic communities for all of our media and social consumption. I don't think it's healthy, and perhaps this fragmentation is exactly what the internet needs right now. Less algorithm-generated outrage in the dystopian "news feed," and more user-driven experiences based on choosing which sites to visit. A crazy concept for many today.
    • fknorangesite 5y ago
      The problem with the sites you've listed isn't "lack of critical mass" it's that they're infested with neo-nazis. Big yikes from me, dawg.
      • Shared404 5y ago