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Before you all flip your shit and accuse them of everything evil in the world (when really, their video player is worse than all of it combined), as it stands,

Before you all flip your shit and accuse them of everything evil in the world (when really, their video player is worse than all of it combined), as it stands, this looks much more like a bug than intended malice, and reddit admins seem to confirm it : https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/us8i9a/old_reddit_on_pc_doesnt_work/ https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/us8i9a/old_reddit_on_... New reddit also doesn't properly fetch your default subreddits. Something is screwed with their entire auth system. Going to new reddit and refreshing and going back to old does work. Additionally, if logged in, just tick the "use old reddit experience" option in settings and you have old reddit, everywhere.

krageon 4y ago
> a bug You're trying to tell me they released a feature without even testing the login flow? That's going beyond "oh this is a little accident" straight into almost unbelievable amounts of incompetence. At that point it is more charitable to attribute it to malice.
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- ohgodplsno 4y ago
  >traight into almost unbelievable amounts of incompetence Have you seen the state of new reddit, of chat, of their video player, or literally any feature they've released in the past 4 years ?
  - krageon 4y ago
    There is a difference between not being able to do any engineering at all (and if you don't test your basic use cases, you did not move past scripting/messing around) and having terrible ideas. The things you list are terrible ideas nobody wants, but probably look good on a powerpoint slide deck.
    - danShumway 4y ago
      > New reddit also doesn't properly fetch your default subreddits. Something is screwed with their entire auth system. The problem with assuming that this specific issue is targeted is that they also broke the system that they want people to move to. Reddit definitely does want to push people to the new interface, and is very likely going to decrease support for the old interface and invest less effort into bugfixing/maintenance. However, just because something is true, that doesn't mean every single thing you see that reinforces that idea is also true. There are lots of ways in an incompetent company to break a login flow late in testing, especially if they're pushing fixes in real-time or during testing. I don't know what Reddit's setup actually is, but it is unlikely to me that they would purposefully introduce auth bugs that broke both the old and new interface. I do believe that they are trying to get people off of the old interface and would be willing to resort to underhanded methods to do so. But I don't think it's likely that this specific bug was a deliberate effort to do that.

krageon 4y ago

> a bug You're trying to tell me they released a feature without even testing the login flow? That's going beyond "oh this is a little accident" straight into almost unbelievable amounts of incompetence. At that point it is more charitable to attribute it to malice.

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ohgodplsno 4y ago
>traight into almost unbelievable amounts of incompetence Have you seen the state of new reddit, of chat, of their video player, or literally any feature they've released in the past 4 years ?
- krageon 4y ago
  There is a difference between not being able to do any engineering at all (and if you don't test your basic use cases, you did not move past scripting/messing around) and having terrible ideas. The things you list are terrible ideas nobody wants, but probably look good on a powerpoint slide deck.
  - danShumway 4y ago
    > New reddit also doesn't properly fetch your default subreddits. Something is screwed with their entire auth system. The problem with assuming that this specific issue is targeted is that they also broke the system that they want people to move to. Reddit definitely does want to push people to the new interface, and is very likely going to decrease support for the old interface and invest less effort into bugfixing/maintenance. However, just because something is true, that doesn't mean every single thing you see that reinforces that idea is also true. There are lots of ways in an incompetent company to break a login flow late in testing, especially if they're pushing fixes in real-time or during testing. I don't know what Reddit's setup actually is, but it is unlikely to me that they would purposefully introduce auth bugs that broke both the old and new interface. I do believe that they are trying to get people off of the old interface and would be willing to resort to underhanded methods to do so. But I don't think it's likely that this specific bug was a deliberate effort to do that.