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• 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.