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As far as I can tell, the only reason old.reddit exists is to avoid the bad PR they’ll get from killing it. They seem to be trying to make things worse and wors
by al_borland 3mo ago
As far as I can tell, the only reason old.reddit exists is to avoid the bad PR they’ll get from killing it. They seem to be trying to make things worse and worse, to lose the users through attrition, so the eventual shutdown is a non-event.
Also, maybe they learned something from Digg v4. That was a hard cut over, users hated it, but they had no way to revert and it killed the site. They’re probably trying to avoid that as well.
- chistev 3mo agoDo we know if the number of people using old reddit is significant enough?
- streptomycin 3mo agoIf you mod a subreddit you can see stats. On the biggest one I mod (35k subscribers) 2.5% of the traffic comes from Old Reddit, compared to 41% from New Reddit and 16% from Mobile Web, and the rest from mobile apps. Unsure why they differentiate Mobile Web from the others, since it's possible to view either Old or New Reddit in mobile browsers. Regardless, Old Reddit is not very popular.
- gaws 3mo ago> avoid the bad PR they’ll get from killing it. What "bad PR"? They easily survived requiring accounts to view old.reddit.com. Moving from one interface to another won't result in as big of a backlash as the API changes.