[Update: No they are not] Are they killing old.reddit.com?
[Update: No they are not] Are they killing old.reddit.com?
Just had errors for the last minute, is it happening to other people too?
Normal reddit works fine.
Update: Normal reddit has issues loading the front page, but subreddits open normally
Imagine doing a site redesign so badly that you have to keep the old design up and running for years.
It only went 'badly' if you believe the users are the people who get to decide.
The reddit redesign wasn't done to meet the needs of the users - it was done to meet the needs of reddit the corporate entity. And from that perspective it went great.
More uniform look, better marketability, better ad integration and monetisation, all those wonderful things.
They knew the 'old guard' would hate it, and they simply didn't care. They'd have killed it altogether but they needed those users to stick around, because it was the old crowd who provided content and free moderation, and all that great stuff.. So they let old.reddit stay, simply to keep people mollified and prevent a riot.
As soon as reddit thinks they don't need those people any longer, it will be gone, just like the APIs.
Remember people did a protest to use 3rd party apps instead of Reddit actually app. That is how bad Reddit is!
Seems OK. Other than the fact that it is still reddit.
People still not realising that Reddit is slowly tumbling down into a shithole.
Not caring, more like.
Yes. I keep this post alive as it was interesting to think what would happen if they really killed it. Would a lot of disgruntled old.reddit users come here? That could be interesting
One day they will. You can still block ads on old.reddit.com iirc, hence the incentive to do so. Right now (it seems) they would lose too many people if they did that, and they still need those content creators, for the commenters and lurkers to have something to engage with. But the moment that they can get AI to replace humans... I expect that old method of access to be shut down the very same day.
Not that I care - I've long since enjoyed going there.:-( Except it will create a flood of disaffected people to come here - yay more content but also... FAR more need for moderation, bc they will bring their toxic attitudes, encouraged by Reddit standard practices, with them.
Same here :(
Update: Deleted cookies. Now I can't log in anymore.
It's back on my side
Interesting
Working fine here.