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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 382 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (13 children)

It will well and truly be dead and gone once old.reddit.com stops working. It remains the one good way to view the site, regardless of device.

[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 183 points 1 month ago (21 children)

My theory is that they realize that a significant number of power users on the site are still using old.reddit.com, so they are keeping it going because getting rid of it would turn the website into a ghost town. They will continue to push their app and new website because they can push more advertising through it to the people that are just there to consume.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago

Old reddit still has screens and moderation tools that haven't been rebuilt. It's kept on life support for mods right now.

[–] SirHaxalot@nord.pub 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think you are vastly underestimating the amount of people that only interact with social media through apps in this day and age. Even on Reddit I would be surprised if the old design is more than a few percent of the user base.

It honestly does raise the question of why they are still maintaining the old UI. It seems like it would be an annoying legacy product to keep alive for a tiny part of the user-base. Perhaps it’s used as an API stability canary or something though.

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[–] unglueclass23@programming.dev 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

old.reddit.com on mobile is a bit rough but otherwise yeah

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[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I keep seeing people saying that Reddit will be dead when this or that happens. I've seen a handful of those things come to pass already and reddit it doing just fine.

Most people don't care. They will continue using it. It will survive.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Reddit is doing fine and Reddit is fine are two different things.

Most users complain consistently about it. That's not a good sign for them.

Their popular posts don't get as many upvotes/comments as they used to. There's definitely a decline in usage.

It's being overrun by bots.

Tons of people are getting bot banned off the platform.

It's not like it's going to just disappear anytime soon. But I've seen this many times before. It's a dying platform. But it'll be a slow death. And by death I mean it'll just become irrelevant compared to other platforms. It'll probably never actually go away. No one I know uses Facebook anymore. It used to be HUGE. We ALL used it. Now it's a ghost town on my feed. I've messaged people and never got a response and run into them at a birthday or something months later and "Oh sorry, I don't check it anymore". It's still there, but may as well not be. That's Reddit's future.

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[–] biscuit@lemdro.id 189 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The enshittification continues.

[–] The_Cunt_of_Monte_Cristo@lemmy.world 153 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That dumbass app was enough reason why I'm here.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd say it's responsible for at least 75% of us being here!

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[–] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 118 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I will not install their app. Period.

[–] DrSoap@lemmy.world 50 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I hope it ends up pushing more people here!

[–] fizzbang@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] greenb@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

More people

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[–] Arrandee@lemmy.world 91 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Maybe its too on the nose to say so on Lemmy, but fuck Reddit right in the earhole. Their pearl-clutching, risk-averse, pro-corporate moderation-bot and tattle-tale system was the last straw.

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 33 points 1 month ago

You forgot to mention their being the cuckold of Israel, or perhaps the Gimp. Fuck Reddit better dead than Reddit is a username says on here.

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[–] searabbit@piefed.social 62 points 1 month ago (6 children)

"These users are already familiar with Reddit and we've seen that the experience is much better for them in the app. The app offers a more personalized experience and users can more easily find communities that match their interests."

Lmao. The personalization is exactly what I don't want, so fuck off. Also, it's pretty easy to circumvent. I'm sure there's multiple ways, but I just go to old reddit.

[–] BigBrownDog@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

"Here's a bunch of lies. We are going to track the fuck out of your dumb ass."

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[–] Naich@piefed.world 57 points 1 month ago (15 children)

It's pushing this user to not use them any more.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago

Reddit is a shit hole.

[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 44 points 1 month ago (14 children)

You guys are still using reddit?

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[–] Karmanopoly@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Reddit needs to die like digg did

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[–] diplomatic_immunity@lemmy.zip 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (21 children)

I hate reddit. They blocked all of my accounts for no reason. And they're so vague explaining why, and when I tried to appeal, the whole site crashed. Literally joined Lemmy yesterday.

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[–] Lexam@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I expect another migration from reddit to lemmy. I'm not saying we are going to explode, but expect some new people in the next few weeks.

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[–] morto@piefed.social 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Next, they will stop allowing to register with random email without confirmation

Edit: jut found out they already did it lol. Then next step will be to require phone number for all new accounts

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[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Good.

The more of this they do, the more people move to federated sites.

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[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Welcome Reddit refugees! (Dumb assholes, bots and shills notwithstanding.)

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[–] Stefan_S_from_H@piefed.zip 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 month ago

Fuck u/spez

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 month ago

Garbage takes itself out, lol.

[–] suburbanl3g3nd@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (5 children)

If you're on Firefox, download a user agent plug in and change your your browser to say it's a tablet or windows pc. Problem solved. I already do this when their page locking pop-up started bothering me lol

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[–] sevenoverthree@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I just got banned for saying that I look forward to watching leopards eat James Comey's face. They took it as a literal call for violence. The only thing that doesn't make it perfect is that it wasn't on r/leopardsatemyface.

I would say reddit has fully gone to shit, but somehow I think it still has a ways lower to sink.

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[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

enshittification gets shittier

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[–] dhruv3006@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] webkitten@piefed.social 22 points 1 month ago (13 children)

They're gonna shut down old reddit or make it a premium feature aren't they?

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[–] user_aready_exists@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you paste this into your my filters tab on Ublock Origin, it'll block the element blocking you from the page, but yes that's why I made a Lemmy account, because fuck reddit.

reddit.com#?##app-upsell-blocking-bottom-sheet-seo:remove() reddit.com#%#//scriptlet('prevent-addEventListener', 'touchmove', 'preventDefault') reddit.com#%#//scriptlet('remove-class', 'rpl-scroll-lock|scroll-is-blocked', 'html, body', 'asap stay') reddit.com#$#html, body, shreddit-app { overflow-y: scroll !important; -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch !important; touch-action: pan-y !important; overscroll-behavior: auto !important; }

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[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 21 points 1 month ago

It's just websites. I'm not downloading your shitty app to look at your website. That's what a browser is for.

[–] Pistcow@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Noticed that a couple weeks ago. Does it for Duckduckgo and Firefox but not for Chrome.

About the same time they killed r/All and sorting by top/hour.

I float back and forth between reddit and lemme since the mass exodus but this is probably going to be the end of reddit for me.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

More Lemmy signups incoming.

[–] Phantaloons@piefed.zip 20 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Good idea, Reddit.

opens redreader

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[–] AlJones@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Thats why I'm back here 🐱

[–] bequirtle@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the humble "request desktop site" button

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