Reddit removed "low usage" features from old.reddit
Cleaning up some low-usage features
It begins...
Found out via this post
Interesting side-note, reddit's anti-VPN policies and blocking some archivers like ghostarchive.
Good, this will push more people to alternatives
More, yes, but still almost nobody...
The amount of people in the world is a pretty insane number, which makes "almost nobody" 8800 users visiting per day just on lemmy.world, and it's still growing pretty fast.
I'm fine with reddit doing their shit for the masses, and the ones with a bit more critical sense coming here.
45k monthly active users is already something
Lemmy has a high enough user base to be entertaining and somewhat useful.
Mark my words. This is just testing the waters
They aren't testing anything. They are just enacting a stealth twilight of old Reddit like they've been planning ever since they thought up the new UI.
People should talk about Lemmy more. Irl, on other social media, in game chats, etc.
Just sharing a personal experience here: I reached out to my country subreddit mods yesterday to ask if I could create a post about Lemmy in the context of the latest Reddit decisions preventing strikes.
They told me they would not allow it as it was self promotion, and that I should stop mentioning Lemmy in comments where people complain about Reddit.
Very frustrating when you see how active communities like !ich_iel@feddit.org is, as the subreddit mods promoted Lemmy during the 2023 strike
It just means the existing mods are more interested in holding on to power than for the wellbeing of their community, even if that means they're unpaid disrespected jannies for spez.
Fuck them. They're literally part of the problem, and you listen to them?
ich_iel on reddit still promotes Lemmy in the Sidebar, Automod comments under every post and a tab at the top of the page. The mods of the country sub refused to move, but most of them are dicks anyways.
The mods that stayed want to keep their power, they’re not going to allow links to communities they’re not moderating.
Mentioning Lemmy will get you censored on reddit.
Not in my experience. Just do it and don't worry about it.
My guess, break existing old links on other sites so that they can show a graph with a drop in usage of less-ad-riddled way to access the website and drive more to the ad enabled views.
They already do that. www.reddit.com goes to the new ad-ridden useless interface.
Yes but on other sites where people have historically posted the shortened direct sub urls that used to go to old.reddit will now forward to new reddit or be broken according to the comments of the OP post. That’s the key difference here. Posts people made many years ago will now go to new reddit, which is why I suspect specifically attempting to manipulate user / site stats because even if their api prevents search engines from using it properly, there’s a wealth of already indexed links out there.
I love the two comments calling out that this thread was posted to the help subreddit rather than any of the other more appropriate subs for changelogs.
Like come on, you know that wasn't an accident.
-.-
Fuck spez.
Seems like millions of redditors say just that through the many slaps in the face to users, then hang around anyway. :S
They have already been trying to bully old.reddit users for quite some time by forcing a regular cookie acceptance prompt which automatically changes the settings to new reddit.
Ikr? How annoying is that?
Reminds me every time why this platform is crap
For what it's worth, the primary reason I joined lemmy.world, in particular, was their offering of old.lemmy.world
I'm old and stuck in my ways. I love the old-timey feel of the "old" UI in light mode with endless scrolling turned on.
It's called "Mlmym" and a lot of instances have added it. old.startrek.website works too!
That's good to know, thanks!
Dbzero disabled it recently cause it was glitching and the code isn't maintained anymore, hopefully it won't happen on LW
For what it’s worth, the primary reason I joined lemmy.world, in particular, was their offering of old.lemmy.world
I thought you were joking, but nope, it's real. Neat.
I'm already less and less on reddit except for a few nieche subs. The day old.reddit is gone will be the last time I visit that site.
I've been back on lemmy for a month after a long break and it feels permanent this time. I like that I can generally replace /r/
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with lemmy.world/c/<sub>
, that helps.Tbh these really are low-usage features, I didn't know about any of them, aside from the snoovatars that I've always found stupid. So I don't think anyone could be pushed away from the site because of this.
OTOH, if they're low-usage, why remove them? Do they spend too much bandwidth, CPU, whatever??
It's usually better to not touch code that is working, it won't become "clean" just because you deactivate some stuff and if you do try to actually remove code (to "clean" things, whatever that means in a setting bigger than a small project), good luck not breaking anything.
Source: oldtimer software dev
Old code still needs to have unit tests, maybe they use libraries you need to keep patched etc
Better to remove
they even got rid of the login button lol. having a small userscript to insert the login button as html works tho as the method/css remains.
you will use the web 2.0 bloated javascript filled internet and you will like it.
The live version of that link only has 50 comments wtf
The leftover redditors are thoroughly domesticated by now. They just passively take what spez gives them and like it.
Another day, another disappointment from Reddit. I deleted my account the day you made your instance and thankfully things over here picked up pretty fast. I haven't felt a need to go back.
tbh if you need to see a reddit post use a frontend like redlib it doesn't have signing in with a reddit account but atleast you can browse a post without tracking
Why do all the videos on redlib say
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@https://redlib.nohost.network? Is there a setting I need to change?You can also just use LibRedirect
being able to sort saved posts into categories was my favourite Reddit Gold feature.
So... being able to use the site at all then?
They've already outlined their general plan for removing old.reddit. It was buried in the middle of an announcement post like 2 years ago. It's just a matter of time and usage at this point. This is probably a slow creep method.
It's sad to see something so much time has been dedicated to, become shit. I guess it was like building sandcastles, afterall.
I saw someone call them making .old shitty a few days ago.
old.yellerreddit
Remember when Reddit said they wouldn’t touch old.reddit?
People understand they can just leave that site, right?
I wish more people would leave and bring their niches over here. There’s still so many things missing on Lemmy.
I feel you. Really miss 40klore and an endless stream of bunny pictures. The only two things I miss on Lemmy. Everything else I care about arrived or is arriving.
I have so many posts to share, questions to ask, and things to do....but Lemmy is not as robust with users. And I refuse to participate on reddit. I need an /c/ xbox360hacks.
I'm not sure there are enough people who would be interested in my niche hobbies (locomotives and outdoor warning sirens) to warrant communities for either lol. Trains maybe, definitely not the other.
It is near impossible to start a new community. The Lemmy code primarily favors existing large communities, and it needs to change to heavily promote new communities over existing.
Anyone paying attention knew it was just a matter of time. I used to think my last day on the site would be when they got rid of old. Turns out it was before even that.