A friend sent me the link but I guess I’ll have to tell him to send me screenshots in the future.

old.reddit still lets me view it. For now…

    • Stoneykins [any]@mander.xyzEnglish
      110·
      10 months ago

      Spez explicitly promised they wouldn’t get rid of old reddit.

      Which I took to mean they intend to ruin it by cramming all the shitty new features into it and taking away the things it does better.

      Edit: I don’t trust spez lmao I just think what he said might be a hint for how they will fuck reddit up going forward

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      10 months ago

      I don’t know, old.reddit feels like it probably serves some internal purposes, and it’s a safe fallback for when they inevitably release buggy shit on the new site.

      old.reddit will probably be broken or maybe even restricted more and more as time goes by (it already has been) but I don’t see them killing it entirely.

      • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
        8·
        10 months ago

        Sounds likely that in the future, they will release changes that will break old and they will decide not to fix it.

        • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          10 months ago

          Ah yes, the AlienBlue treatment. Just stop updating it, and implement features that are almost laser-focused on breaking functionality.

      • CaptDust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        41·
        10 months ago

        I thought I read old reddit still has a lot of mod tools that haven’t been brought over yet, seemed to be it’s main purpose for continuing to exist.

    • psud@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      10 months ago

      Old Reddit is the only place moderators have any 3rd party tools. When Reddit kills it, many more mods will quit. Large subs will be completely unmanageable

  • randomised@lemm.eeEnglish
    113·
    10 months ago

    If you change the URL to old.reddit.com you can get past this BS and view the post anyway even without logging in. You just have to use the old version of the site which has a lot less of the stupid stuff they’ve added.

    • Maestro@kbin.social
      43·
      10 months ago

      There’s also browser extensions like “old reddit redirect”. They ensure you’re always on the good version of reddit.

        • evidences@lemmy.worldEnglish
          255·
          10 months ago

          It’s probably best to not recommend RES anymore it’s been in maintenance mode for around 2 years and is no longer being maintained. Honestly I’m amazed it has been become broken and unusable yet.

          • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
            15·
            10 months ago

            I mean…it hasn’t, though?

            RES still works just fine. Why would I stop recommending something that works?

            What a bizarre thing to suggest. Don’t use software that’s in maintenance mode? The whole point of maintenance mode is so it keeps working so people can keep using it.

            I’ll stop recommending it when it breaks.

            • fuzzzerd@programming.devEnglish
              5·
              10 months ago

              Agreed. It seems unlikely reddit will add new useful features to old, and RES has coverage on the existing interface and doesn’t need anything new so it’s not like lack of new features is a bad thing here.

          • RememberTheApollo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            14·
            10 months ago

            The day RES quits working is the day I stop using reddit at all. Right now it’s a mix of the fediverse and some reddit, but not having RES (or old.reddit) would kill it for me.

        • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          There’s also the Sink For Reddit app where you can toggle old and new reddit. It also adds a bunch of features to make your experience on safari better.

  • Knitwear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    654·
    10 months ago

    This worked for me:

    • Start your own subreddit so you’re a mod,

    • mark it nsfw,

    • don’t need to post anything

    and you should be able to access any nsfw in your feed when off-app.

      • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2922·
        10 months ago

        I don’t get why people around here insist on this circlejerk.

        Yes, reddit is shit, it’s been shit for years, we all know.

        But there’s still plenty of good stuff to find there that has not migrated over here.

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          499·
          10 months ago

          Because continuing to prop up Reddit like you’re advocating is why the remainder of the good stuff hasn’t migrated over here yet.

          • Chriswild@lemmy.worldEnglish
            165·
            10 months ago

            While I wish that were true it’s just not that simple. People are creatures of habit and the experience has to be absolutely awful to get people to break habits, especially social habits. We’re talking people will stay in abusive relationships where they get physically beat regularly because they are scared to change.

      • Knitwear@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        10 months ago

        Wow I kinda assumed they’d done so, but looking at the screenshot you’re right

      • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        True, I don’t use reddit on mobile at all anymore, since they killed 3rd party clients. No way in fuck would I install any social media company’s program on my devices. It’s open source apps for social media, or nothing.

        Old reddit works fine in Firefox on the desktop. I use that when I’m bored enough to.

  • avater@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7316·
    10 months ago

    Do you really want our pity for still being on that shitty platform?

    • Ookami38@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      581·
      10 months ago

      Pity, no. A shared expression of annoyance at a platform we all used to enjoy becoming further and further enshittified, yes.

      • avater@lemmy.worldEnglish
        94·
        10 months ago

        Nah. Life is to short to be annoyed by some shitty social media platform. Move on.

        • ji17brEnglish
          91·
          10 months ago

          Initially I agreed with the guy above you, and then I read your comment. Pretty refreshing take.

    • mac@infosec.pubEnglish
      8·
      10 months ago

      Annoyingly there are still some good threads related to questions I’ve asked etc.

  • GONADS125@feddit.deEnglish
    22·
    10 months ago

    This really irks me, because it applies to subs related to weed or other non-sexual content, including some games. I’ve also been hit with the same prompt to open the official app for subreddits that are “under review” or new.

    I only go to reddit from search engine queries to get answers for a topic.

    I just posted on reddit for the first time since the API disaster to get support for the watchmaker app (that is the dev’s official source for support).

    I noticed a weird glitch happening to me (mobile site on Firefox) in which if I edit a comment, it loses all formatting. Like, every space between ‘paragraphs’ dissappears, and so did the block quotes. It just put “>” in with the jumbled up mess…

  • Felicity@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    22·
    10 months ago

    For the moment you can replace the ‘www’ in the page link to ‘old’ and reload. the old ui doesn’t show these annoying warnings. You can also try some libreddit instance.

  • Old_Dude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    10 months ago

    Probably just need to sign in. But if you don’t have an account already, then it’s shitty that they force you to use the app to create an account.

    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
      61·
      10 months ago

      it’s shitty that they force you to use the app to create an account.

      They don’t. I just made a new account there a month ago using my browser and old.reddit

    • Randelung@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      The “I built a reddit porn browser” has gone to shit with the amount and type of integration of ads. Desktop is fine with ad blocking, mobile is cancer. I’m not linking it on purpose.

  • Hellfire103@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    122·
    10 months ago

    Since Old Reddit will be dead soon, have a look at kddit and Eddrit. They’re like Libreddit, but not blocked (yet). However, you should try to avoid using them, as they get ratelimited quite easily.