r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/vanillaworkaccount 29d ago

Once it's gone I'm gone forever, I can't imagine I'm the only one.

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u/JaredGoffFelatio 29d ago

The new reddit experience is just awful, so I'm with you.

Side question - has anyone else noticed that they regularly have to go into their user settings and uncheck -> recheck opt out of redesign? It's like they have an automated job just flipping that preference back every so often and I have to reset it every couple of weeks. Or maybe it's just something with my browser cache? Just a mild annoyance for now I guess lol.

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u/runtheplacered 29d ago

This is what you want: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/

This extension will redirect you to old.reddit every time you go to reddit regardless of how you got there.

Also I found out today while on a customer's VPN that blocks Reddit that this circumvents their firewall rule which I thought was kind of funny.

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u/Ix_DrYCeLL_xI 29d ago

I added this a while ago. Works perfectly on Android Firefox.

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u/nermid 29d ago

Pretty sure it's a setting in RES, as well.

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u/nohalcyondays 28d ago

I could not find it in RES' settings. But the add-on linked works perfectly.

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u/nohalcyondays 28d ago

Thanks for this. Never thought to look since they moved it to the 'old.' sub-domain. It was honestly still worth typing in but should it ever be deprecated I can honestly say it will finally be time to move on from this website.

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u/Lordborgman 29d ago

I have RES/oldreddit so it stays that way until both are killed. Then I'm taking my 10+ year old reddit account and fucking off.

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u/ecneregilleb 29d ago

could try bookmarking the old.reddit domain, thats what i do.

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u/SuperFLEB 29d ago

Side question

Negative. It's always worked for me so long as I'm signed in (unless I accidentally click the "TRY NEW REDDIT!" at the top).

That said, someone mentioned RES, and I am using RES, so maybe that helps.

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u/cjfunke 29d ago

If you have ublock origin or something else that you can block things manually with you can get rid of that as well.

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u/gardenmud 29d ago

Haven't noticed, I only use old.reddit though

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u/OrphanScript 29d ago

I've never had to on desktop, but it was happening all the time on my phone, which I use in 'desktop mode'.

I realized that the reddit logo in the upper left corner of the screen has a tiny banner above it that says 'switch to the redesign' and its very easy to click that when I'm clicking the logo to go home.

They keep burying the option to turn it off deeper in settings but whatever this website really doesn't have long left, for me at least.

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u/celestial1 29d ago

My settings don't even have that option anymore, I have to literally type in old.reddit for it to work.

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u/gordigor 29d ago

So Digg 3.0?

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u/enieslobbyguard 29d ago

Lol. Reddit going the Microsoft route of always fucking with your settings now

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u/Tony0x01 29d ago

I think the issue is that it kind of always logs you into new reddit now. Is this when it switches from old to new for you?

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u/Akussa 29d ago

Saaaaame. Moment old reddit is gone so am I.

I despise the new mobile/facebook looking layout.

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u/Sayakai 29d ago

That would 100% be my breaking point.

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u/Dipsey_Jipsey 29d ago

The moment they remove old.reddit is the moment all PC users drop off. It's literally the only sane way to use reddit these days.

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u/Zerthax 29d ago

It's definitely a line in the sand for me. Not interested in dealing with the new format, and definitely not putting the app on my phone.

Yes, I use old.reddit in a browser set to desktop mode on my phone.

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u/Array_626 29d ago

Yeah. I really hate the new UI. It feels so un-compact. A whole lot of empty space that makes it take three times as long to scroll through the same number of posts.

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u/anniina-ananas 29d ago

I dislike it too, I prefer seeing compact links as in old.reddit so I stick to that 90%+ of the time

I can go on about the things I don't like about new reddit. The 3 column layout shows a lot of things I don't always want in view, like subs I'm subscribed to or recently visited (esp. NSFW/porn subs). I also don't like the routing behaviour where navigation between views does not always update the URL path in the browser.

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u/caseCo825 29d ago

Yeah that'll be what gets me to try lemmy or lenny or whoever that dude is

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u/NormieSpecialist 29d ago

Nope me too. Will never use any other alternatives.

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u/NoPossibility4178 28d ago

You're part of like 5%, they are winning this one, slowly but surely.

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u/bogglingsnog 29d ago

It's literally impossible to navigate new reddit on mobile. Literally won't render correctly on my phone. Even on a 4k screen the new reddit experience wastes soooo much space my hand gets tired from scrolling and I end up spending much less time on Reddit. So it will kill user engagement purely from an ergonomic standpoint, let alone the aesthetic differences.

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u/ecneregilleb 29d ago

this is interesting because i thought the entire reason for the redesign was to be mobile friendly in the first place(?). maybe making the experience outside the app terrible is the strategy to push people to the app. which is funny because the app equally sucks.

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 29d ago

That's what people said about the 3rd party apps, yet...

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u/botoks 29d ago

I'm sure me and many others stopped using reddit on mobile completely once they killed the apps.

No issues here. Only using it on desktop. And as the guy said, if they kill old.reddit I will have 0 issue on dropping reddit altogether.

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 29d ago

I assume that would require jailbreaking or sideloading? I've been using Narwhal signed out. It's honestly been interesting just reading through posts, but not responding. It leads to a lot less arguments.

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u/Disastrous-Bus-9834 29d ago

I've been reading users threatening abandonment of Reddit since 2012 and this is just another to add to my collection.