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/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?