2 mo. ago • 99%

new.reddit has been removed

After all this time I still had one Reddit tab left open to r/Ukraine, to see updates on the war.
Today I noticed that they have removed the option to use new.reddit.com to see the site as it was before the latest update. The current site design is so bad and slow that I immediately closed that tab.
old.reddit.com still exists for those diehards.

40 comments

When (not if) old.reddit.com is removed, there will be a huge exodus.

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- I'd like to think so, but part of me suspects that a large amount of the current users are on mobile exclusively. The old layout isn't mobile-optimized at all, so those users are probably on the current UI.
  
  38
  
  Fair, but I'd be willing to bet that most of the content producing users use the old layout as they've likely been using the site for a while. These users leaving would be a big deal.
  
  18
  
  Probably varies a bit from sub to sub, but old reddit users are a clear minority. The vast majority use the app
  
  17
  
  Yeah exactly, it's all mobile nowadays, anyways. By and large "nobody" is here for the desktop experience. Sadly.
  
  4
  
  Oladlander makes old reddit usable on mobile
  
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- I wouldn't say huge as by most estimations that have been stated over the last 3 or 4 years, old Reddit accounts for only 1 or 2 percent of Reddit users (assuming that's accurate), but there'll definitely be an exodus
  
  28
  
  It'll be huge in the context of Lemmy, despite only representing a small percentage of Reddit's total userbase.
  
  25
  
  Do bots count as users?
  
  3
- Not sure if there is any more exodus left in their user base.
  
  13
  
  I know quite a lot of people who still use old.reddit, and would look for an alternative should they kill it
  
  11
  
  Oh there definitely is.
  
  7
- I doubt there will be.
  
  9
- I think those people already left
  
  3
Spez: Guys, we need to brainstorm so hard here. What else can we do to make the site even worse.

Dev Director: Sir, don't you mean more profitable?

Spez: No, dipshit. I didn't stutter. Brain. Storm. Let's hear your shittiest ideas. Go nuts, guys. Nothing's off the table. I fucking hate our users. They must suffer.

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- How much would it bum them out??
  
  9
  
  That episode was so great. It has aged a bit strangely, because now we have 500 streaming platforms and we're still getting screwed.
  
  5
Interesting. Wonder if any new reddit refugees will stumble onto us.

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- Probably not yet.
  
  People will revert to old.reddit or get used to the "new new" version
  
  18
  
  But the new new version is designed to be less functional. I couldn't take it.
  
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They created something that is even worse than New.reddit? How is that even possible?

Is that the shreddit thing spez was gloating about a year ago for being lightning fast?

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- shred it!
  
  0
Still works for me.

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It works for me, I am logged in, it doesn't work when not logged in

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- They removed it for a couple of days at least. Oh wells, I have closed that tab now.
  
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