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The real story is buried in there:
Reddit is going to ask for a bit more identifying information from its users, too.
Yeah not going to happen.
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Old reddit has been mentioned.
He's definitely gunning on shutting it down
The only reason I'm here in the first place is because it's ridiculously obvious that they're killing old reddit soon. Every time they add some new bullshit feature it breaks our reddit just a little more and it becomes less and less usable. Meanwhile new reddit is also becoming less and less usable as they try to make it Facebook 2.0. It's all getting enshittified very quickly.
Doubt
If I may say that I hope more people support Lemmy. We need to get away from Reddit and it will be difficult. I’m kinda new to Lemmy and I plan on donating.
Welp good bye old reddit
My copium is that the website was initially built in a way where they can’t delete old reddit without breaking it.
I only stayed on Reddit as long as I did because of Old Reddit. New Reddit simply isn't worth it.
I never cared about new reddit vs old reddit, because it always looked the same on Baconreader. I couldn't continue after I lost that. I really wish there was a Lemmy fork of it, it was my favorite.
Connect is pretty good so far, not quite the same.
yup. New reddit is a cancer. Old reddit may be old and antiquated, but it's a SHITLOAD better than new reddit. Not that i use either anymore
What a liar. I hope that pasty cat f***** suffers a slowly from feline AIDS. Seeing as he's the reason the feline population even caught it.
time for me to take a shit out of my ass
I'm still using old reddit, but I'm very excited about the return of Digg and partnership of Kevin Rose and Alex Ohanian. Hopefully that scares Huffman and somewhere in the Great Beyond, Aaron Swartz is smiling.
Reddit is no better than Facebook, X, or Instagram these days. Out of control moderation with false accusations done for no particular reason. I hope they get rid of the sole reason people still bother with reddit. Maybe if they could figure out how to moderate without falsely accusing people of things, I'd care.
Does it only work on a desktop now? Even before I stopped using reddit regularly, the old.reddit domain stopped being in the old reddit format, and looks no different from just going directly to reddit.com.
There's a browser extension that forces it.
Yes, it still works in browsers.
yet they're keep making it harder to use. they removed the old login form for no reason lol (it still works if you add back the removed html so it's obv no security bs)
if they said that about 3rd party apps 2 years ago i would never found Lemmy
Red Reader is an open source, ad free, third party Reddit app that has been allowed to continue free use of the API due to its usage amongst the disabled community.
I've been using it for nearly a decade & continues to get ignored by folks for some reason.
It's also in the official Play Store, I believe.
I use RedReader sporadically for browsing Reddit. I like it's compact UI style and customizability. Even when I had proper paid Boost for Reddit back in the day, somehow, the UI of RedReader made it more intuitive for me to use it.
I think one can technically use Boost still via patching it, but it's a grey area and not worth going after when RedReader exists.
Either case, the official Reddit app has to be purposefully coded to be as unoptimized and useless as possible. The bloat, the wasted white space; it all stands testament to the travesty that is modern software design.
Boost still works as long as you patch it with your own API key
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