I was sitting in my room, eating high fructose corn syrup, when UlyssesT call

“old.reddit is kill”

“Who care?”

Probably right here, not logged out. Life's been better outside of among comrades that doesn't exist in my local area stuffed full of and hyper turbo s

If they kill old.reddit I suspect they also kill the .rss feeds, which will have a rather massive unintentional effect.

On reddit you can add /.rss/ to the end of literally any url on the site to convert the page to an rss feed. This then allows you to use it in an rss reader, or with certain other sites you can convert it to a webhook that will then enable you to do thinks like receive updates from that page instantly in a discord channel. For example old.reddit.com/r/greenandpleasant/comments/ gives me a stream of all comments made to the subreddit in real time right? If I make that URL inro old.reddit.com/r/greenandpleasant/comments/.rss then use Zapier to convert that into a webhook, I can plug that webhook into any discord channel and I will receive instant updates in that channel for each comment in realtime.

This works for /new/ /hot/ /top/ the homepage /all/ /popular/ it doesn't matter. You can do it anywhere on the site to get that feed in realtime.

It's an extremely useful and beneficial tool. One that is extensively used by powerusers and moderators. But also by other sites around the web that use it for keeping up with content. And community managers from various game companies rely on it for keeping up with things relevant to their brand. Several twitter feeds use this via IFTTT and Zapier. Huge amounts of systems rely on it.

All of this will disappear. And I suspect that newer employees at the company are completely unaware of the scale of the ecosystem that is built off of using this hidden feature of reddit's design. The effect of this change will be larger than they anticipate.

This is a feature I've wondered about implementation into Lemmy @dessalines@lemmy.ml by the way and have just never really remembered to raise it with you. Regardless of what anyone thinks of reddit it was always a rather genius feature of the site.

I'd literally never use the site again. Right now I still have an account for some niche stuff without equivalents elsewhere, but I can't use new reddit. It just isn't going to happen.

Back to the niche forums

They should just rebuild the whole site using Unity so they can charge le redditors per updoot.

Someone needs to back up what they can. That site truly has some solid faq posts given the mass die-off of most forums.

What the fuck is a Reddit?

Not using reddit since months now tbh

on shrekland.net

i just use it because im an old

though ive always been a lurker there, i only look at weird fanfiction stuff to laugh at and the occasional news or trans thing. i tried having an account at one point but it was so grating to deal with redditors

already bleeding out users ….

Im honestly not trying to be snide or anything, by this question as i havent used reddit since CTH got the boot: where are people alternating to? Im genuinely curious because i always figured reddit wouldnt go anywhere because it doesnt really have a replacement yet.

It's the only thing I like about the site because it reminds me of the Myspace days of web design. /r/DPRS needs to be over the top and I can't make it so in the new stylesheet. The new one looks terrible, performs terribly, and includes so much bloat shit that hexbear immediately felt refreshing in its simplicity. I just wish I could have a Lemmy thing with custom CSS to transition that subreddit and maybe my content fortress.

Currently, I only use reddit to browse a few specific subreddits without an account. If they kill old.reddit.com and my extension to convert to old.reddit.com stops working, I'll simply stop browsing any subreddits. The new website design feels aggressively unreadable to me. Feels like it's supposed to be a barrage of information that leaves me confused and susceptible to ads that I'll never see because I use an ad blocker.

I'll be in my room, sorting through pasteable announcement message templates about the feddy verse

"prefix is kill"

You can't even properly search for stuff within subreddits on mobile Reddit, so my workaround is to use oldreddit for searches, but mobile Reddit for other stuff.

When they kill oldreddit I'll probably use it even less. Right now I still use it but for apolitical stuff because libs are annoying, unsubscribed from all defaults.

I've been putting off finally deleting my account for good for a while now but this would actually be it because it's 100% unusable on the redesign

My decade old account was recently "suspended" for no apparent reason, and seeing what reddit offers up on is front page to new randos is stunning. After filtering out and building up my own list of subs, reddit was often but not completely terrible.

Racism, sexism, and, comically, straight up anti-communism.

I also only browse on old.reddit so if the above alone wasn't enough, this will be

In my room eating dorito.

new reddit looks so ugly. I still use it for ck3heraldry & the final fantasy 14 subreddits, so it'd suck to read the new reddit.

Forcing people onto their shitty app to get to ~~x rated~~ unverified content will be the death knell of that shithole inshallah

I shall remain all /comfy/ here on the fediverse.

But, pssst...pssst (Libreddit still works), use the extension LibRedirect and any orange site link will redirect to Libreddit.

Also, lib as in libre, not as in shitlib.

I'll still be here, as I cut off reddit, including removing my 12yo account.

fffffffuuuuuuuuu

It's so obvious that spez wants to get the IPO money and bail. There is no future for reddit because it's an anonymous message board, not an actual social media platform.

here

So spez is finally pulling the plug on old.reddit?

lol

I'll reduce reddit usage even more I suppose, I'll just use it on the phone, the official mobile app is a tiny bit more bearable than the desktop version. When they completely enshittify even that I'm gone for good.

damnit... all these "reddit on its deathbed" posts make wanna check on it.