Another step closer to never using Reddit again

"There are no plans to get rid of Old Reddit." - reddit

Completely expected this, technically they are not removing it, just making it so shit no one would use it. Same move done by twitter when muskrat took over

The redesign doesn't really work, it just tells you to use their horrendous app or login to see any "unverified" content. What that is only they seem to know...

Anyone still relying on reddit's user generated data should use something like a redlib instance

Imma be honest, the only thing I use reddit for is the porn. Things are starting to pick up over here a bit, but for a while it was almost nothing.

Basically what I'm saying is that I don't really care what happens to Reddit anymore. I left with the exodus about a year ago and never looked back (except for the porn).

Colour me surprised

Every time i accidentally enter new.reddit i revolt with how awful the UI is

I remember a while back Reddit removed comments about Lemmy. Like if a subreddit recommended migrating to Lemmy, it would suddenly disappear.

Still happening or nah?

Drive your users away. It's a great idea.

They don't give a fuck about the site longterm. They got their IPO. Now they're after monetization at all costs to justify it to the shareholders. That the site goes to shit and falls apart in the long run is not their concern.

I've run into this already multiple times. It's why I finally made the jump over here. I don't use new Reddit and won't. The enshitifcation of Reddit has really ramped up.

And so it ends.

Was waiting for them to do something like this for a while, since ads were way less intrusive on old.

They cannot make me download their shit app, and when old.reddit dies then that’s when I stop going even my current once a month.

Just quit Reddit a few days ago and haven't looked back. I remember when there was no viable alternative to Reddit, with all other platforms being very sparely populated, but a lot has changed since I recently got into Lemmy as there are actually people here!

After switching to Lemmy I've noticed I've been feeling a lot happier. Maybe that's just because of how social media companies design their service to be as addicting as possible, and they do so by making you feel angry. Everything here feels much calmer and more peaceful.

like for xitter they're so obsessed in blocking scrapers that they're blocking also many users

To think how many free content i gave to them 🤮 (now deleted)

Beatings will continue until morale improves.

I wonder how long before they remove the commenting feature, like Digg did.

Remember to welcome the new users to Lemmy!

Oh good, I wasn’t going crazy the last few months.

also known as 10 requests per minute, idk why 10 minutes is the used standard here, i guess because it sounds less shit. But this is one request every 6 seconds.

So I still hang out on reddit a bit, mostly for mechanical keyboards and sports stuff, and they are very clearly letting old.reddit, and therefore RES along with it, die on the vine. You have to pop over to new reddit to do certain administrative things, and you (or at least I) can only upload a single picture on a post, and you have to use the new interface to upload a gallery. Clicking on images now often takes you to a weird new-interface landing page instead of the image itself or a page with the old interface. I think they're going to erode the functionality until people give up and then say, "whelp... nobody was using it! Time to pull the plug!"

At which point I'm probably done. Then, Dystopia is almost the last iOS app standing but I don't think they're updating it much, so I'm probably out if/when they go too.

I've sort of accepted as a middle aged man with middle aged friends and senior citizen relatives that being tracked across mainstream social media is a thing that will be in my life, so it's not even ideological, really. Reddit is just a lot less pleasant to use on the new interfaces, with the new monetization mindset, and doesn't have the "killer app" of my actual friends and family, so it needs to be a pleasant experience and community, and not feel like I'm navigating a bot-farm ad-soaked beatdown every time I use it.