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Post on /r/Technology complaining about the drop in quality in the majority of the big subs and the potential drop of old.reddit, people ask where to go, Lemmy and Piefed are mentioned (old.reddit.com)
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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (16 children)

What is meant by 'potential drop of old.reddit'?

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Not OP; just a guess: old.reddit.com is a way to view and interact with Reddit using the original theme (or closely based on original look). A ton of tools were built for the site to look for data in a specific format. Many users likely utilize this “old” Reddit due to using legacy tools. It’s a way to get people onto the newer product so you can retire old infrastructure.

    Basically, an enshittification decision by Reddit because they need to make more money.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    old.reddit also bypasses a lot of the new blocks in place. For example, the constant full screen nag to make an account to view nsfw communities and posts. Just swapping www for old in the url and it shows right up.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    The stats.

    The original post title:

    Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits. Users will now see seven-day metrics that track active visitors and contributions instead.

    And this was a comment:

    And sadly they also announced that on old.reddit the stats will entirely go.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That looks like actual, real people? Wild.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Lots of smaller communities still have active human populations. It is, somewhat paradoxically, the most active subs that have the least real people.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    They are dropping subscriber count and online user count from Old Reddit's subreddit sidebars. On Shreddit (the newer design) they get replaced with a new 7 day average, but on Old Reddit they've announced they'll remove them entirely and won't replace them with anything.

    That's the only thing I see people complain about in regards to Old Reddit in that thread.

    That said, this follows a trend and it's clear to me that they ARE dropping Old Reddit. They're moving features away, requiring you to use Shreddit to access more and more features of the site. For example chat and the notifications inbox are replacing private messages, but they only support Shreddit. So users who want to view replies to their posts have to visit Shreddit to see them. Now with this change, if you want to see how many subscribers a subreddit has, you need to switch to Shreddit to see that.

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