You can stop that from being necessary:
(1) Go to https://new.reddit.com/settings .
(2) Enable "Opt out of the redesign" ("Revert back to old Reddit for the time being").
(3) Visit https://reddit.com/ and you should then have the same experience there as when explicitly visiting https://old.reddit.com/ .
Of course, this is not something you can turn off in your preferences. You need to use a browser plug-in to do this.
There's an add-on to fix that! So whenever you click a reddit link you are automatically redirected to old.reddit.com.
I use the Firefox one, it works great:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect
Apparently there is also a chrome extension but I haven't tried it so user beware:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...
They did: they decided they are their future.
You could write a userscript to automatically change all intra-reddit links to old.reddit.com, and redirect you to old.reddit.com if you land there from somewhere else.
I had done something similar long ago when I actually used reddit.
I have to assume it’s a very deliberate effort based on some business metric that the risk of losing people from the site is less than the profit gained from people on the app.
If it weren't for Apollo on iOS I would have considered quitting Reddit.
I like Sync, but I preferred just loading up reddit.com. This has reduced my usage a reasonable amount.
> Gotta have the app.
> Gonna need the app for that.
This is why I changed my Reddit avatar to the Digg logo.
Meanwhile, limited to subreddits of only a few K users still captures something of that original feel, but smart conversation has long since moved elsewhere.
Metrics can be misleading - I don't doubt they're seeing short term user growth or increased engagement (which is all the employees really care about, as their compensation is tied to hitting those "OKRs"). But wouldn't this just end up eventually going back to normal (as the users adjust) or even worse, push users even closer to the breaking point past which they'll leave the product completely?
Reddit is worse and worse as a community or a place to find things organically, for all the reasons everyone lists, and I, too, find myself going there less and less, when it used to be a default destination for idle moments.
If I Google and find a Reddit link, I'll try just about anything else first. Actually participating? Only if I must.
[1]: in the sense that without users, Reddit is nothing
Don't visit Stack Overflow
Over the years I've created a list of suggestions that I would have made if I had the ear of somebody in authority at Reddit. But that's one thing they've never really done - made it easy for mods, who effectively do a large part of running their website 24/7, without pay, to provide feedback and have real discussions and input with the admins. And it is to the detriment of the website, its owners and its users. I believe that Reddit will fail in the next few years, unless it undergoes radical changes soon. And by fail I mean, it will probably still exist, possibly have more users, but it will be so toxic that anyone with any sense will not go there anymore. The garden is in very real danger of being completely overtaken by weeds.
And it's a shame. I really loved Reddit, it helped me on occasions and I also saw it help many other people.
But the only reason I personally still use Reddit is because I feel an affinity for the subreddit I created and have moderated for years, and the community I have managed to create, which I am proud to say is in stark contrast to the toxicity of many other popular subreddits.
Sidenote: Look at the growth of r/WallStreetBets https://subredditstats.com/r/wallstreetbets from January (less than 2 million users) to the beginning of February (almost 9 million users). There is no way the mod team could handle that, given the resources and tools they have available (I'm not affiliated with WSB).
Reddit Public Access Network (live streaming) could be further monetized by incentivizing tipping and venturing into gaming. They also purchased the short video app Dubsmash to compete with TikTok. Ads can be shown in between videos.
"...encourage under-represented creators to find a home on Reddit," seems to be hinting at making the platform appealing to influencers? If so, e-commerce and affiliate linking integration could be profitable. Not sure if the current reddit community would like that one, though.
I'm sure they could also squeeze in a Clubhouse copy too. Could be popular with communities like the /r/wallstreetbets crowd.
Good luck getting any of your content removed from that site as well. Ive asked and waited for months. It’s all like service.
Their new layout is slow, hides information, full of dark patterns, full of egregious tracking and user hostile in a way that is rare to see.
Are there Reddit employees who are actually proud of this abomination? It's terrible!
