A friend sent me the link but I guess I’ll have to tell him to send me screenshots in the future.
old.reddit still lets me view it. For now…
Reddit has become full garbage.
To be fair, its been shit for a real long time.
We all just put up with it far longer than we should have.
Yeah. From when I first joined reddit to until I left, I’ve never ever seen the video player actually fucking working. It’s like a McDonalds ice cream machine, always broken.
At least there’s a reason for McDonald’s ice cream machines not working, even if it is blatant and disgusting corporate greed from Taylor Company.
I never understood why people complained about this. Reddit videos always worked fine for me in RiF. Then I found out they don’t work in the official app. WTF?
It worked just fine in Infinity and on a desktop browser, never in the official Reddit app. But I guess Reddit couldn’t stand the fact that a free, ad-free app worked better than the official app.
Also Lemmy loads WAY faster than Reddit these days
old.reddit will be killed off before the ipo in March
mark my words
Spez explicitly promised they wouldn’t get rid of old reddit.
Which I took to mean they intend to ruin it by cramming all the shitty new features into it and taking away the things it does better.
Edit: I don’t trust spez lmao I just think what he said might be a hint for how they will fuck reddit up going forward
lololol wouldn’t be the first time by far he’s broken an explicit promise
I don’t know, old.reddit feels like it probably serves some internal purposes, and it’s a safe fallback for when they inevitably release buggy shit on the new site.
old.reddit will probably be broken or maybe even restricted more and more as time goes by (it already has been) but I don’t see them killing it entirely.
Sounds likely that in the future, they will release changes that will break old and they will decide not to fix it.
If you change the URL to old.reddit.com you can get past this BS and view the post anyway even without logging in. You just have to use the old version of the site which has a lot less of the stupid stuff they’ve added.
There’s also browser extensions like “old reddit redirect”. They ensure you’re always on the good version of reddit.
It’s probably best to not recommend RES anymore it’s been in maintenance mode for around 2 years and is no longer being maintained. Honestly I’m amazed it has been become broken and unusable yet.
For people on iOS there’s a shortcut that will redirect you. I think this is the one I used https://routinehub.co/shortcut/10086/
It’s a data harvesting company now.
