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…

  • GONADS125@feddit.deEnglish
    21·
    11 months ago

    This really irks me, because it applies to subs related to weed or other non-sexual content, including some games. I’ve also been hit with the same prompt to open the official app for subreddits that are “under review” or new.

    I only go to reddit from search engine queries to get answers for a topic.

    I just posted on reddit for the first time since the API disaster to get support for the watchmaker app (that is the dev’s official source for support).

    I noticed a weird glitch happening to me (mobile site on Firefox) in which if I edit a comment, it loses all formatting. Like, every space between ‘paragraphs’ dissappears, and so did the block quotes. It just put “>” in with the jumbled up mess…

  • Old_Dude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    11 months ago

    Probably just need to sign in. But if you don’t have an account already, then it’s shitty that they force you to use the app to create an account.

    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
      61·
      11 months ago

      it’s shitty that they force you to use the app to create an account.

      They don’t. I just made a new account there a month ago using my browser and old.reddit

  • randomised@lemm.eeEnglish
    112·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • Maestro@kbin.social
      43·
      11 months ago

      There’s also browser extensions like “old reddit redirect”. They ensure you’re always on the good version of reddit.

        • evidences@lemmy.worldEnglish
          255·
          11 months ago

          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.

          • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
            13·
            11 months ago

            I mean…it hasn’t, though?

            RES still works just fine. Why would I stop recommending something that works?

            What a bizarre thing to suggest. Don’t use software that’s in maintenance mode? The whole point of maintenance mode is so it keeps working so people can keep using it.

            I’ll stop recommending it when it breaks.

            • fuzzzerd@programming.devEnglish
              4·
              11 months ago

              Agreed. It seems unlikely reddit will add new useful features to old, and RES has coverage on the existing interface and doesn’t need anything new so it’s not like lack of new features is a bad thing here.

          • RememberTheApollo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            13·
            11 months ago

            The day RES quits working is the day I stop using reddit at all. Right now it’s a mix of the fediverse and some reddit, but not having RES (or old.reddit) would kill it for me.

        • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          There’s also the Sink For Reddit app where you can toggle old and new reddit. It also adds a bunch of features to make your experience on safari better.

  • Kefi Iris@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    22·
    11 months ago

    For the moment you can replace the ‘www’ in the page link to ‘old’ and reload. the old ui doesn’t show these annoying warnings. You can also try some libreddit instance.

    • corus_kt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Same, I do this to lurk on specific game communities like armored core or pokemon romhacks

    • Stoneykins [any]@mander.xyzEnglish
      109·
      11 months ago

      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

    • psud@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      11 months ago

      Old Reddit is the only place moderators have any 3rd party tools. When Reddit kills it, many more mods will quit. Large subs will be completely unmanageable

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      11 months ago

      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.

      • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        Sounds likely that in the future, they will release changes that will break old and they will decide not to fix it.

        • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          11 months ago

          Ah yes, the AlienBlue treatment. Just stop updating it, and implement features that are almost laser-focused on breaking functionality.

      • CaptDust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        41·
        11 months ago

        I thought I read old reddit still has a lot of mod tools that haven’t been brought over yet, seemed to be it’s main purpose for continuing to exist.

  • Hellfire103@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    122·
    11 months ago

    Since Old Reddit will be dead soon, have a look at kddit and Eddrit. They’re like Libreddit, but not blocked (yet). However, you should try to avoid using them, as they get ratelimited quite easily.

  • Knitwear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    635·
    11 months ago

    This worked for me:

    • Start your own subreddit so you’re a mod,

    • mark it nsfw,

    • don’t need to post anything

    and you should be able to access any nsfw in your feed when off-app.

      • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2923·
        11 months ago

        I don’t get why people around here insist on this circlejerk.

        Yes, reddit is shit, it’s been shit for years, we all know.

        But there’s still plenty of good stuff to find there that has not migrated over here.

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          519·
          11 months ago

          Because continuing to prop up Reddit like you’re advocating is why the remainder of the good stuff hasn’t migrated over here yet.

          • Chriswild@lemmy.worldEnglish
            166·
            11 months ago

            While I wish that were true it’s just not that simple. People are creatures of habit and the experience has to be absolutely awful to get people to break habits, especially social habits. We’re talking people will stay in abusive relationships where they get physically beat regularly because they are scared to change.

      • Knitwear@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        Wow I kinda assumed they’d done so, but looking at the screenshot you’re right

      • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        True, I don’t use reddit on mobile at all anymore, since they killed 3rd party clients. No way in fuck would I install any social media company’s program on my devices. It’s open source apps for social media, or nothing.

        Old reddit works fine in Firefox on the desktop. I use that when I’m bored enough to.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1162·
      11 months ago

      To be fair, its been shit for a real long time.

      We all just put up with it far longer than we should have.

      • TxzK@lemmy.zipEnglish
        511·
        11 months ago

        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.

        • Alto@kbin.social
          28·
          11 months ago

          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.

            • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              33·
              11 months ago

              Meeh, nothing new, service menus with the full picture have been around for decades. Just download a warezed service manual for your product and you can fix it yourself.

              Same thing is happening with printers and every other piece of hardware out there that runs any kind of software on it.

              We’ve seen this behavior throught history numerous time, keeping it in the family I mean, this is nothing new. As long as people keep bying food in McDonalds and complaining how McDonalds made their son/daughter cry, they’ll keep pushing their shitty products. My son starts crying over no ice cream… son, I’m sorry, but even the king doesn’t eat something that’s not available, get used to it, that’s life.

        • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
          13·
          11 months ago

          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?

        • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          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

          • TxzK@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            I used Infinity too, and video worked fine in it. Well up until they killed it

    • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Until they finish to ban all the datacenter IPs. For example I can no longer access reddit from the IP address of my server (I self host my VPN)