Happened to me a few days ago, and I just can’t believe how bad this redesign is!!
It’s hard to comprehend what goes into the heads of that dev team, but they basically ruined everything nice about the platform. The API changes were pretty much a fatal shot already, but this new redesign seems to be what tipped the scales for me, and hopefully many more.
It’s a great time to switch to Lemmy, and I think I’m going to make the effort to stick around and abandon the habit of opening reddit multiple times per day.
Do you think forcing this re-design will bring more people here? I’m hoping for that. Reddit betrayed us and I can’t find it me to keep forgiving them for every horrible, anti-user decision.
I noticed in some moderator subreddit, that it is planned to kill new.reddit.com as well. Old will likely stay for longer, but new is what I got used to, and if they take it down I won’t bother getting used to the newer, garbage UX.
Unless a larger portion of the userbase migrates, Reddit will get to do what they want to. Unfortunately the landed gentry/toxic mods are going to do what they can to keep them there too, including modding out any info posts about alternatives.
Just checked for you lazy bastards.
Old.reddit.com still working (for me anyways)
I saw the writing on the wall over the summer of 2023. Reddit won’t die, nothing will. I had tinkered with mastodon before but that realisation above is really what pushed me to migrate everything I use to the fediverse. Most people are too stubborn to give up the very things that keep abusing them because they are already established, instead of putting in the effort of engaging with something new. Even yesterday a friend of mine was nonstop complaining about twitter and when I mentioned bluesky and mastodon “oh it’s okay, X is more popular so I’m just gonna stay on it”. I have Lemmy and bluesky for now. I have ecosia for my search and waterfox for my browser. the only thing it’s really hard to get rid of is YouTube, even invidious is just a front-end for it. kinda got off topic but the point is, Reddit hasn’t lost momentum. nothing has or will for a long while. bad changes will keep enshittifying everything.
New.reddit.com was already shit to begin with. Boost for Reddit still works, despite it now being 7 ½ months since the api changes. As long as old.reddit.com and Boost still works, I’m happy. New.reddit.com changes is the least of my worries, let em come, idgaf
The Old Reddit Redirect addon for Firefox still works.
The day that breaks, is the day when I finally come to the realization that I will have to find someplace else for niche content that isn’t available here. I’m not so sure that such a website exists. Reddit killed off all the competition.
They redesigned the site again? old.reddit.com was literally the only usable design. No avatars, no ridiculous amounts of padding, no broken search results, no forced sign-in for NSFW-marked content.
Welcome and please stay on Lemmy. It’s what reddit used to be and only improves every month the more people come here.
Who cares. I’m over here now.
Any time Reddit makes a stumble is likely to generate at least a small exodus looking for alternatives. This is an example of such a moment.
In order to keep those users on Lemmy it needs to have activity. A community with no posts or only ancient posts is not attractive. Yes, Lemmy has politics and memes, but it needs more activity in other types of communities. People say as much constantly and it is obvious.
If you want Lemmy to thrive then I highly suggest you post in communities relevant to your interests.
It would also be nice if some of the largest instances didn’t ban people for not thinking Mao Zedong was a good dude.
Is that what caused the sidebar to disappear, then. I spent hours optimizing it
So is old reddit dead? Like old.reddit.com?
No it’s still there. Not sure what they’re on about unless it’s some A/B testing.
The opt-out is also still there in the user settings page. (Though phrased… poorly. Probably on purpose.)
Why is anyone here still using reddit? What’s the point of not using reddit anymore if you still use reddit? Whats the point in saying fuck u/spez if you keep using reddit?
I’ve been exclusively on lemmy since the reddit blackout, and it’s been great.
Just give reddit up my dudes. Its shit
Because lemmy isn’t useful. Open the app and all I see is anti capitalism, Linux, Elon musk, and a bunch of unfunny memes
I had a specific question about Iceland yesterday I had to go to reddit for because lemmy has no Iceland community
And when reddit started it wasnt useful. I dont want to repeat what i already said in another reply but essentially it boiled down to: the only way that lemmy replaces reddit is if people create the communities here and encourage people to move here.
Reddit is great for info but its gotten quite alot worse since the blackout when alot of people deleted their comments in protest. I have had a number of situations where a comment with a bunch of replies saying “thanks that solved it” has beem deleted and my problem goes unsolved.
We all need lemmy to become more popular so it can replace reddit as a massive repository of useful information about everything.
Reddit wont be useful at all in a few more years.
Just give reddit up my dudes.
Aren’t you subscribed to this community? , 🤔
Oh! I am. If i recall, i moved to lemmy and subbed to this community when reddit went dark to keep in the loop on how the protests were going and if there had been any real impact on reddit overall. I guess i never unsubbed.
Either way, it doesn’t change anything i said.
If anything it juat raises the question of what the purpose of this community is. Is it reddit recon, is it a space to point and laugh at rhe choices reddit makes, or is it a place for those who can’t let go to cling to the past?
Momentum, there are active niche subreddits that don’t really exist on lemmy yet.
Recipe for instant good Lemmy community
Effort required from you: 1 hour
- Sign up two or three Lemmy accounts. 5 minutes
- Go to a niche reddit community and grab half a dozen good submissions in the last year or so. Post them to your Lemmy with different accounts. 10 minutes
- Now for the hard part. Go and create some good quality original submissions. Work hard on 2-3 good pieces of content that don’t exist on reddit. 35 minutes.
- Post links to those submissions on reddit. 5 minutes
- Spend a few seconds voting up and engaging with any commenters in your new community. 5 minutes
Even simple upvotes from your few accounts can catalyse engagement and make the community start to come together.
Pretty solid advice
While browsing all, seeing the effects of #2 is a signal to block the community. When I see 10 posts from the same community in a row on all, it gets blocked.
ok cool, so what is your alternative?
Stagger posts? Make the posts a month apart?
It’s a fair point, but i think it would be better to encourage those niche subreddits to jump ship to lemmy. Or create the community here yourself.
If reddit has a reason for people to stay then reddit will remain relevant and continue to make money for spez.
As an ex-redditor, my only reaction is
I would not care, if the new UI wasn’t that buggy and laggy.
