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CogitoCogito · 2019-07-15 12:26:21+00:00

One of the lines in my /etc/hosts file is the following:

127.0.0.1 reddit.com www.reddit.com

I put it in so that it would force me to use old.reddit.com instead. After a couple weeks old.reddit.com has became entirely automatic.

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babuskov | karma 5151 | avg karma 4.35 · | 2023-09-07 09:33:44

FWIW, I posted it as old.reddit.com initially because I have the extension that redirects everything. It somehow got reverted to regular reddit.com.

code_duck | karma 8738 | avg karma 1.97 · | 2010-08-02 22:28:55

I simply added

127.0.0.1 reddit.com www.reddit.com

to my /etc/hosts on the machines I use for working.

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pavel_lishin | karma 46523 | avg karma 3.63 · | 2020-09-15 17:15:34+00:00

And the URLs haven't changed; I run an extension to automatically redirect me to old.reddit.com

bruce343434 | karma 2220 | avg karma 2.06 · | 2021-06-08 16:37:47+00:00

try editing your hosts file to redirect reddit to old.reddit

/etc/hosts

reddit.com old.reddit.com

www.reddit.com old.reddit.com

np.reddit.com old.reddit.com

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mmphosis | karma 6049 | avg karma 4.85 · | 2021-12-05 12:25:29

I put old. in place of www. in the URLs otherwise I find reddit unusable.

markosaric | karma 2302 | avg karma 9.13 · | 2019-12-21 17:34:48+00:00

Another one I add to Redirector is reddit.com to old.reddit.com :)

mech422 | karma 1183 | avg karma 1.04 · | 2023-02-07 13:10:00

site:old.reddit.com FTW! :-D

edit: its a joke..it would save me manually changing the url, cuz I'm too lazy to install the plugin to auto-change it for me.

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PinselPanther | karma 1 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2018-09-08 00:29:34

This is kind of what happened to the KeeFox addon for Firefox. The developer one day decided to have a new default for URL matching. Instead of matching the hostname, i.e. old.reddit.com, it would then match the 'domain' i.e *reddit.com. Back then it was as stupid as this is now...

rwc | karma 1604 | avg karma 5.16 · | 2019-02-05 18:40:42+00:00

I've been switching the "www" in "www.reddit.com" to "old" with good results.

Nition | karma 6810 | avg karma 4.04 · | 2019-09-02 06:51:14+00:00

reddit.com -> old.reddit.com -> i.reddit.com

EA-3167 | karma 3299 | avg karma 3.34 · | 2023-06-07 12:30:21

It isn't that simple, for example I don't use old.reddit as a URL, but I use RES or another program to force it into the old configuration regardless of the URL.

zouhair | karma 1696 | avg karma 2.3 · | 2021-03-24 16:52:25+00:00

www.reddit.com --> old.reddit.com

jbavari | karma 63 | avg karma 21.0 · | 2023-06-11 22:43:14

Here's a quick solution if this bothers you:

Open the `/etc/hosts` in your favorite editor (vim).

Enter this line: 127.0.0.1 reddit.com

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breck | karma 16646 | avg karma 2.92 · | 2022-09-11 09:01:29

dang why do you autochange the url to old reddit?

napierzaza | karma 890 | avg karma 1.62 · | 2011-05-04 17:37:22+00:00

It's just not worth taking this out of my /etc/hosts file

127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com

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zamadatix | karma 14055 | avg karma 2.37 · | 2022-04-07 13:13:12

The best thing about this is other people don't need "old.reddit.com" to "new.reddit.com" redirector extensions. Reddit assumes if you put "old." or "new." then you explicitly want to override your account's preferences.

jvanderbot | karma 13042 | avg karma 3.94 · | 2019-06-19 14:34:48+00:00

Tangential:

Is there an easy way to map all links of form www.reddit.com/* to old.reddit.com/* on all my devices? (I assume /etc/hosts would work for linux?)

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skocznymroczny | karma | avg karma · | 2020-05-25 10:25:07+00:00

I use a Chrome extension that automatically redirects me to 'old' reddit

Triv888 | karma 664 | avg karma 1.34 · | 2021-02-09 13:00:22+00:00

ns.reddit.com is the same as old.reddit.com, I think ... and I use the Redirector addon to make sure that I never see the new reddit.