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Kye · 2023-06-12 06:23:35

Relevant historical note: That's how Reddit started. In the beginning, it was just Reddit. Not much different from HN. Then they added subreddits, and what was reddit became /r/Reddit.com until they closed it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/

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asdff | karma 12593 | avg karma 1.54 · | 2024-04-17 21:02:18

Nowadays the reddit engineers perverted the link system for old reddit users. New reddit users link to posts using a syntax that for old reddit users returns the submit a new post page.

Also, just to twist the knife further, old reddit users can't open full resolution images hosted on reddit anymore. Click a link and you get thrown to this url:

https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/media/nice_hat/?url=...

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nope96 | karma 765 | avg karma 4.11 · | 2021-11-21 16:14:21

also worth checking out: https://old.reddit.com/r/bbs/

neilv | karma 22736 | avg karma 4.25 · | 2023-06-30 07:56:10

I'm not boycotting Reddit, but years ago I had to un-train my fingers from unconsciously going to Reddit, because the value had gotten so low (or, on the front page overrun by manipulators years ago, it had negative value).

The following Ublock Origin rules aren't perfect, but they mostly blocked the Reddit main page, which was what muscle memory would go to. While permitting search hits, links from HN, etc.

    ||old.reddit.com^

    @@https://old.reddit.com/comments/*
    @@https://old.reddit.com/domain/*
    @@https://old.reddit.com/over18?*
    @@https://old.reddit.com/r/*
    @@https://old.reddit.com/search?*
    @@https://old.reddit.com/subreddits/search?*
    @@https://old.reddit.com/u/*
    @@https://old.reddit.com/user/*

    @@http://old.reddit.com/r/*
    @@http://old.reddit.com/u/*

    ||www.reddit.com^

    @@https://www.reddit.com/comments/*
    @@https://www.reddit.com/domain/*
    @@https://www.reddit.com/gallery/*
    @@https://www.reddit.com/over18?*
    @@https://www.reddit.com/poll/*
    @@https://www.reddit.com/r/*
    @@https://www.reddit.com/search?*
    @@https://www.reddit.com/subreddits/search?*
    @@https://www.reddit.com/u/*
    @@https://www.reddit.com/user/*
    @@https://www.reddit.com/video/*

    @@http://www.reddit.com/r/*
    @@http://www.reddit.com/u/*

In addition to using these UBO rules, I also deleted my bookmarks to subreddits.

vwoolf | karma 2686 | avg karma 5.96 · | 2024-03-21 15:45:57

I liked it better before the modern Reddit censorship machine.

At least old.reddit.com still works. For now.

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labrador | karma 6502 | avg karma 3.39 · | 2022-06-26 03:37:38

the day the get rid of old.reddit.com I'll be gone looking for something more to my liking. The retro reddit is the best reddit.

pxcse | karma 9 | avg karma 0.39 · | 2023-08-09 07:53:46

Interestingly, the link leads to OLD.reddit.com

Is this some HN global setting or are people really linking to OLD.reddit.com?

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zappo2938 | karma 938 | avg karma 1.87 · | 2021-02-09 19:39:59+00:00

For comparison, the original Reddit homepage.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050804002153/http://www.reddit...

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netsec_burn | karma 1144 | avg karma 4.28 · | 2022-01-01 10:37:04

If I remember correctly, HN automatically converts Reddit links to old.reddit.com (less user hostile).

lewisj489 | karma 71 | avg karma 0.91 · | 2020-08-25 08:02:48

old.reddit.com

stuntkite | karma 1954 | avg karma 2.87 · | 2018-07-04 14:59:02+00:00

old.reddit.com

darthvoldemort | karma 623 | avg karma 7.42 · | 2021-10-09 11:25:13

old.reddit.com

bdcs | karma 514 | avg karma 2.56 · | 2022-02-16 12:54:41

old.reddit.com

yowmamasita | karma 153 | avg karma 1.74 · | 2022-05-25 19:00:43

old.reddit.com

rthomas6 | karma 3931 | avg karma 2.95 · | 2022-12-03 21:50:17

Old.reddit.com

rthomas6 | karma 3931 | avg karma 2.95 · | 2022-12-03 21:50:33

Old.reddit.com

khazhoux | karma 8386 | avg karma 4.82 · | 2023-06-25 11:10:48

old.reddit.com

stratosmacker | karma 159 | avg karma 4.18 · | 2019-12-13 16:30:34+00:00

old.reddit.com

ilyt | karma 8981 | avg karma 1.98 · | 2023-04-02 17:47:03

link to old.reddit.com

ratg13 | karma 911 | avg karma 1.35 · | 2023-06-12 09:06:35

Sometimes I like to imagine that I was the only one still using beta.reddit.com.

It was used during the redesign where they added thumbnails like 14 years ago, to allow people to see the new design before it got launched.

This was the birth of /r/beta

The subdomain is basically the same as old.reddit now, but I continued using the domain all this time for no reason.

The /r/beta subreddit was repurposed for beta testing, but has been abandoned for at least 8 years. I don’t know why they leave the subreddit active.

The subdomain I can only imagine was totally forgotten.

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