![[Update: No they are not] Are they killing old.reddit.com?](https://discuss.online/pictrs/image/de3cfa49-86c7-4ee1-8252-d785e197911d.png){kind=link}
Just had errors for the last minute, is it happening to other people too?
Normal reddit works fine.
Update: Normal reddit has issues loading the front page, but subreddits open normally
Just had errors for the last minute, is it happening to other people too?
Normal reddit works fine.
Update: Normal reddit has issues loading the front page, but subreddits open normally
Imagine doing a site redesign so badly that you have to keep the old design up and running for years.
It only went ‘badly’ if you believe the users are the people who get to decide.
The reddit redesign wasn’t done to meet the needs of the users - it was done to meet the needs of reddit the corporate entity. And from that perspective it went great.
More uniform look, better marketability, better ad integration and monetisation, all those wonderful things.
They knew the ‘old guard’ would hate it, and they simply didn’t care. They’d have killed it altogether but they needed those users to stick around, because it was the old crowd who provided content and free moderation, and all that great stuff… So they let old.reddit stay, simply to keep people mollified and prevent a riot.
As soon as reddit thinks they don’t need those people any longer, it will be gone, just like the APIs.
Remember people did a protest to use 3rd party apps instead of Reddit actually app. That is how bad Reddit is!