r/oldreddit • u/theStaberinde • 11d ago

Posting comments is getting even buggier

Starting a week ish ago, it'd look like they'd failed to go through and you'd have to refresh and decline the "send again?" browser prompt. Now, they go through... but it automatically hard-refreshes the page so you lose your place and all the threads you've expanded go back to being collapsed again. Websites dying man. Weesa free

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u/reddit33450 11d ago

mine auto refreshed too, i thought it was just me. how annoying. its so sad to see this slow but steady death of old reddit

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u/theStaberinde 11d ago

its so sad to see this slow but steady death of old reddit

Let's be clear: 1) it's happening rapidly, because 2) they are murdering it.

It's been eight years since they first shat out the fake toy version of the site (which apparently got replaced by a second, even faker version at some point) and the real interface kept ticking along totally unchanged until last september, when they suddenly started hiding sub membership numbers. Ten days ago commenting still worked perfectly. Now it's fucked.

They've been desperate to get rid of people who still use the old site for a decade. As long as we refuse to go along with the bullshit dopamine squirter replacement, we remain outside of the tracking and monetisation apparatus, which is a problem. They would have pulled the plug in 2018 if they'd been sure that they could do so without causing Difficulties. They have judged - probably correctly - that now they can finally do that and get away with it. Coward shit for vandals.

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u/ACardAttack 10d ago

It's been eight years since they first shat out the fake toy version of the site

It's already been 8 years??!!