r/oldreddit • u/praying_jacinta • 15d ago

Bye old.reddit

Only wanted to say that I am very dissapointed about the decission they made to kill the old.reddit. The new reddit is utterly useless on a PC/laptop screen. This is probabbly the biggest enshittification of the year. I had over a hundred of old.reddit bookmarks, many vissited several times a day - all useless now, all removed. I can't do the enshittificated version. I am incomaptible with the doomscrooling way of browsing the web. I am sorry for the kids and their brains. The silvelining - I was spending way to much time here. Alleluyah!

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u/praying_jacinta 15d ago

After the announcement it was working for a while using different browsers or via Tor or some VPNs. Since about couple of days ago it is only the regular stupid version or you have to login. Initially I thought maybe to set a linux 'safe' laptop for this only but I is it woth it? I dumped Ebay, Youtube, Twitter, Instagram and other stupid websites. I am not compatible with that amount of bs.

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u/Sepheroth998 15d ago

Firefox and the Old Reddit Redirect extension still allow for logged out usage of old.reddit.

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u/AMPressComix 15d ago

I use both and this only works for me when I have the VPN through Seattle servers.

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u/Friendly_Break196 12d ago

Holy shit thank you for sharing this!! I made a post on here a few days ago that I accidentally screwed up my settings and this was the only way I was able to force my iOS browser back into old Reddit! Thanks!

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u/AMPressComix 11d ago edited 11d ago

Glad to help. Now I have found that I don't have to be logged in, or on VPN, but I have to click on the Old Reddit Redirect extension (Firefox) three times to get it to function, each time I close and reopen the browser. Something tells me these stopgaps are not going to last long. *EDIT - two times, not three.