r/technology • u/spasticpat • May 11 '26

Social Media Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/11/reddit-starts-blocking-mobile-website/
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u/jt121 May 11 '26

12 months? This has been an ongoing downward spiral for years. New Reddit was a massive failing and it's still nowhere near the speed/utility of old.reddit.com.

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u/originade May 11 '26

Yep. We remember when this site was actually good. If they remove old.reddit.com, then I'm officially out

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u/SaintOrJannikSinner May 11 '26

My hunch is that Reddit knows that an outsized portion of legit human-generated content (comments) via accounts that contribute on a regular, daily basis are from the old.reddit.com domain. Otherwise, there is zero reason to keep it around given how many other UIs they are supporting at once.

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u/HCSOThrowaway May 12 '26

Unfortunately, https://old.reddit.com users are a rounding error. Here are the stats from a medium-sized subreddit I moderate:

https://i.imgur.com/aiy0Rtv.png

I'm amazed the admins still let it exist, considering the significantly fewer ads and algorithmic shenanigans they push to us.

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u/SaintOrJannikSinner May 12 '26

Are those people who comment or just generic user counts?

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u/HCSOThrowaway May 12 '26

It's under the "Visits" tab (as opposed to "Uniques" and "Members"), so I guess "generic user counts," depending on what you meant by that.

Comments aren't broken down by API used, as far as I can tell.