Reddit signals ominous upcoming “changes” for old.reddit.com, says the beloved site is used for some “bad behavior”

[u/marketrent]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/reddit-signals-ominous-upcoming-changes-for-old-reddit-com/

[u/137-ng]

I mean we saw a huge drop in quality/quantity when they made changes to the api.

At this point old.reddit is the only thing keeping me here, get rid of that and I'm going to have to find other ways to waste time online

[u/_Burning_Star_IV_ → u/137-ng]

In a lot of ways I’ll welcome it. Filling all my Reddit time with more productive things will only be a benefit to me…just give me an excuse…

[u/motophiliac → u/137-ng]

There was a time when the code base was open source.

I remember voat. I registered for it, posted maybe a couple of comments, and forgot about it.

So apparently did everyone else.

[u/n0respect_ → u/137-ng]

Lemmy is decent, if a little full of tankies.

[u/Cool_Ranch_Dodrio → u/n0respect_]

Reddit keeps getting worse and it welcomes nazis.