Technology

Haha. I always thought when they got rid of old.reddit.com, that would be the day I finally left the site never to come back. I never expected I would leave before that happened, but here I am on Lemmy, learning about what they're doing to old.reddit.com, while having not gone back in ages and having no particular interest to anymore. RIP Reddit, you won't be missed, except maybe the first /r/Place, that was pretty cool.

It went to shit.

I use a browser extension that sends me to a reddit frontend on the off chance I come across a post while searching. It works pretty well

Libredirect + the fastest instance

From the admin side, I do understand what they are saying but I think there's a better solution to it. We run the old frontend on our instance, and it gets hammered with bots and scrapers. So if we assume that old.reddit works the same way, then it would be attractive to scrapers. But instead of locking it down, I think they could set up something like Anubis or put it behind some other anti-bot measure.

I stopped using Reddit fully once Stealth stopped working so I'm over it at this point.

I use old. and I still have a login but I purposely don't use any of the engagement tools

I don't upvoter or downvote and only very rarely reply to something, only on the rare occasion that it's on a small scale sub where it's the only place to chat up the subject on the Internet and it's not Facebook