What do you think?
They don’t care. Reddit is turning into an AI wasteland. Human visitors will either be entertained by AI generated content, or training the AI model.
I think it’s likely to stick around, but my hot take is a future TikTok purchase of Reddit.
Ooh shit, this is a good take! Tiktok needs to change ownership to an American company. I could see them using Reddit as a kind of masquerade
itor shell company, where they put all the legal and geographical ownership under the Reddit name, but really all the decisions (for both platforms) are being made by the TikTok owners.
It’s already dead for me. It used to be the only way I could access random reddit links with my VPN, now it too gives that stupid rejection page.
So, reddit was dead to me, but now it’s extra dead to me because I’m not disabling my VPN just to view some link. If friends send me a reddit link, I’ll just ask for a screenshot.
Instead of replacing the www with old, you can replace the www
.with “safe”.SafeReddit.com (easiest LibReddit/RedLib mirror to ‘member). While it lasts :-/ (see: Invidious getting hit by limits today, Instagram being hardcore anti-Bibliogram…)
This doesn’t look like old reddit though, I guess it works in a pinch, but old reddit was great because it didn’t load cards and was just links.
on browser you could use libredirect or on android theres geddit these both are front ends like invidious is to youtube
6 months. First login only access then gone.
I feel like they’re not going to outright kill it, but quill instead let it wither on the vine; aka die the death of a thousands cuts.
There will likely be more new functionality that won’t be backported. Things that work okay now will stop functioning correctly. They’ll just stop maintenance and wait for everyone to leave — when it does get shut down, it will happen with a whimper rather than a bang.
The last new functionality that Reddit added that was actually good was subreddits.
Has spaz sold it all and disappeared yet? I figured it was a stage coach robbery situation. Reddit died June 10th according to my whitelist firewall. The microbes don’t die at the same time as the cadaver, but the survivors move on to a new host fast.
Are his shares restricted? The way I understand it, usually insiders aren’t allowed to sell until some time after the IPO.
He already sold over 500.000 shares, same as his CFO iirc. Classic pump and dump. Reddit is 25% down, below initial value. From an article I read today.
I saw a post earlier today where someone tried to access old reddit and got a screen that said they need an account to access it.
Don’t know how real this is but I found the post.
If you use a VPN and are not signed in it’s blocked because God forbid somebody try to access it and maybe possibly could scrape it.
Oh no! The horror of THAT! /s
Seems ot might have been just a One-Off thing then
German user here
Right now on Firefox mobile I could access old.reddit.com in an incognito tab. Could also load posts and access comments.
I’d put the over/under at 8 months.
What about the Reddit Tor site?
I’m guessing by this time next year it’s gone.
2025
