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[–] dislocate_expansion@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

what's the difference between old.reddit and reddit? and why does reddit support old.reddit?

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why they support it still is truly a mistery with all the API stuff and so on... It's a miracle it's still available.

[–] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Rumor has it some of the higher ups don't like the new UI either.

[–] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 year ago

one is the old, better, unrestricted ui (old) normal reddit is the new ui, with intrusive ads, mobile app popups, age restrictions etc

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

Old Reddit has good formatting.

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Old.reddit is reddit from a time when it was designed with user experience in mind, rather than trend chasing and maximizing ad placement.

I've heard that the reason old.reddit is still supported is because new reddit can't run without it. I certainly wouldn't be surprised if the developers of new reddit were pushed to rush something out to meet demands from higher up, and therefore didn't make something clean and severable. I mean, we're talking about a site whose video player wants to load every resolution at once on every video you scroll past in an infinite feed, my expectations aren't terribly high.