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What is meant by 'potential drop of old.reddit'?
Not OP; just a guess: old.reddit.com is a way to view and interact with Reddit using the original theme (or closely based on original look). A ton of tools were built for the site to look for data in a specific format. Many users likely utilize this “old” Reddit due to using legacy tools. It’s a way to get people onto the newer product so you can retire old infrastructure.
Basically, an enshittification decision by Reddit because they need to make more money.
old.reddit also bypasses a lot of the new blocks in place. For example, the constant full screen nag to make an account to view nsfw communities and posts. Just swapping www for old in the url and it shows right up.
true, and it also prevents intentional lagging that happens on the "forever scrolling" on the browser( plus it resets your feed everytime you refresh) to force you to use the datamining intrusive app.
Also, old.reddit didn't make me nauseous when looking at it like new reddit did
they were in a downward spiral the moment they went PUBLIC. they have to please right wingers and advertisements somehow.
The stats.
The original post title:
And this was a comment:
https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1nddbx0/reddit_is_dropping_subscriber_counts_on/ndftd5v/
Done replying to some people and promoting Lemmy and piefed. 🫰
Thank you!
That looks like actual, real people? Wild.
Lots of smaller communities still have active human populations. It is, somewhat paradoxically, the most active subs that have the least real people.
active subs like ... r/news r/politics ?
I guess manipulating those is seen as essential by some.
/r/news in particular. Heavily censored and crawling with bots.
They’re also taking the stats away from old-reddit…
They are dropping subscriber count and online user count from Old Reddit's subreddit sidebars. On Shreddit (the newer design) they get replaced with a new 7 day average, but on Old Reddit they've announced they'll remove them entirely and won't replace them with anything.
That's the only thing I see people complain about in regards to Old Reddit in that thread.
That said, this follows a trend and it's clear to me that they ARE dropping Old Reddit. They're moving features away, requiring you to use Shreddit to access more and more features of the site. For example chat and the notifications inbox are replacing private messages, but they only support Shreddit. So users who want to view replies to their posts have to visit Shreddit to see them. Now with this change, if you want to see how many subscribers a subreddit has, you need to switch to Shreddit to see that.