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1. PNewli+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-05-31 19:28:34
Have you tried using the 'old' reddit? Replacing 'www.' with 'old.' will move you over to the old style of reddit and will keep you there when clicking through links.

https://old.reddit.com/r/all/

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2. blowsk+c3[view] [source] 2023-05-31 19:41:16
>>PNewli+(OP)
They’ve got rid of the alternative mobile UI (I.reddit.com). And a lot of links from old.reddit.com redirect to the main site.
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3. m348e9+N3[view] [source] 2023-05-31 19:43:40
>>PNewli+(OP)
old.reddit.com and Apollo are the only things that makes reddit usable. I suspect that there are plans to do away with old.reddit.com at some point.

Maybe that will be reddit's Digg exodus moment.

I read a thread on reddit about the api fees where commenters called out HN as the next site to move to. Hopefully not.

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4. kgwxd+w8[view] [source] 2023-05-31 20:02:02
>>PNewli+(OP)
And you can append .rss /r/all.rss to any sub. Never have to reskim a headline and all the links open in old.reddit
5. adzm+Sa[view] [source] 2023-05-31 20:11:01
>>PNewli+(OP)
If you have an account you can also just tell it to use the old / desktop site in settings.
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6. bakugo+Qb[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-05-31 20:15:23
>>m348e9+N3
> reddit's Digg exodus moment

People keep bringing this up and I feel like there's a fundamental misunderstanding going on. The internet of 2010 is not the internet of today, not even close.

The average reddit user of today isn't going to stop using reddit due to problems like this because they just don't care, at all. They don't care about the new web design being a massive downgrade over the old one because they're used to every website looking like that, they have no complaints, many of them probably don't even know the old design still exists. They don't care that the app sucks and is full of ads because, again, most official apps for most websites are like that, it's the new normal. They just want to scroll through funny meme videos on their phone for a while and don't think about it beyond that, the age of the average user having standards is long, long gone.

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7. costco+gg[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-05-31 20:33:09
>>bakugo+Qb
Exactly right and saddening as well. Their growth strategy is clearly working because based on MAU graphs it seems like most Reddit users joined in the past 2-3 years which is when all this stuff started. I wouldn't be surprised if the average comment length is half of what it was even 5 years ago. A lot of the growth seems to have come from mobile users but mobile users are terrible from a comment quality perspective so I hope this ultimately backfires in some way though I'm not hopeful.
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8. tangus+gk[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-05-31 20:52:29
>>blowsk+c3
Try this: https://old.reddit.com/r/all/.i

Unfortunately it doesn't keep across links.

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9. kiolea+Am[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-05-31 21:06:10
>>tangus+gk
Teddit.net is what you're looking for. It can get slow, but there are a lot of instances and you can also self host
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10. Eji170+fq[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-05-31 21:26:44
>>bakugo+Qb
If the digg exodus taught C level's anything, it's that digg's target market isn't worth marketing to. They're too picky. Reddit and everyone else has used that market to get the ball off the ground and then pivot AWAY from them ever since. The last thing you want is a userbase that has opinions when there's so many out there who will put up with anything.
11. ChrisA+Hr[view] [source] 2023-05-31 21:35:10
>>PNewli+(OP)
or you could log in and set your UI preferences to the old and then it's always that look. Stop lurking!
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12. blowsk+0i1[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-06-01 05:33:19
>>kiolea+Am
I’ve taken the other approach - I rarely visit Reddit now.
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