A friend sent me the link but I guess I’ll have to tell him to send me screenshots in the future.

old.reddit still lets me view it. For now…

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1122·
      9 months ago

      To be fair, its been shit for a real long time.

      We all just put up with it far longer than we should have.

      • TxzK@lemmy.zipEnglish
        52·
        9 months ago

        Yeah. From when I first joined reddit to until I left, I’ve never ever seen the video player actually fucking working. It’s like a McDonalds ice cream machine, always broken.

        • Alto@kbin.social
          28·
          9 months ago

          At least there’s a reason for McDonald’s ice cream machines not working, even if it is blatant and disgusting corporate greed from Taylor Company.

            • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              22·
              9 months ago

              Meeh, nothing new, service menus with the full picture have been around for decades. Just download a warezed service manual for your product and you can fix it yourself.

              Same thing is happening with printers and every other piece of hardware out there that runs any kind of software on it.

              We’ve seen this behavior throught history numerous time, keeping it in the family I mean, this is nothing new. As long as people keep bying food in McDonalds and complaining how McDonalds made their son/daughter cry, they’ll keep pushing their shitty products. My son starts crying over no ice cream… son, I’m sorry, but even the king doesn’t eat something that’s not available, get used to it, that’s life.

        • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
          11·
          9 months ago

          I never understood why people complained about this. Reddit videos always worked fine for me in RiF. Then I found out they don’t work in the official app. WTF?

        • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          9 months ago

          It worked just fine in Infinity and on a desktop browser, never in the official Reddit app. But I guess Reddit couldn’t stand the fact that a free, ad-free app worked better than the official app.
          Also Lemmy loads WAY faster than Reddit these days

          • TxzK@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            9 months ago

            I used Infinity too, and video worked fine in it. Well up until they killed it

    • Stoneykins [any]@mander.xyzEnglish
      96·
      9 months ago

      Spez explicitly promised they wouldn’t get rid of old reddit.

      Which I took to mean they intend to ruin it by cramming all the shitty new features into it and taking away the things it does better.

      Edit: I don’t trust spez lmao I just think what he said might be a hint for how they will fuck reddit up going forward

    • psud@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      9 months ago

      Old Reddit is the only place moderators have any 3rd party tools. When Reddit kills it, many more mods will quit. Large subs will be completely unmanageable

  • randomised@lemm.eeEnglish
    107·
    9 months ago

    If you change the URL to old.reddit.com you can get past this BS and view the post anyway even without logging in. You just have to use the old version of the site which has a lot less of the stupid stuff they’ve added.

  • avater@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7417·
    9 months ago

    Do you really want our pity for still being on that shitty platform?

    • Ookami38@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      611·
      9 months ago

      Pity, no. A shared expression of annoyance at a platform we all used to enjoy becoming further and further enshittified, yes.

      • avater@lemmy.worldEnglish
        94·
        9 months ago

        Nah. Life is to short to be annoyed by some shitty social media platform. Move on.

        • ji17br@lemmy.mlEnglish
          101·
          9 months ago

          Initially I agreed with the guy above you, and then I read your comment. Pretty refreshing take.

    • mac@infosec.pubEnglish
      8·
      9 months ago

      Annoyingly there are still some good threads related to questions I’ve asked etc.

  • Knitwear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    524·
    9 months ago

    This worked for me:

    • Start your own subreddit so you’re a mod,

    • mark it nsfw,

    • don’t need to post anything

    and you should be able to access any nsfw in your feed when off-app.

      • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        True, I don’t use reddit on mobile at all anymore, since they killed 3rd party clients. No way in fuck would I install any social media company’s program on my devices. It’s open source apps for social media, or nothing.

        Old reddit works fine in Firefox on the desktop. I use that when I’m bored enough to.

  • Felicity "Kefi" Iris@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    22·
    9 months ago

    For the moment you can replace the ‘www’ in the page link to ‘old’ and reload. the old ui doesn’t show these annoying warnings. You can also try some libreddit instance.

  • GONADS125@feddit.deEnglish
    22·
    9 months ago

    This really irks me, because it applies to subs related to weed or other non-sexual content, including some games. I’ve also been hit with the same prompt to open the official app for subreddits that are “under review” or new.

    I only go to reddit from search engine queries to get answers for a topic.

    I just posted on reddit for the first time since the API disaster to get support for the watchmaker app (that is the dev’s official source for support).

    I noticed a weird glitch happening to me (mobile site on Firefox) in which if I edit a comment, it loses all formatting. Like, every space between ‘paragraphs’ dissappears, and so did the block quotes. It just put “>” in with the jumbled up mess…

  • Old_Dude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    9 months ago

    Probably just need to sign in. But if you don’t have an account already, then it’s shitty that they force you to use the app to create an account.

    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
      61·
      9 months ago

      it’s shitty that they force you to use the app to create an account.

      They don’t. I just made a new account there a month ago using my browser and old.reddit

    • Randelung@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      The “I built a reddit porn browser” has gone to shit with the amount and type of integration of ads. Desktop is fine with ad blocking, mobile is cancer. I’m not linking it on purpose.

  • Hellfire103@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    122·
    9 months ago

    Since Old Reddit will be dead soon, have a look at kddit and Eddrit. They’re like Libreddit, but not blocked (yet). However, you should try to avoid using them, as they get ratelimited quite easily.

    • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Until they finish to ban all the datacenter IPs. For example I can no longer access reddit from the IP address of my server (I self host my VPN)