https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1ujtebf/logging_in_to_use_old_reddit/
Perhaps they are gunning to kill it completely soon. Though spez the cuck said they won't, he also said he won't kill NoNewNormal and did it a few days later back in 2021.
Reddshit banning old reddit for visitors
Re: Reddshit banning old reddit for visitors
use a decent redlib instance
https://redlib.catsarch.com/ and https://redlib.pussthecat.org/ work well for me if you're willing to enable js for anubis
https://redlib.catsarch.com/ and https://redlib.pussthecat.org/ work well for me if you're willing to enable js for anubis
Re: Reddshit banning old reddit for visitors
As far as I know redlib is dependent on old.reddit,comqualia wrote: Tue Jul 07, 2026 9:54 am use a decent redlib instance
https://redlib.catsarch.com/ and https://redlib.pussthecat.org/ work well for me if you're willing to enable js for anubis
The shutdown of i.reddit.com
In 2023, they killed i.reddit.com to "streamline the experience" (source). The usual empty justifications filled with corporate buzzwords.
i.reddit.com was the most "streamlined" and lightweight and fastest-loading version of Reddit. It was the original mobile UI, but loaded faster on desktop too. It had less functionality than old.reddit.com and new Reddit, but sometimes that was enough.
It loaded 10 times faster than the current mobile site (a "web app") that is filled with JavaScript bloat.
i.reddit.com was the most "streamlined" and lightweight and fastest-loading version of Reddit. It was the original mobile UI, but loaded faster on desktop too. It had less functionality than old.reddit.com and new Reddit, but sometimes that was enough.
It loaded 10 times faster than the current mobile site (a "web app") that is filled with JavaScript bloat.
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Spez joking about "Sunsetting old.reddit" in 2025.
(source)spez (reddit.com) wrote: Sunsetting old.reddit: old.reddit is the version of Reddit that we built back in the mid-2000s. It doesn’t scale, it’s impossible to develop on, and it’s ugly af. We will be shutting it down at the end of the month.
Just kidding. I don’t know why I say stuff like this. We’ll figure out how to work around it and keep it online as long as people are using it.
https://preview.redd.it/prh1c0ewzyye1.p ... e6962a988d
First it was a joke. Now it is a real possibility. But pretty much everyone knows old Reddit is on life support. I am surprised it has even lasted that long, when the rest of the web was enshittified. For example, Twitter killed M2 mobile web in 2020. That was the last non-JavaScript web front end.
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