• @djsoren19
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    243 months ago

    I’ll bet $50 this is because they plan on pulling the plug on old reddit soon, and don’t want to allow the inevitable protests.

    • the post of tom joad
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      3 months ago

      Few enough people use it i doubt they’ll do that. The og reddit api (is that the term?) that came before old.reddit still works too (can’t remember what it is off the top)

      • ProdigalFrog
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        3 months ago

        Few enough people use it i doubt they’ll do that.

        I was going to suggest otherwise, but after checking the viewing stats on r/linuxhardware, out of 193k unique views in July, 7,300 were from old.reddit, which accounts for 2.8%, and that kinda blows my mind. Just a couple years ago the numbers were much higher.

        The views on that sub have increased a lot over the last year, but engagement is the same or lower, so I heavily suspect a lot of the views there are just bots inflating the numbers.

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          3 months ago

          Did they finally? That’s the one i was thinking of so guess you’re probably right.

          Oh well phew hahaha not my prob no mo