new.reddit has been removed
new.reddit has been removed
After all this time I still had one Reddit tab left open to r/Ukraine, to see updates on the war.
Today I noticed that they have removed the option to use new.reddit.com to see the site as it was before the latest update. The current site design is so bad and slow that I immediately closed that tab.
old.reddit.com still exists for those diehards.
When (not if) old.reddit.com is removed, there will be a huge exodus.
I'd like to think so, but part of me suspects that a large amount of the current users are on mobile exclusively. The old layout isn't mobile-optimized at all, so those users are probably on the current UI.
Fair, but I'd be willing to bet that most of the content producing users use the old layout as they've likely been using the site for a while. These users leaving would be a big deal.
Probably varies a bit from sub to sub, but old reddit users are a clear minority. The vast majority use the app
Yeah exactly, it's all mobile nowadays, anyways. By and large "nobody" is here for the desktop experience. Sadly.
Oladlander makes old reddit usable on mobile
I wouldn't say huge as by most estimations that have been stated over the last 3 or 4 years, old Reddit accounts for only 1 or 2 percent of Reddit users (assuming that's accurate), but there'll definitely be an exodus
It'll be huge in the context of Lemmy, despite only representing a small percentage of Reddit's total userbase.
Do bots count as users?
Not sure if there is any more exodus left in their user base.
I know quite a lot of people who still use old.reddit, and would look for an alternative should they kill it
Oh there definitely is.
I doubt there will be.
I think those people already left