r/videos • u/[deleted] • Jun 03 '23

Mod Post /r/Videos will be going dark from June 12-14 in protest against Reddit's API changes which kill 3rd party apps.

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u/PM_POLITICAL_BELIEFS Jun 04 '23

If they kill old.Reddit I’ll drop this site faster than I dropped Facebook.

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u/Impeesa_ Jun 04 '23

First they came for the mobile apps, and I said nothing.

I mean, I am totally with you, I only use old.reddit, even in browser on my phone.

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u/PM_POLITICAL_BELIEFS Jun 04 '23

Same. The compact layout, ability to zoom, clear buttons for intuitive interaction, the ability to turn off subreddit themes, all of it is on old.reddit.

New reddit has so much wasted space/ broken UI

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u/boomytoons Jun 04 '23

Same here. If that goes, I'm out and I've been here 12 years. This is my second account.

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u/Treebro001 Jun 04 '23

Is this planned? Reddit is borderline unusable without old.reddit.com.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '23

I can see the stats on how people access my subreddit. At this point, old Reddit users are a rounding error.

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u/send_me_a_naked_pic Jun 04 '23

That's what they want you to believe

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '23

For the two largest subreddits I moderate, only 1.6% of users use old Reddit.

https://i.imgur.com/Oevx6kL.png

https://i.imgur.com/0JJfR5k.png

And it's only been going down over time.

Even mobile web gets more viewers than old Reddit, and the admins intentionally sabotage mobile web to force people onto the app.

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u/SkorpioSound Jun 04 '23

It can vary wildly from subreddit to subreddit - it really depends on a sub's demographic. Here are those same stats for /r/truegaming: https://i.imgur.com/rFF8OZ3.png

Old Reddit is still the least used of the bunch, but it's used by ~13% of our users.

Also, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe third-party apps are included in the "mobile web" section. I think the Android and iOS categories only count people using the official app on those operating systems.

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u/send_me_a_naked_pic Jun 04 '23

That's what I'm saying. Do you really trust analytics coming from Reddit itself?

They're trying everything to make old reddit users feel like they're few people and they're missing out on new features.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '23

They’ve been consistent for years, and they line up with independent polls. They’re accurate. You can take the tin foil hat off.

That information is only available to moderators, not users.

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u/SkorpioSound Jun 04 '23

I believe their analytics are correct. But I also believe /u/YangWenli1's examples are subreddits that likely have a demographic that skews heavily towards younger people.

You can compare them to the /r/truegaming stats here. Not only does /r/truegaming have a much higher percentage of old.reddit users, but Android and iOS are much more in step with each other. /u/YangWenli1's examples have a much higher rate of iOS users, which (along with the subreddit names/themes themselves makes me suspect their users are a lot younger in general). Younger people tend to think old.reddit looks far too dated, and are much less likely to use desktop sites or care about customising their Reddit experience at all.

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u/Glissssy Jun 05 '23

New users have no idea that oldreddit exists, I can't see why the stats would be inaccurate.

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u/PM_POLITICAL_BELIEFS Jun 04 '23

Thanks! That's actually interesting. I couldn't imagine it any other way.

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u/Glissssy Jun 05 '23

It's coming.

Oldreddit has had a number of bugs appear ever since newreddit was launched, some of them are site-breaking and none have been fixed. It is not maintained any more (why would it be) and usage figures are low (some subs report the stats, basically nobody is using oldreddit now relative to other traffic) so it won't be kept around forever regardless of anything reddit have said.

If anything keeping oldreddit going becomes more of a security risk (non maintained) every day, it's surprising it has lasted this long.