Was fine? It still is old.reddit.com. You can set your profile to use it by default. Just don't accidentally click the "Get New Reddit" link in the top left else you have to edit your settings again.
Thanks for that. I don't browse reddit as a rule, but I occasionally land there when applying google-fu to a problem so this removes some tedium from my life.
Somewhat happened a few days ago. Reddit in the browser (ie. M.reddit.com) got a redesign which has screwed loads of stuff up (can't even see usernames of those who have submitted posts on /hot) which makes everything cartoonish, moved the "share" buttons to where voting used to be, and is overall just a bit crappy - without mentioning some of the bugs they have such as a giant white bar on every page.
It sucks because I love reddit, but it will be EOL for the people who made it what it is in about 3-5 years
Yeah, I didn't think the Lemmy project would go very far when I first saw it. But the implementation is very impressive (performance seems comparable to HN), and the self-hosted model seems like it could be quite amenable to communities staying in control.
I think they are well aware that a lot of older users (some likely heavy _content_contributors_) will simple walk away if they do this.
You can't sell ads if you don't have original content that drives traffic to your pages....
old.reddit.com as well as '.compact' are the price to pay to prevent a digg type exodus.
I've created a Firefox extension that allows you to change Reddit subdomains easily (without having to type). Unfortunately because of covid, the queue for approval can days or weeks right now.
