As part of ongoing efforts to simplify Reddit and improve Home feed personalization, the final steps to deprecate r/all are being implemented. All links to r/all will now redirect to the Home feed, following the prior removal of r/all entry points. Trending content remains available via r/popular.
Redditors on old.reddit.com, or those with settings that default to the old Reddit experience, will continue to access r/all as expected.
“in order to simplify Reddit”
Corpospeech has evolved from euphemisms and marketing tricks to being completely divorced from reality hasn’t it?
/r/all was the simplest thing ever, the best posts of all of Reddit. It was a normal button/link. It was Reddit itself, “the front page of the internet”
But thankfully there’s still “Reddit Pro” and whatever bullshit they came up with since going public. That is so simple!
It’s double speak.
People learned the power of words and now they are abusing them.
The American public with all their faults will nearly trust any written word. Anything besides what they’ve already been programmed to immediately be skeptical of they will readily accept into their reality like good little consumers.
Redditors on old.reddit.com, or those with settings that default to the old Reddit experience, will continue to access r/all as expected.
I guess they are just ignoring old.reddit until they pull the plug on that completely
That will be the day I finally never return. Old Reddit kinda sucks but it’s still miles better than the modern abomination.
Old reddit is a lot more tolerable if you’re using it with RES. You probably already knew that, but I figure I’d say something just in case.
I’m aware of it but I’ve never tried it. Does it work on iOS?
So long as you use a Gecko- (Firefox) or Chromium-based browser, I don’t see why it wouldn’t work. There is no WebKit (Safari) support.
I thought those were all just reskinned versions of safari on iOS. Or am I wrong?
You’re right.
The only decent-ish extension I know of is Sink It for Reddit. It’s on App Store.
The website is still buggy as hell, though…
IDK I don’t use Apple products out of principle, but given Apple’s history of creating bullshit restrictions for no reason, I wouldn’t be surprised.
Same. I’ve already deleted my account. I use it to find info on niche stuff, if I cant find the info elsewhere.
Last I checked, old.reddit had about 2% of the users. So yeah, it’ll be shut down whenever they get around to it, I’d imagine. Whenever they add something that breaks it, it’ll be gone.
Yeah I think that’s the thing, they haven’t done anything to/with it. Once they do something that doesn’t work on it, they’ll go “oh deary me. Welp, better put it out of its misery” and shut it down.
Before I gave up on reddit completely, I was getting lots of 429 errors. Although asking around, some were, some weren’t. Still not sure they weren’t targeting me - apparently I hit their radar and they ban my accounts whenever they figure out it’s me (I just want to mod in my local subreddit, I’ve slowly disengaged from everything else). heh
I gave up on it when I got suspended for the 4th time in half a year. I had been using it since 2009-10 or there abouts. Never had any issues. Then about 18 months ago I started to get 3 day suspensions for the most tame shit. I appealed all of them, every single one that was checked by a human was reverted. Then the last one I had, I appealed, didn’t hear anything from them. So I waited the 3 day suspension run its course, sent a few messages I wanted to send and deleted my account.
Similar here except I went from a warning to a full ban the last two accounts. And for a little while there, when they banned one account, I got a half dozen bans on multis I’d created years ago for some stupid joke and hadn’t used since I created them. heh.
They just really have decided they don’t want the older users around, I guess.
same here, somehow they attribute your current bans that expired and they lifted as ban evasion, and then banned all counts that participated in a sub, they think you were banned it.
ALso its been reported they ban newly created accounts too, and old inactive accounts. i was on another forum how you need to go through a"ridiculous" process of warming up the account."
I’m on Windows and got a browser running under WSL and so far, that seems to have worked, along with me using the account extremely minimally. lol
Huh, that’s weird that I basically got away with that. I used to switch to a new account every 6 months or so. It started when some weirdo started to follow me and commenting on every single comment I made. I think it was in 2013-14 somewhere around then. Ever since then, I threw away one to two accounts per year. The past few years it was more like every month or two. I was very active in /r/Formula1, they had 1 month time limit on new accounts, so once I was allowed to comment there, I’d throw away the old account. At times I used multiple accounts at the same time, one got suspended, I just logged into another. I know it was ban evasion or whatever, though it started as a way to keep the weirdos at bay.
Anyway, I never got burned because of that. I guess I wasn’t bad enough to be on their radar.
I as well had people following me around, but also seeming influence agents overly familiar with me, talking down to me like they knew my personal details, which they should not have been able to know, but they might have because of Israel and corporate bullshit. Fuck Reddit. As I saw on a username here, better dead than reddit.
i did that too, spread out the accounts so one gets banned the others dont. eventually they caught up with people doing that.
I guess I wasn’t bad enough to be on their radar.
You were a frickin’ saint, because the things I did were either stupid (to call infractions) or really minor. lol.
Or you were lucky or I was unlucky. heh.
time limit on new accounts,
That’s what finally has let me let reddit go - so many subreddits have a thing now where you have to have karma in threads that haven’t hit /r/all yet before you can comment, and that takes time and effort when I just browse /r/all. heh.
If they have some reason to not like older users that would make sense with my experience. I had like 100,000 comment karma over the last ~13 years. Last month I posted something like “the only way he (trump) is leaving is if 100,000 people drag him out” and got immediately sitewide banned with no warning, appeal denied. That was about the harshest thing I ever posted, 99.99% of my comments and posts were neutral or positive and they could see that clearly from my comment history. I wasn’t there to be mean.
That’s about the level of thing that caused me a coupld of my bans, so sounds about right.
thier AI were looking any thing “pro-trump, anti-trump, anti-israel”. also they dont bother fixing thier bot detection.
They target me for violations that are not violations, used to be I could get 3 months out of an account before a second violation, my last new one I got a violation within the first week for something that wasn’t even close. This is like the us administration pressuring them. Betcha.
they banned me for violations on my “other accounts.”
I don’t have any other accounts.
you know when they give you that message, its thier AI just autobanning and just send an automatic message to your qaccount.
Also what likely happen as well, i found out in another forum, is they lump accounts together in a sub and banned them in bulk(and attribute all these account as similar, same users)
Unlike other countries we do not have any legal rights to fair enforcement of the rules, so they do not bother. What we do have, is the government telling them to fuck users that piss off them and their pals for other reasons. Israel obviously but others as well.
Silicon Valley is a rigged game, they are parasites,
well, it’s a private platform; their sandbox, their rules. It would be nice if they could enforce them equitably, though.
i think people are unaware of the old reddit interface, they just went with the doomscrolling UI like with facebook, instagram,etc.
I bet it has a far higher percentage of engaged users who actually post or comment.
That’ll be my final day on Reddit. I already spend most of my time here.
It would have been the 3rd party app thing, but I exclusively use Reddit on my desktop at work. I got better things to do on weekends.
I truly cannot understand how anyone can use new reddit. It is worse by every metric.
People who are used to scrolling with a mobile device use it. Thats the whole point of it, make it look like an app. 99% of the users who joined after the introduction of new reddit are youngsters, if they don’t use the new reddit website, they use the app, which is just the new reddit site in a app. I bet a concerning amount of them don’t even know you can browse it on a computer, let alone old.reddit.
I get that but it’s still weird. If that pile of shit had been my first introduction to reddit I’d have never stuck around.
I can’t believe they didn’t nuke old . reddit yet. I left when they killed the API that killed off all the 3rd party apps. Deleted my account and never looked back. Fuck reddit, fuck Spez, fuck the greedy corpo that its become.
It is very much unmaintained, I assume they will just let it break since only like 5 people use it still
I was going to post this, but then saw you beat me to it by 15 minutes. Lol
I’m entirely capable of circumventing Reddit bans and I’m probably on my 50th+ account by now. I spend most of my time here, but I still have a Reddit account for various reasons. If they finally nuke old.reddit I will at long last peace out for good and never look back. Every time I log in I expect it’ll be gone. Reddit excels at making awful decisions regarding their platform.
i assume new devices, new IP, or the paid methods using anit-detect browsers/proxies. the first one is more likely than the latter(since i only know one forum that discusses the latter). i got shadowbanned last year, so i many accounts just incase one got banned, but thier AI banned them all at once(like many others).
I guess I’m a dumbass. I’ve tried vpns and Tor but I can’t figure out how to circumvent reddit’s shadow ban. Any easy tips for a doofus like me?
simplify Reddit and improve Home feed personalization
AKA collect more data for advertisers.
It’s to funnel users into propaganda bubbles and voids, making it harder for them to see alternate content and viewpoints. It’s been pretty obvious with how aggressively they remove and discipline antifascist politics.
Also makes it easier to serve them personalised higher value ads.
This is the censorship - you can only see posts from subs they white list, or subs you already know about.
it’s also for the purpose of targeting ads. Even if you don’t have a reddit account the home page is still going to tailor the feed to subreddits you’ve visited in the past or your geo-location for example. this makes it easier for advertising.
And I removed all my posts from that platform and replaced them with random garbage. Fair trade
I read this as they learned it was far too difficult to moderate /all and that the easier thing corporate wise was just remove it.
I’m on old reddit and I didn’t know there was a difference between /r/all and /r/popular? Theres the subs you are subscribed to and then there is the trash main page. What is a home feed? Is that the front page with your subscriptions?
Popular is supposed to be the highest activity subreddits. If you keep scrolling you’ll only see older posts from the same set of subreddits. r/all is all the subreddits sorted by popularity, if you keep scrolling you see lower and lower upvote counts.
Your home feed is your subscribed subreddits.
r/popular i feel you will get the more mainstream stuff, lik news, politics, the ones that filled with the usual propaganda and such. r/all you get that too, but also random subs.
Their admins could stop being nazi sympathizers too, but that’s a pipe dream.
Lemmy could use an /c/all community default. It’s a catchall for things that don’t have a dedicated community yet. It helps create posts and discussions.
Ani.social has an all option. It’s not a /c/, more of a firehose.
Yeah I think a /c/all needs to be moderated to help keep out garbage and direct similar posts to a new /c of their own once they reach critical mass.
That makes more sense. I was literally thinking, “We have all at home.”
Shame for the funky and weird subreddits that utilized /all to collect data and make interesting projects.
Wasn’t r/all just Reddit’s “Ragebait Algorithm Central Hub”?
I get that we Fuck Spez and whatnot here… But this doesn’t seem terrible?
Not in my experience, but then again, I left a couple years ago so maybe they changed it when I wasn’t there.
