Old Reddit Is Down

#1

Post by Crunsher » Mon, May 18, 2026, 5:34 PM UTC

Re: Old Reddit Is Down

#2

Post by downbad_ » Mon, May 18, 2026, 5:36 PM UTC

Yea, I noticed. I use Reddit on read mode only.

They keep suspending me despite me appealing several times. It doesn't help that I tried creating new accounts each time which is against their rules (evading), but that was only because my initial appeal received no response!

But they let bots roam freely on their land.

It's annoying because I have communities I really like there like the ufc or mma Subreddits.

Ah, this is completely off topic. Ignore me.

Edit: I wonder what percentage of Reddit users use Old reddit. I suspect a great deal of Hacker News users use old reddit.

Re: Old Reddit Is Down

#3

Post by slater » Mon, May 18, 2026, 5:36 PM UTC

this better not be.. the happening.

Re: Old Reddit Is Down

#4

Post by baigy » Mon, May 18, 2026, 5:37 PM UTC

Tactics to wean more people off the old one? Or just a regular outage?

Re: Old Reddit Is Down

#5

Post by downbad_ » Mon, May 18, 2026, 5:37 PM UTC

slater wrote: post #3

this better not be.. the happening.

I hope so too! The day we all spoke about. Lol.

"The day they take down old Reddit I'm out"

Re: Old Reddit Is Down

#6

Post by downbad_ » Mon, May 18, 2026, 5:38 PM UTC

baigy wrote: post #4

Tactics to wean more people off the old one? Or just a regular outage?

We'll find out.

Re: Old Reddit Is Down

#7

Post by skeaker » Mon, May 18, 2026, 5:40 PM UTC

downbad_ wrote: post #5

slater wrote: post #3

this better not be.. the happening.

I hope so too! The day we all spoke about. Lol. "The day they take down old Reddit I'm out"

This will be true for me. The new layout is just so, so bad. It's hard to believe they found a way to make a worse UI given how many people found the old one difficult.

Re: Old Reddit Is Down

#8

Post by r721 » Mon, May 18, 2026, 5:42 PM UTC

https://downdetector.com/status/reddit/

Re: Old Reddit Is Down

#9

Post by benoau » Mon, May 18, 2026, 5:44 PM UTC

skeaker wrote: post #7

downbad_ wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope so too! The day we all spoke about. Lol. "The day they take down old Reddit I'm out"

This will be true for me. The new layout is just so, so bad. It's hard to believe they found a way to make a worse UI given how many people found the old one difficult.

Plus on the new layout you're forced to use the mobile app now.

Re: Old Reddit Is Down

#10

Post by legitster » Mon, May 18, 2026, 6:01 PM UTC

skeaker wrote: post #7

downbad_ wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope so too! The day we all spoke about. Lol. "The day they take down old Reddit I'm out"

This will be true for me. The new layout is just so, so bad. It's hard to believe they found a way to make a worse UI given how many people found the old one difficult.

Quora has a similarly baffling UI. You're reading one thread trying to find a useful response and it mixes in random answers to other threads.

Who the hell thinks this is a good idea?

The only thing I can figure out is some "expert" somewhere has data that says there's a small pickup of people coming in from SEO clicking on other random links.

But you would have to be such a myopic idiot to think that deliberately confusing users to inflate engagement is a reasonable long term brand strategy.