Did Reddit just close old.reddit.com?

#1

Post by distortedsignal » Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 1:12 AM UTC

► curl https://old.reddit.com/ -v

* Host old.reddit.com:443 was resolved.

...

> GET / HTTP/2

> Host: old.reddit.com

> User-Agent: curl/8.9.1

> Accept: /

>

* Request completely sent off

...

  

    reddit broke!

vs

► curl https://www.reddit.com/ -v

* Host www.reddit.com:443 was resolved.

...

> GET / HTTP/2

> Host: www.reddit.com

> User-Agent: curl/8.9.1

> Accept: /

>

* Request completely sent off

...

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

  

    302 Found

...

Re: Did Reddit just close old.reddit.com?

#2

Post by alskdj21 » Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 1:18 AM UTC

https://www.redditstatus.com/

There's an outage currently. 3rd-party mobile clients (RedReader, Stealth) also won't load.

Re: Did Reddit just close old.reddit.com?

#3

Post by gnabgib » Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 1:18 AM UTC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43135007

Re: Did Reddit just close old.reddit.com?

#4

Post by Rzor » Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 1:21 AM UTC

That's awful. I only access Reddit through there. Let's hope it comes back. Back in 2023 Huffmann said that it would stay, but I guess that could somewhat go against their plan of inserting paywalls? We'll see.

>P.S. old.reddit.com isn't going anywhere, and explicit content is still allowed on Reddit as long as it abides by our content policy.

Re: Did Reddit just close old.reddit.com?

#5

Post by distortedsignal » Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 1:24 AM UTC

gnabgib wrote: post #3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43135007

Saw that after posting this. I feel like a dumb.

Re: Did Reddit just close old.reddit.com?

#6

Post by distortedsignal » Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 1:39 AM UTC

Looks like it's back. False alarm, everybody.

Re: Did Reddit just close old.reddit.com?

#7

Post by distortedsignal » Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 1:40 AM UTC

Rzor wrote: post #4

That's awful. I only access Reddit through there. Let's hope it comes back. Back in 2023 Huffmann said that it would stay, but I guess that could somewhat go against their plan of inserting paywalls? We'll see. >P.S. old.reddit.com isn't going anywhere, and explicit content is still allowed on Reddit as long as it abides by our content policy.

Looks like it's back. False alarm. Sorry.

Re: Did Reddit just close old.reddit.com?

#8

Post by lowlevel » Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 1:41 AM UTC

distortedsignal wrote: post #5

gnabgib wrote: post #3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43135007

Saw that after posting this. I feel like a dumb.

I for one don’t blame you for panic posting … so much is turning to shit these days…

Re: Did Reddit just close old.reddit.com?

#9

Post by aqueueaqueue » Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 1:42 AM UTC

distortedsignal wrote: post #5

gnabgib wrote: post #3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43135007

Saw that after posting this. I feel like a dumb.

That account is a bot. Not an insult as it is a useful bot. But that is why they spotted it.

Re: Did Reddit just close old.reddit.com?

#10

Post by gnabgib » Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 1:43 AM UTC

aqueueaqueue wrote: post #9

distortedsignal wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Saw that after posting this. I feel like a dumb.

That account is a bot. Not an insult as it is a useful bot. But that is why they spotted it.

I'm not a bot. Obviously a bot would be programmed to say that, but they wouldn't make my typos.