Searching old.reddit.com is getting harder. If you try to site search it on google, it gives you new reddit links.
Old seems to be blocked, as in other search engines it just gives you no results.
Luckily Kagi lets you add rewrite rules so you can filter site:reddit.com and then have reddit.com rewritten to old.reddit.com, but man reddit are fighting against people using the old site.
Old.reddit.com has slowly been getting worse. Lots of collapsed comment trees, a similar posts section after the first two comments in a busy comments section, etc.
the bot responses are done by people warming up thier accounts for ban evasion to be exact(OF fans, link farmers), this seperate from the propaganda ones.
one thing reddit REALLY hates is new accounts and old accounts with sudden activity.
By avoiding it like the plague. They really did it didn’t it? When I used to Google something I was stoked when there was some reddit link in the results and would always go there, now I just die inside a little more when I scroll the results and the only relevants seems to be reddit.
Yeah, and its even worse that it will only be via google. They are the only crawler allowed to index reddit now. I gave up using google unless I absolutely have to as the search results are not great anymore.
But even if one likes google, having no competition and being the only results that are now trapped in reddit, that just sucks! We need real forums back. or lemmy needs a little more techinical answers in the communities to quit looking to reddit.
Speaking of negativity, how the hell do people deal with the way reddit looks now? Everytime I see it this way I am shocked.
Avatars, ads, wasted space, weird conversation drop downs… yuck.
It’s wild how they show so few replies. Like, the whole point of the site was discussing.
Now the whole point is advertising.
i don’t see it because I quit the millisecond third party apps did.
You can still use the old reddit at old(dot)reddit(dot)com
old.reddit.com. Anything that doesn’t work on that or is to cumbersome to use on that is not worth engaging in.
Searching old.reddit.com is getting harder. If you try to site search it on google, it gives you new reddit links.
Old seems to be blocked, as in other search engines it just gives you no results.
Luckily Kagi lets you add rewrite rules so you can filter site:reddit.com and then have reddit.com rewritten to old.reddit.com, but man reddit are fighting against people using the old site.
All you need is an account (even a banned one) that is set to old.reddit in the options. Then all the reddit links will look normal.
Yeah they forbid indexing of that subdomain. Their robots.txt has the following:
User-Agent: * Disallow: /Meaning: For any user agent disallow accessing anything under the root /, so anything.
Old.reddit.com has slowly been getting worse. Lots of collapsed comment trees, a similar posts section after the first two comments in a busy comments section, etc.
sometimes you cant even tell comments are even responding to a OP conversations.
yeah I know. And third party apps still work too if you compile them yourself.
But I was just commenting on how insane it looks.
I used to use old.reddit.com with Reddit Enhancement Suite to disable CSS
most of them are bot and AI responses or posts.
the bot responses are done by people warming up thier accounts for ban evasion to be exact(OF fans, link farmers), this seperate from the propaganda ones.
one thing reddit REALLY hates is new accounts and old accounts with sudden activity.
By avoiding it like the plague. They really did it didn’t it? When I used to Google something I was stoked when there was some reddit link in the results and would always go there, now I just die inside a little more when I scroll the results and the only relevants seems to be reddit.
Yeah, and its even worse that it will only be via google. They are the only crawler allowed to index reddit now. I gave up using google unless I absolutely have to as the search results are not great anymore.
But even if one likes google, having no competition and being the only results that are now trapped in reddit, that just sucks! We need real forums back. or lemmy needs a little more techinical answers in the communities to quit looking to reddit.
Redlib
Old.reddit, RES, and an adblocker.