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Reddit Breaks Old.reddit.com

35 points by ftth_finland · 26 comments · 1 min read


Looks like the end is here. Old.reddit.com no longer works, so it is time to say goodbye to Reddit for good.

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chollida1

This has happened many times in the past( old.reddit.com doesn't work but new reddit does).

Let's calm down and wait a few hours to see if this is just a bad merge on their part.

daedrdev

All of reddit is now down. Maybe new reddit survived a few minutes off of some sort of cache?

jcrash

Yes. New reddit is working, but old reddit cannot access subreddits or posts...

I hope this is temporary.

  • hunter2_

    Interesting to see how large the spike is [0] when new reddit seems to be just fine!

    [0] https://downdetector.com/status/reddit/

    • jsheard

      What I'd give to see their dashboard showing how many users are still using old reddit...

      • hunter2_

        Totally. Although since my previous comment, the official status page has been updated to mention issues with some non-Old components: "Native Mobile Apps" "Vote Processing" "Comment Processing" so I suppose the DownDetector spike is an unknown combination of people using Old and people using those other things. I assume New web/desktop reddit is able to operate when those functions are degraded by reading from stale cache / faraway regions / other fallbacks, while Old reddit is more directly coupled to those degraded functions.

  • damnesian

    Just moments ago I couldn't post on the iOS app. It's not just an old reddit problem.

  • bun_terminator

    app is also partially broken.

    edit: new.reddit.com now also broke

nsnow70

Regular reddit doesn't work so I think that's the issue.

  • spurgu

    I thought so too but that's because I'm logged in with setting to use old Reddit. www.reddit.com works in incognito.

    • jghn

      This is the situation I'm seeing. Didn't occur me that old was down because I just have that as my default setting for www.reddit.com.

  • ftth_finlandOP

    No issues with new reddit here. Old reddit just serves "You broke Reddit".

  • miles

    Testing now, I'm able to open www.reddit.com links, but not their corresponding old.reddit.com links; the latter lead to a page which says "YOU BROKE REDDIT".

luuurker

It was working fine 2 hours ago. Now it's down, but that happens from time to time... Too soon to panic.

ChrisArchitect

https://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/cjzbd0ksrkqx

jontro

Status page shows degraded performance: https://www.redditstatus.com/

ZunarJ5

https://lemmy.world/

  • rcfox

    It's not really the underlying software that people care about here.

flenserboy

in addition to this, ever since the sequoia update I've been getting security failure errors on reddit which sometimes, & sometimes do not, go away with a page reload

znpy

oh, i thought it was only me... Farewell reddit, I guess. I'm not going to use the new ui.

jibbit

one by one, steadily overcoming the social media addiction

GRISELDA

they didnt get rid of old reddit youre just being overly dramatic lol

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