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Reddit Breaks Old.reddit.com

35 points by ftth_finland 2 years ago · 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.

chollida1 2 years ago

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 2 years ago

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

jcrash 2 years ago

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

I hope this is temporary.

  • hunter2_ 2 years ago

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

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

    • jsheard 2 years ago

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

      • hunter2_ 2 years ago

        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 2 years ago

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

  • bun_terminator 2 years ago

    app is also partially broken.

    edit: new.reddit.com now also broke

nsnow70 2 years ago

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

  • spurgu 2 years ago

    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 2 years ago

      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 2 years ago

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

  • miles 2 years ago

    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 2 years ago

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

ChrisArchitect 2 years ago

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

jontro 2 years ago

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

ZunarJ5 2 years ago

https://lemmy.world/

  • rcfox 2 years ago

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

flenserboy 2 years ago

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 2 years ago

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

jibbit 2 years ago

one by one, steadily overcoming the social media addiction

GRISELDA 2 years ago

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

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