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Did Reddit just close old.reddit.com?

12 points by distortedsignal · 17 comments · 1 min read


► 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

< HTTP/2 500

< content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

...

< content-length: 300

<

<html>

  <head>

    <title>reddit broke!</title>

  </head>


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/2 302

...

< content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8

...

< content-length: 412

<

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"

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

<html>

  <head>

    <title>302 Found</title>

  </head>
...
4 threads
gnabgib

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

  • distortedsignalOP

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

    • aqueueaqueue

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

    • consumer451

      Don't feel like a dumb.

      I am super paranoid about losing old.reddit. When I saw the "you broke reddit" page, this was also my first thought.

    • lowlevel

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

alskdj21

https://www.redditstatus.com/

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

Rzor

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.

distortedsignalOP

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

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