r/oldreddit • u/theStaberinde • 21d ago
Posting comments is getting even buggier
Starting a week ish ago, it'd look like they'd failed to go through and you'd have to refresh and decline the "send again?" browser prompt. Now, they go through... but it automatically hard-refreshes the page so you lose your place and all the threads you've expanded go back to being collapsed again. Websites dying man. Weesa free
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u/Mr_Blah1 21d ago
old reddit is still better than new reddit.
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u/ACardAttack 20d ago
Not just better, but new reddit is awful. Not user friendly and so much wasted space
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u/Chris_TO79 20d ago
Apparently the devs are working on this. it's still happening but not as much according to them so they're still working on this. I got this info from the bugs subreddit.
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u/shy247er 20d ago
Same issues here. Looks like they're sabotaging old.reddit
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u/SunshineCat 19d ago
Still better than trying to do everything within a shitty pop-up box for no reason.
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u/reddit33450 21d ago
mine auto refreshed too, i thought it was just me. how annoying. its so sad to see this slow but steady death of old reddit
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u/theStaberinde 21d ago
its so sad to see this slow but steady death of old reddit
Let's be clear: 1) it's happening rapidly, because 2) they are murdering it.
It's been eight years since they first shat out the fake toy version of the site (which apparently got replaced by a second, even faker version at some point) and the real interface kept ticking along totally unchanged until last september, when they suddenly started hiding sub membership numbers. Ten days ago commenting still worked perfectly. Now it's fucked.
They've been desperate to get rid of people who still use the old site for a decade. As long as we refuse to go along with the bullshit dopamine squirter replacement, we remain outside of the tracking and monetisation apparatus, which is a problem. They would have pulled the plug in 2018 if they'd been sure that they could do so without causing Difficulties. They have judged - probably correctly - that now they can finally do that and get away with it. Coward shit for vandals.
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u/ACardAttack 20d ago
It's been eight years since they first shat out the fake toy version of the site
It's already been 8 years??!!
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u/chickenandliver 21d ago
Whoa, OK I just made a comment in this thread but, as a test, disabled adblocking, and the comment posted just fine as normal; no redirect like you mentioned (and like I was experiencing with adblock on).
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u/bokmcdok 20d ago
This is pretty much the death of reddit for me. I've only really stayed for discussion threads for TV shows and movies, but even they're getting sparsely populated. The rest of the site seems to 99% AI generated and repost bots these days. Not even sure why I'm still here.
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u/chickenandliver 21d ago
Happening for me too. Seems strange but I can tolerate it more than the previous behavior of just hanging at "sending..." but it actually having gone through. I'd guess this is somehow related to fighting auto-posting bots. I've noticed lately as a mod that a new tactic seems to be bots making AI generated content text-only posts, then putting the spam/malware links as comments.
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u/Chris_TO79 21d ago
It's happening with me now....Man, this is so frustrating. If I can't use old reddit I dunno if I can really use this platform again.