Reddit is searching for something, but I don't think they've introduced a single feature that makes it better since they added subreddits. They've added and removed community chat rooms [0], they still have some other kind of chat that I don't know if anyone uses, when I happen to visit new Reddit there's some kind of streaming broadcasts that I don't see anyone liking. And of course the redesign, but I suspect that their metrics show that a majority of users like it, so it's just old users like med that are put off by it. Recently they introduced Topics [1], but it's not supported by the API, so you need to use their apps.

I mean, a sizable enough number of us continue to use old.reddit.com that it seems like they realize they can't force us onto the new design and are relegated to maintaining the old one for essentially forever... which to me says something incredible about just how badly their design failed.

> forever

I suspect a Reddit PM is watching a usage of old.reddit.com metric and waiting for it to hit a certain threshold before canning it. Perhaps the migration has taken longer than they planned but I have no doubt in time old.reddit.com will be retired.

somehnguy

The day reddit drops old.reddit.com is the last day I ever visit. The redesign is that horrible for anything but mindless scrolling watching clip videos.

flancian

I wonder if there's an opportunity here for someone to snag a domain such as oldreadit.com (it's available right now) and set up shop, ready to offer disgruntled old.reddit.com users a new home when it's inevitably turned down/broken further -- or earlier.

Perhaps use Lemmy, which is trying to evolve into a distributed (federated) architecture:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

The gimmicky name would not be needed, of course, if somehow the old.reddit.com community could use some decision making tool to agree on which alternate reddit implementation/domain to settle upon. Is someone working on solving this coordination problem?