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Comment by wyldfire | Hacker News Reader

While I share some disdain for the redesign, I usually forget that it exists because I'm always logged in and never opted-in to the redesigned site.

Let's at least praise reddit for having the sense to make the redesign opt-in.

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I never opt in to anything and somehow my account got permanently opted in (as in none of the opt out links work and I have to use a browser extension to keep old.reddit). Further, based on replies to my gripes, this seems to be a common state of affairs.

Don't praise them just because you're in the control group ;)

Wow, is this really the case? If so, that is really bad and this is worthy of some of the concern/frustration.

Yes, it's really the case. We wouldn't need browser extensions to force old.reddit if the opt-in/opt-out obeyed our wishes.

That's strange. You don't have any 'old reddit' options in the settings? I wonder how that came about... How young/old is your account?

I do have the setting. It doesn't work (well, it "works" and then reverts). 6 year old account IIRC.

Many things start opt-in and later become the only option

Definitely, and I think that's very likely reddit's goal here. But I also think they have enough sense to not make it mandatory or opt-out anytime soon, since there are so many complaints.

Same here. I starting seeing front page posts about how much everyone hated the redesign and I had no idea what anyone was talking about. It's a total non issue to me.

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