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I have a feeling they will completely remove old.reddit in 2020, citing fake security risks and there will be a medium sized digg like exodus

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In 2010, there was an alternative in reddit, and people left digg. What's the alternative to reddit now? There is nothing.

tild.es is the best alternative but last I checked it was text only.

That sounds like a feature to me.

It is, but a vast swath of useful stuff on reddit is related to images. That crowd will still need to go somewhere. Whatever replaces reddit will need to allow image links as well as text posts and content links if it wants to get serious usage like reddit.

Tild.es is okay but it has very few users. Because reddit has so many users I can find good discusion on just about any topic that I'm currently looking into, etc.

I think the crowd that favors images mostly uses the new redesigned reddit without complaining.

At least that's my subjective impression from some of the youngsters I've interacted with on that site.

That may be true to an extent, but there is a huge difference between wanting high-density, fast loading websites, and wanting to get rid of image/video/non-text links altogether.

subreddits can be insanely useful sources of information, but the less serious ones are still enjoyable. Not to mention there are picture-heavy subreddits like /r/malefashion | /r/malefashionadvice.

There are better examples of picture-heavy subreddits than that ;)

You're right though, and there's no reason not to have them. I like the expandable-thumbnail interface presented by RES.

Like Tumblr, reddit is pretty good for porn links. Those are less interesting if text only.

People won't fall for it. But also-- why disrupt the userbase? It probably doesn't cost much to keep it up. Why unnecessarily rock the boat. Accepting risk for little to no gain.

Why even create this new UI at all then?

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