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Is there a plan to ever remove the old layout that people seem to prefer and force everyone on to the new UI?

I wonder if it will be allowed (or nudged) to gradually crumble?

I use the i.reddit.com mobile site occasionally; it’s not great, but better than the new Reddit’s mobile site, and it keeps my consumption of Reddit down. I’ve been noticing some odd rendering issues recently that occasionally make the site unusable. I’d initially blamed iOS 13 (I first noticed it soon after the upgrade) but as it’s the only site I have such issues with, I now wonder if it’s specific to i.reddit.com.

Maybe it’s a coincidence; maybe (channelling Hanlon’s razor) it’s just random bugs in a low priority part of Reddit; or maybe it’s the start of a deliberate but gradual attritional strategy to make the old sites unusable?

For now, the sidebar only appears on old reddit; when there's a sidebar equivalent on new reddit, I'll start worrying.

There's definitely a sidebar on both, but they're not "connected" - the moderators need to set up the sidebar on the new site separately, and updates on either side don't affect the other one. A lot of subreddits just haven't bothered doing any setup on the new site (or don't even realize it's necessary).

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