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I believe I encountered a situation like this before, and what it really means is that you just have to log in to see it, and Reddit is just lying to you.

I may be wrong in this case, though.

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What it really means is that you accidentally went to www.reddit.com, and you should have gone to old.reddit.com.

You can also request the desktop version of the site.

It’s amazing how much worse the new redesign is. I’m not usually a “new is bad” kind of guy but it’s just way less functional. Apparently a majority of people use it at this point though, and I guess “new” is relative here.

It depends on what you’re trying to achieve with it. If you’re consuming, scrolling through content and memes and such but mostly not dwelling on things, the new one is way better than the old one. But if you’re using it as forums (announcements, discussions, that kind of thing—e.g. /r/rust for me), the new one is hopelessly bad, and the old one is rather good. Reddit is clearly not at all interested in the latter class any more.

Only a matter of time until old.Reddit goes away too

They sort of promised it wouldn't and I believe them. I would be willing to bet that in 5 years old.reddit.com still exists

seems to work when being logged in on the mobile site. they're just really really damn pushy for that stupid app

i.reddit.com in that case

Edit: oh no, that seems to just point to the desktop old interface now. Weird.

About 2 months ago they killed the i and .compact versions of the site.

Sad :( I rarely use it on mobile and I didn't know this yet.

I bet it's only a matter of time before old goes

I get the (new) mobile site with it.

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