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Comment by asdff | Hacker News Reader

Nowadays the reddit engineers perverted the link system for old reddit users. New reddit users link to posts using a syntax that for old reddit users returns the submit a new post page.

Also, just to twist the knife further, old reddit users can't open full resolution images hosted on reddit anymore. Click a link and you get thrown to this url:

https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/media/nice_hat/?url=...

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Here's an explanation: https://old.reddit.com/r/help/comments/15kwhgy/why_is_every_...

It's not due to RES, as I understand it. Rather, redirection to "old.reddit...". Maybe RES does that too, but often it is a separate extension.

EDIT: One fix is to change the request headers, to not accept HTML (only images). More info here: https://old.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/138xrw4/ireddit_links...

I use this [extension][1] with firefox. It makes "open image in new tab" actually open the image in a new tab.

[1]: https://github.com/nopperl/load-reddit-images-directly

I just find it hilarious that old.reddit is one version, new.reddit is another, and www.reddit is yet another.

Just a few years ago they had i.reddit.com as well, which I loved as a mobile interface to be honest...

It’s still available if you append /.i to a www.reddit.com URL

As in:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/.i

? Didn't work for me.

yeah new.reddit is the only one that exposes the notification bell so you can subscribe to post replies, apparently. WTF

I use RES and haven't had any problems opening images or videos... actually, I've noticed they load really slowly, often times I can watch the image loading like it was 56k days. I wonder if that's because I'm using old reddit+RES.

I literally have no idea how to open a large image on new reddit. I tried. The least amount od clicks I know to actually see it uncropped is 3 and it does full page redirects on each of them. Maybe it's ad blocker or something... Don't care anymore.

I started using both old and new reddit at the same time. Old one also has working notifications...

It's such a shitshow. I have no replacement for it, but combined with mobile app I've cut my usage by 95%. Barely post and reply anymore, stopped wiki edits and so on.

> Also, just to twist the knife further, old reddit users can't open full resolution images hosted on reddit anymore. Click a link and you get thrown to this url:

Do you use RES? If so, try updating it to the latest version and see if this still happens.

Old.reddit doesn’t work anymore on private browsing without log-in. This was the last staw for me, I deleted 3 15-year old accounts at the beginning of 2024, now I don’t even visit it by mistake.

You can still view the the full sized image by click and open it in a different tab. It's a bit of hassle but at least it works

At least for me that doesn't work. It still opens Reddit's weird view image page.

They broke that too. Links to image just redirect to the Reddit UI for me

Saving it still gets full res though..for now anyway

You can bypass that by customising your accept header. There's a Chrome extension that does it for you https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/reddit-load-images-...

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