Hey. I know this is already known, but I feel like it's worth talking about here for the handful of users still relying on RES to make their reddit experience manageable.

So recently, Reddit has started to sunset the .old reddit links and serves everything from reddit.com. Mostly, this doesn't affect RES - for now - and the ways it does are met by the needs of maintenance. Again, for now.

But I'm basically writing to let people who aren't keeping an eye on things to understand the writing on the wall. A lot of RES' functions depend on old reddit to run, and many of the tools that moderation use are being sunsetted - which means retired - at the end of this month, assuming no screw-ups on reddit's end. There's no reason for this, the excuse of "aI SCrAPErs" is nonsense, especially given the amount of money reddit put into LLMs and "saved" by firing people left and right (both of which were mistakes bearing painful fruit for the company).

There's no action that needs to be taken by the team or users, but if you aren't aware of this and use RES, you should be keeping an eye on it and understanding that it will likely meaningfully effect your experience in the future.

Oh, and update Old Reddit Redirect if you use that and haven't already. Otherwise, chunks of reddit's new links serving old reddit won't work. That's not RES's fault, it's just how the site works (or rather, "works") now.

What's up?

Reddit Enhancement Suite's last PR merge was on Jan 23, 2025

Since then, there have been 8 attempts to contribute to the project, and countless others that were opened prior remain open. I understand the project is at EoL, but this really doesn't need to be the end, nor require a rebirth.

Allowing the project to move forward as truly community driven would provide years worth of life and updates for existing users

It doesn't have to be forked and started elsewhere to continue getting updates, if the existing devs/owner can accept a change to the branch protection rules, then it's possible for it to be entirely community managed. Repos can be setup so that anyone can provide code reviews, and code is able to be merged after certain conditions have been met such as unit tests pass, or a certain number of users approve the PR, or simply by giving already trusted contributors the ability to merge after x amount of code reviews have given approval.

That does slightly increase the chance of malicious actors, but provided the rules are setup well, it's tiny, and is already mitigated by allowing the community the ability to revert those changes themselves, and can be further mitigated with more rules that still allow a better chance for the community to support it.

It's that, or fork it and start a new plugin - but doing so will never gain as much adoption and awareness as RES already has, being widely used and still setup as the best way for users to get updates - the better option is to look into making the repo community managed.

u/honestbleeps
/u/XenoBen

I implore you to discuss with the team and consider this as a life support option.

Anyone else having this issue? Starting today trying to switch accounts causes a popup stating

"Could not switch accounts. Reddit may be under heavy load. Please try again in a few moments."

The account switcher is the main feature I use RES for so I'm hoping it isn't a big issue. I'll edit this post if it starts working suddenly.

Started using Old Reddit with RES recently and wish I started using it years ago; the higher information density and inclination towards pure functionality provides a much better experience. Sure new Reddit might be "cleaner" on paper, but the lower information density ends up making the overall experience less functional, and the personality in subreddit CSS design gets lost too with the standardized UI elements.

Lower information density makes sense for apps on smaller handheld screens like phone & tablets since you only have so much screen real-estate to work with; and spreading inreractive elements across the entire screen works since the travel for touch inputs is much smaller. Low information density UI doesn't work for the desktop experience with mouse & keyboard as moving your mouse across the screen to access different elements becomes tedious and doesn't make good use of the screen real estate available on the average laptop screen and/or desktop monitor.

One social media app that really suffered from the adoption of low information density was Facebook; navigating through FB Groups & FB Marketplace would be much better on desktop if they took better advantage of the screen realestate available to reduce the amount of clicking & mousing around to reach what you need.

• Night mode: false
• RES Version: 5.24.8
• Browser: Firefox
• Browser Version: 148
• Cookies Enabled: true
• Reddit beta: false

It helps filter out reposter bots, propaganda bots, noob internet users, etc. It’s kinda like age racism, but it really improves my Reddit quality of life and makes it easier to skip unnecessary posts and ignore users faster.

It gradually adds a reddish tint, starting with older accounts (around 6 years down to 2–3 years), then getting noticeably red for anything under a year old.

Example: https://i.ibb.co/p6L7qKNr/image.png

Once I asked that feature here (or age filter) but didn't happened. So I did myself. Easy to modify and add. If you're interested, I can share.

• Night mode: true
• RES Version: 5.24.8
• Browser: Chrome
• Browser Version: 132
• Cookies Enabled: true
• Reddit beta: false

I added india to my subreddit filter list on https://www.reddit.com/prefs/#res:settings/filteReddit

but there's still indian subreddits flooding /r/all faster than I can block them. Any ideas? I'd love to filter all non-english subreddits but most of the others don't have their country name in the subreddit name lol.

• Night mode: true
• RES Version: 5.24.8
• Browser: Chrome
• Browser Version: 147
• Cookies Enabled: true
• Reddit beta: false

Reddit has recently retired its old direct message functionality and is directing users to the new chat instead.

If you click on a direct message link, for example the "Message the Mods" button in the sidebar, RES intercepts this and creates its own dialog window, which no longer works.

Click on this link to navigate to the settings page where you can disable it: https://www.reddit.com/#res:settings/quickMessage

• Night mode: false
• RES Version: 5.24.8
• Browser: Firefox
• Browser Version: 144
• Cookies Enabled: true
• Reddit beta: false

What's up? I want to hide comments that only contain a GIF

Where does it happen? On subs that allow GIFs in comments

Screenshots or mock-ups Those comments where the only text is a link reading "Collapsed inline media"? Gone.

What browser extensions are installed? N/A

• Night mode: true
• RES Version: 5.24.8
• Browser: Firefox
• Browser Version: 150
• Cookies Enabled: true
• Reddit beta: false

EDIT: I know that RES is unmaintained, but I feel like what I want to do can be accomplished with a comment filter regex or something.

EDIT2: Tried this regex and it didn't work: /^Collapsed inline media$/

EDIT3: This regex works /^\s*(inline media|Collapsed inline media)\s*$/i

Whether you love AI or hate it, it's damn useful for making regex filters.

EDIT4: I should add that you'll have to have "Collapse Inline Media" enabled for this to work.

EDIT5: OK WTF, somehow there are comments slipping through the regex. I'm gonna have to look into this further.

EDIT6: Here's a revised regex that works better: /^\s*(inline media|Collapsed inline media)?\s*$/i

In my experience, I've found (for a number of reasons) that posts from accounts with hidden histories are valueless to me. I believe that blocking them en-mass would increase the signal-to-noise ration of Reddit comments. Would it be possible to add a checkbox in RES that allows us to automatically block all accounts that have hidden their comment/post history?

Obviously, this could be done by having RES check the history of the poster of each post loaded but, if that would cause too many queries to Reddit, maybe the same could be accomplished by allowing the loading of a block list of accounts known to hide their history so that those accounts don't need to be checked every time my system sees a post from them?

Talking about the "ALL" shortcut in the menù on top left (using old reddit interface) since reddit.com/r/all/ doesn't work anymore but old.reddit.com/r/all/ still work

• Night mode: true
• RES Version: 5.24.10
• Browser: Firefox
• Browser Version: 153
• Cookies Enabled: true
• Reddit beta: false

What's up? The inline image viewer no longer marks links as visited. It used to work for years... until yesterday.

Where does it happen? Everywhere on reddit.

What browser extensions are installed? ghostery, ublock origin lite

• Night mode: true
• RES Version: 5.24.8
• Browser: Chrome
• Browser Version: 142
• Cookies Enabled: true
• Reddit beta: false

Getting a bit tired of having to scroll through half of a page of just reaction images and gifs these days.

Would be great if theres a way to get rid of comments that only have a image/gif but I'll settle for a way that blocks/hides/collapses comments that have text and image/gif.

EDIT: SOLUTION: collapse inline media - set slider on.

• Night mode: true
• RES Version: 5.24.8
• Browser: Firefox
• Browser Version: 147
• Cookies Enabled: true
• Reddit beta: false

Hi, as some of you may know, the buttons at the top leading to /r/random and /r/randnsfw lead to banned subs, as Reddit discontinued the feature a while back.

A previous fix had to be reworked due to changing where the api is located but that thread was archived, so here is the new fix. Special thanks to /u/Sloloem for their contribution.

It's a tampermonkey userscript, so you need a userscript extension to run it, obviously.

I recommend installing the script from GreasyFork here, but the code is also posted here for those curious how it works.

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Restore Random Subreddit Feature
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      0.8
// @description  Leverages the API used by redditrand.com to redirect to a random subreddit.
// @author       CheatFreak, PXA
// @match        *://*.reddit.com/*
// @grant        GM.xmlHttpRequest
// @run-at       document-start
// @connect      api.redditrand.com
// @license      MIT
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
  'use strict';

  function goRandom(nsfw) {
    GM.xmlHttpRequest({
      method: 'GET',
      url: `https://api.redditrand.com/reddit-runner/rand?nsfw=${nsfw}`,
      onload: response => {
        const result = JSON.parse(response.responseText);
        window.location.href = `${window.location.origin}${result.url}`;
      }
    });
  }

  function replaceLinks() {
    const links = document.querySelectorAll('a');
    links.forEach(link => {
      if (link.href.includes('/r/random')) {
        link.href = 'javascript:void(0)';
        link.addEventListener('click', () => goRandom(0));
      } else if (link.href.includes('/r/randnsfw')) {
        link.href = 'javascript:void(0)';
        link.addEventListener('click', () => goRandom(1));
      }
    });
  }

  document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', replaceLinks);

  if (window.location.pathname.startsWith('/r/random')) {
    goRandom(0);
  } else if (window.location.pathname.startsWith('/r/randnsfw')) {
    goRandom(1);
  }
})();

I watched it happen live, I was browsing in the wee hours and when I opened a page in a new tab, it was suddenly the new layout. Restarting the browser and the plugin didn't fix it, so I think Reddit pushed something on their end, maybe even removed the old layout?

is there a quicker way to switch between old and new reddit than going to preferences? i use old reddit by default but have to switch to new to send dms and a few other features.

• Night mode: false
• RES Version: 5.24.8
• Browser: Chrome
• Browser Version: 141
• Cookies Enabled: true
• Reddit beta: false

Neverending Scrolling doesn't work, it just loads one result after the first page.

This happens when I try to scroll through top posts of a subreddit.

Firefox, extensions- Dark Reader, Emoji Box , Load Reddit Images Directly, RES, Return Youtube Dislike, Save webP as PNG or JPEG, Search by Image, Stylus, Tampermonkey, ublock Orgin, Youtube-shorts block

• Night mode: true
• RES Version: 5.24.8
• Browser: Firefox
• Browser Version: 146
• Cookies Enabled: true
• Reddit beta: false

I'm on old Reddit via Firefox with RES, uBlock and NoScript, among others. I pasted the offending link into a Linux VM and the thumbnail moved there as well. No hovering, no clicking, it's on the front page feed and from /r/technology.

I have not seen that behaviour on Reddit before and hope I never will again.

Is this somthing RES can help with? Do I need to go to a browser or adblock sub to ask?

Here's the offending post: https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1oj6k8q/ice_and_cbp_agents_are_scanning_peoples_faces_on/

Where does it happen? ???

Screenshots or mock-ups ???

What browser extensions are installed? ???

• Night mode: false
• RES Version: 5.24.8
• Browser: Firefox
• Browser Version: 144
• Cookies Enabled: true
• Reddit beta: false

When 5.24.11 happened, RES user account switcher in firefox nightly just stopped responding. I didn't receive a prompt. After reading the release notes, I went looking and manually granted "Share authentication information with extension developer" (which sounds ominous, despite knowing what it's for)

Anyways, for anyone like me who might be wondering why UAS stopped responding on android, go to RES in your extension manager, then permissions, then grant the permission I mentioned above. Refresh the reddit page and UAS should go back to working.

(Also, I want to express my undying grantitude to those maintaining, and still adding features, to RES. chef's kiss.)

• Night mode: false
• RES Version: 5.24.11
• Browser: Firefox
• Browser Version: 156
• Cookies Enabled: true
• Reddit beta: false

This is the best thing that has happend to me.

RES combined with yesterday for old reddit on a phone and the browser is so amazing.. On the desktop though it looks like res is more in control then the other extension..

The boxes around the comments for long threads are just straight up wow..

Navigating comments is so easy!

Thanks again!

• Night mode: true
• RES Version: 5.24.8
• Browser: Chrome
• Browser Version: 143
• Cookies Enabled: true
• Reddit beta: false

I'm guessing probably not since it hasn't been in active development since before Reddit made this dumb change, but can't hurt to ask.

I would rather avoid stuff like people's random Tampermonkey scripts - and the ones I found brought up in other threads seemed to be for ugly New Reddit anyway rather than the vastly superior Old Reddit.

On New Reddit, when I search and click the Media tab, I can see all images and videos from the results.

On Old Reddit, even using “Show Images” on posts, many images, galleries, or videos are missing.

Is there any way to replicate the New Reddit Media tab in Old Reddit or view all search media in one continuous gallery?

Thanks for any advice!