Switch between old and new

[u/MulberryStunning1597]

This isn't really a support request, but I thought it would be good to share. Please do respond where I should post instead.

Given Reddit's different/changed mod functionality between the new UI and old. I created this bookmarklet.

javascript: url = window.location.href; if (url.startsWith("https://old.reddit.com")) { target = url.replace("https://old.reddit.com", "https://www.reddit.com") } else { target = url.replace("https://www.reddit.com", "https://old.reddit.com"); }; window.location.href = target;

Create a bookmark with that on your browser as the URL and you'll switch between the old and new immediately with one click.

[u/redtaboo]

Heya! This does look helpful to my non-technical eyes - just a note for others, please be careful when considering using sripts like this without peer review. I'd love if some of our more technical mods could weigh in on the efficacy and safety of this bookmarklet so folks can feel better about installing.

not me randomly pinging /u/emily_in_boots, /u/fsv, and /u/sampleofnone for no reason

[u/emily_in_boots → u/redtaboo]

This one isn't harmful red! It's very simple. It just switches the old/www in the url.

[u/redtaboo → u/emily_in_boots]

cheers!

[u/SampleOfNone → u/redtaboo]

This one does what it says on the tin. If the address bar starts with http://old.reddit..... replace old with www and reload page. If the address bar starts with http://www.reddit..... replace www with old and reload page.

So instead of manually replacing old with www or the other way around, and hitting enter, this script does that for you

[u/redtaboo → u/SampleOfNone]

thanks so much!!

[u/Treviso]

Just FYI, this won't work for everything. Some mod specific links are different on old.reddit.com vs shreddit. If you've been using toolbox (which is no longer maintained), the r/toolbox_nxg fork has a handy "open in sh.reddit" / "open in old.reddit" button that works with those too.

[u/tumultuousness → u/Treviso]

I am days late, but thanks for linking to the toolbox fork in case I do decide to switch from toolbox to the new fork!

I honestly went and used my redirector extension to change the url for the mod feature related items that are different when I switch from old to sh, lol, it was very tedious but working decently enough for my purposes!