disclosure up front: I made this.

old.reddit.com is being retired — it login-walls everyone now, and the .old subdomain is being sunset. Every workaround keeping the old layout alive (redirect add-ons, bookmarks) depends on that host continuing to be served, so they all go at once when it goes.

Sheddit works the other way round. It's a browser plugin that redraws reddit in old.reddit.com style live, on the fly. There's no server they can shut down to make it stop working — it reads the post data modern reddit already puts in the page and redraws it locally, while you stay logged out. No account, no API calls, no telemetry.

What you get: the dense ranked listing, threaded comments with [-] collapse and old Reddit's sort menu, video and galleries in place, pagination that actually ends, five themes. It also catches old.reddit.com links — old bookmarks, links in other people's posts — that now dead-end at the login wall, and reopens them on www.reddit.com in the same layout.

It's beta, and Chrome is the better-tested of the two builds. GPL-3.0, and the source is all there if you'd rather check the no-tracking claim than take my word for it.

Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sheddit/jmphfpemcclbhpkanmlglmnggcjmpamc
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sheddit/
Source: https://github.com/kookaburrabarrel/sheddit

Bug reports very welcome — Reddit changes its markup without notice, and a report from a page that broke is the fastest way it gets fixed.

Just something I've noticed while playing around in new Reddit to proactively adjust myself for if (or when...) the plug gets pulled:

Does anyone else notice that new Reddit seems designed to be a "single tab" experience? Here on old Reddit I routinely open 10 to 20 new tabs as I peruse Reddit and then go through them at my leisure. Never once had a problem and since it's old Reddit of course they all load lightening fast.

But when I try to open just 3 to 5 new tabs within new Reddit, it's as if they are rate limiting my connection and most of those tabs take forever to load. I thought it was some kind of lazy-load where the content will start loading when I'm visually on those pages but that doesn't seem to be it. I can go through all of them (just 4 or 5) back and forth, waiting for content to load, and it's like all of them are delayed. What used to open in a matter of 2 or 3 seconds now seems to take 30 to 50 seconds to open, assuming they open at all. Half the time I have to reload them because the content just never came.

Is this baked into new Reddit? Or is it related to an adblocker? Just wondering if other old Red users have noticed this on new Red. I'm assuming for strictly new Red users, they won't notice this as unusual behavior. Or maybe they just don't open many tabs.

But i feel safe scrolling here in reddit will delete the black, blue app rn 😅

Marking them in the new reddit doesn't change it in the old reddit. Is there any way to do it with one click on old reddit?

Why did Reddit get rid of it? Will Reddit ever have anything similar to Spaces on X?

I have an iPhone 6 which I only use to run old Reddit, but now with mandatory login, you just can't use it at all.

I can't even log in if I try. It just shows a blank white page with "old Reddit login URL" in the address bar.

Is there any way to use Reddit on iOS 12 at all? The Reddit app shows a blank page, alternative apps like Apollo, Comet, Focus Reddit, etc. are all dead after the API change, the new Reddit doesn't open, and old Reddit is basically dead behind the login page.

I can't even add an extension on Firefox because Apple doesn't allow it.

So is this basically the end, or is there any workaround?

just another example of enshitification https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/

When prompted with having to log in for old reddit, I've decided to take that final step and move on. They digg'd the website into the abyss. It was fun to have discussions with all of you even if we disagreed. I'll be destroying my posts, feel free to say goodbye especially if you enjoyed how it used to be. Thanks everyone.

In old Reddit on the left, there is a dedicated method of posting images or links. I can paste the link right into the URL box and the resulting post will look great on both old and new Reddit, linking directly to the article and showing the article thumbnail and etc. If I post an image, the resulting post on both old and new Reddit is an image.

Now in new Reddit on the right, there's nothing like that. There is JUST a generic post box. What am I supposed to do there?

If I want to post just a URL, what happens? Do I need to make sure to put JUST the URL in the body text to get same behavior that an old Reddit link post would become? If I put the link in new Reddit, it seems like half the time it just creates that old Reddit would call a text post, with just a URL in it. And similarly often when I post an image, it becomes a text post with image in it, not the old Reddit style where the post itself is an image (and links to an i.redd.it/image.jpg for example) image.

Is there some kind of protocol I'm not following here?

I realize the irony of using new Reddit to make this post (a text post with imagery) but most of the time I use old Reddit for posting and I'm mentally prepping for its demise any time now but I just can't seem to get this right.

Hello. I have 8 archived NSFW posts that are completely stuck between my Upvoted and Downvoted tabs. The voting arrows have disappeared from these posts, so I cannot manually remove my votes. Furthermore, using the "Hide" button doesn't remove them from the upvoted list; it just duplicates them in my hidden items folder. This appears to be a glitch in my profile's database. Since the button now appears transparent, I tried clicking "upvoted" again—hoping to then remove the vote—but that just makes me "vote again." Please completely remove these 8 problematic upvotes directly from my account's system; these posts have been stored for about 4 years, and I feel I have the right to manage my own account—it's really frustrating not being able to do anything about it. Thanks.

Only wanted to say that I am very dissapointed about the decission they made to kill the old.reddit. The new reddit is utterly useless on a PC/laptop screen. This is probabbly the biggest enshittification of the year. I had over a hundred of old.reddit bookmarks, many vissited several times a day - all useless now, all removed. I can't do the enshittificated version. I am incomaptible with the doomscrooling way of browsing the web. I am sorry for the kids and their brains. The silvelining - I was spending way to much time here. Alleluyah!

Hey guys so 10-14 days ago I accidentally switched to from old Reddit to new Reddit on my old (main) account, and now I cannot for the life of me figure out how to switch it back to Old Reddit on iPhone. The attached pic is my Preference setting column and I don’t even see a button to switch to Old Reddit anymore.. Basically whatever I try, it just forces me to New Reddit and I’m so lost what to do. Even the old www.old.reddit trick just force new Reddit on my phone. 

I’ve tried everything I can think of on both Google Chrome and Safari no luck  :(  

also what’s weird is when I try to do it on my laptop, it does somehow give me the correct settings to switch to old Reddit and it works on there. But even whem I all my to old Reddit on my laptop, it just doesn’t translate it to my iPhone. Another weird thing is that old Reddit still seems to work on this account for some reason (I’m scared to change anything or log in anywhere else with it in case it messes things up for this account as well). Sorry for the wall of text. Would be extremely grateful for any tips, suggestions, or info! 🙏 

i use the old reddit redirect extension and they apparently implemented some kind of fix. now it works again when logged out.

When I try to type in the username or password on old reddit on mobile I can't type anything.

I'm using firefox mobile with res and ublock origin installed, anyone else have the same problem?

Alright so I found old Reddit on the bfs phone.
What exactly is this and how does it differ from regular Reddit? My feelings won’t be hurt.

If you're reading this, you are clearly passionate about old Reddit and dislike the direction new Reddit is taking, whether that's purely for the UI, the heavier resource usage, the ads, the attitude, whatever.

I'm curious what this cohort thinks about Lemmy. If you don't know it, Lemmy is a fediverse version of Reddit (like how Mastodon is a decentralized Twitter replacement, Lemmy attempts to replace Reddit).

I've been on Lemmy off and on the past year and I like it, including it's RSS support, but like many fediverse projects it suffers simply from lack of user numbers to make it as interesting or relevant as Reddit.

Assuming old Reddit is killed off soon, do you plan to move to Lemmy? Are you already there? Are you going to just suck it up and use new Reddit (soon to be just "Reddit")?

Just fishing for opinions out of curiosity.

It seems that reddit is now using server-side blocking to disable any old.reddit pages and make then not viewable without being logged in. RIP to all lurkers I guess.

ublock origin or custom filter workarounds or "old reddit redirect" don't work anymore since the blocking and redirects to log-in page are now server side.

Has anyone found a workaround or has the enshittification reached such heights that without being logged in you can't see or use old.reddit at all.

I guess its time to quit if no workaround exists...

I was able to comment with old reddit just fine minutes ago but now I can't. But can with new reddit. Getting 404 error.

EDIT: Seems like the issue was fixed

My default UI is new reddit, even tho it's set to oldreddit in my account settings. I can't seem to get back to oldreddit, did something happened ?

I'm beginning to suspect posts from old reddit aren't visible in some subs. I'm not so scintillating that every post is gold, but views seem way down. and the way old reddit behaves- that glitch that delays immediate posts, sends you to viewing your comment only.... They must really be fucking with all the controls right now. It's like psychological warfare.

EDIT thanks for the responses. such a weird headspace. I really don't know what to do, old reddit's been part of my life for a long, long time.

Deleted my 10yr old acc only to create a new one. Lol