For what it's worth, the primary reason I joined lemmy.world, in particular, was their offering of old.lemmy.world
I'm old and stuck in my ways. I love the old-timey feel of the "old" UI in light mode with endless scrolling turned on.
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It's called "Mlmym" and a lot of instances have added it. old.startrek.website works too!
That's good to know, thanks!
Dbzero disabled it recently cause it was glitching and the code isn't maintained anymore, hopefully it won't happen on LW
For what it’s worth, the primary reason I joined lemmy.world, in particular, was their offering of old.lemmy.world
I thought you were joking, but nope, it's real. Neat.
you will use the web 2.0 bloated javascript filled internet and you will like it.
They have already been trying to bully old.reddit users for quite some time by forcing a regular cookie acceptance prompt which automatically changes the settings to new reddit.
Ikr? How annoying is that?
Reminds me every time why this platform is crap
they even got rid of the login button lol. having a small userscript to insert the login button as html works tho as the method/css remains.
Remember when Reddit said they wouldn’t touch old.reddit?
People understand they can just leave that site, right?
I wish more people would leave and bring their niches over here. There’s still so many things missing on Lemmy.
I'm not sure there are enough people who would be interested in my niche hobbies (locomotives and outdoor warning sirens) to warrant communities for either lol. Trains maybe, definitely not the other.
If you build it, they will come
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So... being able to use the site at all then?
tbh if you need to see a reddit post use a frontend like redlib it doesn't have signing in with a reddit account but atleast you can browse a post without tracking
Hey look, another hole in their foot.
Mark my words. This is just testing the waters
They aren't testing anything. They are just enacting a stealth twilight of old Reddit like they've been planning ever since they thought up the new UI.
I'm very disappointed about the removal of r/randnsfw.
Tbh these really are low-usage features, I didn't know about any of them, aside from the snoovatars that I've always found stupid. So I don't think anyone could be pushed away from the site because of this.
OTOH, if they're low-usage, why remove them? Do they spend too much bandwidth, CPU, whatever??
OTOH, if they're low-usage, why remove them? Do they spend too much bandwidth, CPU, whatever??
It's generally desirable to remove old code and features to make the code neater. It's also possible that some bug happened because of those features.
It's usually better to not touch code that is working, it won't become "clean" just because you deactivate some stuff and if you do try to actually remove code (to "clean" things, whatever that means in a setting bigger than a small project), good luck not breaking anything.
Source: oldtimer software dev
Code that exists still needs to be updated and maintained. It interacts with the rest of the code. Sure you can leave it lying around, but at a certain point the technical debt is going to catch up to you.
Maybe you can afford this in your personal projects but I have yet to work at a company willing to invest in that. Sure, a conscientious developer might clean up things they’re working on, but old code usually gets ignored until the pain of keeping it gets too great, until someone is forced to do something about it
Oh, sure, I've been there. Am there. And Reddit may have gotten to that point with these features where maintenance costs overtook the costs of removing them.
Man do I have news for you...
I mean I don't like it, but the number of time I have seen crappy 20-30 year old code that's completely shit, ingrown into everything else...
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Old code still needs to have unit tests, maybe they use libraries you need to keep patched etc
Better to remove
Good, this will push more people to alternatives
More, yes, but still almost nobody...
The amount of people in the world is a pretty insane number, which makes "almost nobody" 8800 users visiting per day just on lemmy.world, and it's still growing pretty fast.
I'm fine with reddit doing their shit for the masses, and the ones with a bit more critical sense coming here.
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I love the two comments calling out that this thread was posted to the help subreddit rather than any of the other more appropriate subs for changelogs.
Like come on, you know that wasn't an accident.
People should talk about Lemmy more. Irl, on other social media, in game chats, etc.
Just sharing a personal experience here: I reached out to my country subreddit mods yesterday to ask if I could create a post about Lemmy in the context of the latest Reddit decisions preventing strikes.
They told me they would not allow it as it was self promotion, and that I should stop mentioning Lemmy in comments where people complain about Reddit.
Very frustrating when you see how active communities like !ich_iel@feddit.org is, as the subreddit mods promoted Lemmy during the 2023 strike
ich_iel on reddit still promotes Lemmy in the Sidebar, Automod comments under every post and a tab at the top of the page. The mods of the country sub refused to move, but most of them are dicks anyways.
It just means the existing mods are more interested in holding on to power than for the wellbeing of their community, even if that means they're unpaid disrespected jannies for spez.
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I saw someone call them making .old shitty a few days ago.
My guess, break existing old links on other sites so that they can show a graph with a drop in usage of less-ad-riddled way to access the website and drive more to the ad enabled views.
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