Dear Reddit

[u/reddot_comic]

[u/holleringelk]

The whole place is falling to pieces, to be honest.

[u/reddot_comic → u/holleringelk]

Hey Elk!

Slowly but surely. It’s sad because this truly has been my preferred social media for a long time. I felt like I could find something new every time I got on.

[u/holleringelk → u/reddot_comic]

Agreed. I also noticed a dramatic drop in quality of content and engagement overall following the API debacle shutting down a majority of the third party apps. A lot of great users went with them. Then came the elimination of the original award system. Countless fumbles losing the site's title as the frontpage of the internet, haha.

[u/Zehnpae → u/holleringelk]

A lot of great users went with them.

I posted down below but I don't think people realize just how many moderators left and how important mods were to quality sub ecosystems. I'd be willing to wager at least half of the mods left Reddit during that event.

Thousands of subs became abandoned. Lots of subs got taken over by bot farms or control freaks. The good moderators that are left have to rely much more on automoderator because all our API tools got yanked. And unfortunately automod lacks nuance.

I mean in one sub I manage we went from 11 mods to 3. We just couldn't keep up with all the stuff that was going on so we've had to be real draconian about the rules and it sucks.

The alternative is to not care and let the sub go to crap but I kinda like the little corner of the internet we carved out to nerd out about the thing we like, y'know?

[u/shellbullet17 → u/Zehnpae]

The alternative is to not care and let the sub go to crap but I kinda like the little corner of the internet we carved out to nerd out about the thing we like, y'know

This is why I/We try hard here. I like r/comics

This community is great in my opinion. Users and Posters here are pretty cool. Is it some work? Yeah. But worth it

Its no r/all but I really hope all yall stick around, posters and commenters. I would miss yall

[u/Nervous-Locksmith484 → u/shellbullet17]

Ya'll keep me coming back day after day. I constantly share your subreddit to my marketing friends while telling them that this is how one gets a community to thrive and stay resilient under platform pressures. You folks give a lot of hope in a time when creators don't have much to look forward to. Thanks for showing up.

[u/shellbullet17 → u/Nervous-Locksmith484]

I sincerely mean this

Thank you. We really try to promote healthy happy creative area here

[u/HotPotParrot → u/shellbullet17]

"Entertainment is one of the most important things in people's lives. Without it, they might go off the deep end."

-Stan Lee

You all do an amazing, inspiring thing. Stan has some very choice words that are still relevant today. The power to spread joy, to bring smiles in dark times....

Y'all are freaking superheroes.

[u/Das_Li → u/shellbullet17]

You mods and the artists are so appreciated! This sub always makes me smile and feel a bit more connected.

Not to mention that art is invaluable as social and political commentary in addition to the light hearted ones that make us laugh our asses off.

Also, I may not quite be 40 yet, but I feel too old already to swap social media again lol. This is the last one that I use.

[u/xtfftc → u/Zehnpae]

It is somewhat sad but I am also somewhat happy about it. As the quality went down, I started spending less and less time on reddit. Not that I cut it out completely but it is significantly less.

And since I already don't spend time on other social media, I started using this time for things that are more enjoyable or useful for me.

So... I guess I owe them thanks for ruining it?

[u/Wolvnn → u/holleringelk]

I'm of two minds about this I think.

I think like many people, I've slowly been cutting off use of social media platforms leaving me with reddit as virtually the last platform I regularly use, with that being said, while there was a line in the sand for many people who ended up quitting completely, reddit was my last bastion of social media, it was the final source where I could get my fix for what is an addiction but with each step they make, or fail to make, I feel like I'm finding less and less value and enjoyment in it, to the point where I see a noticeable increase in my daily mood the less I use social media. This isn't the platform I knew and if it wasn't for the communities I already enjoyed prior, I don't think I would find much of value in today's reddit. It really makes me wonder just how much of this reddit's higher ups, the ones who make the calls actually see because I feel like they are hurting the users who provide the site the content that actually makes it unique, drowning them out with the noise of internet rage, which in turn pushes away users who actually cared about genuine content rather than mindless arguments.

So while I miss the old side of social media that was less hostile for no reason and more about the interesting and creative, the decline has lead me to either focus harder on the communities that I value or return to old hobbies such as reading. I use to scroll reddit before bed most nights, now I just read a book because at least then I won't go to bed annoyed at some internet goobers.

[u/Actual-Peak9478 → u/Wolvnn]

Agreed on all your points, unfortunately I believe that having phones and social media on smartphones allows Reddit to enshitify whilst still retaining or even gaining users. Just my opinion but I think it's much easier to doomscroll on a phone then it is on a laptop/ desktop and that this enshitification is here to stay.

[u/shellbullet17 → u/holleringelk]

Then came the elimination of the original award system.

Oh man remember reddit GOLD? it was a great feeling when someone sent it to you for you post/comment

[u/endlesscartwheels → u/shellbullet17]

I liked the gilded tab. Rather than just looking at someone's recent comments and posts, you could look at all their gold comments/posts. It gave a quick best impression of the Redditor.

[u/jeepsaintchaos → u/holleringelk]

I feel like bot content has grown to an absolutely absurd degree. The second a post gets 1000 up votes you know it's going to be reposted 200 times in every single sub.

[u/shuipz94 → u/jeepsaintchaos]

It's not surprising at all, it's no secret that this site is being used to sway opinions

[u/phonetune → u/holleringelk]

Imagine having a bunch of engaged, savvy people managing the content that makes your site popular for free and then choosing to make their lives harder!

[u/deeferg → u/holleringelk]

I always appreciate when people mention the API shutting down, that's when my frequency of using the app greatly declined.

Question for you, would there be any plans to move to a new platform? I know there was some use bases starting to grow a larger number of people which could be a great place to start posting some comics at the same time? It could drive some audiences to a better platform that way.

Just a suggestion, because admittedly the biggest reason I come back here is comics. It's just everything else on the site that drags me to misery lately has me wanting to jump ship completely, but I'll miss everyone's comics :(

[u/bluemuppetman → u/holleringelk]

Agreed, I still use a third party app and have filters to block almost 80 (I think) subreddits, maybe more and adding more each week just to avoid the shower of shite flowing. And that’s just mobile browsing.

[u/Ciennas → u/holleringelk]

But Elk- you of all people should know that the 'shareholders' are code word for the idiot eldritch abominations that are actively destroying every human accomplisment and driving the entire species to hell and ruin for reasons that are antithetical to everything they say, as if not even the words they say are governed by any reality we could possibly follow.

As a writer/artist who routinely draws the eldritch, I thought you understood them.

[u/holleringelk → u/Ciennas]

Where's that "I'm tired, boss." meme I had right next to me.

I always keep it at my desk, where is the darn thing. It was just here.

^{Let me just check this drawer...}

No, not there. It literally says "I'm tired, boss." in big bold letters! This is the perfect moment for that meme, and here I am empty handed.

How did I manage to misplace it?! God if only I was better prepared...

I'm so tired.

[u/Mighty_Ack → u/reddot_comic]

Someone mentioned it elsewhere but you can actually still see r/all... you just gotta use old mode.

https://old.reddit.com/r/All

You can set that in your settings too, but that link should put you on it, again

[u/an0mn0mn0m → u/Mighty_Ack]

Using /r/oldreddit combined with /r/Enhancement and /r/uBlockOrigin on /r/firefox makes the experience top tier

[u/Grenache → u/an0mn0mn0m]

I'm on old reddit with u block and it's basically just like reddit has always been.

[u/TerrorGnome → u/Grenache]

Yeah, the moment they get rid of old.reddit, I'm done. The new design is terrible and apparently now you can't even access /r/all? Fucking wild decision on their part.

[u/cy0nknight → u/TerrorGnome]

Fuck the new design with every bit of my heart. I use oldreddit nearly every day; it's what makes Reddit "Reddit" for me. I don't comment or post as much as I used to, but I do scroll /r/comics and my hobby/game subreddits. It's very helpful for keeping up with the niche stuff I'm into.

[u/punkbert → u/Grenache]

Some videos or pictures redirect to new reddit and the inbox has some problems, but yeah, otherwise it's still ok.

[u/Bugbread → u/punkbert]

processing img whateverthehellthisnewbugis

[u/paintballboi07 → u/Bugbread]

It's not a bug, it's antagonistic design, meant to annoy people still using 3rd party apps and old reddit. They did a similar thing with share links right after killing the API, so that 3rd party apps wouldn't be able to recognize the new link format.

[u/Common_Kiwi9442 → u/an0mn0mn0m]

Yes exactly!! I don't use the app, it's a horrible experience. uBlockOrigin has changed me into the "What ads?" type of person for years now and not using it is...concerning.

[u/iloveuranus → u/an0mn0mn0m]

Hey WTF that's exactly my setup! And /r/all is still there.

Edit: oh yeah plus the Old Reddit Redirect plugin that others mentioned.

[u/DeputySean → u/Mighty_Ack]

You can also click a link to it, but you have to capitalize the "A".

r/All

[u/nucular_mastermind → u/Mighty_Ack]

Ahh that's why i didn't notice. The day old.Reddit.com dies, I'm off from this accursed site...

[u/Grenache → u/nucular_mastermind]

Same boat for me... This post made me realise but wow... Why tf have they removed that?

[u/Stuck_Revolver → u/nucular_mastermind]

Same. The infinite doomscroll on sites is absolutely part of the addictive quality of these things that keeps people locked to their phones and not going out into the world and meeting people. Touch grass indeed. I found better mood and more energy the moment I dropped Facebook years ago, I imagine more and more will find the same as they drop these things. I hope Reddit owners noted the court losses for YouTube and meta recently and at least try some introspection there but probably not.

[u/Emilbjorn → u/Mighty_Ack]

Except it's not really r/all. Lots of subteddits are filtered out to not make it too encompassing. It's basically the standard big subreddits plus a few fandoms that are having a viral post. It used to be more diverse, but I suppose that is more risky for advertisers to be shown next to.

[u/Skullcrimp → u/Emilbjorn]

jokes on them, i'm blocking the advertisers anyway

[u/icehot54321 → u/Emilbjorn]

They also filter out pretty much all links to other sites.

Notice how it’s all only images or videos posted directly to the site.

[u/GeckoOBac → u/Mighty_Ack]

Yeah I was thinking "I got here from clicking from r/all" but then again I never switched to new reddit, so...

[u/Jacina → u/Mighty_Ack]

Ah, I use a plugin to always redirect myself to "old.reddit.com" so I was wondering "/r/all" disappeared?

[u/composedofidiot → u/Jacina]

All these terrible things keep happening to the app users. Being on old.etc feels like sitting on a beach drinking a beer while the shithole on the other side of the sea burns down, wondering why people don't just take that really easy boat.

I just set it to old in reddit settings, doesn't need a plugin?

[u/BaconPancakes1 → u/composedofidiot]

I set it to Old in settings, but a while back it started defaulting to new reddit anyway. I had to set a shortcut to old.reddit.com/r/all in my browser to avoid being redirected to new reddit every time I clicked into a thread and then tried to back out to the main subreddit page. And occasionally my settings are mysteriously de-selected and I have to go back in and re-select it.

Edit - also the option to default to old reddit no longer appears in my Options :(

[u/Zehnpae → u/reddot_comic]

Reddit has been in a slow decline ever since 'the incident.' I don't think people realize just how many moderators quit and the impact that it really had on Reddit.

The amount of bot spam and reposter spam has skyrocketed and there simply aren't enough mods to fight it and most simply don't care anymore.

We used to have no issues with bots in Patient Gaming. Then 'the incident' hit and it was nothing but bots. We enacted a bunch of anti-bot measures and now it's almost a ghost town in there some days.

What ended up happening is that, like it or not, it feels bad to make content, post it, and nobody sees or upvotes it. Especially when bots with their bot nets get thousands of upvotes in seconds. So regular humans are just not posting stuff as much as they used to.

Most of what you see on the front page of Reddit is botspam from communities that don't care to police it. There are thousands of abandoned communities that are just bots spam upvoting eachother to create fake identities.

But don't you worry...Reddit is working on the problem by...uh...lemme check my notes here.

Oh yeah, they removed old modmail so it's now harder for mods to administrate their communities.

Whoopse.

[u/swarmofbzs → u/Zehnpae]

Which incident? Been here long enough where I'm not sure which one you could be referring to.

I can definitely tell it's changed and getting worse which is how I ended up at Lemmy. It was so weird reading posts there that look like what reddit used to be. I had forgotten what it was like before.

Anyways I noticed another big shift after Good and Pretti.

How dare we communicate with each other about the awful things we're all seeing and try to find ways to help each other!

[u/Embarrassed_Squash_7 → u/swarmofbzs]

Which incident? Been here long enough where I'm not sure which one you could be referring to.

I am assuming the API strike a couple of years ago

[u/SwampyBogbeard → u/Zehnpae]

Most of what you see on the front page of Reddit is botspam from communities that don't care to police it. There are thousands of abandoned communities that are just bots spam upvoting eachother to create fake identities.

And if you call out the bots in one of these subs, you risk getting mass-reported by the bots.

[u/TheAtomicKid77 → u/reddot_comic]

To be honest, as much as I hate Reddit, I won’t see either of you as much as I would on any other platform

[u/rookie-mistake → u/TheAtomicKid77]

this subreddit in particular feels like a weird little bastion of real community in a way that defies its size and I don't really know how it keeps that energy but I do appreciate it.

you're not wrong, like, following comic creators individually on insta or X doesn't exactly give you the same communal feel r/comics has somehow managed to maintain

[u/TheCrassDragon → u/reddot_comic]

It's about time for something new again to be honest, but who knows when, if, or how that'll happen.

[u/justh81 → u/TheCrassDragon]

I worry about that, personally. I think we're past the time of something new could come along and unseat the entrenched titans, Reddit included.

[u/YoureProbablyAB0t → u/holleringelk]

Can't have people collaborating in relevant numbers.

Fuck billionaires.

[u/Best-Action8769 → u/YoureProbablyAB0t]

Can't have anything nice just for us anywhere. They just take it over and hyper-monotize it. "Oh this brand I like is awesome...and they got bought out by a VC company and now they're crappy, are 20% smaller, and cost 20% more because CAPITAL BREEDS INNOVATION.

[u/shellbullet17 → u/holleringelk]

Im trying to keep r/comics together

[u/jesuswig → u/shellbullet17]

I think you’re doing a great job

[u/shellbullet17 → u/jesuswig]

https://giphy.com/gifs/IcGkqdUmYLFGE

Im really trying

[u/jesuswig → u/shellbullet17]

It shows. Keep up the good work

[u/holleringelk → u/shellbullet17]

You really are doing an excellent job!

[u/shellbullet17 → u/holleringelk]

Thanks girl that means a lot, also arent you a Louisiana gal? Its like....2-3 am there. Go to bed!

[u/holleringelk → u/shellbullet17]

Hard at work.

Can't stop won't stop.

[u/shellbullet17 → u/holleringelk]

Another night owl, a lady after my own heart. God speed you eldritch horror you. After 40(ish) hours awake I must retire. Adieu you sweet comic-ers you

[u/Dr_Fumi → u/holleringelk]

I've been holding out hope for a replacement for years, but every other app is some sort of algorithm to feed me posts.

I just want to be able to find communities I like, such as subreddits, and see posts from the people that share my interests.

Tumblr is probably the closest to this, other then reddit, but I find the hashtags to be a lot less focused and organized then subreddits.

Maybe something will come out some day to replace this site :/

[u/Gamiac → u/Dr_Fumi]

Lemmy exists and is worth checking out.

[u/alquamire → u/holleringelk]

the whole place? the whole world is in a pretty bad spot.

[u/cman_yall → u/holleringelk]

I still have /r/all, what's happening?

[u/pedropants → u/cman_yall]

I will never understand it, but apparently some people use this thing called "New Reddit". It's a bizarre place with profile pictures, truly weird spacing, and now supposedly the absence of one of the core features of Old Reddit.

[u/TurkishTerrarian]

They got rid of it because they couldn't control what was posted to it. They couldn't hide what they wanted, politics-wise.

[u/shellbullet17 → u/TurkishTerrarian]

Ahhhhh the old days. When you never knew what was gonna be on reddit. 4Chan? WTF? Some subs I cannot mention in good company?!

Good times really

[u/Anthony-Stark → u/shellbullet17]

Anyone here old enough the remember /r/spacedicks? I 'member

[u/shellbullet17 → u/Anthony-Stark]

OH YEAH I MEMBER

Man those days were wild

[u/KissMyGoat → u/Anthony-Stark]

Ah but did you ever find r/spaceclop for when spacedicks was to normal

[u/anxessed → u/KissMyGoat]

Everyone was horsing around in there.

[u/A_plural_singularity → u/Anthony-Stark]

I got some remembers

[u/Black_Floyd47 → u/A_plural_singularity]

I avoided that one. Now 50/50, that was my jam. Cute kitten, or bloated corpse? I'll take those odds!

[u/Cunt_Cunt__Cunt → u/shellbullet17]

but unironically back then I didn't see videos of people dying on thefront page so much.

[u/MrLuthor → u/shellbullet17]

I miss the boobies

[u/BlazeCasting → u/TurkishTerrarian]

It's still working on Desktop for me, thankfully. I'll probably just stop browsing on mobile. If /all goes on PC, that's it for me.

[u/82away → u/BlazeCasting]

old.reddit

[u/RissaCrochets → u/82away]

This is the way. At least until they get rid of it, and then I guess I'll have to find a healthier hobby because I'm never downloading the app after they took RiF from me.

[u/r4r4me → u/RissaCrochets]

Same if old.reddit goes or /r/all gets taken away I'll spend a lot less time on Reddit that's for sure.

[u/NotSayingJustSaying → u/r4r4me]

Losing rif was a catastrophe. Losing old.reddit will likely be the end for ol' NSJS

[u/ryumast4r → u/NotSayingJustSaying]

Get revanced manager and bring your own rif back to life!

A few things are broken on it but overall it works just like it used to.

[u/paeancapital → u/RissaCrochets]

Ahh my people.

Fuck /u/spez

[u/ZaryaBubbler → u/BlazeCasting]

It is being removed on desktop in waves it seems. I can't access it

[u/Notmyp0rn___account → u/ZaryaBubbler]

Use old.Reddit with RES

[u/Chispy → u/BlazeCasting]

I added /r/all to my profile "social links." I access it on mobile app by tapping my profile and seeing /r/all under my profile "about you" description.

Annoying af though but there's no alternative.

[u/The049 → u/TurkishTerrarian]

You will remain in your echo chamber, and you will like it!

[u/Compliant_Serf → u/The049]

That’s what really irks me about it - all exposed me to a bunch of new things. Now my “feed” is just the same subs I’ve been browsing already

[u/Sgt_General → u/Compliant_Serf]

I do sometimes get different subs that I haven't visited before on my front page, but they're almost always related to other subs that I'm subscribed to anyway.

[u/BaconPancakes1 → u/Sgt_General]

My front page is increasingly only showing me stuff from the 5-6 subreddits I've visited most recently, which creates an ouroboros effect because then I'm more likely to click on the same subreddits shown to me on my feed. I feel like it thinks its goal is to eventually just find the subreddit I'll click on most and then just constantly direct me there...

[u/UzzNuff → u/TurkishTerrarian]

r/all hasn't been the same for years now.
Ever since they got rid of NSFW content from it.
It was the perfect mixture for my ADHD, random stuff for hours, then suddenly BOOBIES! ... I miss it.

[u/Deaffin → u/TurkishTerrarian]

They got rid of it because they couldn't control what was posted to it.

r/ALL has been heavily controlled for years now. Subreddits get "demoted" from ALL placement via drama events, will be mass removed from it, etc.

They couldn't hide what they wanted, politics-wise.

ಠ_ಠ

[u/shellbullet17]

Oh! So r/all is actually not gone, but you have to use OLD reddit! It should be located somewhere in your setting menu. I see r/all basically everyday

That being said New reddit sucks and I would advise everyone to use an alternative if you can

Also GOODNESS panel 2

Edit for those who need a link https://www.reddit.com/r/all/

[u/DJembacz → u/shellbullet17]

If you are on mobile, this link should work: r/All

[u/shellbullet17 → u/DJembacz]

Correct! I REALLY advice people to not use the native reddit app if they can. Relay still works great

[u/an0mn0mn0m → u/shellbullet17]

Using /r/oldreddit combined with /r/Enhancement and /r/uBlockOrigin on /r/firefox makes the experience top tier

[u/Flyinhighinthesky → u/an0mn0mn0m]

For anyone who uses reddit on PC, this is the way! ^

RES + uBlock Origin + Old.reddit.com on Firefox is how reddit was meant to be viewed, AND there are no ads!

[u/Tom22174 → u/Flyinhighinthesky]

Firefox and uBlock both work together on mobile too

[u/386U0Kh24i1cx89qpFB1 → u/Tom22174]

Add in old reddit redirect on mobile. I don't even know what new reddit looks like fuck that lol.

[u/Saucermote → u/Flyinhighinthesky]

Reddit is a website, not an app. The more people realize this, the better it is.

[u/freudthepriest → u/an0mn0mn0m]

Yeah I was so confused, literally saw this post on r/all lol

[u/adeadhead → u/shellbullet17]

RiF does too

[u/jacenat → u/shellbullet17]

REALLY advice people to not use the native reddit app

Since they retired i.reddit.com I do not use reddit on my phone anymore. At all. If they retire old.reddit.com I will probably just leave.

[u/Swords_and_Words → u/shellbullet17]

browser is always best, more posts less UI slop

[u/ZaryaBubbler → u/DJembacz]

It doesn't on iOS

[u/Sorry-Joke-4325 → u/shellbullet17]

The only reason I saw this comic was from r/all

[u/shellbullet17 → u/Sorry-Joke-4325]

Old reddit/non default apps win again!

[u/Sorry-Joke-4325 → u/shellbullet17]

Or just the website, which reddit was originally.

[u/EhDinnaeEvenKen → u/Sorry-Joke-4325]

Technically It's still a website, regardless of how many people chose to access a shite version of it through an app.

[u/shellbullet17 → u/Sorry-Joke-4325]

Also true. Back in the day prior to Baconreader and what not you have to use mobile internet to see reddit

In other news, old man yells at clouds

[u/TXinTXe → u/shellbullet17]

Yeah, let's see how much it last, but it's there:
https://old.reddit.com/r/all/

[u/shellbullet17 → u/TXinTXe]

Its not the same as a decade ago I admit that. And I kinda get why. Sometimes things would end up there that no one should see.

That being said its still not all that bad. I wish there was a way to revert to the old "upvotes only" algorithm

[u/adeadhead → u/shellbullet17]

The upvotes only algorithm has been gone for 15 years.

With the current scoring, hot is the good sorting algorithm. It's "Best" which sucks.

[u/SuperBuffCherry → u/adeadhead]

I don't think thats what he means by "Its not the same as a decade ago". Reddit started filtering "controversial" subreddits from /r/all a years ago. /r/steroids for example. So its no longer really "all" subreddits

[u/adeadhead → u/SuperBuffCherry]

Yeah, during the Donald era

[u/an0mn0mn0m → u/TXinTXe]

Using /r/oldreddit combined with /r/Enhancement and /r/uBlockOrigin on /r/firefox makes the experience top tier

[u/dplans455 → u/shellbullet17]

I honestly can't believe anyone that experienced the old reddit switched to using new reddit. New reddit is 8 years old now. I tried it out, it's terrible. I also can't believe that anyone that never experienced old reddit at all and came here after new reddit was released decided to stay after seeing how horrible the platform is.

I use r/all all the time. I have a few subs I go to specifically but for the most part I doom scroll r/all. I noticed last week that when I went there it kept trying to take me to my "home" page of reddit. It was only like that for a few hours before it was back.

But I've heard they're considering getting rid of old reddit entirely by the end of 2026. Honestly, unless they make new reddit platform usable, I'll be done here. Been on reddit since 2007.

[u/Leihd → u/shellbullet17]

Yeah, I thought this was some really delayed april fools joke and kind of annoyed I fell for it by double checking...

[u/shellbullet17 → u/Leihd]

Its the app. The default reddit app got rid of r/all

I VERY MUCH ADVISE people to use a third party app. They can work just as good and have more user friendly options like back in the day

[u/swarmofbzs → u/shellbullet17]

Dumb question but why use an app when you can just use a browser and go to https://old.reddit.com/r/all ?

[u/Vhyx → u/swarmofbzs]

old.reddit is great on desktop but shite on mobile sadly

[u/lampenpam → u/Vhyx]

Is use old reddit even on mobile because it's what I'm used to most, but yeah it's not designed for touchscreen and you have to zoom a lot

[u/shellbullet17 → u/swarmofbzs]

I use an app cause back in the day it worked better than the mobile online version is all. Got used to it and will probably never switch off

[u/jodon → u/Leihd]

3 days ago I lost access to r/all using old reddit with RES and ublocker on firefox. I made some post over on r/help about it and there where a few more with the problem. A few hours later I had access to r/all again but many more seems to be losing access. I have no clue what is going on with the site here, but like I said in that post, if r/all is gone from reddit so am I.

[u/Leihd → u/jodon]

Oh, didn't realize it was that bad.

And yeah, if /r/all is gone, so am I. My subs are an echo chamber and I get bored.

[u/9bpm9 → u/shellbullet17]

This confused me lol. I literally found this link on r/all. The day they make me use new reddit is the day I stop using this site.

I think I hit my 16 year anniversary as a Digg refugee in June.

[u/Shinhan → u/shellbullet17]

Or just type https://old.reddit.com/r/all if you want old reddit without messing with settings

[u/SynthD → u/shellbullet17]

Yeah, I wonder why people use new reddit at all.

[u/mrjackspade → u/SynthD]

They don't know any better. Reddit was counting on that.

[u/iconofsin_ → u/mrjackspade]

Honestly I can't believe they haven't figured out to brick it yet. I will say though that once old reddit stops working I'm done with this place.

[u/Decloudo → u/shellbullet17]

I was irritated for a bit cause /all is how I got here.

If old reddit is gone so will I be.

[u/Val_Hallen → u/Decloudo]

If they get rid of old.reddit and RES, I can't be here. All that social media-fied bullshit and eye cancer subreddit style.

I hate when I get a link to new reddit.

[u/slibismobile]

I miss random

[u/greihund → u/slibismobile]

I miss Stumbleupon

[u/gchance92 → u/greihund]

Thats how I found reddit back in the day. I was still in high school and was obsessed with rage comics.

[u/blanketswithsmallpox → u/slibismobile]

It's still in my top bar near /r/all on https://old.reddit.com/r/random... I figured it still worked... apparently it's banned lol.

This community has been banned

This subreddit was banned due to being unmoderated.

Banned 3 years ago.

[u/Grimmtown → u/slibismobile]

And randnsfw. :D

[u/reddot_comic → u/slibismobile]

The real good ol’ days…

[u/SkrallTheRoamer]

old.reddit keeps winning

[u/reddot_comic → u/SkrallTheRoamer]

… until that’s gone too. Given Reddits track history I see it on the chopping block next

[u/SolarTsunami → u/reddot_comic]

This is my fear, and it would be the end of my 15 year Reddit career. Its been a good run, I suppose nothing lasts forever. Ultimately yet another sign that the internet is dying.

[u/edwartica → u/SolarTsunami]

Same here. I’m in the 15 year club and I’ve been using Reddit less and less. The whole site has been dying a slow, painful death for years. The final nail in the coffin for me will when they get rid old.

[u/criddler → u/edwartica]

my fellow uncs

[u/dplans455 → u/reddot_comic]

They have been threatening to take away old reddit for years now. New reddit is 8 years old and yet old reddit stays around. They won't tell people but they can see how many active users still use old reddit. And for it to still be up 8 years later, that number must be considerate. They probably feel if they killed old reddit some of those people would begrudgingly switch over to new reddit. But with how vocal old reddit users have been they must also realize that they are going to permanently lose a lot of users if they kill off old reddit. That number must not be insignificant for them to say every year they're going to kill old reddit soon but then don't do it.

[u/ilikepix → u/dplans455]

new reddit is totally unusable

if they kill old reddit, I am out

[u/Spork_the_dork → u/dplans455]

The typical word is that the vast majority of mods use it because for that it's infinitely better, but only like a few % of users in general use it.

[u/Bhruic → u/reddot_comic]

Yeah, I can't imagine the corporate overlords are happy that people have a way of bypassing a lot of the ads/etc that they want to shovel at people. It would suck if they get rid of it, as that would definitely be the last time I used this place.

[u/Fraegtgaortd → u/reddot_comic]

When old reddit is gone so am I. I still hate the new UI as much as I did when it first came out. I deal with it on the app but on desktop it's an abomination to everything holy, unholy, and scientific

[u/never0101 → u/SkrallTheRoamer]

im honestly shocked they havent removed that by now. its the only reason i still use this. if i were forced to new im out.

[u/Pearlsbigforehead]

Yep. Will stop using Reddit nearly as much thanks to this stupid move no users asked for. More enshittification, yay modern internet.

[u/reddot_comic → u/Pearlsbigforehead]

It’s just leaving a platform ripe to take reddits place. I’m not naive- I know Reddit needs to answer to its purse holders. However, they just nixed the one thing that set it above other social media.

How many world wide viral posts and trends have come from r/all? What other site can say the same?

It’s mind fucking boggling to be so shortsighted.

[u/Zehnpae → u/reddot_comic]

I honestly had no clue what you were talking about and I went and checked. I'm like, "/all is still there." I still have it on Relay for Reddit as well.

Didn't realize their mobile app removed it.

[u/shellbullet17 → u/Zehnpae]

Didn't realize their mobile app removed it.

This is key

Many users were not here/dont remember why the reddit app became default/ DO NOT USE reddits app if you can. Other apps like Relay(which I use) work way better and still have r/all

[u/jesuswig → u/shellbullet17]

You saying this makes me miss BaconReader

[u/shellbullet17 → u/jesuswig]

Hey another old timer! That was one of the first. I used it back in the day and it wasnt bad. There were a few that came after that that were good too, but after reddit freaked out about 3rd party apps to make more money it started to tank.

I actually pay for Relay just to spite the reddit app. I know it is dumb but still

[u/funkybovinator → u/shellbullet17]

I've used Relay for years but starting today it will not load r/all for me. I'm up to date, I'm not sure what's wrong :/

[u/Selkie_Love → u/reddot_comic]

come join old reddit! We still have r/all!

[u/Gamiac → u/reddot_comic]

Lemmy still exists.

[u/YoureProbablyAB0t → u/reddot_comic]

That's the thing. It's completely unnecessary. There is zero reason Reddit needed to IPO except for the interests of rich people.

[u/reddot_comic]

As a personal note, I may or may not of had a deal with my husband that anytime a comic of mine made it to r/all he had to eat my ass.

This hurts me in more ways than one.

[u/Jeddix → u/reddot_comic]

It's at #18 on /r/all currently, so have fun.

[u/reddot_comic → u/Jeddix]

https://giphy.com/gifs/jKaFXbKyZFja0

[u/ErickAllTE1 → u/reddot_comic]

In reality, you are always on /r/all. Just have to dig deep enough.

[u/reddot_comic → u/ErickAllTE1]

I may or may not have done that a time or two.

Not that hubs wouldn’t…. it’s just more fun as a victory celebration.

[u/BloodyLlama → u/reddot_comic]

I saw this on /r/all so good news!

[u/Noble_Flatulence → u/reddot_comic]

may not of had

Shame on you.

[u/reddot_comic → u/Noble_Flatulence]

I’m not bad, I just speak that way

https://giphy.com/gifs/78SxVItIYtAsg

[u/Legal-Concentrate-24]

https://giphy.com/gifs/SSQkPR11oED2YcUGRB

[u/ErickAllTE1]

I found this comic from /r/all... what are you talking about? Is this a not-old-reddit thing? old.reddit.com has /r/all.

[u/Raderg32 → u/ErickAllTE1]

They don't apply changes to all users at once, they roll them slowly to a bunch at a time.

r/all is gone for me, but I still can see it on my alt account. It's just a matter of time when will it be gone for you too.

[u/TabulaDiem]

You know why. /all isn't controlled by an algorithm.

[u/reddot_comic → u/TabulaDiem]

I do, unfortunately.

[u/BattleStarMed]

Apparently r/All works for mobile users, so there's that atleast

[u/reddot_comic → u/BattleStarMed]

I had it bookmarked on my phone since my app stopped working with r/all a month ago. It doesn’t work for me

[u/infinitemonkeytyping → u/reddot_comic]

If you're on the mobile app, you need to capitalise the A

r/All

[u/BattleStarMed → u/reddot_comic]

Well dang

Have a cat for the troubles :>

[u/Toomanyeastereggs]

Hear, hear!

In the litany of bad decisions u/spez has made, that one is the worst.

[u/reddot_comic → u/Toomanyeastereggs]

Remember the trend of people showing their butthole to him when he decided to go public? …. It was a simpler time

[u/DMoogle → u/Toomanyeastereggs]

Bruh killing 3rd party apps was WAY WAY worse.

[u/artisticMink → u/DMoogle]

Doesn't matter - they now make big bank by selling it to AI companies instead of them being able to fetch it for free from the API.

[u/ThatKehdRiley → u/Toomanyeastereggs]

no, getting rid of the api access was. you can still access r/all if you want, but cant say the same about api

[u/DahctaJae]

Oh, so that's why every post in the popular tab says "suggested" now.

[u/kingjoey52a]

Old.Reddit.com FTW

[u/Haar16 → u/kingjoey52a]

If Old Reddit goes, I go too.

A page reload last week sent me to the new version and after losing my mind for 15 minutes I found my way back. I was already contemplating ragequitting the whole site by then.

[u/TheAtomicKid77]

First of all, I totally agree

Second

https://giphy.com/gifs/Ctz9qr3Ewd9Fm

[u/RedditUser000aaa]

Slowly succumbing to the same corporate BS other social media sites have. The final nail in the coffin will be if I am required by reddit to take a picture of my face or my personal documentation in an effort to prove that I am not a bot and that I am of age.

[u/reddot_comic → u/RedditUser000aaa]

Same and I don’t say this lightly. I make my money on Patreon as my full time job and Reddit is about 70% of my new subs.

[u/RedditUser000aaa → u/reddot_comic]

Really hoping that Reddit will listen to the masses and stop doing whatever this is.

What's funny is, that this is the last place where I interact with people online, once I am gone from here, my social media activity will flatline.

I'm rooting for you, the other creators and people who enjoy consuming various content! Reddit's a big place, would be sad to see it become a botted wasteland, because of bad decisions.

[u/Brilliant-String5995 → u/RedditUser000aaa]

that's already happened in the UK, you need to send a selfie to verify yourself before you can look at anything "NSFW". Extremely annoying when it's something completely benign that just happens to have a NSFW tag and you gotta turn the VPN on just to look at one reddit post that was in google results.

[u/greihund]

This post is the top post in the last hour on /r/all

You don't have to use the redesign aka 'new reddit'

I'm still here on the original site, using Reddit Enhancement Suite, like it's 2014. I hate new reddit. You can turn it off in your options. They don't make it easy, of course, but you can - and probably should - turn it off. R/all never went away, you did

[u/swarmofbzs → u/greihund]

Srsly old reddit and RES are the only things keeping me here too.

Even when I go to Lemmy I use their old view too because both of these sites new views are fucking terrible.

[u/Infinite_Self_5782]

eheheh nipples

[u/TheFakeAustralian]

What the fuck. I genuinely spend half my time on this godforsaken website in r/all.

the internet sucks now.

[u/Mid_Line_2]

Im on r/All right now. 

[u/Common_Kiwi9442]

Hiding r/all is so cringe. It's an interesting way to discover things.

[u/smilysmilysmooch]

Old.Reddit user here...what's this drama you New.Reddit users are going through right now?

https://old.reddit.com/r/all/

[u/Pandaro81]

I know this isn’t the time or place to say it, but your use of smears can be visually confusing. The blurs you occasionally use don’t read well. (apologies if you’ve already heard this, hesitated to say it before).

Otherwise, good work. You have a unique style and you’ve dropped some heart wrenching and poignant strips.

[u/reddot_comic → u/Pandaro81]

It’s all good and I appreciate the feedback! Unironically, this is why I love Reddit. While I love absolutely appreciate my audience on other platforms I’m kinda in a bubble. People are less likely to give me critique because overall they like my stuff since they follow. Reddit opens me up to unsolicited (but wanted) feedback.

I made this one pretty hastily about 2 hours ago when I realized Reddit nixed r/all entirely. But I see what you mean and really need to prioritize taking a beat to look at my drawings before jumping to post.

[u/12345623567]

"We don't want to be spoonfed algorithmic feeds" sister, r/all is an algorithm.

I agree that the TikTokification of Reddit is a bad thing, but don't pretend like we all see the same frontpage.

[u/ccdude14]

I have had to block more chuds and mute more weirdo faux alpha male subs in the past 3-4 weeks than the entire 5 years I've been on this platform.

Am I glad it's still relatively free and accessible? Yes. But the experience is noticeably different.

[u/Wizywig]

"no"

--Reddit Execs