new.reddit has been removed

nevetsg@aussie.zone to Reddit@lemmy.world – 4 points –

After all this time I still had one Reddit tab left open to r/Ukraine, to see updates on the war.
Today I noticed that they have removed the option to use new.reddit.com to see the site as it was before the latest update. The current site design is so bad and slow that I immediately closed that tab.
old.reddit.com still exists for those diehards.

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Interesting. Wonder if any new reddit refugees will stumble onto us.

Probably not yet.

People will revert to old.reddit or get used to the "new new" version

But the new new version is designed to be less functional. I couldn't take it.

I don't mind the difference in functionality, so much as how slow it is, which was already a huge problem with new.reddit.com. Having gone back to old.reddit.com+RES now, fucking hell reddit used to be such a snappy website. 😑

Dude you weren’t kidding. “New” was always a pile of ass, and just now I went back to Reddit for a little bit just to poke around and see how “new new” is. It was better for the first two things I clicked on (actually better than both old and new IMO for popping open memes and pictures), and then I clicked on an actual thread, and (1) the thread was clearly a fake story (2) it broke the back button and I couldn’t go anywhere else until it snapped me suddenly back to mbin again.

I decided to take that as a sign