Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

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Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible
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I'll bet $50 this is because they plan on pulling the plug on old reddit soon, and don't want to allow the inevitable protests.

Few enough people use it i doubt they'll do that. The og reddit api (is that the term?) that came before old.reddit still works too (can't remember what it is off the top)

They killed i.reddit.com after the APIcalypse, so I wouldn't be so sure.

Did they finally? That's the one i was thinking of so guess you're probably right.

Oh well phew hahaha not my prob no mo

Few enough people use it i doubt they’ll do that.

I was going to suggest otherwise, but after checking the viewing stats on r/linuxhardware, out of 193k unique views in July, 7,300 were from old.reddit, which accounts for 2.8%, and that kinda blows my mind. Just a couple years ago the numbers were much higher.

The views on that sub have increased a lot over the last year, but engagement is the same or lower, so I heavily suspect a lot of the views there are just bots inflating the numbers.