Biggest loss if/when Old Reddit is removed would be RSS. Browsing the site otherwise is painful.
Truly feels like the management’s intent is to run the site to the ground, creating animosity any way they can.
Can you watch videos in some RSS reader? Which one? Mine doesn’t work and I have to actually open the website.
If a tool can display embedded videos, or download them, there are some that come to mind.
A “FeedHub” extension I found on the Chrome store while testing some things some months back could play embedded videos.
Newsboat, though not having an internal player, can download the videos iirc, which is halfway there (requires some setting up beforehand).
Grayjay, an aggregator for Youtube, Rumble, Soundcloud, etc., can fetch through RSS Youtube videos specifically as an option to avoid timeouts (sadly no Odysee, NicoNico or Peertube’s RSS integration).
Also the fediverse softwares I tested most can play embedded videos and there are RSS-tracking bots around which you can use to turn your feed also on a RSS reader.
You have to manually type “old.reddit.com” rather than www, and soon that too will be gone.
Extensions too. I have the Firefox one.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/
It’s still there for me.
Edit: also, that was an opt-in to the redesign, not opt-out, in old reddit. The redesign has the opt-out, and your screenshots are clearly old reddit.
This Firefox addon still works… but I don’t know for how long as Reddit are really forcing people into their “modern” and slow design: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/
Similar to Facebook’s old design, I would presume redirecting scripts should work as long as the interface is available. And with Facebook, once they started removing means to access the old design, new removals were ever quicker.
I don’t think that option toggled the UI, in fact I don’t think that option did anything for quite a while.
It worked, about 6 years ago.
Then I found that it kept “accidentally” getting reset “somehow” and dumping me into New Reddit, how strange.
It’s always been working for me. Did you have cookies disabled? Since the setting was stored as a cookie. In fact, the cookie is still working for me right now.
I thought a Reddit resign was how some people ended up on Lemmy.
