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Did Reddit start blocking its subdomain-to-subreddit URL scheme?

4 points by interestica 8 months ago | 5 comments

Any subreddit used to be available at subreddit.reddit.com —> Reddit.com/r/subreddit

I have no idea if it was an advertised or officially supported scheme. And I don’t know what the nature of the URL redirect/rewrite/forwarding was. It was handy for remembering. Now all those links seem to redirect to the main domain.

Old.reddit still works but could go soon if they’re reorganizing schemes/standards.

I actually used that subdomain structure years ago to allow users to select different subset styles for subreddits.

hndude 8 months ago

Recommend you use the Redirector browser plugin (https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/) and create a rule with these options:

Redirect:

https://*.reddit.com/ to:

https://old.reddit.com/r/$1 excluding:

https://old.reddit.com/ Example:

https://*.reddit.com/ → https://old.reddit.com/r/* Applies to:

Main window (address bar)

ahazred8ta 8 months ago

They stopped doing that at least 10 years ago.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150317155232/https://news.redd...

cpach 8 months ago

I sure hope they won’t take down old.reddit.com. IMHO, Reddit would be unusable without it.

coldtrait 8 months ago

Even old reddit is obsolete or breaks in some use cases. There's a new type of link that fails if you're on old reddit. Secondly most new subs and users put all their sidebar and wiki etc in the new design. So I often end up missing things. And another thing is few minor changes in submitting posts.

Old reddit is still fine for reading content though.

JSDevOps 8 months ago

I never even knew they did this.