Will the wayback machine archive reddit posts when they inevitably start to delete those too.
Glad I backed up all my reddit posts, comments, etc., a few weeks ago
Oof. Even Google gives its products a longer runway than reddit does.
All these high visibility features shutting down has to come from a single point. I’m guessing they are cutting features with high AWS costs.
Calling it now, old.reddit.com will be dead by the end of the year.
I’ve had people working at Reddit tell me that old.reddit is so buried in there its removal would be hard. Which doesn’t change the fact that they would pull it out of necessary. I’m guessing they’ll find the routes for it and 301 anything to the new reddit. Easy enough change.
I used the chat feature semi-regularly to chat with people about more private stuff. It was mostly about exchanging in creative endeavours, sharing what we had before posting it to Reddit.
So I am a bit moved now that they want to delete it.
But I also hated Reddit’s implementation of it. Under certain circumstances it wouldn’t load older messages and worst of all it was only available on the official app, not even their mobile web app. So continuing my chats forced me to use my desktop, or to try out the app which was horrible.
At this point, let Reddit burn in their mistakes and hopefully the others will make it better.
