I just went to old.reddit.com and continually clicked links for 10 minutes, loading new pages and comment sections over and over again. I hit no limit.
to my knowledge this limit existed already for a long time. it’s intented to prevent scraping and automatic bots. They basically want prevent people from using bots who act as a browser instead of using their API (where they can limit them) to do stuff on reddit.
They also have a automatic system detecting when too many clients access them with similar or “odd” characteristics (weird useragents, referers, amount of requests, weird headers in the request etc.) - if they detect such a case they usually limit you and then completly block you for hours, days or months. I couldn’t open reddit on my chrome app anymore because that as an example (i was developing an reddit client and they detected my useragent browser name as “too old”… so they just banned my browser while others worked fine )
Guess it’s easier to scrape old Reddit. So this won’t affect normal browsing.
If you use a VPN you will likely hit the limit, already happened to me
Remember to welcome the new users to Lemmy!
Just quit Reddit a few days ago and haven’t looked back. I remember when there was no viable alternative to Reddit, with all other platforms being very sparely populated, but a lot has changed since I recently got into Lemmy as there are actually people here!
After switching to Lemmy I’ve noticed I’ve been feeling a lot happier. Maybe that’s just because of how social media companies design their service to be as addicting as possible, and they do so by making you feel angry. Everything here feels much calmer and more peaceful.
I think it goes deeper than that, and that Reddit has only expanded the hidden moderation so that comments from certain users are seen over those of other users well beyond karma calculations, and that a significant part of the effort to do so is to promote the message they want or are paid for to promote. It’s not a wanton sellout, but with certain topics and in certain subreddits, it’s quite evident that they want to push and promote meme stock, crypto, and neozionist messaging, which look at that, has a close correlation to the interests of its CEO. This has pushed out comments and posts that promote it over sane discussions, which tends to erode into emotionally divisive drivel.
That’s a great point! After October 7 and Israel’s genocide, I was surprised how little attention r/Palestine got compared to r/Ukraine after Russia’s invasion. If you look at the top posts of all time on r/Palestine, the top post only has 10k upvotes and was before October 7, while the top post on r/Ukraine has nearly 200k upvotes and it was right after Russia invaded. It feels like r/Palestine is being silently censored, or I guess you could say being partially shadow-banned.
Welcome !
Thanks! 😀
I dont understand why third party apps don’t work with reddit. If the official app can work fine, surely an app that mimics the official one with the API requests should work, no?
If you can develop a system that can defeat oauth security you can do way more than falsify Reddit API traffic. You could steal all kinds of information.
Some tried. Reddit told them to pay a ridiculous amount.
That said, you can still use the old apps through revanced. I haven’t had a rate limit yet, but I also might not make that many requests, as I don’t use it that much.
“There are no plans to get rid of Old Reddit.” - reddit
Completely expected this, technically they are not removing it, just making it so shit no one would use it. Same move done by twitter when muskrat took over
The redesign doesn’t work on mobile, it just tells you to use their horrendous app. Anyone still relying on reddit should use something like a redlib instance
“There are no plans to get rid of old reddit…”
Makes old reddit more and more user unfriendly…
“User numbers for old reddit have steadily dropped, they prefer our app or the new reddit site, so we no longer see it worthwhile to maintain old reddit. We’re shutting it down.”
also known as 10 requests per minute, idk why 10 minutes is the used standard here, i guess because it sounds less shit. But this is one request every 6 seconds.
Well, there is a technical difference between a limit of 10 requests/minute and 100 request/10 minutes. The average is the same, but the later allows for 100 requests in a minute followed by 9 minutes of nothing, whereas the former does not and 1 request/6 seconds is even worse
fair enough i guess, still averages out the same though so i’m not sure why that would matter all that much, unless this means you can only load like one page every 10 minutes or something lol.
Beatings will continue until morale improves.
So I still hang out on reddit a bit, mostly for mechanical keyboards and sports stuff, and they are very clearly letting old.reddit, and therefore RES along with it, die on the vine. You have to pop over to new reddit to do certain administrative things, and you (or at least I) can only upload a single picture on a post, and you have to use the new interface to upload a gallery. Clicking on images now often takes you to a weird new interface landing page instead of the image itself or a page with the old interface. I think they’re going to erode the functionality until people give up and then say, “whelp… nobody was using it! Time to pull the plug!”
At which point I’m probably done. Then, Dystopia is almost the last iOS app standing but I don’t think they’re updating it much, so I’m probably out if/when they go too.
I’ve sort of accepted as a middle aged man with middle aged friends and senior citizen relatives that being tracked across mainstream social media is a thing that will be in my life, so it’s not even ideological, really. Reddit is just a lot less pleasant to use on the new interfaces, with the new monetization mindset, and doesn’t have the “killer app” of my actual friends and family, so it needs to be a pleasant experience and community and not feel like I’m navigating a bot-farm ad-soaked beatdown every time I use it.
mostly for mechanical keyboards
There are good forums for that. People need to go back to forums.
I’d be all for that, and I’m on several. That scene has so many people on Discord though, which is disheartening because Discord is awful.
2nd and 3rd seem very quiet, others are good suggestions, thanks
like for xitter they’re so obsessed in blocking scrapers that they’re blocking also many users
To think how many free content i gave to them 🤮 (now deleted)
Reddit died 10 years ago; it’s just taken this long for it’s death throws to piddle out…
Caught a typo/autocorrect error
It’s throe, not throw. I’ve yet to run across a keyboard with throe in its dictionary. It’s weird what niche words get put in and which ones don’t.
My keyboard certainly doesn’t have throe in its dictionary. But it also doesn’t have throw. Or through. Or really any words because it doesn’t have a dictionary.
My keyboard has a dictionary. And DJ! Woo! Cmon! Hibaa! Yeaaa!
Oh good, I wasn’t going crazy the last few months.
They cannot make me download their shit app, and when old.reddit dies then that’s when I stop going even my current once a month.
What the fuck! I fucking hate this. Who the fuck is thinking this is a fucking good idea bruh.(I still visit reddit but don’t make post or comment)
They already fucked the layout of it up a while back so it is functionally the same as new reddit anyway.
Imma be honest, the only thing I use reddit for is the porn. Things are starting to pick up over here a bit, but for a while it was almost nothing.
Basically what I’m saying is that I don’t really care what happens to Reddit anymore. I left with the exodus about a year ago and never looked back (except for the porn).
I use it for r/sysadmin and niche/hobby stuff still but am pretty happy that the fediverse is here: It’s only going to get better as time goes on at this point.
Unfortunately that “picking up” here looks to mostly be a bot that is grabbing reddit posts so it’s still mostly reddit. There really aren’t that many people on Lemmy so I wouldn’t expect to see much of that stuff made specifically to post here.
I believe it will happen. In only 1 year, this place went from ghost town to 30+ comments on most posts. Give it a few more years of people spreading the word and reddit continuing to make people go elsewhere, and it will almost be the same.
I have that bot blocked. Those posts have little value here since no one seems to comment on them.
Yeah, old.reddit is good for porn. Otherwise new reddit wants you to use the app and login for porn. That’s weird as fuck. Don’t track what I’m baitin’ to.
I’m curious, never used reddit for porn. Why would you use it for porn? Just go on other websites dedicated to porn.
More sorted cosplay/drawn content
There’s a lot more amateur content. Places like r/gonewild have a massive amount of daily posts. Plus there’s a subreddit for pretty much every fetish you could have with communities built around them. It’s an entirely different vibe than just going to Pornhub and picking videos. And if you’re into things that are drawn, reddit is overflowing with that kind of content.
