I've been on reddit since the beginning. If they kill old.reddit, I'm gone.

After abandoning all my reddit accounts [1] (some back into the aughties), I eventually found hackernews. Here is now the only place online which I write publicly.

Still, I love sharing tips for navigating reddit (you can do these without logging in):

1) old.reddit.com allows you to use Reddit's built-in link shortener,

e.g. To link to today's top post (<https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1seo5rj/cafe_in_brazi...>), you can just write ` https://old.reddit.com/1seo5rj ` [this does not work without old.]

2) you can string multiple subreddits together using the ` + ` operator,

e.g. <https://old.reddit.com/r/dogs+cats+fish> to view /r/dogs + /r/cats +/r/fish in a single stream/webpage

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[1] in 2021; Dear /u/Spez: my promise given after your US Congressional testimony/fabrication... remains promised. —Rita/mod/bayarea

I fully expect it to get retired in the wake of the forthcoming de-anonymization of the web. But I’m frankly shocked they haven’t already given how aggressively bad the “new” one has become.

Red reader is another option to make reddit usable.

https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader

It's probably the only reason they keep it around - to keep power users from going to or starting a competing forum.