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I remember when Reddit announced it would begin charging commercial developers for access to its API, and in response, thousands of subreddits went dark in protest. I think it lasted for a couple of weeks. The CEO threatened the Reddit mods that he would replace them if they didn't reopen the subs, so nearly every mod reopened and everything went back to normal. The CEO won easily without offering anything, and he was right when he said that 'this too shall pass.' Those third-party apps offered accessibility features for disabled people that Reddit still hasn't implemented today. Now Reddit is getting even worse. How come there wasn't a protest like that when they made even worse decisions?

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[–] THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I quit for 2 years, then spoofed the API to use RIF again, fuck Spez. Was there for about a year and finally got banned for saying nazis deserve to be dead. Hit a little too close to home for the admins with that one. I still lurk, but I wrote a program in python that bypasses the login requirements for old reddit, blocks all ads, and adds back features they removed, such as seeing number of points weighted. Again, fuck Spez. I'd have distributed the program if old reddit redirect didn't just bypass the login themselves.

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It doesnt anymore. Old reddit needs login now too

[–] sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't know what it does, but the extension "Old Reddit Redirect" recently updated to show the old design through www.reddit.com and it works without an account.

[–] technobyte@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It creates a redesign_optout cookie and sets it to true, making reddit load the old UI

[–] THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Pretty much exactly what my program does. It just displays it in a wrapper that's identical to Old Reddit.