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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.

1. ahazred8ta ◴[] No.41906524[source]
They stopped doing that at least 10 years ago.

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

2. JSDevOps ◴[] No.41908883[source]
I never even knew they did this.
3. cpach ◴[] No.41912292[source]
I sure hope they won’t take down old.reddit.com. IMHO, Reddit would be unusable without it.
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4. coldtrait ◴[] No.41914498[source]
Even old reddit is obsolete or breaks in some use cases.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.

5. hndude ◴[] No.41942301[source]
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)