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Reviews for Old Reddit Redirect

Old Reddit Redirect by tomjwatson

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  • by oscaroni, 2 months ago
    Stopped working and no updates. Tried to report it, but link didn't work. Please update :)

    Developer response

    posted 2 months ago
    The link for reporting a bug is https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect/issues/.

    In what way is it not working? Some users recently seem confuses by the fact that subreddits on Old Reddit can still have custom stylesheets and so can vary in how they look. You can turn these off in your user preferences in Reddit itself.

    Some other users seem confused by the fact that there are now 3 major Reddit designs. This extension is only to load Old Reddit (old.reddit.com).
  • by Firefox user 18474623, 3 months ago
    Doesn't work. If you run a google search for content on reddit, clicking on a result will open a new tab that redirects to the new reddit layout. The url does contain "old.reddit" but its completely ineffective.

    Developer response

    posted 3 months ago
    Edit - user was confused by the fact that subreddits on Old Reddit can have custom stylesheets. Extension is working as expected.

    If you're having issues, please report a bug here - https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect.

    I have never seen this happen and have no way of investigating this and fixing it if it's a real bug if I don't have a bug report where you can let me know what browser version, OS, other extensions you have etc.

    Generally issues with the extension stem from it clashing with other extensions users have installed - so try disabling them and trying again.
  • by J4ME5, 9 months ago
    Some links redirect to a random post from a subreddit that I've never visited nor did I want to visit.

    Developer response

    posted 9 months ago
    This bug was fixed a few months ago. If the add-on has not automatically updated then you may need to remove it and then reinstall it.
  • by mrklean, a year ago
    Is this some kind of protest or joke due to the third party apps protest on reddit?

    Why on earth do all my Reddit links now redirect behind the scenes to https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/media/nice_hat/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fond2117tbwgb1.jpg instead of where the should land. The hover text in the bottom left for the URL even displays the correct URL, but having this extension enabled redirects me to the aforementioend "Nice_hat" link.

    Below is a video of the issue - hope I can pass imgur links

    https://i.imgur.com/xP95XAE.gif

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    This is due to a strange redirect that is being performed on Reddit's end. A fix has been made in the extension to avoid this happening and should reach users as version 1.7.2 whenever it makes it through the approval system.

    See https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect/issues/86 for more details.
  • by SUN, a year ago
  • by Shizune, 2 years ago
    No longer supported by Reddit HQ.
  • by Firefox user 13558218, 3 years ago
    Just stopped working. Doesn't redirect anymore.
  • by digital, 4 years ago
    Why would anyone use this when you could just opt-out within Reddit itself?
  • by Firefox user 14135822, 4 years ago
  • by Firefox user 15978319, 4 years ago
    450kb, lol.
    Script = one line of code.

    Developer response

    posted 4 years ago
    This was due to the .git folder and some screenshots being included in the bundle. They no longer are. All of the code is open source and available on https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect.
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