Hacker News Reader

Not sure why, but that link just brings me to the normal homepage (as it's looked for years).

Strange, yeah if I open it in an incognito window I'm shown the old reddit homepage. Maybe it only works for signed-in users?

This confused me as well. See Izkata below your comment with a wired link to screenshots.

But I see the old reddit as well.

I wonder if you have to be logged in for that link to work? I'm at work right now and I never log in to reddit from here.

Nope.

I'm logged in and still getting redirected to the original.