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The fact that old.reddit.com continues to be available suggests that they did.

To this point, I would probably stop using the desktop version of the site if they nixed old.reddit.com.

I’m a fan of teddit.net

Same. I only use old mode for both mobile and desktop. It’s super annoying that about once a week they drop me back into their utterly awful mobile web experience. Then have to go back to settings and choose request desktop site yet again.

Most recently they’ve switched image galleries to using their new desktop design, so simply trying to view images often pops up this new and totally incompatible experience. Earlier today the left/right nav icons stopped working so I just gave up on trying to view those images.

https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect

Alternatively as a User script:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/40897-old-reddit-please

Unfortunately this extension is basically useless. If I’m on a real desktop, I don’t need to visit old.reddit.com. I have that set in the user preferences. (Currently using Chrome on desktop.)

I use mobile safari on mobile, which this extension doesn’t work for.

i.reddit.com works pretty well for phone browsers, quite minimalist and mostly not broken.

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