Old Reddit Redirect
Extension Actions
CRX ID
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Status
- Extension status: Featured
- Live on Store
Description from extension meta
Ensure Reddit always loads the old design
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Description from store
Dislike Reddit's redesign? Old Reddit Redirect will ensure that you always load the old (old.reddit.com) design instead.
Forces all reddit.com links to old.reddit.com, including navigating to the site, opening links or using old bookmarks.
Unlike the account setting for turning off the design, this works regardless of whether you are logged in or not or in incognito mode.
There are also a few minor quality of life improvements:
- Remove the undismissable cookie banner
- Prevent reddit from rendering raw image URLs as HTML
- Rewrite links to galleries to the raw old reddit comments page
Old Reddit Redirect is free and open source software. The code is available at https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect. Pull requests are more than welcome.
Latest reviews
- Aaron
- Is there still a way to make a dark version of reddit in the old reddit redirect?
- Heti Pisti
- This is very good, thank you! 😎
- ASRA
- thank you very much
- Google User
- Barely works now. For instance it won't work on reddit domain: https://nr.reddit.com/r/worldnews/#www
- jackson hallatt
- Perfect! its exactly what ive wanted, im tired of editing the link every time i click on a post
- Jonathan Fox
- new reddit sucks
- Eric Parton
- Great extension! Does exactly what it says on the box. I would love a way to toggle it (for the very few times I want the new design - ex. created a post with multiple images)
- David Quasius
- Not working
- Michael
- If you ever feel like your job is worthless remember somebody designed new reddit.
- x D
- Must have extension.
- Dan L.
- Add polls plz
- William Huynh
- PERFECT
- Cody Smith
- Been using this extension for years, but recently when I go to my homepage, it signs me out and redirects me to a thread in /r/conservative. Gross. And it's not even the same thread — it's been different threads in different instances!
- Nestopia UE
- When i tried to go onto reddit i got signed out, and when i signed it said my password was wrong. was this extension hacked or something?
- Riverina Remedies
- Thanks, for some reason Reddit stopped honoring my preference to opt out of the redesign, this extension works and is FOSS and simple, and gets rid of that massive "get new Reddit" button that fools me about once a week.
- A M
- I like it when it works. But it has a semi-frequent bug of sometimes getting stuck where it will show you a subreddit/post as not logged in, then you try to click log-in and reddit will say "you are already logged in, redirecting you" and then shows the page again, still as not logged in - then the cycle just repeats until you visit some other subreddit or something when it finally shows you a page with you logged in, IDK I haven't fully figured it out. But I am going to go looking for another old reddit plugin because I've been annoyed by this bug 100 too many times
- // ANT //
- Throw that new Reddit layout in the garbage and bring back the classic
- Anjas
- works perfectly! Thanks!
- Blake Runkle
- Review edit: Reddit has broken the use case below and has nothing to do with the extension itself. This extension seems to have partially broken as of October 2nd, 2024. It will still redirect to old.reddit.com but when attempting to navigate directly to a subreddit with a url in the format of "news.reddit.com", instead of redirecting to "old.reddit.com/r/news" it redirects to the user's home page of "old.reddit.com" and fails to navigate to the subreddit. I was going to open a pull request on the git page for the extension but it looks like the backend engineers over at reddit might've broken something. These urls are now returning 301 MOVED PERMANENTLY.
- Jeff Kang
- I absolutely need old Reddit to enable the Reddit Enhancement Suite extension. RES settings console → Subreddits → filteReddit (filteReddit) → Filter Subreddits From (filterSubredditsFrom) According to the RESoptions.filteReddit value in a RES backup file, I have over 2000 subreddits blocked from r/all. Without the extension, I think there's a limit to the number of subreddits that you can filter (100?). Other useful RES feature Default Comment Depth For especially front page posts with a lot of comments, it helps to use the Comment Depth limit feature to limit seeing replies to replies to replies. Default Comment Depth RES settings console → Comments → Custom Comment Depth (commentDepth) → Default Comment Depth (defaultCommentDepth) (Another option to limit comment depth is clickable JavaScript Bookmarklets that you put in your bookmark toolbar. Bookmark with the URL: javascript:$('.commentarea .child ').toggle();void 0 Only see the parent comments. javascript:$('.commentarea .child .child').toggle();void 0 Only see the parents and the replies to parents. )
- William Owens
- Ever since the new design has been introduced it has simply not been working. They try to re-create the mobile app version on the official website and it's just so much unnecessary clutter and space. This extension ensures that you get the actually good and full experience of Reddit on PC. Let's just hope that Reddit continues support for the old version. As soon as they don't - I'm out.
- Jessica Holbrook
- Fantastic extension that works even in incognito mode. Couldn't use Reddit without it. Devs are quick to respond if you have an issue as well.
- Mwangi James Wamae
- I cannot believe I am just discovering this add-in after years of always changing the URLs manually. Thank you thank you. I have idea what they're on about in new Reddit...
- Dan McEwen
- Stopped working today, gives this error "upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: connection failure"
- Paul Taylor (Mr Scruff)
- Seems to have stopped working. Was good while it lasted but seems the new UI is being forced on everyone now.
- Seán Fleming
- Thank you so much. I have used this for several years now. I love you.
- Jorge Gabriel Miranda Ramos
- It's very sad to see Reddit double down on its own enshittification over and over again.
- ninethreeeleven
- 10/10, but Reddit seems to have broken it again. Same login redirect issue as existed in May. Thanks for your excellent extension, Tom!
- Ozfer I'm
- This is exactly what I needed. New reddit blows and has been blowing for years and it only gets worse.
- Ryan Lee
- My expectations are satisfied
- TORLEY
- Simple and elegant! Old Reddit Redirect worked for a long time... but a recent Reddit login change today seems to have broken this. Reddit seems to force you to use the new interface (ugh) to login at https://www.reddit.com/login/ , and the redirect back to "old" doesn't work as expected (or I need to reload the page). Tom, can you please confirm? Thanks for everything you do.
- Gitonga Maina
- Perfect, works every time.
- William O'Beirne
- Got a new permission dialog and came to check if this was yet another extension to get sold off for data, but was happy to find that the maintainer has posted an explanation for this over on GitHub: https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect/issues/117. Great extension, and really appreciate the work you do keeping it up to date.
- Ey Jay
- This was great when it worked, but recently it has stopped working outside incognito mode. At first I had to reload a page for it to take hold, but now, it doen't redirect at all.
- David Tung
- Perfect extension for redditor. Very fast to loading pages.
- Keagan Tabisher
- Amazing and essentail, new Reddit is a nightmare and slower than literally any other website, the vids don't even load half the time.
- Irina Isha
- Absolutely vital addon. Reddit's redesign is obnoxious garbage.
- Christiaan Prinsloo
- If you use this, you are a cultured individual.
- Unfunny Grinds
- RAHHHHHH THANK YOU SO MUCH
- Simple C
- can i use this but for new. not old.
- Kārlis Gediņš
- Would not use reddit without it.
- Ethan
- thanks. i dont use reddit but the website is obnoxious and reloads 3 times cause it forces google sign in
- Ethan
- thanks. i dont use reddit but the website is obnoxious and reloads 3 times cause it forces google sign in
- Sir Thanksalot
- Started to notice a slight issue, On some subreddits, the old reddit format loads but there is a box in the middle of comments with other irrelevant topics. There is a "Hide" "X" which has to be clicked in order for it to go away. Previously, page links from search engines loaded without issues, and no interfering useless Box of other topics or titles right in the middle of comments. This behavior does not happen on every subreddit, but a few that are very popular, have heavy traffic and ads. This is not the extension's fault as it simply does the job of changing the URL to the old cleaner look. This is 100% Reddit's UI design team's fault, or rather, it is intentionally designed to distract from reading comments. Thank you for providing this extension.
- Sir Thanksalot
- Started to notice a slight issue, On some subreddits, the old reddit format loads but there is a box in the middle of comments with other irrelevant topics. There is a "Hide" "X" which has to be clicked in order for it to go away. Previously, page links from search engines loaded without issues, and no interfering useless Box of other topics or titles right in the middle of comments. This behavior does not happen on every subreddit, but a few that are very popular, have heavy traffic and ads. This is not the extension's fault as it simply does the job of changing the URL to the old cleaner look. This is 100% Reddit's UI design team's fault, or rather, it is intentionally designed to distract from reading comments. Thank you for providing this extension.
- Sharan K.E
- Even with extension installed, it always loads Reddit's new version. Now you have to manually old.reddit.com on the search bar everytime you have to access it. As of today (06/08/2023), this app no longer works.
- Sharan K.E
- Even with extension installed, it always loads Reddit's new version. Now you have to manually old.reddit.com on the search bar everytime you have to access it. As of today (06/08/2023), this app no longer works.
- D Fowler
- Does what its supposed to do and is kept its functionality intact through updates when needed (not often, but it happens). Also they have a github page of the code some thats some extra points for them.
- D Fowler
- Does what its supposed to do and is kept its functionality intact through updates when needed (not often, but it happens). Also they have a github page of the code some thats some extra points for them.
- Mohamed Elsharnouby
- Perfect, lightweight, does exactly what it needs to do