Ensure Reddit always loads the old design
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.
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
- (2023-10-05) ika: thanks. i dont use reddit but the website is obnoxious and reloads 3 times cause it forces google sign in
- (2023-08-25) 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.
- (2023-08-06) 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.
- (2023-07-09) 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.
- (2023-06-21) Mohamed Elsharnouby: Perfect, lightweight, does exactly what it needs to do
- (2023-06-19) Fawaz Akhtar: Why is it asking for new permissions after latest update?
- (2023-04-23) Edwin N: First Chrome extension review I've ever added in 15+ years or however long I've been using Chrome. Does EXACTLY what it needs to do!
- (2023-03-05) Jon Alder: Excellent. Makes Reddit Usable again...
- (2023-01-31) Jeremy Kuehnau: Not a big fan of the direction Reddit is going in, used to be you could freely browse the website without being bugged to register, or suddenly having a pop-up blocking what you were reading, or hiding information because it was deemed "dangerous". This add-on is nice because it simply adds the "old." to the Reddit URL, allowing you to use Reddit like it was intended instead of the greedy, ridiculous website it has become.
- (2022-11-14) Izofeu: Works.
- (2022-10-20) Kwauhn: Does exactly what it's supposed to and nothing more. Only realized I need to rate it when I tried viewing www.reddit.com instead of old.reddit.com and got redirected. The new site has been evicted from my mind for not paying rent, and this extension is my landlord's lawyer. 5/5, perfection.
- (2022-10-11) Shiniman: It was great. But new reddit just works better on ultrawide because the zooming in isn't wonky. Been using it for years tho
- (2022-08-23) Kyle Coleman: Reddit, y u do dis? Old.reddit is so much better. This plug-in works flawlessly.
- (2022-08-21) Remus Raducan: Thank you just what I needed
- (2022-05-28) TimeToGG: nice, still working 2022/05/28
- (2022-04-28) Ritobrata Ghosh: Works perfectly for me. I am using and loving it in 2022.
- (2022-04-20) Grayson Oliver: Works very well. I clear all my browser data on exit so this makes reddit tolerable to use logged out. Thank you.
- (2022-03-27) RandomCommenter10: Amazing extension, new reddit sucks so bad and old reddit will always be superior.
- (2022-02-16) Trahloc colDhart: It makes reddit usable again.
- (2022-02-05) Favorite Moment: 구관이 명관이다.
- (2021-12-31) Will: Should've downloaded this years ago. Thank you, bro. Much appreciated
- (2021-12-11) junior: Old Reddit is much lighter on my old laptop. New Reddit consumes a lot of RAM and crashes my laptop.
- (2021-08-10) go2hell746: we should have an option for certain domains (i.reddit.com for example. its old mobile reddit, however it redirects to old desktop reddit)
- (2021-07-28) Chase Hays: Does what is says but there is no need for it as you simply have a "use old reddit button" in reddit settings
- (2021-07-16) FRC: as a wise man once said, it just works
- (2021-06-14) Adam Barnes: New reddit sucks. Old reddit sucks too, but at least that's just because of the content. Recently, new reddit has been seeping in with things like the report modal and the cookies popup. Old Reddit Redirect appears to have updated itself specifically to remove the cookie popup, meaning it goes from a 5/5 rating to a 10/5 rating hell yeah.
- (2021-06-13) Strollas: does what it says
- (2021-06-13) Fearless: It now asks for extra permissions to read and change data on reddit which is too sketchy for me and will not be using this anymore. Good way on ruining your own addon
- (2021-06-13) Jeff Iding: Used to be great but now suddenly requires additional permissions to read and change my data on old.reddit.com. Seems sketchy and I will not be using this extension any longer.
- (2021-05-29) Hunter Ray: Amazing!
- (2021-05-04) Matt Lawson: just installed it. works perfectly.
- (2021-04-24) X Greezel: I can't figure out how to briefly pause the extension without completely removing it, sometimes I need to access new reddit to upload pictures properly. That's my only complaint.
- (2021-04-09) Semere Tereffe: It does what it is supposed to. Nothing more. Nothing less. I love it.
- (2021-03-22) Welykeda Stonk: Love it. I really hate the new look of Reddit so this extension is a thing of beauty.
- (2021-03-11) Zarif Rahman: Does not seem to work anymore. Can this issue be looked into?
- (2021-02-27) ShadowingXblade: Замечательно, НО - нужно добавить в список редиректа на старый дизайн ещё и ссылки с new.reddit.*
- (2021-01-26) LongTailCat3 MLP: no is bad no redifirect is not wpork bad is no reppirect
- (2021-01-24) Patrick Patrick: Works just fine.
- (2021-01-10) Austin C: You have to be mentally ill to prefer the redesign over this. Great quality of life addon, get it and never look back (or forward in this case lol)
- (2020-12-13) Omar Mahmoud: its fixed sir
- (2020-12-13) FrostBid: Worked great. My essential extension for reddit browsing.
- (2020-12-10) Zlatimir Petrov: It's honestly one of my favorite extensions. That's how much I despise the new reddit design. Brilliant
- (2020-12-08) DicerX: A literal godsend, I have been using this extension for two years and has yet to fail me. To this day I fail to understand why reddit doesn't allow for this option natively. Cheers
- (2020-11-30) Chris Sivanich: Does what it says, better redirect mechanism than I've seen for other similar extensions. No more New Reddit; can't argue with that.
- (2020-10-30) no: works
- (2020-10-22) Brian Zoberman: The only reason I still use reddit, thanks for this!
- (2020-09-10) S: Works.
- (2020-08-24) Ben Brokke: thank you for making this and providing it for free
- (2020-08-06) WhatsAnOutside: works
- (2020-08-01) Jeff Duhamel: Great extension, but to echo the previous poster it no longer works with v.reddit.com. You can expand a the image of the thumbnail for the video and then play it but if you don't perfectly click on the controls then it just reloads the thread.
Statistics
Installs
100,000
history
Category
Rating
4.7633 (300 votes)
Last update / version
2024-08-26 / 2.0.1
Listing languages
en-US