It's an account setting -- you can completely opt out of the new version. I use Reddit every day, and have never been sent to the new version by mistake.
Unfortunately, if you use the old version, you will also not have access to the newest mod tools, including a lot of sub settings. But the old version works fine for reading and commenting.
It’s a cookie, and it’s linked to your login session. If you log out or clear cookies, or use incognito mode, it will revert to new by default. I used to have the same issue until I figured that out. Now I just have a dedicated container for it in Firefox and all is well.
I would have left reddit a long time ago if I were forced to use the terrible new UI. The fact that they still keep it around, years later, is a telling sign. When you are so scared of your own decisions, you know you messed up.
I'm on Reddit daily, and never had it forget my setting. You need to go to your preferences and disable "Use new Reddit as my default experience". When you do this, www.reddit.com shows the old design; you don't need to use old.reddit.com.
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It's an account setting -- you can completely opt out of the new version. I use Reddit every day, and have never been sent to the new version by mistake.
Unfortunately, if you use the old version, you will also not have access to the newest mod tools, including a lot of sub settings. But the old version works fine for reading and commenting.
I've set my preference to old numerous times. That setting seems to either revert or disappear entirely / appear as a new setting.
I'm constantly directed to www.
That's obvious as I've disabled JS for the domain, and so get an empty page with a spinner.
It's a clusterfsck.
It’s a cookie, and it’s linked to your login session. If you log out or clear cookies, or use incognito mode, it will revert to new by default. I used to have the same issue until I figured that out. Now I just have a dedicated container for it in Firefox and all is well.
I would have left reddit a long time ago if I were forced to use the terrible new UI. The fact that they still keep it around, years later, is a telling sign. When you are so scared of your own decisions, you know you messed up.
This occurs consistently whilst logged in.
I'm on Reddit daily, and never had it forget my setting. You need to go to your preferences and disable "Use new Reddit as my default experience". When you do this, www.reddit.com shows the old design; you don't need to use old.reddit.com.
Because reasons, I want old.reddit.com as the site.
Going to www, with the setting as specified, does not behave as you describe.
Did you also disable cookies? You might be causing the site to forget your settings by accident.
No.
The old version works fine, if you're aware of these workarounds, and these workarounds will not be shut down
I for one don't have an account, so I would get nagged by their popups constantly.
It was a perfectly fine website, they ruined it completely for me.