Recommend you use the Redirector browser plugin (https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/) and create a rule with these options:
Redirect:
https://*.reddit.com/ to:
https://old.reddit.com/r/$1 excluding:
https://old.reddit.com/ Example:
https://*.reddit.com/ → https://old.reddit.com/r/* Applies to:
Main window (address bar)
They stopped doing that at least 10 years ago.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150317155232/https://news.redd...
I sure hope they won’t take down old.reddit.com. IMHO, Reddit would be unusable without it.
I never even knew they did this.
Recommend you use the Redirector browser plugin (https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/) and create a rule with these options:
Redirect:
https://*.reddit.com/ to:
https://old.reddit.com/r/$1 excluding:
https://old.reddit.com/ Example:
https://*.reddit.com/ → https://old.reddit.com/r/* Applies to:
Main window (address bar)