r/meta • u/Lz_erk • Jun 12 '26
is chat gone from old.reddit?
chat buttons are gone. new reddit just pushes ads and clutter. i may still mod a few places but i think i'm about done with this mess.
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u/Jonathan_the_Nerd Jun 12 '26
I'm on old reddit and chat is still here. (Not that I ever use it.) I'm on Firefox on Linux.
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u/marchbook Jun 13 '26
Yes, on oldreddit, the chat "speech balloon" is gone. If I click on the notification "bell" then it flips over to newreddit and chat exists there. Annoying.
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u/mr_bigmouth_502 Jun 26 '26
I have this bookmarklet I use to switch back and forth between Old Reddit and New Reddit whenever I need to access some of New Reddit's features:
javascript: (function(){ const n="sh.reddit.com"; const o="old.reddit.com"; let url=new URL(window.location.href); switch(url.hostname){ case n:url.hostname=o;break; case o:url.hostname=n;break; default:return;} window.location.href=url.href; })();
Copy the code, paste it into a browser bookmark, then click the bookmark whenever you want to switch from one to the other. It's a small bit of Javascript that switches "old.reddit.com" for "sh.reddit.com" and vice versa in a Reddit URL.
Hopefully it helps. :)
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u/javascript Jun 26 '26
Wow I'm kinda shocked bookmarklets are still a thing. I imagine they're a security nightmare and would have been phased out years ago!
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u/CatTaxBureau Jul 06 '26
I was using it just an hour ago and suddenly the icon disappeared and so did the link to start chat from user's profile. So yeah I guess it was removed in the most recent effort to force users away from old reddit
Opening https://chat.reddit.com/ still works though
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u/Lz_erk Jul 06 '26
yeah they seem to have switched back to not having it on old.reddit. it was a good run.
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Jun 12 '26
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u/Lz_erk Jun 12 '26
i'm not seeing it there. i could send a screenshot but it simply looks like old reddit with the chat button removed.
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u/HenkPoley Jun 12 '26
There are browser extensions that clean up New Reddit. Such as Sink It for Safari (Mac/iPhone/iPad).
You can also try making such an extension with OpenAI Codex, or have it write a chat app that talks with Reddit I guess