I’m not sure if this is new, but when I clicked on the /r/pics protest post link from the frontpage here, I was redirected to this: https://old.reddit.com/premium

I’m not sure if this is well-known or not that they’re pushing it now, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it, especially on old.reddit.

  • tst123@lemmy.worldEnglish
    53·
    1 year ago

    I was on Reddit for 10 years (deleted my accounts last week) and just today I am learning that Reddit premium existed. No wonder they have money problems and I don’t think it has anything to do with the api

    • nude@kbin.social
      211·
      1 year ago

      It was always there. Back in the day if you gave someone gold for a comment, you were giving them one month of premium.

    • zackwithak@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Did you only use third party apps and old Reddit? Because if you ever used their app or the new redesign, idk how you could miss it

    • marcos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Those badge things people kept giving to comments came mostly from premium users, but I’m not sure premium gave you anything else.

      • Poiar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Been on Reddit every day for 12 years, but have been using apps this entire time (RIP Sync for Reddit) so I might be a little out of the loop so:

        What badges?

    • gorkx@kbin.social
      212·
      1 year ago

      @tst123 This. It’s not because of a hissy fit over the worlds worst reddit app, or a bunch of honorless fucknuggets ruining shit for the rest of us. it’s that they are or were on a oldschool shareware-esk model: pay for the fucking thing your leaching from. Fact is weather or not anyone likes it even fedverse needs money to keep the lights on.

      @Cinner