Reddit is removing years of chats and messages - eviltoast
  • kingthrillgore@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’ve had people working at Reddit tell me that old.reddit is so buried in there its removal would be hard. Which doesn’t change the fact that they would pull it out of necessary. I’m guessing they’ll find the routes for it and 301 anything to the new reddit. Easy enough change.

    • besbin@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      they probably already have all the mapping for the old system stored somewhere the first time they have to switch to old reddit. Just need to change the behavior of that to return a 302