It doesn’t really work any more. Any post with an image will just show you the image when you try to open the post, and there is a little button at the bottom that says “view post”. If you click that button it tries to install the app. If you don’t let it install the app then it takes you to the new site. Ugh, I can’t even. I hate them so much!
Any post with an image will just show you the image when you try to open the post
This gave me hope that it would actually just be the image, not wrapped in reddit’s viewer UI bullshit, in a sort of “task failed successfully” way. But no, you still get their nonsense wrapped around it. Why would anyone want to just look at an image when that’s what they click on.
It doesn’t really work any more. Any post with an image will just show you the image when you try to open the post, and there is a little button at the bottom that says “view post”. If you click that button it tries to install the app. If you don’t let it install the app then it takes you to the new site. Ugh, I can’t even. I hate them so much!
That’s not been my experience.
This was the first post with an image I saw when I went to see if something had changed:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Costco/comments/1cd56t3/tastee_choice_crawfish_boil_worst_costco_purchase/
Are you on desktop?
Edit: I just saw someone else commented and said old was broken today too. So maybe it has changed since I looked at it.
Nope - I tested on mobile (iOS/ Safari)
Just so be clear, I was commenting that I haven’t had the issue you mentioned with image posts on old.reddit.com outside of today’s outage(s)
This gave me hope that it would actually just be the image, not wrapped in reddit’s viewer UI bullshit, in a sort of “task failed successfully” way. But no, you still get their nonsense wrapped around it. Why would anyone want to just look at an image when that’s what they click on.