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.

    • nude
      22•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
      11•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?

        • @rain_arEnglish
          4•1 year ago

          They’re probably talking about the awards (ex: gold, silver, wholesome, helpful)

    • gorkx
      -9•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