[pineapple_guy]

Funny you say this as their app is also pretty bad. Their image slider is one of the most poorly made features I’ve ever seen in an app - with it never being clear what a left swipe, a double tap, or a right swipe will do.

[time_to_smile]

They don't want you to use the app because it's better for you, but because it allows them to collect much better and more fine grained information about your usage (to sell to advertisers and use the target you) and you can't block ads.

I suspect the only reason they keep old.reddit.com alive is the is enough added content from users of that subdomain, while these users are also, at this point, the most likely to just stop using reddit altogether if it was remove.

I assume eventually that math with work out so that it makes more sense to just get rid of 'old' entirely.