Cleaning up some low-usage features
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Hey folks, Over the next few weeks, we’ll be removing a few old low-usage features from old.reddit.com. These features may be familiar, so we...

It begins…

Found out via this post

Interesting side-note, reddit’s anti-VPN policies and blocking some archivers like ghostarchive.

  • @Valmond
    24•3 months ago

    It’s usually better to not touch code that is working, it won’t become “clean” just because you deactivate some stuff and if you do try to actually remove code (to “clean” things, whatever that means in a setting bigger than a small project), good luck not breaking anything.

    Source: oldtimer software dev

    • @pingvenoEnglish
      10•3 months ago

      Code that exists still needs to be updated and maintained. It interacts with the rest of the code. Sure you can leave it lying around, but at a certain point the technical debt is going to catch up to you.

      • @Valmond
        4•3 months ago

        Man do I have news for you…

        I mean I don’t like it, but the number of time I have seen crappy 20-30 year old code that’s completely shit, ingrown into everything else…

      • @AA5B
        2•3 months ago

        Maybe you can afford this in your personal projects but I have yet to work at a company willing to invest in that. Sure, a conscientious developer might clean up things they’re working on, but old code usually gets ignored until the pain of keeping it gets too great, until someone is forced to do something about it

        • @pingvenoEnglish
          2•3 months ago

          Oh, sure, I’ve been there. Am there. And Reddit may have gotten to that point with these features where maintenance costs overtook the costs of removing them.