I think they're gonna remove access to the theming of old.reddit.com

- I'll bite I guess. I use Firefox with ublock to browse two niche communities. One is for the small city I live in which is relatively active and a very useful source of local news/events info. I'll stop using reddit if I can't use an ad blocker or if they make me use an app etc.
  
  Waterfox (water beats fire), AdNauseam (uBO fork that also clicks ads to mess up their tracking data), and NoScript (selective JavaScript-disabling per site) here!
- I don't have an active account anymore (mine got banned because I called someone a fascist sanewasher and any new account I try to make gets immediately banned), but I still browse Reddit specifically because there are several subreddits for my local area (my county, my suburb, and the big city nearby) which are pretty active. I get a lot of local information from there which really isn't available in such a concise way anywhere else.
  
  mined just ended up like this, was purged in FEB, 5+accounts with anwhere to 1-11years of history), recently was shadowbanned as soon as my comment was removed by a MOD, i suspect a mod personally removing a comment has more weight in getting you shadowbanned than an automod would. i am appealing to see whats thier response, eventough its unlikely. apparently from the shadowban sub, they do apply a shadowban and it does have a time limit(depends on your "violation" and someone said when they lifted thier ban, they were rebanned, because admins said the oriignal ban dint expire yet, or some bs they came up with.
- Because I don't want to make another account just for an AutoHotkey discussion board, but /c/AutoHotkey is dead while /r/AutoHotkey is very much alive. The same can be said for so many other subs. Why else would one stay there?
- Porn?
  
  better to go to a non-PH and its affiliate porn sites if people wanted that. almost half of its promoting OF accounts, and even OF videos end up on these non-PH sites anyways, if people wanted the good stuff rather than paying for OF.
- Because other sites still haven't ramped up enough in specialized areas to provide anywhere near reddit's level of interaction. If I'm stumped by some technical problem in a DIY project or my various niche hobbies, I can ask a question there and usually get good answers fast. Hopefully lemmy will be there eventually, but for now lots of communities with thousands of members on reddit have hundreds or dozens on lemmy.
  Having said that, if they make Old Reddit unusable, as someone suggested might soon happen, I'm out.
  
  Hopefully lemmy will be there eventually, but for now lots of communities with thousands of members on reddit have hundreds or dozens on lemmy.
  I see where you come from, but Reddit subscribers are usually inflated, and you don't need thousands of people to answer a question

That'll lose them some users, but they'll truly seppuku themselves when they inevitably drop the porn.
- All Reddit users should consider seppuku
  https://old.reddit.com/r/redditseppuku
  Take a screenshot of your username/account with your karma and account age; then delete it.
- Oh yeah, I forgot that that's been going on in legislature... Hmm...

well, I guess I am well and truly done with visiting reddit even occasionally
- The only time I'm there is when I search for something and the answer happens to be a Reddit post/comment. I hope this will happen less and less often, but there is genuinely a good decade of knowledge in there. It's not rare that a 7 years old Reddit comment solves my issue.
  
  It’s not rare that a 7 years old Reddit comment solves my issue.
  It will be soon, and I agree but I think we will all be shocked how quickly the fediverse grows lots of niche communities. I don't think the numbers will grow as fast as the amount of niche content either, because I think this will be a product of highly motivated people who come here specifically to recreate those niche communities and contributing to fleshing them out far more than a similar sized community would be on a corporate social network.

It’s a sinking ship
- And the leadership is vigorously poking holes in the bottom.

Ahh yes, reddit. Now that's a site I haven't thought about in a long time.

I deleted my account a long time ago but still visit on old.reddit. When they get rid of support for old.reddit I will finally just no longer visit because the modern formatting is completely non-navigable

“A dumpster fire, you say? I know what will help calm things down. Gasoline!”

How and why the fuck is anyone still there
- Because there's a lot relevant forum content that's been absorbed by reddit over the years and lemmy isn't there.
  
  Lemmy isn’t as easy to Navigate for those used to the Reddit app.
- Content.
- The groups specific to life/legal issues/visa issues/finance in Japan steadfastly refuse to move so I visit for those only.

Sounds very likely indeed

The notifications are redirecting even Old Reddit users to WWW...
That's not the issue. If you configured your settings correctly (they're per-device and get reset on clearing cookies), www.reddit.com is still old reddit too.
The issue is that neither chat nor notifications respect that. They both enforce shreddit despite oldreddit being configured as the default.
And yes, the only realistic reason is that they're phasing out old reddit by replacing its features one by one by shreddit-exclusive ones.

Being able to use old reddit is the only thing that holds what's left of my interest.