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Hadn't heard that, could you drop a link?
https://old.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/1em8ywa/reddit_is_trying_to_kill_oldredditcom/
Thanks! Maybe they are doing this because old.reddit is more convenient to scrape, and stopping unauthorized data collection seems to be a priority for them? Since it isn't actively worked on you wouldn't need to constantly update a scraping program every time there's a change to the site that breaks it.