No that is how old Reddit worked before it went closed source and evolved into a social media app over the top site with comments it used to be

> Latest commit d990533 Aug 17, 2015

Unless you run your own instance of reddit how can you be sure that is what is used?

It’s definitely not what’s used anymore. Reddit went closed source and when they did so they gave one reason being their internal codebase had completely diverged and moved to micro services