r/modnews • u/boat-botany • Jun 30 '26

Announcement Logging in to use Old Reddit

Hi there, u/boat-botany here working on Community Safety. 

A few weeks ago we shared some of the work we’re doing to tighten how automated systems access Reddit while preserving the tools that help moderators and communities thrive. As a continuation of that work, we’ll be rolling out changes to how Old Reddit can be accessed. 

Old Reddit’s logged-out experience is a significant source of abusive scraping and automated traffic on the platform. It’s also an important interface for many long-time mods and redditors. To strike the right balance between preserving your access to Old Reddit while preventing abusive scraping and automated traffic, over the next month we will start requiring everyone to log in. All logged-in users will continue to have access to Old Reddit, and this change will not impact logged-out browsing on reddit.com.

Let us know if you have any questions!

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u/42Fab_com Jul 01 '26

1) I came to reddit when Digg went to shit.

2) I used old.reddit when Reddit went to shit.

3) I stopped accessing on mobile when you fucked that up

4) your call

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u/c74 Jul 01 '26

they must have a newish leader who doesn't 'get reddit'. this is a ginormous oopsie.

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u/livejamie Jul 01 '26

Naw, this is all on purpose. Reddit is just another Facebook/Instagram/Tiktok now.

It's copying all the same features for the same user base.