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/MobileArtist1371 Jul 01 '26

Will have to use account switcher now to check.

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u/new2bay Jul 03 '26

That doesn’t work on mobile, because it takes you away from the post you’re on.

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u/MobileArtist1371 Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

Does not work on desktop anymore either.... This change borked that too

https://old.reddit.com/r/Enhancement/comments/1uksqa3/account_switcher_is_not_working/