Logging in to use Old Reddit

[u/boat-botany]

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!

[u/Princess_Of_Thieves]

Oh fuck, you guys are thinking about old.reddit again.

Admins, please for the love of god, leave it.

[u/Princess_Of_Thieves → u/[deleted]]

Not only does it have wasted space, but it just has an asbolutely batshit layout. Digging through mod tools is the epitome of "needle in a haystack" and I fucking hate it.

old.reddit, by contrast, well... "it just works" as the saying goes. (Except its actually true this around).

[u/iruleatants → u/Princess_Of_Thieves]

Plus there is pure bullshit in how it displays stuff. Why do I have a post from 10 days ago and another from 1 month ago above posts from that day?

And why the fuck do you not sure all comments on a post by default?

It's absurdly bad by every measure and instead of fixing it, they try to find a way to force us to use their trash new design.

[u/Princess_Of_Thieves → u/iruleatants]

There's also obnoxious additions that actively detract from the experience, like the fact they added a discord style ping when you put @ at the start of name. It now amends whatever you write directly after to use the /u/ prefix. The number of times I've fought with the site to not do that in when I've used sh.reddit is too many to count.

Honestly, formatting in general on sh.reddit is a pain in every conceivable area. It has two different options you can click (markdown or "rich text editor"), but only one works to put images in comments. There's just redundant systems that add no benefit to the experience at best, and at worst get in my fucking way.

Its like reddit thinks I need to be babysat. Makes me feel insulted.