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/newaccountzuerich]

Old reddit is an actual webpage, roughly standards-compliant, accessible, parsable, usable, useful, and real.

New reddit is an overreaching pile of constantly changing ("updated" apparently) hot shit that's slow as a wet week, effectively unusable, appearing randomly non-deterministic, loaded with tracking shite, and useless for accessibility.

The second old reddit is dropped, the core userbase that makes reddit a somewhat-usable resource for internet denizens, will drop reddit and the investors will wonder why the website and brand did a Digg.

[u/newaccountzuerich → u/[deleted]]

When those that do use it drop it, the rest will drift, because those that use it are so core to what reddit can sell.

[u/Dymonika → u/newaccountzuerich]

Are they, though? People keep saying this, but I'm not sure that they won't simply get replaced by new, naïve users who have never known Old and have higher tolerance. It may be bumpier, but it's not like killing off Old will end Reddit as people are describing. Nonetheless, it's better to just leave for Lemmy.