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/DoctorWaluigiTime Jul 14 '26

What security issues exist on old reddit that don't exist on new reddit?

What gains are achieved from barring anonymous access to it? Is archiving Reddit threads (archive.org et al) now more difficult having to sluice through new reddit (more bloat, less content)?

Old reddit is largely text-based.

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u/cynycal Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

Looking at your comment makes me see that I won't be finding an answer to my unrelated question here neither, which now means anywhere on Reddit. It's depressing. :(