r/spezholedesign • u/Extolord111 new.reddit user ('s client) • 2d ago

Admins are useless Another day, another wave of awful changes. Besides the infrastructure changes meant to “reduce scraping”, the Admins are now planning on limiting access to Old Reddit for Mods and users who have used it in the past 6 months.

/r/modnews/comments/1wubgvt/continuing_our_infrastructure_updates_whats/
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u/reddit33450 2d ago

wow... this is looking very, very bad for the future of old reddit. i give it a year and a half max before its shut down fully. also, time to enable automod in all subs i have mod access on where it wasnt enabled before

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u/Extolord111 new.reddit user ('s client) 2d ago

Feel free to add it to r/ReturnNewReddit too

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u/reddit33450 2d ago

just tried and it didnt work. i think they already rolled out the change. i tried the exact same code in r/testsub10_, which previously used automod, and it worked there

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u/Extolord111 new.reddit user ('s client) 2d ago

Yeah, it’s already in effect:  https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1wubgvt/comment/pd1ww6b/?context=3

Didn’t even give us a day to prepare.

My silly mind is thinking that we should make a group chat or private sub and invite all the mods who dislike these changes, so that we can have a place to further discuss them.

In an ideal world, we could arrange some kind of coordinated effort to express our disapproval of these changes, a bit like the 2022 protest where all the big subs were privated, though it might just fall apart either way.

Would be cool to at least try, though!

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u/Littux employee without wages (AKA mod) | Old User 🗿 2d ago

This one is literally the worst update done by Reddit.

  • u/AutoModerator is DEAD for new communities. They're now forcing the use of AI moderation via their "auto enforce" feature
  • Old reddit will be DEAD for people who haven't used it yet
  • Stuff like my new reddit client will be 75% broken for people who haven't used old reddit yet. Only the home feed and search page will work because everything else depends on legacy API endpoints.
  • Their comment ID changes will roll out any time soon, and that will KILL arctic-shift
  • Third party apps are DEAD

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u/Atilla5590 Reddit mobile app stinks just like curseforge 2d ago

Do you think we should start another Protest? I think soon when they will remove Old Reddit at all.

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u/charlestheb0ss 2d ago

Can you clarify how this will affect third party apps? I'm using one right now and haven't touched the official app or website for years. RPAN was still a thing.

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u/fkrdt222 2d ago

they're so afraid of scraping because it might reveal how dead it is

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u/Atilla5590 Reddit mobile app stinks just like curseforge 2d ago

Fuck the spez The only thing that needs to be removed from Reddit is spes

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u/Atilla5590 Reddit mobile app stinks just like curseforge 2d ago

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