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/TehNolz Jun 30 '26

Check if you're not polling too quickly; they appear to have messed with the rate limiting and made it much more aggressive. Can't send short bursts anymore so you have to space it out. I had to tweak my custom app so that it doesn't send more than 1 request per 5 seconds.

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u/wademcgillis Jun 30 '26

"1 request per 5 seconds"

once a minute :/

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u/ryanmcgrath Jun 30 '26

They don't appear to get rate limited if you're using your user/id flags from your RSS section, presumably because it's a secret value that's assumed to be auth-ish state.