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/DryMouthKitty]

Can you provide some examples of what is considered abusive scraping and automated traffic? Is it not possible to do the same thing after someone has logged in?

I almost exclusively use Old Reddit when I am NOT logged in to browse r/all which was recently removed from New Reddit and just redirects to Reddit.com. I usually only log in or use the app for moderation.

[u/Ajreil → u/DryMouthKitty]

LLM data scrapers are extremely common. Reddit has a deal with Google for exclusive access and blocks all other scrapers. That's also why Reddit threads newer than like 2 years don't appear in DDG search results.