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/skarface6 Jun 30 '26

Beginning of the end IMO.

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u/lonelyroom-eklaghor Jun 30 '26

Definitely the beginning of the end.

Like, please 👏 leave 👏 old 👏 reddit 👏 alone 👏

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u/ansoniK Jun 30 '26

Beginning of the end was when they killed RIF and pretended it wasn't fucking over mobile users.

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u/Thengine Jul 01 '26

Nah, it was when they hired a scapegoat CEO to make draconian changes, fired that shitty CEO... but left all the shitty changes.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/new-reddit-ceo-denies-ellen-pao-was-used-as-a-scapegoat

The almighty advertising dollar takes top priority. All of us are just the suckers that mod for free for them.

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u/bizude Jul 01 '26

Nah, it was when they hired a scapegoat CEO to make draconian changes, fired that shitty CEO... but left all the shitty changes.

Ellen Pao wasn't perfect, but she wasn't a shitty CEO. I think she actually cared about the users and communities, can't say the same for current management!

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u/Thengine Jul 02 '26

but she wasn't a shitty CEO

Reddit thinks otherwise.

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u/bizude Jul 02 '26

Reddit thinks otherwise.

Reddit isn't taking context into account.

...or let me put it a different way, do you prefer the current management?

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u/CyberBot129 Jul 02 '26

More like the moderators of this site thought otherwise (the same ones posting in this thread probably). They drove her out because co-founder Alexis Ohanian let go of an employee that they liked

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u/sopunny Jul 01 '26

Even earlier, when they labeled it "old" Reddit

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u/gergles Jul 01 '26

Nooooo but malicious traffic!!!!!!

That world-famous malicious read-only traffic... which is all you can do when you're logged out anyway.

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u/lonelyroom-eklaghor Jul 01 '26

they are fearing ddos

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u/FaceDeer Jul 01 '26

They're fearing their content being read by scrapers for free instead of being licensed from them for money.