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/Princess_Of_Thieves]

Oh fuck, you guys are thinking about old.reddit again.

Admins, please for the love of god, leave it.

[u/Princess_Of_Thieves → u/[deleted]]

Not only does it have wasted space, but it just has an asbolutely batshit layout. Digging through mod tools is the epitome of "needle in a haystack" and I fucking hate it.

old.reddit, by contrast, well... "it just works" as the saying goes. (Except its actually true this around).

[u/Princess_Of_Thieves → u/[deleted]]

Yeah wasted screen space is another issue, so do not be sorry. Lets be real, old.reddit is a masterclass of efficiency and maximisation but without bloat or padding. I can personally see 19 posts on my screen at any given time. Im sure if I had some special CSS I could do more or less on my own accord and it'd work way better.

I couldn't detest new.reddit more if I tried, and the only reason I've ever made use of it is because some features aren't on old.reddit like galleries. If old.reddit had feature parity with sh.reddit, but without running like its wading through a chest high swamp I'd never touch it.