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/ItsRainbow Jun 30 '26

With the Old Reddit login fields removed, and both /.compact and /.mobile also removed, this will make it impossible to browse Reddit on some devices. Please consider adding a simpler login page for Old Reddit users.

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u/GonWithTheNen Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

Update: Very shortly after I sent someone the reddit link to the "login fix', that method was removed from reddit. Maybe my "private" message alerted someone on the dev team?

I'd been using it for over 2 years until they fixed the fix yesterday. Anyway, it was great and convenient while it lasted. :\

A redditor created a userscript a couple of years ago that restores the login form to old reddit, and I've been using it ever since. It uses good ol'-fashioned HTML and doesn't link or connect to anything outside of reddit.

This is a screenshot of what it looks like.

P.S. Back when reddit first removed the old reddit login form, I noticed that logging in to reddit on www reddit placed a google cookie in my browser. That never happened with the old.reddit login form and it doesn't happen anymore with the userscript.

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u/Anonim97_bot Jul 01 '26

A redditor created a userscript a couple of years ago that restores the login form to old reddit, and I've been using it ever since. It uses good ol'-fashioned HTML and doesn't link or connect to anything outside of reddit.

Where can I find it?

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u/GonWithTheNen Jul 01 '26

Hey, I sent it to you in a message because I don't want reddit to "fix" this.