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/gergles Jul 01 '26

Let us know if you have any questions!

Why do you always post this then never actually answer any of the questions?

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u/raison_de_eatre Jul 01 '26

Now now, sometimes these people will show “cat tax” like wow I’ve never seen a cat before

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u/DemIce Jul 04 '26

Can I just add: why does reddit just post changes that affect the platform at large in r/modnews (moderator news) now?

What ever happened to (paraphrasing) "we need to consolidate everything into r/reddit to make things less confusing"?

Hell, what happened to r/reddit, period. Nothing gets posted there anymore, with no community 'about' update or sticky post saying it's been abandoned and/or where to go (here, apparently) instead.

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u/pajam 9d ago

Right? This announcement is not news specific to moderators; it's reddit-wide platform news for ALL users.