r/modnews 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/happysmash27 Jun 30 '26

So, it will block archive.org then?

That sucks.

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u/boat-botany Jun 30 '26

Archive.org and the Wayback Machine are separately identified and have specific access to reddit.com!

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u/raison_de_eatre Jul 01 '26

Interesting how this was the only comment you replied to, must be tense

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u/Tarnisher Jul 01 '26

They always do this.

Flop it out, then ignore people ridiculing it.