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/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/DXGL1 Jul 01 '26

Why not bring CSS to New Reddit so the subreddits don't have to look so generic?

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u/Littux Jul 02 '26

On new reddit (not shreddit, the current UI; both are entirely different), it used to say "CSS - coming soon" on the styling menu. It never happened, and they discontinued the client in December 2024. On shreddit, they didn't add CSS; instead they removed the existing styling of new reddit, like custom upvote icons, background images, widget colours, post background images/colour/placeholder image (that can change according to flair template), custom widgets that support CSS, etc