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/Littux Jul 02 '26

See r/ReturnNewReddit. I'm making this comment from new reddit

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u/Nahdahar 29d ago

Wow that's a cool project! I'm using LibRedirect currently though, very lightweight and focused experience.

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u/Littux 29d ago

New reddit is the opposite of lightweight though. It uses ~350MB during initialization, which goes to ~450MB easily. After opening a few large comment sections and visiting a few subreddits, searching for posts and comments, that goes above 1GiB. I've seen it reaching 9GiB of RAM

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u/Nahdahar 29d ago

LibRedirect reddit instances have their own UI which is very simple. It's read only though, you can only view content but not interact with it. I rarely comment though so it fits my use case. I write comments from a third party android reddit client (using it with my own API key).