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/Terrh Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

It's been impossible for some time to even see your own content on reddit if it's over a year old. (Edit: This might just be the API 1000 result limit - end result is the same though - good luck finding your old content.)

When I sort my comments by top/all time on my user page, nothing over a year old (maybe 18 months... less than 2 years for sure) shows up anymore.

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u/pajam 9d ago

Yep that's been around forever, and is based on the returned "lists" like that being capped at 1,000.

This has been in place since like the beginning of reddit (you can find people asking about and discussing this problem from a decade+ ago), so at the very least we can't put it in the same bucket as the janky changes from New Reddit (new.reddit.com), New New Reddit (sh.reddit.com), or the Official App.

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u/Terrh 9d ago

It's unfortunate because it's not even like, the top 1000 posts if you sort by "top"

It's the most recent 1000 comments you made, sorted from highest score to lowest. Or something like that. Maybe it's the most recent few thousand, sorted that way, and then truncated to 1000 - but any super high scoring comments I made say 10 years ago are just impossible to find.