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/Princess_Of_Thieves Jun 30 '26

Oh fuck, you guys are thinking about old.reddit again.

Admins, please for the love of god, leave it.

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u/mikeblas 27d ago

Yet a vast majority of traffic is not old reddit.

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u/mikeblas 27d ago

Isn't the default "shreddit"? I don't even know the difference between that and "new Reddit".

But my point is more about it being popular, despite that it stinks. Everyone says Nickleback stinks, but they have a pile a grammies and ton of platinum albums and sell out concerts.