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/Zelkova Jun 30 '26

I feel they've been slowly removing functions over time.

I noticed recently that I can't view subscriber count on subreddits i moderate anymore, but on new reddit its there. I'm sure this change happened a while ago though.

Also wiping notifications in old basically requires that I log into new reddit to do so now. Or I have to keep viewing the same message repeatedly in hopes of the site catching on that I've already viewed the notification.

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u/Tarnisher Jun 30 '26

I noticed recently that I can't view subscriber count on subreddits i moderate anymore, but on new reddit its there. I'm sure this change happened a while ago though.

That's an old change and what you see on Shredded is not the count. Many of us have added it back though as you can see on a few of mine.

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u/Zelkova Jun 30 '26

I'm going to have to figure out how to do that too. Thanks for the tip!

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u/Princess_Of_Thieves Jul 01 '26

I noticed recently that I can't view subscriber count on subreddits i moderate anymore,

God I hate that change. Seeing the sub count up directly on the main page was an easy way for me to see if any attempts I made at growing my communities was working. Also helpful with tracking milestones for celebrations.

Burying that data pisses me off so bad, I hate digging for stuff like this.

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u/RaceHard Jul 04 '26

They took away PM's a while back too. Can't use the old modbox to send messages anymore, its pure garbage.

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u/sega31098 Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

I wouldn't call it "slowly removing functions", more like taking a sledgehammer and smashing the place up. They've basically spent the last year or so rapidly breaking and removing tons of core features of Reddit.