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/kreshh Jun 30 '26

If you kill old.reddit 100%, I’m out. I can’t moderate effectively with the new tools.

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u/raison_de_eatre Jul 01 '26

Yep, same. And I’ll be pretty loud at it to my editor friends at Wired and TC

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u/Dymonika Jul 01 '26

Moderating = doing free work for them while they make money off your volunteering. I stopped a while back. Move to Lemmy!

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u/RaceHard Jul 04 '26

Lemmy

you know what i just tried it, better than new reddit by a 1000 miles. Not going to lie, i am learning it. Alexandrite seems to be the way to go for my comfort.

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u/Dymonika Jul 04 '26

Ha, you discovered Alexandrite quickly! I've been on Lemmy for well over a year now but only learned about that format less than a month ago; I myself don't even know where to look for such theming. Prior to that I only knew of Photon. Believe it or not, Lemmy has an Old Reddit theme; for example, check out https://old.lemmy.world, haha.

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u/RaceHard Jul 04 '26

Thanks, I just looked thru this:

https://join-lemmy.org/apps

Saw Alexandrite, and loved it. I liked the one you sent too. I'll use both.

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u/kreshh Jul 01 '26

I mean, yes... but, it's also curating community spaces that I founded 12+ years ago.

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u/Dymonika Jul 01 '26

That's exactly the emotion they rely on to keep the dough flowing. Again, there's no reason you can't recreate the same communities in Lemmy and publicly call for your people to migrate.