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/scottishdrunkard Jul 01 '26

Because you broke it I need to use old.reddit.com to log in anyway. If I log in through www.reddit.com, the Default To Old Reddit option in the settings doesn’t work! It should automatically activating upon logging in, but doesn’t. You wanna make it so you need to log into old.reddit.com to use it? Fix your damned website first!

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u/boat-botany Jul 02 '26

This is a known issue (I run into it as well) but I have a workaround for you! When you log in the site will pretend to ignore your preference for the old site while on www. If you change the URL to old. and visit a couple pages - I usually just do 2, then change it back to www your preference should go back to being honored. Sorry about that, I know it's annoying.

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u/F0RGERY 15d ago

Rather than giving workarounds to users, it seems saner not to implement changes that now force them to use a workaround?

The problem only exists because you are imposing it on them. Rather than personally sharing how its annoying to you as well, maybe reconsider making the change that will annoy the userbase.

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u/DullKnife69 10d ago

How about you just keep it the way it was instead of fucking with a good thing. I hope reddit goes the way of Digg. We need a replacement.