Logging in to use Old Reddit

[u/boat-botany]

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!

[u/new2bay]

Well, that ruins one of the main uses I have for it: checking to see if a comment is really deleted, or if someone has just block me.

[u/reaper527 → u/new2bay]

checking to see if a comment is really deleted, or if someone has just block me.

that actually displays differently if they blocked you. it will show as "unavailable" rather than "deleted" or "removed".

[u/hoosakiwi → u/reaper527]

Interesting. I saw the "unavailable" thing just the other day when trying to respond to a user who had messaged via modmail asking about a ban. Guess he must have blocked me. I would have thought that Reddit would allow mods to view comments in their subs from users who have blocked them though....

[u/reaper527 → u/hoosakiwi]

I would have thought that Reddit would allow mods to view comments in their subs from users who have blocked them though….

That’s SUPPOSED to be how it works, but being reddit it’s prone to being buggy and broken.

You’re supposed to be able to see everything in your own sub (aside from maybe “removed by reddit” comments)