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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1231775/reddit-will-require-you-to-log-in-to-use-old-reddit-com

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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.

  • cecilkorik@piefed.caEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    Haha. I always thought when they got rid of old.reddit.com, that would be the day I finally left the site never to come back. I never expected I would leave before that happened, but here I am on Lemmy, learning about what they’re doing to old.reddit.com, while having not gone back in ages and having no particular interest to anymore. RIP Reddit, you won’t be missed, except maybe the first /r/Place, that was pretty cool.