Reddit signals ominous upcoming "changes” for old.reddit.com
arstechnica.com
Reddit says the beloved site is used for some "bad behavior."

As of a few minutes ago old.reddit.com now seems to requre logging in to access it.

Shame as it was still the best place to browse for info about some niche interests.

Edit: Seems like they might be testing the change as it is hit or miss at the moment.

Edit: Adding this to My flilters in uBlock Origin seems to fix the issue for the time being:

||reddit.com^$header=referer:

  • Pechente@feddit.orgEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    I see similar comments every now and then. What exactly is missing here for you? There’s a community for almost anything except some niche topics

    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Niche topics was all I ever used Reddit for, so in my case, Lemmy just doesn’t replace Reddit at all. None of the subreddits I follow have an active equivalent Lemmy community. They go from a few posts a day and dozens of comments on Reddit to “last post: 3 years ago” on Lemmy.

    • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      Local communities are lacking. We don’t have the critical mass for that.

    • velma@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      More diversity, but since we’re commenting under a new user’s comment, that may be correcting itself.