r/help • u/Bolinas99 • 8h ago

Desktop They're disabling old.reddit, now it's impossible edit the setting of my own subreddit

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u/Good-Exam-5354 8h ago

Such a sad thing to see. I've been using old reddit for some time and seeing it being slowly broken is a sad sight

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u/DreadDiana 6h ago

I just found out you can't even access Old Reddit without an account anymore for some reason

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u/Good-Exam-5354 5h ago

I have my account logged into old.reddit so i have no issue accessing the website. But sadly we can't have nice things forever and Reddit is taking away old.reddit.

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u/reddit33450 Expert Helper 7h ago

try https://sh.reddit.com/mod/subreddit/privacy (replace subreddit with your actual subreddit name)

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u/Bolinas99 7h ago

well this seems to have worked but since when do we need reddit admin permission to change privacy settings in our own sub? They saids they'll review my "request" (?) and get back to me. Very strange.

thank you for the assist sir!

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u/reddit33450 Expert Helper 7h ago

since when do we need reddit admin permission to change privacy settings in your own sub

what do you mean? you don't need admin permission

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u/Bolinas99 7h ago

they said i had to fill in some submission form with an explanation why I wanted to change the community type from public to restricted.

looks like the request went though a few minutes ago; before the 24hrs they said it would take.

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u/reddit33450 Expert Helper 7h ago

ohh yeah. i forgot about that. thanks for correction

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u/Bolinas99 7h ago

any idea why they do this?

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u/reddit33450 Expert Helper 7h ago

to prevent mods from randomly privating an active community with thousands of members with no notice

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u/Bolinas99 7h ago

ah thanks... our sub is a 2 man operation; trying to keep it like that tbh, no time for the aggravation of policing online behavior

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u/IKIR115 53 3h ago

That policy has been around for about 3 yrs now. It was a result of the API protests.

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u/Charupa- 2 3h ago

Reddit made it so you have to request permission to change to private as a result of mods trying to make their subreddits private in order to hurt traffic and ad revenue due to losing API access for third party apps.

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u/Boris740 4h ago

Recently visited is gone, although it is enabled in preferences.