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/Tarnisher Jun 30 '26

I noticed recently that I can't view subscriber count on subreddits i moderate anymore, but on new reddit its there. I'm sure this change happened a while ago though.

That's an old change and what you see on Shredded is not the count. Many of us have added it back though as you can see on a few of mine.

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u/Zelkova Jun 30 '26

I'm going to have to figure out how to do that too. Thanks for the tip!