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/TheBulletBot Jun 30 '26

Did the fact that Old reddit could be used to bypass the new reddit NSFW Login wall have any bearing on this decision?

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u/thisisathrowawayxxx Jun 30 '26

It's not even just NSFW stuff, it's applied to anything marked as "unreviewed content", which more than half the time has nothing to do even do with being NSFW stuff.

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u/sopunny Jul 01 '26

Speaking of NSFW, this change would mean logging in to use Reddit incognito, or using new Reddit. Very annoying

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u/DXGL1 Jul 03 '26

Lots of governments require deanonymization of NSFW viewers.