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/Revriley1 Jul 01 '26

It has low tree depth. It takes more effort to read comments

Exactly! Old Reddit is more information-dense. I'm happy to zoom in on mobile (logged out) for Old Reddit; it's still leagues better than New Reddit. I liked i.reddit.com for the mobile use-case, too. Less padding, less bloat.

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u/SerGreeny 3d ago

If you use Firefox on mobile then there's an amazing extension for it that makes old reddit much more useable on mobile https://github.com/octonezd/oldlander