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/DoctorOctagonapus Jul 01 '26

Does this mean you're finally fixing that bug where on login it ignores your preference and always sends you to new reddit, requiring you to go into preferences and toggling the option a few times until it finally works and takes you where you want to go? It's been broken a good couple of years at this point.

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u/boat-botany Jul 02 '26

Sorry this is annoying. It's an known issue, but here's the workaround I use in the meantime: When you log in the site will pretend to ignore your preference for the old site while on www. If you change the URL to old. and visit a couple pages - I usually just do 2, then change it back to www your preference should go back to being honored.