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Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 month ago by breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com.

The new requirement will take effect “over the next month,” a Reddit employee going by the username boat-botany announced on the social media platform today. The person claimed that the change is part of an ongoing effort to “tighten how automated systems access Reddit.”

The Reddit employee wrote:

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.

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[–] morto@piefed.social 80 points 1 month ago (11 children)

When they close old.reddit will be the best time to advertise the lemmy instances that use that similar looking theme by default

[–] tal@lemmy.today 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

It's the mlmym frontend, rather than just a theme.

Some instances run it locally as an alternate at a different URL; lemmy.world is one such.

[–] mschae@discuss.mschae23.de 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Keep in mind that rystaf/mlmym has been last updated years ago. old.lemmy.world uses the FHF's fork, which has had a few fixes made to it.

self promotionI actually have a fork of that fork at mschae23/mlmym which is significantly different (in terms of new features and bugfixes) from the others by now. In fact, this is what's deployed by your instance at old.lemmy.today :)

~~Though it unfortunately seems to be having issues with rate limits at the moment.~~

edit: This should be fixed now!

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