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Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months 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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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (18 children)

Stop Using the Bad Site. Just stop doing it.

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 17 points 2 months ago (17 children)

I did for two years. This place is great so long as you like talking about trump, tech and trek. Anything involving special interests outside of those though, Reddit has it.

Reddit was so surprised I was back it assumed my account was compromised and permananned me.

My VPN use probably didn't help either

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (5 children)

FYI lemmy.world is hostile to VPNs too; I just had to switch servers because it wouldn't let me post a comment due to VPN use.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

seems like dbzero is also very hostile, wierdly havnt been on most of those communities, but im banned there for some reason. did tankies take over that instance.

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

There's a way to View Moderation History on yourself and others on Lemmy. Sometimes the people that ban you leave an explanation. Sometimes they think it's obvious or you're beneath them so they don't.

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