Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login
33 pointsby quincepie11 hours ago14 comments
  • anonova11 hours ago
    Can confirm that this started happening today.

    > Log in to use old Reddit

    > To keep Reddit safe, accounts are required to access old Reddit. Log in, or continue without an account on reddit.com.

    I don't participate in Reddit conversions and only use old.reddit.com to browse some specific subreddits as a guest.

    • anenefan9 hours ago
      It's been 9 days that way for myself but I visited their log on would be required announcement page 20 days ago, so my IP / fingerprint was probably mapped and thus first to be flagged. I noted at least one other comment at HN confirming they too had struck a request to log in the same day I found old.reddit effectively walled off. It's rare I find myself landing at reddit by way of a search, most times it is by way of following an interesting post from HN.

      The new reddit site only serves me the OP of a thread (Probably my fault, my configuration I have blocked a couple of intrusive PII gathering services disguised as APIS and a bunch of other sites with intrusive scripts ) -- it's the comments where the value is at so reddit is now totally useless to me - I suppose I should get around to adding the site to my growing deny list.

      Edit: clarity.

    • cosmicgadget10 hours ago
      That sounds like just the kind of risky behavior that was a huge threat to Reddit! Glad they did something about checks notes people browsing from the open web.
  • jubilanti11 hours ago
    So who is going to make the xcancel version for old reddit?

    edit: https://safereddit.com/ is an instance of https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

    • autoexec5 hours ago
      "Sadly, you must enable JavaScript to get past this challenge. This is required because AI companies have changed the social contract around how website hosting works. A no-JS solution is a work-in-progress."

      One of the best things about old.reddit.com was that it didn't need JS. Now we need someone to make a safesafereddit.com that just lets people see reddit posts without JS enabled

    • AmazingEveryDay4 hours ago
      I'd settle for a Safereddit Enhancement Suite. Hmm.
  • isaachh8 hours ago
    First I made a userscript that auto-redirects me to old.reddit, then they did this. So now I have my userscript fetch the .json version of the url, and render a minimal hackernews style UI instead of the bloated normal site.
  • cosmicgadget11 hours ago
    Getting the same. I stuck around as a lurker cause some subs were still good. I'm definitely not creating an account or subjecting myself to new reddit.

    I wonder if this was about killing old.reddit in two steps, forcing people to create accounts, or LLM scrapers.

    Update: looks like they want LLMs to have to buy their data: https://web.archive.org/web/20260716201346/https://old.reddi...

  • sethops111 hours ago
    I've been working on https://treehouse.net/

    Not a direct substitute old.reddit.com in that we don't support creating custom communities, but the idea is to create something reminiscent of the original reddit, or perhaps a version of Hacker News with a more broad scope of topics. Oh, and you can filter out topics, like AI.

  • ronsor9 hours ago
    Guess I'm not using it anymore
  • Melatonic10 hours ago
    Isnt this going to decrease a massive amount of traffic from Google searches and whatnot?
    • jubilanti10 hours ago
      the regular reddit.com can still be accessed without a login, but that's the bloated webapp with tons of ads and tracking and takes dozens of MB to load over hundreds of network requests.
      • Melatonic10 hours ago
        Forgot I had auto redirects setup. So lame
  • throwaway306011 hours ago
    Suddenly started happening to me out of nowhere while browsing. Really does feel like one of the last pillars of the old internet just toppled - that reading is open to anyone. New Reddit is basically unusable.

    Edit: I still am a strong believer in anonymous usage of the internet. Increasingly it feels like we've become an endangered species.

  • erelong11 hours ago
    Is this truly the end?

    Feels like a moment

  • jaggs11 hours ago
    May I suggest - https://old.lemmy.world/?listingType=All&sort=New
    • arijun6 hours ago
      Yeah lemmy is just too full of tankies for me. I mean, reddit was full of half baked political takes, but at least they didn't spout apologia for North Korea.
  • ChrisArchitect11 hours ago
    Related:

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

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740217

    (Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1ujtebf/logging_in...)

  • ChrisArchitect11 hours ago
    Cannot duplicate. What I'm getting is a temporary/false "You've been blocked by network security" page but refreshing then brings up the reddit page as per usual.
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  • kotaKat9 hours ago
    Also getting slammed with the "to keep Reddit safe" bullshit.

    How do banned users access Old Reddit? Do they just Not?