Soon, Reddit won’t let people use Old.Reddit.com unless they have used the site while logged in within the previous six months.
In July, Reddit started requiring that users be logged in to access Old Reddit. This new requirement is an effort to reduce Reddit’s biggest source of scraping and automated traffic, the company says.
Today, the social media platform announced additional upcoming restrictions on Old Reddit. A Reddit post from an employee, known as “judy-funnie” on the platform, says that “in the next few months, we’ll further limit access for logged-in users to only those who have used Old Reddit in the last six months (which covers the vast majority of all Old Reddit users).”
There is an exception for moderators, who will still be able to view Old Reddit regardless of when they last used it, as long as they are logged in.
“This helps keep Old Reddit available for the people who rely on it while reducing automated abuse,” the post says.
I’m sure it has nothing to do with old.reddit.com not having (as many? any? hard to say with uBO) ways to insert ads and manipulate the feed.
Alienating the people most likely to post and comment in a substantive way isn’t going to work out as well as they hope.
Alienating the people most likely to post and comment in a substantive way isn’t going to work out as well as they hope.
Cutting off all the 3rd party mobile apps showed that in the long run it doesn’t matter
It did because there was a noticeable quality bump after third party apps were cut off so while it didn’t cause most users to leave, it made a substantiative jump further down the enshittification path that will eventually alienate everyone.
Absolutely. The quality drop on discussions was wild. I used to spend hours a week discussing on reddit. Now despite still using it to keep up to date on various topics, I rarely comment.
The post quality dropped quite a bit as well at that time. But that has always been a steady “eternal September” type of decline so it’s harder to isolate the cause.
Reddit will become less and less useful to the AI giants for training if it doesn’t contain new and ongoing deep communication like it once did.
Yeah it was shortly after that that I came here. I kept using both lemmy and reddit for a while but as the quality kept declining on reddit and the moderation (by admins) kept getting more intrusive, I had to bail. At the end I just decided to start openly calling for violence against fascists whenever the subject came up and waited to get banned, cause why not when I’m leaving anyways?
I mean, that jackass move is how I found Beehaw! But the reality is, many old. users didn’t use apps in the first place. So while that was a clusterfuck, it wasn’t surgically targeted at the very people who produce the content that makes Reddit valuable. Cutting off access to old. will be the final straw for me, and I’m going to guess I’m not alone. I don’t want some cartoonish, ad-laden approximation of Reddit.
That’s how I found my instance as well.
Same. Been here since the mass exodus and I deleted my account. I would still browse old.reddit without an account. That worked fine until a week or so ago. Been kinda looking at the new site but I hate it so much. Also the comment quality is absolute ass. I need to just be done with it.
I hope that some more people will come join us but you are correct that it will make no difference in the long run.
I wish they would just kill Reddit completely, so the remaining niche hobby communities I participate in on Reddit will finally move somewhere else. Lemmy is good, but but not enough people use it for the same niche communities to exist and thrive here, unfortunately.
Don’t care, already left.
The only reddit I use now is either via redlib, or by the domain listing which still use old.reddit.com format for the time being (https://www.reddit.com/domain/v.redd.it/ for example, or https://www.reddit.com/domain/youtube.com/ / https://www.reddit.com/domain/youtu.be/). But once they kill those domain listings I’ll not be spending much time there.
It’s funny how I hated the migration from Digg to reddit back in 2010 because reddit looked so ass, but once I got used to the features Reddit Enhancement Suite brought along, it was hard to give up.
Obligatory “fuck spez” and why not “fuck kevin rose” as well.
I guess Redlib will also die out in the long run… Hasn’t been updated for months 🥲🥲🥲☹️
What does that mean exactly? If you go 6 months without accessing old reddit you’re locked out forever?
Sounds like it, and sounds like a great way to deprecate the old site slowly while limiting the blast radius if pissed users.
Patched. 😆😞
SearXNG generates nice “cached” links for reddit search results to the Wayback Machine, which is helpful if an archived version exists. It’s so painfully slow, though (no shade on archive.org - we’re lucky they still exist). I finally went back to DDG for routine searches. 🙁
Didn’t Runescape Classic pull this stunt when it was still a thing?
Runescape Classic is still a thing, and it has an app now too
No, you’re thinking of Old School Runescape, Runescape Classic is something else entirely
Oh lol
Literally just copy your session cookie from your browser into your own reader which periodically fetches new posts from subreddits you follow for you. No one needs to use reddit directly anymore if you have a little know-how ;)
Reddit was good, now it’s unusable and unbearable. Riddled with bots, no new interesting content is published over there.
I just wish there were more niche communities on Lemmy. Maybe one day…
and manipulate the feed.
I’m pretty sure in this regard there is no difference. Odd entries show up on my front page every day.
