Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login
40 points by quincepie a day ago | 33 comments
  • sethops1 a day 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.

  • erelong a day ago |
    Is this truly the end?

    Feels like a moment

  • jubilanti a day 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

    • autoexec a day 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

    • AmazingEveryDay 21 hours ago |
      I'd settle for a Safereddit Enhancement Suite. Hmm.
  • ChrisArchitect a day 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.
  • ChrisArchitect a day 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...)

  • throwaway3060 a day 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.

  • anonova a day 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.

    • cosmicgadget a day 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.
    • anenefan a day 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.

  • cosmicgadget a day 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...

  • jaggs a day ago |
    May I suggest - https://old.lemmy.world/?listingType=All&sort=New
    • arijun a day 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.
      • jaggs 15 hours ago |
        Really? I've been there for several years now, and not seen any of that stuff. You must be subscribed to the wrong kind of forums. :)
        • arijun 6 hours ago |
          I almost never log in to any of these sites (hence my problem with reddit requiring login), it would have been the front page. I will say I haven't gone to lemmy recently, so perhaps it's changed.

          OTOH the worst offender [1] is lemmy.ml (run by lemmy's lead dev), and it's still federated and going strong.

          [1] https://lemmy.world/post/29072279

          • jaggs 6 hours ago |
            Ah, I see. I only use Lemmy.world which has blocked .ml. The beauty of federation, eh?
            • arijun 5 hours ago |
              I don't think it has? https://lemmy.world/instances lists lemmy.ml under "linked instances", and not under "blocked instances."
              • jaggs 5 hours ago |
                Oh right. Well I've still never seen any dodgy stuff on .world. Lots of foreign language posts though, which ticks me off a bit.
    • BashiBazouk 3 hours ago |
      Thanks for that. I lurk lemmy every once in a while but found it really hasn't hit a critical mass yet, but man, it's amazing how a good interface improves the situation. At the very least it's a good methadone for my suddenly cold turkey reddit addiction...

      Is this unique to lemmy.world or does the "old" trick work on other servers?

      • jaggs 3 hours ago |
        Yeah, it's interesting how a familiar interface really improves the accessibility. I struggled with standard Lemmy because I didn't like the UI. I'm not sure if it works with other instances. I haven't tried.
  • Melatonic a day ago |
    Isnt this going to decrease a massive amount of traffic from Google searches and whatnot?
    • jubilanti a day 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.
      • Melatonic a day ago |
        Forgot I had auto redirects setup. So lame
  • kotaKat a day ago |
    Also getting slammed with the "to keep Reddit safe" bullshit.

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

  • ronsor a day ago |
    Guess I'm not using it anymore
  • isaachh a day 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.
  • memcg 5 hours ago |
    I can still access https://old.reddit.com/ using Firefox with Ublock, NoScript Privacy Badger and Old Reddit Redirect addons.

    Using Chrome I get: You've been blocked by network security. If you think you've been blocked by mistake, file a ticket below and we'll look into it. File a ticket

  • baggy_trough 5 hours ago |
    I sadly lost the old reddit cookie on my iPad and now I can't get it back :(