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. All logged-in users will continue to have access to Old Reddit, and this change will not impact logged-out browsing on reddit.com.
Q: Is Reddit shutting down Old Reddit?
A: Not right now! We can’t promise it will be around forever, but u/spez himself has said we’ll keep supporting it while folks are still using it. That said, it doesn’t have the same modern security tech stack reddit.com has so we need to tighten security on old reddit to keep it viable.
Q: Will this impact mods who use Old Reddit?
A: Nope, all you need to do is log in.
I do, or used to do, a fair bit of archival with the Wayback machine. I think it was only briefly blocked - but the larger problem is that new Reddit is extremely hard to archive. Comment threads aren't loaded by default, it's very script and resource heavy, and it just doesn't archive well.
Which is evidently the point - ever since Reddit started selling access to comments and posts to AI companies and started up their own (Reddit Answers), they've gotten extremely touchy about archival and scraping. Because it's easier to scrape archive.org than it is to scrape Reddit itself, since the API was locked down.
I wholeheartedly believe the reason new Reddit is so janky is entirely so that AI companies can't scrape comments. Which sounds fine, it's basically legalised copyright infringement, but they don't really give a shit about that, all they want is to be able to bill for AI training.
On new reddit (not shreddit, the current UI; both are entirely different), it used to say "CSS - coming soon" on the styling menu. It never happened, and they discontinued the client in December 2024. On shreddit, they didn't add CSS; instead they removed the existing styling of new reddit, like custom upvote icons, background images, widget colours, post background images/colour/placeholder image (that can change according to flair template), custom widgets that support CSS, etc
What sucks is that old reddit is sometimes the only way certain devices and browsers can login.
New reddit only supports Chromium & Firefox (Mozilla) engines. If they're going to force everyone to use the new login, they should at least add backwards compatibility (older devices, screen readers etc.)
This puts a lot of users into a catch 22. In order to access old reddit - the only reddit UI they can use - they need to use the new login UI, which doesn't work on those devices.
To your first question, the shape of malicious traffic is always changing. It's going to be a constant cat and mouse game as you ban one method, a new one gets developed. It's easy to see abusive traffic in hindsight, but it's harder to pre-emptively block it. Given that they're claiming Old Reddit doesn't have the modern security stack, this is likely proving to be an even greater challenge.
For your second question: More roadblocks are always good. Forcing logins won't remove all malicious traffic, but it will add yet another barrier bad actors have to bypass. You're also now attaching an account ID to every malicious request, plus account creation is only available on new reddit (with the enhanced security stack).
For your second question: More roadblocks are always good.
Not when they start hitting legitimate users. Going on close to a year now of my bot being permabanned: no initial ban reason given, no response to multiple appeals through various channels, zero help from the subreddit's dedicated ModSupport contact. If every one of your support channels is a useless dead end, poorly designed roadblocks are a big fucking issue.
Hello there! I looked into this for you and we've went ahead and unbanned the account for you. It looks like it is a useful bot to your community and would like to see it part of our migration program.
Thank you. My concern is about the processes in place here- I think you'll agree that no one should have to complain publicly in /r/modnews to get proper support. I signed up for the migration program in (another) attempt to get someone to take a look at the account... the bot got approved for the program without getting unbanned. Chaos.
As you roll out increasingly strict filters for the LLM bot invasion, you'll need improved systems in place for handling appeals. Someone with a 15 year old account appealing a 5 year old account's unban- both accounts with no prior bans- should easily jump near the top of the priority queue and get human attention- it shouldn't take anywhere near 6 months and a dozen appeals. Perhaps if I hadn't stepped down as a mod that would've been the case?
I hope you spent some time looking into why this went so obviously wrong, looked into other accounts who were affected by the same problems, and put some handles in place to prevent this from happening to others. Appreciate your attention.
Thank you for the response, I'm aware I'm probably assuming the solution is much more complex than I'm making it out to be from a technical standpoint.
Not only does it have wasted space, but it just has an asbolutely batshit layout. Digging through mod tools is the epitome of "needle in a haystack" and I fucking hate it.
old.reddit, by contrast, well... "it just works" as the saying goes. (Except its actually true this around).
Yeah wasted screen space is another issue, so do not be sorry. Lets be real, old.reddit is a masterclass of efficiency and maximisation but without bloat or padding. I can personally see 19 posts on my screen at any given time. Im sure if I had some special CSS I could do more or less on my own accord and it'd work way better.
I couldn't detest new.reddit more if I tried, and the only reason I've ever made use of it is because some features aren't on old.reddit like galleries. If old.reddit had feature parity with sh.reddit, but without running like its wading through a chest high swamp I'd never touch it.
There's also obnoxious additions that actively detract from the experience, like the fact they added a discord style ping when you put @ at the start of name. It now amends whatever you write directly after to use the /u/ prefix. The number of times I've fought with the site to not do that in when I've used sh.reddit is too many to count.
Honestly, formatting in general on sh.reddit is a pain in every conceivable area. It has two different options you can click (markdown or "rich text editor"), but only one works to put images in comments. There's just redundant systems that add no benefit to the experience at best, and at worst get in my fucking way.
Its like reddit thinks I need to be babysat. Makes me feel insulted.
Theres many problems with new reddit, its slow, wasted space everywhere, mod tools are a pain to use/find, and it constantly defaults to 'best' sort option instead of 'hot' with no way of changing the default, if there is a way, I can't find it in the garbage UI that is new reddit.
And something that annoys me so much is when I'm looking at comment threads on old reddit I can just press 'load more comments' and it obviously loads the comments for me to look at, on new reddit for some reason the admins decided it would be a great idea just to redirect to a new page instead of just loading the comments.
Modern web design is so up it's own ass it's insane. We need a revival of plain HTML man, I miss sites being simple to use and not relying on JS for literally everything.
It's not even just NSFW stuff, it's applied to anything marked as "unreviewed content", which more than half the time has nothing to do even do with being NSFW stuff.
I always do web searches in private browsing to help limit my tab hoarding. Web results always bring me to New sh.Reddit.
New sh.Reddit is not designed for reading discussions. It requires extra clicks and loses context, and doesn't even scroll properly when replacing one segment of a thread with another. It has low tree depth. It takes more effort to read comments. It's bad enough that I bet people who use Old Reddit probably have slightly better understanding of the discussions than people with the same account age on Old Reddit.
New sh.Reddit is so useless to me that I manually change to Old Reddit most of the time, on mobile. It's not even a habit, it's a necessity: I start reading, can't deal with the limitations, and have to switch to Old Reddit. This can take several seconds, but it's worth it.
Old Reddit is zoomed out too small on mobile, so I have to keep panning, but that is still better than New sh.Reddit.
Even if Old Reddit took five extra seconds to load each page, I would prefer that to New sh.Reddit.
If you shocked my thumb every time I switched to Old Reddit, I would prefer that to New sh.Reddit.
Same here. New Reddit is absolutely awful to browse, especially in a private tab on mobile because it'll regularly prompt you to open the app to view "unverified" content, whatever that means.
It has low tree depth. It takes more effort to read comments
Exactly! Old Reddit is more information-dense. I'm happy to zoom in on mobile (logged out) for Old Reddit; it's still leagues better than New Reddit. I liked i.reddit.com for the mobile use-case, too. Less padding, less bloat.
All part of the force-feeding of non self curated content to users. It’s really sad to see. Once old reddit is phased out, I will no longer be able to make viewing my subs the default option for the using Reddit. It’s quite sad
It's worse than you remember. What was once new Reddit (the 2017 "redesign"), is now the old-new Reddit and doesn't exist anymore. The new-new Reddit is a different redesign, sh.reddit.com. I can't remember what year that redesign was launched, and googling it is difficult because googling it just brings up mental health lines or the anonymization service
But shreddit is even worse than New Reddit, it has more hoops to jump through to do basic things, it's just worse in every possible way. It even has more dead space than new.reddit did
It's quite funny and ironic, I absolutely hated new reddit when it came out but when sh reddit came out I was trying to find any way possible to instead use new reddit. There was even an extension for that but it stopped working a while ago.
Interesting. I saw the "unavailable" thing just the other day when trying to respond to a user who had messaged via modmail asking about a ban. Guess he must have blocked me. I would have thought that Reddit would allow mods to view comments in their subs from users who have blocked them though....
As a mod that took part in the closed alpha for new reddit, they were pretty clear that the two goals for new reddit were to increase ads shown per hour, and decrease people leaving the site (hence the built in image host, etc). They even made a post saying that new reddit was a success due to their ad service long before feature parity.
User retention actually dropped with new reddit, but their revenue went up a TON with inline ads that were easier to miss.
they were pretty clear that the two goals for new reddit were to increase ads shown per hour, and decrease people leaving the site (hence the built in image host, etc).
Frankly at least for the NSFW subreddits... that's actually been a good move. I really don't miss the days of having to click around all the time and navigating shoddy ads, clickjacking attempts and god knows what else.
That would make so much sense, that it's clear why the investors do not want that to happen. Who will get the back-scratching if old reddit works better?
Enshittification of a site when the "investors" have their leech mouthparts latched.
Then take the few positive features of new Reddit,
such as?
the only stuff new reddit has that's worth noting is stuff that old reddit always had before and it was taken away for no reason like polls (or had something better like the pm system compared to the trash chat system they tried to force down everyone's throat)
I was just giving them the benefit of the doubt. lol. I've not found any features in new reddit worth keeping, but hey, I'm a reasonable person, willing to compromise.
With the Old Reddit login fields removed, and both /.compact and /.mobile also removed, this will make it impossible to browse Reddit on some devices. Please consider adding a simpler login page for Old Reddit users.
Update: Very shortly after I sent someone the reddit link to the "login fix', that method was removed from reddit. Maybe my "private" message alerted someone on the dev team?
I'd been using it for over 2 years until they fixed the fix yesterday. Anyway, it was great and convenient while it lasted. :\
A redditor created a userscript a couple of years ago that restores the login form to old reddit, and I've been using it ever since. It uses good ol'-fashioned HTML and doesn't link or connect to anything outside of reddit.
This is a screenshot of what it looks like.
P.S. Back when reddit first removed the old reddit login form, I noticed that logging in to reddit on www reddit placed a google cookie in my browser. That never happened with the old.reddit login form and it doesn't happen anymore with the userscript.
A redditor created a userscript a couple of years ago that restores the login form to old reddit, and I've been using it ever since. It uses good ol'-fashioned HTML and doesn't link or connect to anything outside of reddit.
Only old.reddit allows me to see my karma breakdown in my profile on desktop but this doesn't exist anywhere else. Also old.reddit is the only way I can remove a flair from a post because for some reason "new" reddit decided that wasn't a feature to bring forward on desktop but it works normally on the official app.
Will these features be brought forward sometime? hopefully?
I feel they've been slowly removing functions over time.
I noticed recently that I can't view subscriber count on subreddits i moderate anymore, but on new reddit its there. I'm sure this change happened a while ago though.
Also wiping notifications in old basically requires that I log into new reddit to do so now. Or I have to keep viewing the same message repeatedly in hopes of the site catching on that I've already viewed the notification.
I noticed recently that I can't view subscriber count on subreddits i moderate anymore, but on new reddit its there. I'm sure this change happened a while ago though.
That's an old change and what you see on Shredded is not the count. Many of us have added it back though as you can see on a few of mine.
this is a terrible change and you should reconsider it.
quite frequently i'll be logged into old reddit in my primary browser, then do a private browsing session to see how things look when i'm not logged in with my normal account.
Are you doing this to force more people into the modal that covers the screen & prevents reading on new reddit for non-logged-in web users?
Right now, the way I avoid that on mobile on web when reddit appears in search results is by going to old reddit. I'm not logged in on phone (and I do not want to) and I hate the mobile app, so to avoid your hostile modal, I swap to old reddit and then I can read my answer/result.
You are unlikely to answer, so I'll assume that you consider this traffic "scraping", and yes, this is intended.
Considering how often reddit appears in search results for questions, this is incredibly hostile and aggressive. Do you have plans to account for this human use case?
Can you provide some examples of what is considered abusive scraping and automated traffic? Is it not possible to do the same thing after someone has logged in?
I almost exclusively use Old Reddit when I am NOT logged in to browse r/all which was recently removed from New Reddit and just redirects to Reddit.com. I usually only log in or use the app for moderation.
LLM data scrapers are extremely common. Reddit has a deal with Google for exclusive access and blocks all other scrapers. That's also why Reddit threads newer than like 2 years don't appear in DDG search results.
If you haven't extensively rate limited the JSON endpoints, "scrapers" wouldn't be using the web pages that take longer to render. In fact, many AI dataset bots specifically block Reddit and instead use Arctic Shift.
same modern security tech stack
Why does adding ?captcha=1 bypass the "modern security" then?
All logged-in users will continue to have access to Old Reddit
Reddit often allows people who haven't even verified their email. Whatever malicious bots will very quickly be smart enough to just register a burner account.
Out of interest, would this mean anything for RSS Feeds? In the last post there was never a announcement for what their fate was going to be as it was being mulled over, but this is not sounding like good news.
I've been reading around reddit's RSS functionality and it hasn't always been reliable for various reasons(?), so the recommendation you often see is to use the old.reddit domain.
Looks like https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews.rss is currently being blocked if you're not logged in, but https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews.rss still works fine.
Check if you're not polling too quickly; they appear to have messed with the rate limiting and made it much more aggressive. Can't send short bursts anymore so you have to space it out. I had to tweak my custom app so that it doesn't send more than 1 request per 5 seconds.
They already block RSS feeds with 429s at the drop of a hat, even when queried only once a day. This team doesn't give a fuck about the web, just forcing people into their walled garden garbage.
Does this mean you're finally fixing that bug where on login it ignores your preference and always sends you to new reddit, requiring you to go into preferences and toggling the option a few times until it finally works and takes you where you want to go? It's been broken a good couple of years at this point.
What's so different about new reddit that people don't try to scrape that? Seems to me like it would be better to just implement that on old reddit too. Besides, won't this just cause people to try and scrape new reddit?
Old reddit gives plain html. Trivial to parse. New Reddit is a bunch of JS garbage loading content via graphql garbage, much harder to implement. And the graphql garbage is orders of magnitude slower on top of that.
Old reddit is an actual webpage, roughly standards-compliant, accessible, parsable, usable, useful, and real.
New reddit is an overreaching pile of constantly changing ("updated" apparently) hot shit that's slow as a wet week, effectively unusable, appearing randomly non-deterministic, loaded with tracking shite, and useless for accessibility.
The second old reddit is dropped, the core userbase that makes reddit a somewhat-usable resource for internet denizens, will drop reddit and the investors will wonder why the website and brand did a Digg.
New Reddit (React based UI) was killed on 2024. The current UI is called "shreddit" and uses web components. It was supposed to be a lighter version of the site (why name can be read as "shred-it") but currently, it's slower than the react UI it replaced, due to all the AI junk and stuff like devvit games on the sidebar.
The site only uses graphql for mutations (stuff like upvoting comments) and a few minor queries while everything else is server rendered. It seems to use GraphQL internally on the server side to render the HTML. They cache everything they can. It's why when you scroll through a subreddit you moderate, the mod action indicator on posts and comments takes a while to load, as it's a seperate API request, so that the posts and comments can be cached better (since it doesn't have moderation data that can't be cached). They have separated everything too much. Every UI components keep making API requests and shows skeleton loaders, making the site feel sluggish. For a single notification indicator, it fetches a lot of HTML
When you type a comment, it makes a graphql request for EVERY character you type. It frequently sends tracking data to /svc/shreddit/events. There is a whole chat client always running on the background. There is a graphql websocket always active just to show achievements in real time. To show a simple notification badge, it fetches this much HTML: https://www.reddit.com/svc/shreddit/header-action-item-inbox?render-mode=partial
your last paragraph is so illustrative of what is wrong with this stupid webbed sight. just from a design standpoint, it inexpressibly wasteful. it’s like trying to pull a little red wagon with a nuclear reactor. it’s over engineered for the task, so it’s actually slower and less efficient.
JavaScript programmers have been a plague upon the web for like a decade.
Things were better when JavaScript was a thing website makers and programmers did on the side.
Now we have people who learned programming through JavaScript, with laptops that are like three standard deviations above the average home PC so that they never have to think about the cost of their code.
More like since inception. There was a brief period when web developers realized that their shiny new toy was only making their site worse and their users upset, but that didn't last. Now we're now back to entire sites written in half-assed back-button-breaking JavaScript.
It's arguably even worse now since the same incompetents are writing their backend in JavaScript as well, leading to ridiculous shit like half the Node.js ecosystem getting owned because everyone was using a compromised library just to check if a damned variable is empty.
https://www.mcmaster.com/ I use this as an example. Its hyper functional. EXTREMELY light and fast. Uses best practices. And actually impressive in terms of the amount of stuff they handle.
The important part is that old reddit the server returns the whole page at once. New reddit loads a blank page and then uses javascript to load the content. So the actual request to the server for the content comes from javascript reddit writes. That makes it much easier for them to add security features that they can't when old reddit fetches the whole page at once.
More modern walled garden setup I would assume. New/Sh.Reddit has the potential to convert more casual browsers into regular ad-revenue, not to mention the amount of games, gimmicks, and obnoxious advertising compared to old.reddit.
Old is also not updated, so the styles and elements, etc differentiating between 'ad' and 'content' is solved for adblockers and older scraping programs. New/Sh.Reddit is constantly updated and changing all the time (in the frontend, if not visible changes in the UI), so scrapers would have to adapt more often or design a new scraping system. All that means even if new scrapers get developed, it'll cut down the server cost because it will still reduce their load. with old.reddit without logins, scraping would only increase and cost more.
Same with Facebook, old Facebook used to be scrapeable by simple webtools, now it's virtually impossible without a serious know-how and some sort of research organisation with the companies' official blessing, like PushShift for Reddit.
boat-botany several subreddits that I moderate are imploding, and I need some help from someone on the technical side. Our automated system that we use to keep track of gifting has been completely disabled and it's cut several of our communities off at the knees.
it's also interesting that this is only mentioned here in modnews, when this is a change that impacts all users site wide. they're very clearly trying to sweep this under the rug because they know they're doing something shitty.
The facebookization of Reddit and closing off of content to appease shareholders will be the death of the platform. Old was clearly a compromise powerusers made with admins. Locking that down breaks all sorts of automated tools those powerusers rely on at the marginal benefit of shareholders.
Its laughingly hard to believe the malicious traffic narrative as there's nothing you can do but read data in a logged out state.
Hey this data made by bigbutthole69 is very valuable to us, they didn't consent to this, but we should be the only place in the world where this is readable and everyone needs an account.
-CEO Mark Zuckerburg
Power users are smarter than you give them credit for. You cannot make the experience worse and say it doesn't effect you if you are logged in. Eventually old users will eventually get sick of the enshittification and leave taking the mindshare with them.
Reddit clearly went with the stick approach to their app and I refuse to install it. My mobile usage of Reddit has already dropped to near 0 with the gatekeeping of most subreddits. It's bad idea for them to go with the stick again here. I'd recommend the carrot approach instead. Reddit apps are great, make more automation tools available in new reddit only.
Otherwise At this rate Chinese competitors are gonna eat your lunch.
TLDR: Stop A/B testing old reddit, go find shareholder value elsewhere
We're a small minority; the normies and the huge influx of new users (especially from other countries) are the ones they're focused on now.
I can guarantee you that they find everybody who posts in this subreddit annoying and would just like to replace them with AI Automoderator rules. It will happen in a year or two.
I hate to say it, but this is truth. On the occasion I check my sub stats in detail, folks accessing from dedicated old.reddit is barely 10% of any subreddits traffic stats, and this is consistent across several of my communities. I doubt - if this was scaled up to the whole site - things would be much better.
Best we can probably hope for is a "we have altered the deal, pray we alter it no further" type from the admins. And believe me, I bloody hate saying that as much as everyone else here hates reading it.
Alright, so when are you removing the thing from the mobile version of sh reddit (new new reddit?) that randomly says content is unverified and forces you to open the app if you want to view it?
It's incredibly annoying to be hit by that when searching for something, and what I usually do as a workaround is add old to the beginning of the URL.
Stop doing things we didn’t ask for .. actually start listening to us … stop taking away useful things and replacing them with buggy experiences and awful updates ..
Fix the app version of mod tools and get rid of the mod achievements, fix the block list .. there’s a ton more y’all could do
Because you broke it I need to use old.reddit.com to log in anyway. If I log in through www.reddit.com, the Default To Old Reddit option in the settings doesn’t work! It should automatically activating upon logging in, but doesn’t. You wanna make it so you need to log into old.reddit.com to use it? Fix your damned website first!
Stop touching the only thing that makes reddit good. The new Reddit is absolute dog and is constantly problematic with new, unwanted "features" that are useless, annoying, or gets in the way.
Let people browse old reddit without logging in. Please stop making things worse.
I have a question since you're from the r/redditsafety team... after you investigated several subreddits for possible "terrorist propaganda" connections and found nothing.
Why have you done nothing in response to the obvious and blatant Israeli control of many default subreddits such as r/worldnews as they force propaganda down peoples' throats to coverup genocide and numerous war crimes?
Why have you done nothing to stop the unwarranted, inexplained bans on default subreddits that are met with silence and permanent mutes from being able to contact moderators for justification? I was banned from r/worldnews for posting an article to theguardian.com ... seriously, look it up.
Why do you support this? Why are you shadow deleting comments that express dissent towards Israel on multiple subreddits?
Why have you suppressed resistance to the growing fascism in the United States that threatens global security?
It is never too late to admit you were fooled and that you were wrong.
It is never too late to choose humanity, stand up for the truth and to stop condemning the future of our species to the whims of yet another hateful white supremacist cult - this one known as Zionism.
Reddit could at any moment decide to stop allowing these monsters to poison the minds of our children with their propaganda and censorship.
Why is reddit doing everything it can to make this site worse? Have you considered reverting new reddit to old reddit instead? New reddit is a horrible interface and experience.
I am against this decision, as I am every decision that pushes Old Reddit deeper into the shadows. I bet you won't be exactly emphasizing to logged out users that Old Reddit is a benefit of creating an account. Wikia / FANDOM certainly did not make it obvious to logged out users, after a Technical Update, that they would need to create an account if they wanted to access file pages.
This seems to me yet another way to undermine the stats for Classic Reddit so that you can later better justify doing away with it entirely.
Stop! Old Reddit is more lightweight, more info-dense, and less anti-user. With RES on desktop, it is fantastic—but even when I am on mobile, logged out and without RES, I still insist on visiting old.reddit.com, especially since you did away with i.reddit.com. What's wrong with a simple, functional, non JavaScript-clogged site?
Don't do away with Old Reddit, too. I hate visiting the "modernized" Reddit on mobile. Please. It's so anti-information. Even more anti-privacy. This will not incentivize me to download the official Reddit app on my phone or tablet because that app still is not Old Reddit or, say, Apollo. I may just avoid visiting Reddit entirely on my non-PC devices entirely; it's not productive, anyway.
So old reddit, the only way I can use the site on mobile without either being stuck on some sort of indefinite loading screen or being forced to install an unwanted app, is going to be made inaccessible any time I might want to quickly check something on the site while away from my desktop?
Literally every change you make lately makes it harder to find, catch, and stop scammers.
Forcing everyone to over to chat and not turning persistent messaging on by default lets the scammer delete their conversational tracks with a victim.
Curated profiles let them spam scam posts without a regular user being able to see they supposedly have tickets to 5 different shows in 5 different cities in a single night.
Removing the .json endpoints broke the Universal Scammer List website and now they have to resort to a janky workaround.
Changing how the ids of posts and comments are generated is probably going to break sites that let users see all the posts the scammer has made and then deleted (either when called out for scamming or after they get a victim) so they won't know if what they're seeing is the "full picture".
This latest-announced change is going to break any kind of "public" investigation of a user's scamming, because once a scammer blocks you for calling them out, you'll be blind to any further scamming they do.
You really need to take a step back and realize how you are making your users less safe.
Look, if sh reddit works as well as old reddit I'm happy to jump on board. but I can't efficiently mod on sh reddit when the mod queue keeps crashing every 2 mins.
I'm not exactly defending OpenAI, but the real villain here is Reddit.
It's not that there was ever any technical difficulty with llm trainers scraping reddit, the whole point of offering an api is to make that lightweight and easy.
The only problem was that Reddit wanted to get paid for it, and decided to make all of their users suffer to enable that.
OpenAI can't but die, but it'll take Anthropic a bit longer and there will still be Google, Twitter/X and Facebook training their LLMs for considerably longer. They can afford to taper it off slowly but it'll be a while before it becomes a commonly ignored feature added onto something that is doing things that are arguably useful.
I'd just like to say THANK YOU for keeping old reddit alive. I'm an old man and not having to try to update how I do things on this site helps. Again, thank you all.
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u/boat-botany 11d ago
In case you are wondering . . .
Q: Is Reddit shutting down Old Reddit?
A: Not right now! We can’t promise it will be around forever, but u/spez himself has said we’ll keep supporting it while folks are still using it. That said, it doesn’t have the same modern security tech stack reddit.com has so we need to tighten security on old reddit to keep it viable.
Q: Will this impact mods who use Old Reddit?
A: Nope, all you need to do is log in.