Reddit signals ominous upcoming "changes” for old.reddit.com
arstechnica.com
Reddit says the beloved site is used for some "bad behavior."

As of a few minutes ago old.reddit.com now seems to requre logging in to access it.

Shame as it was still the best place to browse for info about some niche interests.

Edit: Seems like they might be testing the change as it is hit or miss at the moment.

Edit: Adding this to My flilters in uBlock Origin seems to fix the issue for the time being:

||reddit.com^$header=referer:

  • Nobilius@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    7 minutes ago

    Reddit being absolutely horrendous is what moved me to this site. I wish there was more people and more prominent communities though.

  • ooo_shiny@lemmy.nzEnglish
    3·
    2 hours ago

    Reddit has some cool communities that don’t quite exist elsewhere, and even though I’ve found old-school forums for some of them, the vibe is different (usually older people who are often retired and can’t envision not having money or free time).

    I used to pay a sub to Reddit but stopped back when they shafted Apollo. I wonder how things might have gone had Reddit focused on its community rather than the sad process of enshitificafion.

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    6 hours ago

    They probably are tightening down to try and slow AI scraper bots.

    Either way, I’ve mostly given up Reddit for Lemmy anyway. I looked the other day and realized I haven’t even commented on Reddit in 4 months.

  • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    9 hours ago

    I found something interesting when I check a few hours ago. I was logged out to set the stage. I goto the main page it works. I use the search bar to find a sub and it works. But all the links on that subs page to related subs direct you to the “You have to log in”

    So I was like, hmm what if I type one of these links into the search bar and see if I can get the link that way? It worked I could access the link that previous required a log in

    I’m sure they will close that loophole and reddit will continue its decline…

  • Gsus4@mander.xyzEnglish
    4·
    8 hours ago

    They really love to punish any human left with any sort of connection to them. Luckily I already wiped them from ddg 😁. fuck spez

  • TechSquidTV@lemmy.worldEnglish
    202·
    19 hours ago

    I’m sick of reddit. I’ve been banned three times for calling out Nazis. Nazis don’t get banned though

  • An1m4L@lemmy.zipEnglish
    181·
    20 hours ago

    https://redlib.catsarch.com/ <- this works for me but, like most comments are saying, reddit became a stinkhole of bots, agendas and stealth advertising. it kinda makes me sick to go there nowadays.

  • Capybara_mdp@reddthat.comEnglish
    23·
    22 hours ago

    While I’ve been on Lemmy for a while, I haven’t really seen any hobby - centric or geek centric areas.

    I’ll miss the movie threads in particular, but there were a ton of active crafts, art & ttrpg threads to get inspiration from. Any suggestions?

  • ironpangolin29@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    20 hours ago

    Reddit thinks they’re an exclusivity club nowadays. Love that mentality for them, just a platform full of bots, misinformation purposed for political polarization.

    They wouldn’t even let me delete my account last week, “errors occured” so I just uninstalled. Good riddance.