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Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login
- sethops1 3mo agoI've been working on https://treehouse.net/ 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 3mo agoIs this truly the end? Feels like a moment
- jubilanti 3mo agoSo who is going to make the xcancel version for old reddit? edit: https://safereddit.com/ https://safereddit.com/ is an instance of https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
- autoexec 3mo 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 3mo agoI'd settle for a Safereddit Enhancement Suite. Hmm.
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- ChrisArchitect 3mo agoCannot 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 3mo agoRelated: Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740217 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740217 (Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1ujtebf/logging_in_to_use_old_reddit/ https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1ujtebf/logging_in...)
- throwaway3060 3mo agoSuddenly 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 3mo agoCan 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 3mo agoThat 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 3mo agoIt'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 3mo agoGetting 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.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1ujtebf/logging_in_to_use_old_reddit/ https://web.archive.org/web/20260716201346/https://old.reddi...
- jaggs 3mo agoMay I suggest - https://old.lemmy.world/?listingType=All&sort=New https://old.lemmy.world/?listingType=All&sort=New
- arijun 3mo agoYeah 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 3mo agoReally? 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 2mo agoI 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 https://lemmy.world/post/29072279
- Melatonic 3mo agoIsnt this going to decrease a massive amount of traffic from Google searches and whatnot?
- kotaKat 3mo agoAlso getting slammed with the "to keep Reddit safe" bullshit. How do banned users access Old Reddit? Do they just Not?
- ronsor 3mo agoGuess I'm not using it anymore
- isaachh 3mo agoFirst 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.
- arijun 3mo agoMind sharing the script? I am certainly not logging in just so they can track me better.
- memcg 2mo agoI can still access https://old.reddit.com/ 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
- memcg 2mo agoIf I go to https://www.reddit.com/ https://www.reddit.com/ using chrome then replace www with old it works.
- baggy_trough 2mo agoI sadly lost the old reddit cookie on my iPad and now I can't get it back :(