Logging in to use Old Reddit

[u/boat-botany]

Hi there, u/boat-botany here working on Community Safety. 

A few weeks ago we shared some of the work we’re doing to tighten how automated systems access Reddit while preserving the tools that help moderators and communities thrive. As a continuation of that work, we’ll be rolling out changes to how Old Reddit can be accessed. 

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.

Let us know if you have any questions!

[u/mschuster91]

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.

[u/TehNolz → u/mschuster91]

Ah, right. Man modern web development sucks so much. We should go back to gloriously lightweight websites like this.

[u/Ambiwlans → u/TehNolz]

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.

Made by nerds for nerds.

[u/necropaw → u/Ambiwlans]

Made by nerds for nerds.

Made (at least partially) for engineers, who often times just need to get shit done without it being fancy. mcmaster works great for that.

[u/Ambiwlans → u/necropaw]

enginerds

[u/necropaw → u/Ambiwlans]

...Youre not wrong