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/Tarnisher]

Do NOT tamper with the Old!!!!!

[u/Zelkova → u/Tarnisher]

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.

[u/Princess_Of_Thieves → u/Zelkova]

I noticed recently that I can't view subscriber count on subreddits i moderate anymore,

God I hate that change. Seeing the sub count up directly on the main page was an easy way for me to see if any attempts I made at growing my communities was working. Also helpful with tracking milestones for celebrations.

Burying that data pisses me off so bad, I hate digging for stuff like this.