Logged-out Old Reddit access is “significant source of abusive scraping."

Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com.

The new requirement will take effect “over the next month,” a Reddit employee going by the username boat-botany announced on the social media platform today. The person claimed that the change is part of an ongoing effort to “tighten how automated systems access Reddit.”

The Reddit employee wrote:

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.

      • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
        6·
        15 days ago

        It’s nice and has some interesting features, like when there’s a crosspost, it show comments from all communities discussing the same post, or the possibility of following topics

      • Nusm@peachpie.theatl.socialEnglish
        5·
        16 days ago

        I like it better than Lemmy. There’s more features, and, maybe I’m weird, but I like the Piefed web interface better than Lemmy’s.

        • EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.appEnglish
          1·
          6 hours ago

          This is way old but I wanted to add that I prefer piefed to lemmy so far, also. The default UI is a lot better.

          • Nusm@peachpie.theatl.socialEnglish
            2·
            1 hour ago

            It’s not that old, just 15 days.

            Yeah, the PieFed UI is cleaner to me, and it’s also more customizable. Aside from standard settings options, I used a couple of CSS codes to make it just look just like I wanted it.