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:

  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
    2·
    11 days ago

    I cannot confirm this. I call on old.reddit.com roughly once a day (whenever I want to see something on reddit) and it never requires login. Not today either.

    Could this be a regional thing?

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
      4·
      11 days ago

      They’re rolling it out piecemeal. I don’t think they’ve rolled it out to the UK yet, for example, because I can see both old and new interfaces without it requesting a login, but clearly it’s requiring login for some people, somewhere.

    • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      11 days ago

      VPN all over the US and I have not gotten the loggin popup either. I’m sure that will change though…