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.
Oh they dont like people using their website as a website? Guess this is an issue that will solve itself.
This is presumably because they’ve been boosting their anonymous agitator account with their profiles set to private, and there are tools out there that reveal said hidden comments like arctic-shift which I assume utilise old.reddit. They are trying so desperately to curate a rightwing majority narrative that simply isn’t true.
What do you mean try? They are not desperate. They just are doing it. On every platform. The left is absolute cooked. There is no defense from the left against this. The left saw the writing on the wall and shot themselves in the foot over this decades ago. Now the right have the tools that the left used and because the left gave out to capitalism and profit seeking, the right was able to co-opt the platforms and use those same tools to accomplish a hostile takeover. Just wait until the kids today who experience the internet and the views spread on these platforms become adults. Maybe we can make some bean and moth memes until then.
yeah, this is the first of several steps to killing old reddit. And good riddance. I hope the whole company burns.
It was a long time coming, but when old reddit dies, I will have a cold beer for all the “good” times and then I’ll be on my way onto new adventures elsewhere.
Evidently not enough people left Reddit due to their last enshittification measure, so the enshittification will continue.
Enshittification will continue until morale improves
Hopefully this will be the push I need to quit Reddit.
I feel like apart from niche communities, Lemmy now has critical mass to survive on its own!
You can still visit - and scrape - the new Reddit without logging in, so the scraping is obviously just an excuse for what everyone saw coming from the start: the gradual complete shutdown of old Reddit.
Actually new reddit page source doesn’t load comments anymore. You need to execute JavaScript in the page for comments now. Old reddit still gives you a simple page with comments, so probably why they made it login only. You can’t legally scrape pages behind login because you agreed to their tos by logging in
New Reddit is such a shit tier interface though.
Remember to scramble all your posts before you leave if you’re still in that shithole. Redact works if you’re having trouble finding something to use.
Can you even do that anymore? AFAIK Reddit now caps the amount of comment history they show you so how do you find your comments to change them?
I guess if you’re EU you can request a dump of all your data as a GDPR request and find the permalinks for all your comments in there.
Does shreddit not work any more?
It works but it’s subject to the same limits – it can only find your most recent comments via the Reddit API. But you can upload files from your data request to help it find all your comments.
