old.reddit.com Now Requires a Login

chucksmash 20 points 21 comments August 17, 2026
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You maniacs! You blew it up! Redirect URL: https://old.reddit.com/login/?reason=lor2&dest=https%3A%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2Fuser%2F<YOUR_SN_HERE>%2F Page text: Log in to use old Reddit To keep Reddit safe, accounts are required to access old Reddit. Log in, or continue without an account on reddit.com. By continuing, you agree to our User Agreement and acknowledge that you understand the Privacy Policy.

Discussion Highlights (11 comments)

throwaway81523

It still works for me. Maybe they are still rolling out the change.

shmde

The www.reddit.com shows me a banner after 10 seconds to login/signup. So annoying. I refresh multiple times to make that banner go away. It sometimes does sometimes doesn't. Such user hostile stuff.

dostoynikov

It does not require me to login. I am from Japan tho. Maybe this requirement is kind of European freedom stuff lol.

add-sub-mul-div

And nothing of value was walled in.

ColdStream

Australia here. I have been playing around with this on various machines. It seems to be using some cookie system that is bypassing this for the moment. Older machines I have still can use it without issue. But a fresh browser on the same connection will be prompted for the login. Regardless, it is clear what direction this is going in. Age verification is also being tested in some places.

mexicojalisco

It’s been requiring login to old Reddit from Mexico for 1-2 months. In out

mandarinclips

It's difficult for me to post on Reddit now; it's very restrictive, mainly because my karma score is too low. There will be even more restrictions going forward; AI automation is becoming too powerful.

a_e_k

Earlier today I started getting a "Get the app to keep using Reddit" popup when browsing while logged out on my phone. (I prefer to use Firefox Android exclusively in private mode to reduce the temptation to doom scroll and to have the added friction of manually logging in when commenting on any site.) Unlike the prior nag screens, this one was modal, blocked any scrolling, and had no way to close it. It seemed to pop up about 15 seconds after I first start scrolling any page - either a list of threads on a subreddit, or a thread page itself. Man I miss the old iOS-looking Reddit mobile (m.reddit.com, IIRC). My Reddit account is now just a few months short of US drinking age. I've been using the site since before subreddits were a thing (back when the only topic-specific alternative to the general front page was programming.reddit.com). I've posted a lot, modded some, and stuck with them through a lot of stupid decisions over the years. But I'm beginning to think it's finally time to move on; I'm just not sure where to.

shawn_w

Are there any decent alternatives to reddit? When they finish killing off old reddit I'm gone, and will need a new time waster.

dlcarrier

It's still working for me, even in an incognito window.

viccis

I've seen many people point out that, despite AI being heralded as increasing engineering productivity by 10x or more, we don't seem to have gotten a decade worth of new disruptive sites and apps like we got multiple times a year in the early 2010s. Not that surprising to me, as product fit was always the bottleneck, rarely engineering. But I can say that where AI and its externalities truly excel and have rapidly accelerated is in taking away or at least hobbling the value of many sites. This is another victim, I think. Reddit needs to figure out how to make money, and their main valuable asset now is a trove of somewhat organized (compared to, say, Discord) text conversations. They have so far been too incompetent to turn being one of the only way to get good results from google searches into revenue, so they're scuttling that with this and the normal site paywall in hopes of LLM corpus cash.

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