Reddit will require an account to access
tech234a
37 points
9 comments
October 29, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (6 comments)
kingleopold
That admin straight lying about entire UX and reddit design, it has been cancer since old.reddit.com. It's so bad that made me stop using years ago, I only check now and then. Reddit should stop existing soon, just like quora, orkut, digg and many others.
xvxvx
The final nail. I was an avid Redditor for the first few years but dropped off when the hive mind started taking over. Today, I just read some movie and music/feedback on there. Nothing worth making an account for.
VasiliyRad
I'm not against it. Hopefully it will reduce the AI slop a bit and make Reddit better
CM30
Yeah screw this. When this change goes live, I'm gonna stop contributing to Reddit at all. I already refuse to login on mobile, and if I can't even access the site there, there's no reason to help them on desktop either. I genuinely hope an alternative becomes popular soon, ideally a federated or decentralised one that doesn't have any of these risks associated with it.
xnx
Reddit going the way of stackoverflow? Such a huge portion of posts on any city subreddit are direct or indirect content/submarine marketing. This seems to kind of mirror the move by Discord to make public messages discoverable.
0x_rs
It's already been required for years, if you use a VPN or happen to live in the wrong place according to them. Either way, the site lost any usefulness it may have ever had after it stopped allowing you to see whether the person writing something is a regular of /r/piss and drinking their own.