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It's been 9 days that way for myself but I visited their log on would be required announcement page 20 days ago, so my IP / fingerprint was probably mapped and thus first to be flagged. I noted at least one other comment at HN confirming they too had struck a request to log in the same day I found old.reddit effectively walled off. It's rare I find myself landing at reddit by way of a search, most times it is by way of following an interesting post from HN.

The new reddit site only serves me the OP of a thread (Probably my fault, my configuration I have blocked a couple of intrusive PII gathering services disguised as APIS and a bunch of other sites with intrusive scripts ) -- it's the comments where the value is at so reddit is now totally useless to me - I suppose I should get around to adding the site to my growing deny list.

Edit: clarity.

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cosmicgadget

15 hours ago

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That sounds like just the kind of risky behavior that was a huge threat to Reddit! Glad they did something about checks notes people browsing from the open web.

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jubilanti

15 hours ago

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So who is going to make the xcancel version for old reddit?

edit: https://safereddit.com/ is an instance of https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

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autoexec

9 hours ago

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"Sadly, you must enable JavaScript to get past this challenge. This is required because AI companies have changed the social contract around how website hosting works. A no-JS solution is a work-in-progress."

One of the best things about old.reddit.com was that it didn't need JS. Now we need someone to make a safesafereddit.com that just lets people see reddit posts without JS enabled

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AmazingEveryDay

8 hours ago

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I'd settle for a Safereddit Enhancement Suite. Hmm.

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isaachh

12 hours ago

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First I made a userscript that auto-redirects me to old.reddit, then they did this. So now I have my userscript fetch the .json version of the url, and render a minimal hackernews style UI instead of the bloated normal site.

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arijun

11 hours ago

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Mind sharing the script? I am certainly not logging in just so they can track me better.

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isaachh

4 hours ago

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https://github.com/IsaacPushButton/reddit-reader-userscript

I got fable to whip it up, use at your own risk

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cosmicgadget

15 hours ago

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Getting the same. I stuck around as a lurker cause some subs were still good. I'm definitely not creating an account or subjecting myself to new reddit.

I wonder if this was about killing old.reddit in two steps, forcing people to create accounts, or LLM scrapers.

Update: looks like they want LLMs to have to buy their data: https://web.archive.org/web/20260716201346/https://old.reddi...

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sethops1

16 hours ago

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I've been working on https://treehouse.net/

Not a direct substitute old.reddit.com in that we don't support creating custom communities, but the idea is to create something reminiscent of the original reddit, or perhaps a version of Hacker News with a more broad scope of topics. Oh, and you can filter out topics, like AI.

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ronsor

13 hours ago

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Guess I'm not using it anymore

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Melatonic

14 hours ago

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Isnt this going to decrease a massive amount of traffic from Google searches and whatnot?

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jubilanti

14 hours ago

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the regular reddit.com can still be accessed without a login, but that's the bloated webapp with tons of ads and tracking and takes dozens of MB to load over hundreds of network requests.

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Melatonic

14 hours ago

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Forgot I had auto redirects setup. So lame

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throwaway3060

15 hours ago

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Suddenly started happening to me out of nowhere while browsing. Really does feel like one of the last pillars of the old internet just toppled - that reading is open to anyone. New Reddit is basically unusable.

Edit: I still am a strong believer in anonymous usage of the internet. Increasingly it feels like we've become an endangered species.

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erelong

15 hours ago

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Is this truly the end?

Feels like a moment

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jaggs

15 hours ago

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May I suggest - https://old.lemmy.world/?listingType=All&sort=New

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arijun

10 hours ago

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Yeah lemmy is just too full of tankies for me. I mean, reddit was full of half baked political takes, but at least they didn't spout apologia for North Korea.

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jaggs

2 hours ago

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Really? I've been there for several years now, and not seen any of that stuff. You must be subscribed to the wrong kind of forums. :)

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ChrisArchitect

15 hours ago

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Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740217

(Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1ujtebf/logging_in...)

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ChrisArchitect

15 hours ago

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Cannot duplicate. What I'm getting is a temporary/false "You've been blocked by network security" page but refreshing then brings up the reddit page as per usual.

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kotaKat

13 hours ago

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Also getting slammed with the "to keep Reddit safe" bullshit.

How do banned users access Old Reddit? Do they just Not?