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Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 days ago by breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] Dymonika@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Wow, I only knew of the p. subdomain, haha. This is great, thanks! That's hilarious that they copied the same subdomain, even... I wonder how to tell if an instance supports it apart from just blindly trying.

I love how the GitHub entry just calls it "a familiar desktop experience" and nothing more. Perfect. 👌🏻

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I wonder how to tell if an instance supports it apart from just blindly trying.

They don't have to stick it at the same prefix, so there's no reliable way to check by just guessing the name.

It looks like p.lemmy.world is running the Photon frontend. On lemmy.today, we have it at photon.lemmy.today.

Lemmy.today lists the alternate frontends in the instance sidebar, but there's no requirement for an instance to do that.