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.
Quote from the article.
Killing 3rd party apps and allowing bots to run free spewing garbage spelled the end of Reddit a while ago. It’s been shambling along, zombified, but the rot is too systemic.
We need to transition smaller communities away from it so that no one has to go back
Maybe we should start with the big communities first
Yes, I hope we can. I miss my niche communities 😞
I just found this out naturally and immediately came to lemmy to see if someone’s posted about it.
Seriously I don’t want a reddit account and old.reddit.com without logging in has been a great way of checking up on the odd thing without having an account and being stuck in the dark patterns that keep you engaging
They know.
100%. From the arstechnica piece:
Making Old Reddit users log in could impact Reddit scraping but also will address Reddit’s interest in connecting as much traffic as possible to specific users—a strategy that is common among companies like Reddit that rely on advertising for revenue.
Thank goodness I was banned about a year ago. Only thing I miss are the sales communities!
r/hardwaresales, r/avexchange, r/homelabsales, etc
