Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login

#1

Post by comprev » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 9:22 PM UTC

It's finally happened... a sad day for the internet :(

Edit: For me anyway in UK using Starlink

Re: Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login

#2

Post by colesantiago » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 9:23 PM UTC

Just login then?

Still works fine.

Re: Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login

#3

Post by gnabgib » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 10:12 PM UTC

Discussions

So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe (610 points, 19 days ago, 668 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005747

Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com (123 points, 1 month ago, 42 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740217

Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login (88 points, 1 month ago, 18 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48753129

Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login (47 points, 21 days ago, 33 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983857

Re: Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login

#4

Post by luke5441 » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 10:13 PM UTC

New reddit also has blocking pop-ups after a while if you are not logged in since recently.

Re: Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login

#5

Post by x______________ » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 10:41 PM UTC

It's cookie/session based, try browsing in private/incognito mode.

Re: Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login

#6

Post by cyanydeez » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 11:07 PM UTC

x______________ wrote: post #5

It's cookie/session based, try browsing in private/incognito mode.

Nope,their marketing department convinced them to roll it out slowly to avoid the streisand effect

Re: Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login

#7

Post by alisadev » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 11:15 PM UTC

Yeah, it just happened to me as well.

And the worst part is that even if we give in to their demands and log in, we’d probably only get six more months of old.reddit at most. By being complacent now, we’re basically showing them that they can do whatever they want.

So after they shut down old.reddit, they might require login for new.reddit too, or maybe cripple the website so much that it’ll be impossible to use it without their app (like Facebook and Instagram).

I guess it’d be better to write a userscript that replaces their UI completely, and/or start getting used to not browsing Reddit.

Re: Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login

#8

Post by sandcat_ » Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 2:30 AM UTC

Honestly, probably time to move off it regardless. Perhaps I visited the wrong subreddits but these days, whenever I show up, it's all largely AI slop. Or bot accounts, reposting things. Even on smaller or more niche subreddits too.

Re: Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login

#9

Post by flas9sd » Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 3:24 AM UTC

Red Harvest I guess. Let's build our own, this time with.. oh, a lot of lemmy instances already do have an old. subdomain and interface!

Re: Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login

#10

Post by fiftyacorn » Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 7:05 AM UTC

Its reddits digg moment