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Logged out users can now only read the top level comments, and clicking the links to expand the comment chains prompts you to create an account or log in.
Another one of their recent changes that seems pointlessly user-hostile for the sake of metrics.
Replace "www.reddit.com" with "old.reddit.com" in URLs for old reddit version.
Using the normal reddit website now as a guest though is all but completely useless. When you click the comment section you don’t see any comments, just the story and then a list of “recommended” other links and a banner to sign in over a small link to continue to read the comments. On expanding that, you only see the top level comment and clicking to expand it tells you to sign in and you can’t continue.
I guess they’re going the Instagram route and moving towards app-only.
I still use Reddit to browse a wide range of topics, from woodworking, electrician work, and astrophysics, to organizationporn and buildapc.
One more step towards reddit becoming unusable. This whole thing started with the redesign (yes, I know old.reddit.com is still accessible).
Replace "www.reddit.com" with "old.reddit.com" in URLs for old reddit version.
Seems to still work for now, but they’ve also removed the ability to sort comments in the old version, and stripped other features. While they say they won’t “remove” old.reddit.com they’re doing their damnedest to make it annoying/useless. Using the normal reddit website now as a guest though is all but completely useless. When you click the comment section you don’t see any comments, just the story and then a list…