May I suggest - https://old.lemmy.world/?listingType=All&sort=New
Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login
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Re: Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login
#12Can confirm that this started happening today. > Log in to use old Reddit > To keep Reddit safe, accounts are required to access old Reddit. Log in, or continue without an account on reddit.com. I don't participate in Reddit conversions and only use old.reddit.com to browse some specific subreddits as a guest.
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.
Re: Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login
#13Isnt this going to decrease a massive amount of traffic from Google searches and whatnot?
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#14Isnt this going to decrease a massive amount of traffic from Google searches and whatnot?
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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#15Isnt this going to decrease a massive amount of traffic from Google searches and whatnot?
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.
Forgot I had auto redirects setup. So lame
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#16Also getting slammed with the "to keep Reddit safe" bullshit.
How do banned users access Old Reddit? Do they just Not?
Re: Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login
#17Can confirm that this started happening today. > Log in to use old Reddit > To keep Reddit safe, accounts are required to access old Reddit. Log in, or continue without an account on reddit.com. I don't participate in Reddit conversions and only use old.reddit.com to browse some specific subreddits as a guest.
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.
Re: Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login
#18Guess I'm not using it anymore
Re: Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login
#19First 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.
Re: Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login
#20First 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.
Mind sharing the script? I am certainly not logging in just so they can track me better.