old.reddit.com Now Requires a Login
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#32Oh the irony - the anti-ai movement will destroy companies that are best providers of ai training data.
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#33Have people. Unable to see comments while not logged in. They hid the comments behind a login prompt.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Places like Japan are always treated very differently on social media from the rest of the world. The system doesn't work, the contents don't work, memes don't work. They won't do anything that shrinks an already postage stamp sized Japanese community on Reddit.
I think it's just a divide and conquer approach: if they killed it everywhere at once, there would be a larger backlash, so they are careful to roll out the change gradually.
More or less it becomes like facebook and meta apps,.very intrusive login requirement to see content
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#35I've seen many people point out that, despite AI being heralded as increasing engineering productivity by 10x or more, we don't seem to have gotten a decade worth of new disruptive sites and apps like we got multiple times a year in the early 2010s. Not that surprising to me, as product fit was always the bottleneck, rarely engineering. But I can say that where AI and its externalities truly excel and have rapidly ac…
Last year they purged so many accounts and lost a ton of users, and now its full of AI bot slop accounts. I think the forced login is a way to bring back that engagement? Also i noticed they today hid comments behind"login to see the conversation on a mobile browser.
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#36Is it really “keeping Reddit safe” or is Popular in United States still all the Indian teenagers subreddits because they’re still riding residential proxies into the site?
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#37I'm visiting from EU in a private tab and not getting any login prompts or redirects, fwiw.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. Works for me to. For now. They will pull the same shit they pulled with i.reddit.com
What did they do with i.reddit.com? That still works for me too as far as I know. But as long as I remember, it's needed some awful looking session identifier.
It cannot be possible.
i.reddit.com is 301 permanently moved to www.reddit.com
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#39And nothing of value was walled in.
Completely pointless smug comment, given that there are thousands of subcommunities of wildly varying quality.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I started getting this occasionally months ago. I added these ublock rules and haven't been bothered since but I suspect they will change to a hard wall in future ! 28 Apr 2026 https://www.reddit.com www.reddit.com###app-upsell-blocking-bottom-sheet-direct > .bg-transparent www.reddit.com###app-upsell-blocking-bottom-sheet-direct www.reddit.com###xpromo-bottom-sheet reddit.com#?##app-upsell-blocking-bottom-sheet-seo:…
insert double space following newline for formatting or use double newline to force a break. double space before newline works on Reddit but not on HN
Difficult on mobile I wish hn would allow ``` blocks and not insist on blank lines to show new lines as I always forget to double space my bullet points too