Accounts are required to access old Reddit

#1

Post by lultimouomo » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 7:55 PM UTC

Accounts are required to access old Reddit
old.reddit.com

Re: Accounts are required to access old Reddit

#2

Post by BigGator » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 9:29 PM UTC

I can't put into words how awful it is browsing without old reddit. Like hell this stops bots. Combine this with the cloudflare gauntlet everywhere else it feels like the worst year so far for the WWW.

Re: Accounts are required to access old Reddit

#3

Post by rawling » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 10:31 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: Accounts are required to access old Reddit

#4

Post by alisadev » Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 4:48 PM UTC

BigGator wrote: post #2

I can't put into words how awful it is browsing without old reddit. Like hell this stops bots. Combine this with the cloudflare gauntlet everywhere else it feels like the worst year so far for the WWW.

Wow the cloudflare captcha is really the bane of my existence.