{"id":52520,"date":"2026-07-03T14:23:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T18:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=52520"},"modified":"2026-07-03T14:23:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T18:23:50","slug":"old-reddit-now-requires-logging-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/03\/old-reddit-now-requires-logging-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Reddit Now Requires Logging In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/06\/reddit-will-require-you-to-log-in-to-use-old-reddit-com\/\">Scharon Harding<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/26\/07\/01\/1743219\/reddit-will-require-you-to-log-in-to-use-old-reddit\">Slashdot<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/06\/reddit-will-require-you-to-log-in-to-use-old-reddit-com\/\">\n<p>Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com.<\/p>\n<p>The new requirement will take effect &ldquo;over the next month,&rdquo; a Reddit employee going by the username boat-botany <a href=\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/r\/modnews\/comments\/1ujtebf\/logging_in_to_use_old_reddit\/\">announced<\/a> on the social media platform today. The person claimed that the change is part of an ongoing effort to &ldquo;tighten how automated systems access Reddit.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps more alarming for old-school Redditors is that boat-botany&rsquo;s post left the door open for Reddit retiring old.reddit.com.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/login-walls-old-reddit\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/login-walls-old-reddit\/\">\n<p>&ldquo;New&rdquo; Reddit is a janky, slow, bloated mess of a website that mostly displays text, images, and videos. &ldquo;Old&rdquo; Reddit is ugly but functional.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/08\/reddit-pushes-web-visitors-to-app\/\">Reddit Pushes Web Visitors to App<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/03\/twitter-now-requires-logging-in\/\">Twitter Now Requires Logging In<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scharon Harding (Slashdot): Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com. The new requirement will take effect &ldquo;over the next month,&rdquo; a Reddit employee going by the username boat-botany announced on the social media platform today. The person claimed that the change is part of an ongoing effort to &ldquo;tighten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-07-03T18:23:53Z","apple_news_api_id":"e6f8c676-b424-4ce0-a2a0-96f8ebdc3f02","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-07-03T18:23:53Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A5vjGdrQkTOCioJb469w_Ag","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1366,1451,96],"class_list":["post-52520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-reddit","tag-sunset","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52521,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52520\/revisions\/52521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}