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points by m348e912 1 day ago | 0 comments

It looks like old.reddit.com still works but requires logging in. Not having to log in was a huge feature for old.reddit.com. Sucks to see it go, but it was inevitable.

[–] daemonologist 1 day ago

You have to be logged in and, if I understand correctly, if you don't log in to old.reddit for six months (retroactive) they take it away.

[–] jaredsohn 1 day ago

My understanding (just from chatting with Gemini) is you just need to visit reddit (logged in) within the past 6 mos and don't have to log out/in again or anything like that.

So basically, I probably have a bunch of accounts from years ago; suspect that all but my current one no longer work with old reddit.

Biggest annoyance for me would be on mobile where i wouldn't log in.

[–] jaredsohn 1 day ago

Well - today it started defaulting to new reddit. Somehow this was checked:

>Use new Reddit as my default experience (by enabling this, you will be redirected to the new site when you go to any supported https://reddit.com page)

Undid that and it fixed it for me.

[–] krazingans12346 1 day ago

they eventually want to get rid of old reddit while logged in, and force users to use the new ugly UI that is basically like facebook.

[–] 8note 1 day ago

it looks like a lot of the functionality of old reddit for seeing not-ad-decided sort orders is going away, so the whole old reddit will probably be gone by the end of the year