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points by abeyer 1 day ago | 0 comments

Hmmm... any other day I'd think that I need archive.today to get past reddit's login wall to read that.

[–] consumer451 1 day ago

You wouldn't have, if I could get out of the habit of posting old.reddit links.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1xhf6qp/archivetod...

[–] strenholme 1 day ago

And, indeed, you can use archive.today to get past the login wall:

https://archive.ph/HcOq2 (This is a link to the post for this article)

(If one’s ISP can’t access archive.today, I find that Firefox’s built in free VPN can usually access them)

Or, you can use on of the various Reddit scrapers, e.g:

https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/Seattle/comments/1xhf6qp/archi...

Here’s a list of Reddit scrapers:

https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/ins...

Personally, as scummy as archive.today is at times, I can generally trust them to have an honest archive about, say, someone’s drunk post before said drunk deletes the post.

[–] mahboi 1 day ago

You can just not use old.reddit.com. Regular reddit.com works without login.

[–] abeyer 1 day ago

Old still exists and gets heavy use a decade or so later exactly because regular reddit just doesn't work at all, even when you're logged in.

But even aside from opinions on their UX, they're aggressively experimenting with the login more... Even on the new UI I now semi-regularly see that I can read the initial post and one or two comments but as soon as I scroll past or try to expand a comment thread get a login prompt.

[–] mahboi 1 day ago

I dunno, used the regular one and it worked fine. Probably not for long.