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Reddit is going to force you to log in to use old Reddit.
The logged-out experience on old Reddit is “a significant source of abusive scraping and automated traffic on the platform,” a Reddit admin (employee) says. The company will start requiring anyone who wants to use it to log in “over the next month.”
TL;DR
- Reddit will require logins for all users of old Reddit within the next month.
- The company states that the logged-out experience on old Reddit is a source of abusive scraping and automated traffic.
- The long-term availability of old Reddit is uncertain, despite previous assurances.
- CEO Steve Huffman previously stated that old Reddit would remain online as long as it is used.