Reddit signals ominous upcoming "changes” for old.reddit.com
arstechnica.com
Reddit says the beloved site is used for some "bad behavior."

As of a few minutes ago old.reddit.com now seems to requre logging in to access it.

Shame as it was still the best place to browse for info about some niche interests.

Edit: Seems like they might be testing the change as it is hit or miss at the moment.

Edit: Adding this to My flilters in uBlock Origin seems to fix the issue for the time being:

||reddit.com^$header=referer:

  • keyez@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 hours ago

    Thanks for that link there’s 3 subreddits I keep an eye on and haven’t found a replacement and the mobile site and now old are being enshittified. Redlib is working great.

    • isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Yeah you can run it yourself, of there are some public instances that seem to work well enough. I imagine it’s going to be a long term cat-and-mouse game between reddit and the reddit front ends. Reddit will figure out a way to break them, then the devs will find a workaround. Rince and repeat.

      If anyone knows of a similar tool to access Facebook marketplace, I would be very interested.