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Old.reddit.com no longer works for logged out users

2 points by kradeelav ↗ HN
Used old.reddit.com for ~10 years with no problem to get around the "new" UI, including yesterday. Come today, and there's a unavoidable pop-up saying it's for logged-in users only.

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orionblastar
So much for being anonymous and reading old.reddit.com?
enjoyyourlife
Try using https://github.com/mkornreich/old_reddit to browse Reddit with the old reddit layout while logged out
benoau
Works ok for browsing links, it’s not as nice as “old” but it’s okay - but the post comments are still the incoherent “new” design.
enjoyyourlife
Feel free to make a Github issue because I can't reproduce it. The comments for me are in the old design
benoau
My bad I was thinking of a similar extension "sheddit".
bhhaskin
It's simple, if I can't access old.reddit without a login, then I don't access reddit at all.

My money is it won't be long before old reddit is deprecated altogether.

gruntled-worker
Likewise. I can't help but wonder how many people they're expecting to switch to enshittified reddit or to log in after this change. Maybe 1% will?

I'm not installing a browser plugin. I'll just take a vacation until there's an xcancel-like solution.

tripleee
"On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel."

funny that :(

kojeovo
as an old.reddit user i'm surprised it's still up at all. they are surely losing money on people like us
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b0rtb0rt
it’s been intermittently working and not working over the last few weeks, not sure what that’s all about