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Hi there, u/boat-botany here working on Community Safety.

A few weeks ago we shared some of the work we’re doing to tighten how automated systems access Reddit while preserving the tools that help moderators and communities thrive. As a continuation of that work, we’ll be rolling out changes to how Old Reddit can be accessed.

Old Reddit’s logged-out experience is a significant source of abusive scraping and automated traffic on the platform. It’s also an important interface for many long-time mods and redditors. To strike the right balance between preserving your access to Old Reddit while preventing abusive scraping and automated traffic, over the next month we will start requiring everyone to log in. All logged-in users will continue to have access to Old Reddit, and this change will not impact logged-out browsing on reddit.com.
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I actually buy their abuse reasoning. I'm sure they're happy to do it for other reasons as well, but I'm sure they're just flooded with scrapers and bots. It's a huge issue even for us lemmy admins.

I've been banned from there so many times that visiting is pointless anymore.

This sucks, I still browse parts of reddit sometimes despite being banned and the redesign is terrible. I guess the frontend linked to seems to work, maybe that could be a solution, unless that's using old.reddit itself.

Finally, I've been waiting on this for three years, they'll finally force me to quit visiting.