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:

Edit: Best bet now is to use a proxy like safereddit.com.

  • Pechente@feddit.orgEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    I see similar comments every now and then. What exactly is missing here for you? There’s a community for almost anything except some niche topics

    • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
      111·
      2 months ago

      Local communities are lacking. We don’t have the critical mass for that.

    • velma@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      More diversity, but since we’re commenting under a new user’s comment, that may be correcting itself.

    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Niche topics was all I ever used Reddit for, so in my case, Lemmy just doesn’t replace Reddit at all. None of the subreddits I follow have an active equivalent Lemmy community. They go from a few posts a day and dozens of comments on Reddit to “last post: 3 years ago” on Lemmy.

    • Spooge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      2 months ago

      There are plenty of communities and topics for them and what not, but engagement is the problem. There’s no one here and most of the people here are here because even reddit didn’t want them. This place is insufferable at times.