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:

  • Capybara_mdp@reddthat.comEnglish
    1·
    20 hours ago

    Thank you! People keep saying “just search”, but honestly I’ve done various iterations of that (including subscribing the most popular lists) and its hard to find any non ghost towns.