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Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)
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Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com.

The new requirement will take effect “over the next month,” a Reddit employee going by the username boat-botany announced on the social media platform today. The person claimed that the change is part of an ongoing effort to “tighten how automated systems access Reddit.”

The Reddit employee wrote:

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.

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[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I check Reddit like once a week since I started using Lemmy. I guess it will be down to nonce per week

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

uh

Nonce - British slang for pedophile

[–] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nonce is used extensively in the context of cryptography to mean "used exactly one time". Usually this refers to a random number that a server shares with a client to establish secure communications.

[–] nshibj@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Excuse me if this a stupid question (I'm not a native English speaker), but isn't that what "once" means?

[–] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The difference is small and pedantic:

"Once" means "A single time"

"Nonce" means "Used a single time"

Nonce carries extra information that something is being used.

Wikipedia claims this term dates to middle English:

Nonce is a word dating back to Middle English for something only used once or temporarily (often with the construction "for the nonce"). It descends from the construction "then anes" ("the one [purpose]").

[–] nshibj@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

OK, thanks for the explanation. So basically "nonce = used once"

[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

And here I thought I was creating a new word

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

thanks, interesting :)

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

That's what it's supposed to mean? Because that is not the context I've ever seen it used in.

[–] optimisticturtle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah I thought a nonce was a dumbass.

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

yeah that's the only meaning I see it used with in the UK

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 0 points 20 hours ago

i used to visit lemmy more regularly, but when .ee vanished there is less content so i visit later in the day.