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Reddit forces login to access old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Redacted@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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:

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[–] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 84 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Yep loved old.reddit but nope, no more. Happy to be a Lemmyor now πŸ˜€ or whats the correct term? Lol. Cheers!

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 86 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We’re lemmings. There’s a smooth way to say it.

[–] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ha! Love it! Smooth indeed. Cheers!

[–] EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Clearly BuckFutter wants to be LemMayor of the joint after hanging around for two days

[–] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 7 points 1 day ago

Ha fair enough, I’ll go back to my hole now. Just happy to find a place that reminds of what reddit used to be like back in the 2010’s. Cheers!

[–] shininghero@pawb.social 6 points 2 days ago

The spirit of /u/RimjobSteve lives on, even as reddit perishes.

[–] helios@social.ggbox.fr 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Welcome. If you ever miss the old reddit UI, check out https://old.lemmy.world/

[–] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Awesome and thank you. Yah I loved that UI and would love to enable it on my instance. Any idea on where to get the theme files for it? Thanks!

[–] mschae@discuss.mschae23.de 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you allow me to do a bit of self-promotion: https://code.mschae23.de/mschae23/mlmym (this is my fork of the software running on old.lemmy.world).

It's a different frontend rather than just a theme, so it needs to be set up separately (similar to lemmy-ui). If you have any questions, feel free to ask me :)

[–] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 2 points 1 day ago

Well that is really cool. Thank you for sharing and maintaining a cool looking interface. 😎 cheers!

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I just call us Fedi. Like its all in compassing. IDK.

We are certainly something πŸ˜†

[–] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lol I love it. So something akin to putting the fun in dysfunction? Lol

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ha yeah!

[–] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 1 points 2 days ago

Sweet. My kind of people 🀠 Cheers!