Reddit is the worst for this. I hate the disgusting, low class UX design where they let you read about 10-15 seconds of a page before locking you out.

Though I think Pinterest takes the cake for being just the ugliest example of this.

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chrysoprace an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Old Reddit is now completely unusable without an account. Maybe it's time for me to finally stop using it.

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ryandrake 22 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Interesting--I'm still using old.reddit.com with no problem, without an account. Maybe the change is not broadly rolled out?

	▲	chrysoprace 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Could be regional - however it's odd that it pops up on old.reddit.com but not reddit.com.

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hedora an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do database dumps of it still exist?

Maybe it’s time to just download it and Wikipedia, then point an LLM / vectordb at it.

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throwaway85825 23 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Old reddit on the tor onion domain still works for me.

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alex1138 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

spez is a problem. And if it's not spez, then enlighten me. But they've taken years of built up network effects and absolutely wrecked it. It's so hostile when companies do this. They just ignore their users, straight up. That should be a firable offense. The customer is NOT 'always right', but you can meet them halfway

Fail upwards. That's all they know how to do

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afavour an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> They just ignore their users, straight up.

Existing Reddit users aren’t affected by this regi wall UX because they’re already logged in. And as much as I hate the UX too… Reddit user numbers have grown a ton in the last few years. It’s difficult to make the argument that these changes are a failure.

	▲	trompetenaccoun 36 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		What kind of users though? OnlyFans models, porn addicts, LLMs and child groomers... maybe. I could be ignorant because I'm not the target user for their brave new vision but no one I know uses reddit anymore. And with the locking of old.reddit and forcing sign-ups they probably lost the last few old timers who were still there for what was supposed to be an open forum to freely exchange ideas.

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AlexandrB 24 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

> The customer is NOT 'always right', but you can meet them halfway

Reddit users are not customers. The advertisers and AI labs are the customers because they're the ones paying. The users are the cattle in the pen being sold to the advertisers and the monkeys at the typewriters whose output gets sold as AI training data.

	▲	alex1138 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I understand this, but the distinction is academic The people using their product. The people who, if the product were shit from day 1 - as Reddit wasn't - would have never signed up for it. Who have been effectively and literally lied to