Old.reddit.com no longer works for logged out users

Used old.reddit.com for ~10 years with no problem to get around the "new" UI, including yesterday. Come today, and there's a unavoidable pop-up saying it's for logged-in users only.

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bhhaskin a day ago | parent | next [-]

It's simple, if I can't access old.reddit without a login, then I don't access reddit at all.

My money is it won't be long before old reddit is deprecated altogether.

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kojeovo 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

as an old.reddit user i'm surprised it's still up at all. they are surely losing money on people like us

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gruntled-worker a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Likewise. I can't help but wonder how many people they're expecting to switch to enshittified reddit or to log in after this change. Maybe 1% will?

I'm not installing a browser plugin. I'll just take a vacation until there's an xcancel-like solution.

	▲	tripleee a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		"On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel." funny that :(
	▲	bhhaskin a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's like just the old reddit accounts that use it, and they just don't care about us anymore. It's all about that ad money and tracking.

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enjoyyourlife a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Try using https://github.com/mkornreich/old_reddit to browse Reddit with the old reddit layout while logged out

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benoau a day ago | parent [-]

Works ok for browsing links, it’s not as nice as “old” but it’s okay - but the post comments are still the incoherent “new” design.

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enjoyyourlife 20 hours ago | parent [-]

Feel free to make a Github issue because I can't reproduce it. The comments for me are in the old design

	▲	benoau 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		My bad I was thinking of a similar extension "sheddit". Yours is quite a bit nicer.

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MrbroJangles a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Currently wfm logged out, in a fresh private browser window with this

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

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b0rtb0rt 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

it’s been intermittently working and not working over the last few weeks, not sure what that’s all about

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firefax 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What is Reddit?

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ChrisArchitect a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005747

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740217

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48753129

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983857

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orionblastar 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

So much for being anonymous and reading old.reddit.com?