Reddit Imposes New Restrictions On Old Reddit
The company is also cutting off RSS support.
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Last month, Reddit signaled that there would be significant changes coming to "Old Reddit" as it continues to fight AI scraping. Now, the company says that it will soon restrict the 21-year-old desktop version of its website to "recent" users of the classic layout only.
"In the next few months, we'll further limit access for logged-in users to only those who have used Old Reddit in the last six months (which covers the vast majority of all Old Reddit users)," the company wrote in an update on r/modnews. With the change, new accounts will no longer be able to access Old Reddit, and existing users who haven't used it for six months will also be barred. Logged-in moderators won't be subject to "recent usage" requirements, the company said.
While Old Reddit remains popular among a vocal contingent of longtime users,...
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