All quotes
“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.”
— boat-botany, Reddit employee (admin), r/modnews announcement2026-06-30
- Speaker
- boat-botany
- Role
- Reddit employee (admin), r/modnews announcement
- Date
- 2026-06-30
- Type
- admin
Context
The June 30, 2026 announcement that old.reddit.com would require a login within a month — the statement that ended anonymous logged-out reading of Reddit's legacy interface, framed as anti-scraping security in the middle of the company's AI-era fight over who may read its content.