Reddit shows non-dismissable login page - did they just go login-only?
Opened reddit (regular, not old) in chrome this morning and im seeing non-dismissable login page.
is this correct - reddit now fully login gated? wtf
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Honestly? Good.
The sooner the world moves on from ever using Reddit again, the better.
For old threads with useful posts, there's the Wayback Machine from the Internet Archive and several browser extensions that enable using it with Reddit seamlessly.
For everything else it provided, there are now far better alternatives.
Yeah, I do hope that lemmy becomes the next thing and we could finally do "lemmy {my issue}" to get the solution to anything. Though, it may take reddit becoming straight up unusable and forcing everyone to ID verify.
What's the process for.getting to that point?
I’m not sure Lemmy needs the spotlight.
It's not about what Lemmy needs, it's about what the world needs - alternative to corporate services.
I can't imagine why anyone would sign up for an account site unseen.
Their goal is not to maintain great content but to make as much profit as possible
It's run by cunts for cunt reasons
yup started getting this forced signup/login this morning without using a VPN on my home network. old.reddit still works for now but you can't look at anything on regular reddit anymore.
end of an era I guess.
holy... fuck... so it is real - they are going login only
I mainly get it when looking as at a thread on my phone, but when I go desktop mode I no longer get the login pop-up. In mobile mode, though, it is unavoidable.
Sounds like A/B rollout, just like on old.reddit.
Easy way to reduce chances of some movement forming, very common strategy for unpopular changes.
old.reddit does force a login when I am on VPN, interestingly.
This probably means it's in an A/B testing period.
Yeah, that's what I figured. I may have even got hit with it once off a VPN, while on mobile 5G, but I can't say that for sure.
yeah for me it's hit or miss with my vpn. sometimes it'll force a login, sometimes it won't.
Mobile forces to install the app, web don't work no more, old reddit slowly getting removed...
They also show the cringiest snoo wearing a fedora image if they detect a VPN.
Oh damn I thought it just hit me on desktop where I only use reddit still. Are they that desperate to save their stock price as to force people to log in? I can't create a new account as they get banned but my wife absolutely 100% reads reddit and will not use an account. That's some anti-consumer shit if I've ever seen it.
seeing reddit users also reporting this https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1v8ctd4
Kind of a useless link when you think about it.
Was a matter of time.
I despite, DESPISE how the mobile Reddit page freezes my entire mobile browser to try and get me to log in, after like a 10 second timer. It freezes the whole browser, it forces full screen and disables touch input outside the login; I literally have to close and restart the app.
If that isn’t malware, I don’t know what is.
not encouraging anyone to use reddit but if you must then use Nora SNS, it removes some of these annoyances
That is an amazing looking rec, thanks. Trying it this second. This is why I come to Lemmy!
EDIT: Wow. How has this app flown under the radar? Well, I know how, but still.
@laurenceOfSuburbia it seems they did (old Reddit too)
I just got this today and didn’t realize it’s been an issue people been having for two weeks.
thank god I have ublock origin so I can bypass this shit but frankly maybe it’s about time everyone just moved to lemmy or back to smaller forums.
I think I really got into lemmy finally.
Photon client https://phtn.app/ for desktop, boost for lemmy on mobile - works really fucking good.
No ads, I can finally use a normal android app too, have not been able to for reddit since they shut down rif.
Only a matter of time until they figure out how to do a proper paywall, I reckon..
@naught101 i mean when that happens, for sure Reddit will die off
they might have gotten away with it during their api restrictions a few years back but this one will have everyone peeped off for sure
at least that’s my hope anyway
People will not pay one penny for things so that would be the immediate death of the entire operation.
Was the final nail in the coffin for me. Blocked Reddit via DNS house-wide so there's no chance I accidentally visit them again.. Can be annoying since so many answers are there, but as others have said extensions + wayback machine solve that. The block had reduced my frustration level considerably though, I have no regrets.
I would only use reddit login to scrape data from reddit and map to lemmy communities for automatic content reposting:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lemmy-deep-lighthouse/
Wow I just hit this too. Admittedly I still hop on reddit since Lemmy can "run out" of content from time to time (or maybe I'm new with few communities idk).
Anyways, after they banned my 14 year account, then immediately some old alt accounts, took away old reddit without an account, and now THIS? I mean this is over the top. They're saying NO ONE anywhere can read reddit on desktop (coming soon to mobile!) without an account?
They must be desperate to up DAU. I don't think I've ever created an account just to piss away time on a website.
Fucking finally, it's a zombie for years
Is this a mobile web? I just tested this on desktop and I didn't get it, but this popup has been around on their mobile web version for a few years now (before I switched to Lemmy, at least).
nope. regular desktop chrome browser - on fedora linux. ive been seeing it on firefox mobile for a while. no longer using reddit on mobile
Crazy. I guess they assume they've reached peak MAU and are now trying to prevent them from leaving. That and the AI scraping stuff, obv.
It’s not the first time. One of the latest rounds brought me here :)
same. switched after they started fucking around with mobile firefox - I called it quits. enough is enough.
any subreddits in missing - ill just gonna create my own lemmy community and sync data : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lemmy-deep-lighthouse/
Clear you cache.
Are you on a VPN?
no vpn. residential ip
There's still a chance that your residential subnet has been used by residential-ip VPNs. Other than that, dunno. Does old. work?
old works yes.
It's probably an A/B testing. Some people are not allowed to browser not-logged in and some are, then they check how much it affects engagement or bounce-rate or smt.
It's exactly this. And no matter how much one wants to reframe this (or hold out hope it isn't implemented), the die has already been cast. The very fact that this ever made it out of early discussions should tell everybody it's the end of reddit for them.
I don't know how many communities this has to happen with before the message sinks in: gatekeeping can be good, and it needs to be done more often. Because the moment an entity, like Reddit, can replace its original core audience with drama-chasing slop consumers, it's over.
I noticed it happened on my phone as well. I switched to a desktop mode, and if still showed up. Interesting.
Absolutely zero problem accessing it here? Haven't had an account for many years.
But the interface is absolute crap, it looks almost void of content compared to how reddit used to work.
Apparently the new layout is designed for simpletons?
Edit:
Same problem here now, it just takes a little while before the popup shows.
@laurenceOfSuburbia
Old reddit and new reddit requires login on my home up on desktop. Using brave.
New reddit on mobile, using brave can browse without a login for now.. Even on same ip from WiFi.
Fuuuck
The fuck is this "front page"
I always see people say this, but on mobile in browser it still works. Not that you should go there. Im on waterfox if it matters, ignore my 11 tabs, i was looking at recipes yesterday lol
The "front page" is a joke now, ill check it like 2ce a month. Its also can be interesting to compare comments on the same article posted there and here. Reddit is now like, facebook quality.
11 tabs?
looks at them from... 25 tabs
👀
Are you my wife 👀👀
Safari maxes out at 500, so I hover around 443.
did they just go* login-only?
Words hard, apparently.