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Uh, I have none of those issues. Everything works for me on old.reddit.com, login, posting, reading. No idea about the logged-out experience, but logged-in everything works.

edit: cookie banner dismissal does indeed not work, I guess I had it blocked and didn’t realize

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Same here. How is this not the most upvoted comment? Did anyone even check OP's claims? Maybe it's some sort of weird A/B test on reddit's side?

I draw the same conclusions whether or not it’s an A/B test. I’m not concerned about merely my own access, but that of my peers, and the effect that this hostility and filtering has on the character of the community.

Seems to permit my login, although it just tosses me back to the page without acknowledging that I'm logged in, and it doesn't show that I'm actually logged in. Trying to reply to comments gives a login box, even though going to the doom scroll site shows I am logged in on that browser session.

So, yeah, seems to be a thing and one that I'm more than happy to leave behind. I have noticed a couple other of my hobby sites have recently put their forums behind login-walls. Which I have a problem with, because I think having these sites indexed by search engines promotes activity and interest in the hobby.

Oh well, is it too late to come up with a new Usenet standard and bring back newsgroups?

Same for me. I use old.reddit.com and am not logged out, and can comment without any problem.

It seems OP's claims are disputable...

Cookie banner dismissal does NOT work on Old Reddit. It explicitely sends you to new.reddit.com to dismiss it.

This one. Until you accept it you would get a pretty weird behavour (maybe it depends on the browser?) byt you can't accept it on the old. subdomain, you need to go to the new one, accept it and after that the old one would work fine.

The easiest way to experience that is to access it through the European address and with old. URI as the first one.

You are correct, edited

Not me. Logging in and writing child-comments (top level comments seem to work for both old and new) does not work for me when I'm using old reddit. But if I visit new reddit, the child comments appear and it also says that I am logged in. Oh well, it's a good time to leave reddit anyway

It seems to work fine for me. I’ve noticed a change in the past couple of days where when I sign in through old.reddit.com, the page doesn’t refresh - it stays the same and continues to show the sign in box. However if I refresh manually I am signed in as normal. No problems commenting.

It's the same on mobile from the browser, so it's probably a bug.

That has happened to me as well.

I have the same cookie banner dismissal problem, and it does seem to be logging me out more recently, but everything is fine when you're logged in.

Me too. I've even activated Firefox's strict cookie mode and still can use it fine (except that cookie banner, but a custom filter removed that one). Either an A/B test (but I don't see anyone else complaining...) or more likely user error.

Yeah I just tried it to see what the fuss was about, and it works just fine as usual.

Well, 'everything' besides links breaking when users post them from new reddit, which for some godawful reason inserts escape characters, and removes them when displaying in new reddit only.

Yes, same here. OP has jumped to some conclusions, I fear...

Yeah... everything on old.reddit works fine for me as well.

Maybe OP was confused that Reddit blocks all comments on posts older than a certain amount...?

Not really sure what to make of this.

You have a way to dismiss the cookie banner on old.Reddit? For me the cookie banner has one button, ‘continue’, which takes you to new Reddit

Same here, it works fine except for the cookie banner which doesn't matter lol

Same for me.

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