Tell HN: Just noticed Reddit blocking VPN traffic. Old subdomain still works

When I go to a reddit url from a nordvpn address, I get an annoying "oopsie" static page ("whoa there, pardner!"), it informs about a network policy error, asks to log in or use developer credentials.

Using the same address with the old.reddit subdomain still works as of now.

I haven't seen that before and thought it's interesting.

> Using the same address with the old.reddit subdomain still works as of now

And I exclusively use old Reddit because their new interface is annoying and bloated as shit. I looked at the source code and they include a hardcoded Tailwind library on every page instead of linking to an external, cacheable resource.

I had problem with feeds these last days, turns out it’s cloudflare something something.

Using old reddit worked.

yet another reason to continue no longer using reddit.