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Comment by mfiro | Hacker News Reader

It's been a while that VPNs were blocked on the main website. But I have noticed this since a week that old.reddit.com subdomain has been included.

The next step for Reddit would be a complete Login wall like Instagram and co. I would be happy if they do, because it will save my time more (like twitter).

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> I would be happy if they do, because it will save my time more (like twitter).

Why is that? If you don't have enough self-control to not use Reddit, a login wall won't stop you.

Or it will since self control is not a binary, so more barriers can reduce use

This is very wrong. One of the most studied ways of breaking bad habits is by introducing friction. Nothing stops me from getting in my car and going to McDonalds but that is a lot of friction. It's easier to just stay home and cook something I have.

It would kill Reddit as a Google result that people seek.

Honestly, they jumped the shark years ago. It’s Digg 4.0 at this point.

Speak for yourself. It's enough for plenty of people, myself included.

Untrue in my case. Needing to create a Twitter account stopped me going to the site at all.

Totally disagree. Killing my third party app reduced my reddit usage by like 90%. Now I really only use it on my desktop PC.

On mobile, when I tap reddit search results I am never logged in which means I have to go to old.reddit.com to see the full thread and comments. If they added a log in wall I'd just stop tapping reddit results on mobile.

I used to check Twitter 50 times a day, but the login wall combined with killing Nitter completely broke the habit.

I suspect they will soon remove old.reddit.com. I think that will be my exodus call. I've been doing more on mastodon, lemmy, discord, etc and hope those continue to grow

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