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Comment by AmazingEveryDay | Hacker News Reader

They can tell abusive scrapers from regular users, they choose not to distinguish. I might give in and create an account eventually but damn. Had deleted my reddit about a decade ago.

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How do you meaningfully use Reddit without an account? Do you really navigate to specific subreddits and read them one by one, rather than assembling a home feed of subs you have joined?

You never want to participate in discussion, or vote on comments and posts?

I don't really understand how you all were regularly browsing and using the site without an account.

By Reddit's own admission, that's literally 98% of users. Most of the incoming traffic never engage with the post in any way. This is true of most social sites. That's where the term 'lurker' comes from.

> How do you meaningfully use Reddit without an account? Do you really navigate to specific subreddits and read them one by one, rather than assembling a home feed of subs you have joined?

Old is useful for posting to other places, like right here on HN, because the UI is not complete and utter garbage.

Old is also useful for quickly going to a particular sub-reddit if you just want to peruse around to quickly see what the current topics are (/r/worldnews, /r/country-i-live-in, /r/city-i-live-in).

Third party apps used to work fine without an account. They kept track of your settings and filters locally. My usage declined rapidly when reddit killed them.

By “abusive” they probably mean “doesn’t let us track them”. I’m surprised they’ve kept old.reddit.com going this long, it’s actually an un-enshittified version of the product, which is basically unheard of.

when they kill it, I will prol leave reddit. the new version SUCKS

> They can tell abusive scrapers from regular users, they choose not to distinguish.

Really? How? Be specific.

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