You Could Lose Your Access to 'Old Reddit' Forever, but There's a Workaround
That's not the case for most of the tech in my life. I don't make a point of only using an iPhone from a decade ago, or avoid playing video games with more than 64 bits. But, in my view, Old Reddit is the only proper way to use the website.
- ▪That's not the case for most of the tech in my life.
- ▪I don't make a point of only using an iPhone from a decade ago, or avoid playing video games with more than 64 bits.
- ▪But, in my view, Old Reddit is the only proper way to use the website.
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| Original publisher | Lifehacker |
| Canonical URL | https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-keep-your-access-to-old-reddit?utm_medium=RSS |
| Publication time | Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:00:50 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-01T16:12:33.981Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-01T16:12:33.981Z |
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| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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"Old Reddit" is the only way I use Reddit. That's not the case for most of the tech in my life. I don't make a point of only using an iPhone from a decade ago, or avoid playing video games with more than 64 bits. But, in my view, Old Reddit is the only proper way to use the website. While "new" Reddit has more "features," it's bloated and slow. Old Reddit might be extremely basic, and looks about the same as it did when I first started "redditing," but it works. Unfortunately, most of us likely won't be able to experience Old Reddit for much longer. On Wednesday, Reddit announced a series of infrastructure changes on its r/modnews subreddit. Normally, these updates wouldn't make tech headlines—I can't say Reddit "mod news" often finds its way into my feeds.
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