old.reddit.com login redirects to www.reddit.com/login

I use old.reddit.com, and had trouble logging in from there today. “Too many redirects”. I also use the Redirect to old.reddit.com extension. When I disabled that, the login link it now takes you to is www.reddit.com/login/. That, of course, takes you to www.reddit.com.

The old ‘popup’ login box has been removed. I also noticed that the in sub logins where they used to have username/password entry boxes have been removed.

More reddit enshitification to try and make us use their horrible UI.

pewgar_seemsimandroid,

dosen’t the homepage also allow logins?

No1,
@No1@aussie.zone avatar

They’ve now fixed/reverted it to the old operation.

No doubt because of my scathing post here.

Coreidan,

You still using Reddit? lol. Zero sympathy.

Reddfugee42,

“I don’t like the idiots running the encyclopedia company so I’m going to mock people who use encyclopedias”

Seems like a mature, measured response.

Coreidan,

👍

Dkarma,

Seems like a shitty lazy analogy

lennybird,
@lennybird@lemmy.world avatar

Imagine being them, subbed to a “Reddit” community on Lemmy, complaining about people who use reddit…

They’re not exactly deep thinkers.

primarybelief,

Says the elitist prick on Lemmy.

humuhumu,

same here. I can’t log in with reddit (dot) com. I have to use old reddit - now I can’t login at all

JJROKCZ,

Well here’s even more reason to stop fucking using Reddit. Let the dead horse rot instead of continuing to beat it

wolfeh,
@wolfeh@lemmy.world avatar

Let the dead horse rot instead of continuing to beat it

Kristi Noem disagrees.

JJROKCZ,

yConversation

Difficulty level: impossible

victorz,

Must be rough working at Reddit right now. At least I would feel like I wasn’t doing much good in the world. Working hard to enshittify.

Lladra,

I miss reddit. Too bad it isn’t what it was. It has died.

Mastengwe,

So?

Reddfugee42,

I huffed air out of my nose imagining the smug self-satisfied grin you had on your face after you smashed submit on that zinger of a comment.

Mastengwe,

That’s the same thing I do whenever I see people whining about Reddit on lemmy.

Let it go. She doesn’t love you anymore.

apex32,

If you are logged into reddit, you can just set the account preference to opt out of the redesign. No extension needed.

doc,

I thought they removed that recently... Could be wrong, though.

apex32,

It’s still an option for me on the desktop, not mobile site.

Empricorn,

Some A/B testing or rollout going on, I’m guessing. Also, Reddit’s an abusive ex, stop going back to them!

Blaze,
@Blaze@reddthat.com avatar

I still have one account there for /r/Lemmy and /r/RedditAlternatives when people try to discredit Lemmy

OpenStars,
@OpenStars@discuss.online avatar

I clicked your first link and it worked for me. It seemed to remember my having logged into Reddit at some point in the past. Although now that I’ve visited Reddit today, I feel dirty:-P.

scytale,

What I noticed lately is that I can’t login on old.reddit when using a mobile browser.

Blaze,
@Blaze@reddthat.com avatar

Same here

joel,

it must depend on your location cos I can still use it

stepan,

Not only that but reddit isn’t allowing you to make new accounts as of today, without having a Gmail account first.

OH and Gmail force logs you out after 5 minutes and forces you to phone verify.

Omniraptor,

You and everyone replying to you is wrong, the reddit sign up UI is misleading but it doesn’t require an email. You can just click “next” on the email prompt without entering anything.

stepan,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d24d7790-f128-4fbd-b155-05aeb6388675.jpeg

Omniraptor,

ah my bad. You’re looking at the new reddit while the no-email trick only works on old.reddit.com. but it does work, i just double checked

stepan,

Ah

dvdnet62,
@dvdnet62@feddit.nl avatar

Really? So, Gmail account is a must? outlook.com/simplelogin alias not allowed?

Blaze,
@Blaze@reddthat.com avatar

I just tried, that’s crazy

Carighan,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

You must have done something bizarre to your browser if Gmail logs you out every 5 minutes.

TrickDacy,

Yeah, I’ve been logged in for months before and I use a lot of privacy extensions. This person also seems to think emails and Gmail are the same word.

Coreidan,

OH and Gmail force logs you out after 5 minutes and forces you to phone verify.

No it does not.

stepan,

Yes it absolutely does. For me I try to make a new Gmail, it force logs me out after 5 minutes randomly and says please verify phone number.

Coreidan,

So then verify your phone number?

Google doesn’t log me out after 5 minutes. Sounds like you’re doing something wrong.

TrickDacy,

Are you equating email to Gmail?

InvaderDJ,

Not only that but reddit isn’t allowing you to make new accounts as of today, without having a Gmail account first.

What? So you can’t use any other email provider but Google to sign up for a Reddit account?

EDIT: I actually don’t think this is correct. I just went to the sign up page and it does have buttons to create an account using Google or Apple OAuth (I assume) but there is a field under those two buttons for just any email. Put in my Outlook.com email and it accepted it and went to the next page where I could create my user name and password.

lil,
@lil@lemy.lol avatar

Maybe Gmail logs you out because of your cookie settings or VPN you are using?

Dran_Arcana,

Not that I remotely want to defend reddit, but from a development standpoint it’s much easier to maintain and secure a single login workflow. Whatever nonsense the new/old font ends require, it’s probably much easier to make that work with a single unified token than it is to maintain both separately.

As long as the login remembers which frontend it came from, I wouldn’t be too up in arms here. If it dumps you out to www/new.reddit then that’s completely fucked and there’s no excuse.

dvdnet62,
@dvdnet62@feddit.nl avatar

yeah, as long as old.reddit.com still untouched. it is bearable atm.

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