Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com.
The new requirement will take effect “over the next month,” a Reddit employee going by the username boat-botany announced on the social media platform today. The person claimed that the change is part of an ongoing effort to “tighten how automated systems access Reddit.”
The Reddit employee wrote:
Old Reddit’s logged-out experience is a significant source of abusive scraping and automated traffic on the platform. It’s also an important interface for many long-time mods and Redditors. To strike the right balance between preserving your access to Old Reddit while preventing abusive scraping and automated traffic, over the next month we will start requiring everyone to log in.
If only they’d integrate the RES features
Man for real, what I would give for a RES “show images” button to expand all images on the page…
In listings? mlmym already has that. I see the button also exists on comment pages on reddit, but that’d be less useful on lemmy where inline images are already expanded by default.
I’m not familiar with what this is, but on desktop going to my instance, lemmy.zip to login definitely does not give me an option to expand all images when looking at the front page or any community page.
If you mean in the comments on a post page, yes those are expanded, but I mean without having to open the post.
mlmym is the old-reddit-like frontend discussed in this thread.
If you open https://old.lemmy.zip/, there is a “show images” button next to the nav links for the different sort orders. Unfortunately, it doesn’t actually work there because lemmy.zip has the image proxy enabled, which the old version of mlmym they’re running does not support.