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

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 https://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.

  • Empricorn@feddit.nl
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    6 months ago

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

    • Blaze@reddthat.com
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      6 months ago

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

  • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

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

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        6 months ago

        #AmericansNotForcingTheirLocalPoliticsIntoEveryConversation

        Difficulty level: impossible

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      6 months ago

      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.

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    6 months ago

    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.

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        6 months ago

        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.

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      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.

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      6 months ago

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

      No it does not.

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      6 months ago

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

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      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.

  • edric@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

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

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    6 months ago

    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.

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

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    6 months ago

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

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

      No doubt because of my scathing post here.

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      6 months ago

      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.