On October 2, Reddit restricted old.reddit.com to users who are logged in and have used the interface within the last six months, and discontinued its RSS feeds, citing bot scraping. By October 30, Reddit said search traffic had dropped by more than 1 million referrals per week on average that month. Huffman has since said the company isn't counting on Google traffic returning, which reframes the loss as accepted rather than reversed. What the change means for third-party clients and archival access remains open.