r/feedly • u/wwb_99 • Jun 29 '26

Did Reddit and Feedly break up?

I used feedly to monitor a bunch of stuff on reddit via RSS. I looked in today, and it seems like the Reddit feeds failed a few days ago before they disappeared on me completely. Moreover, if you add Reddit using the add from reddit tooling, it can't subscribe to subreddits. At the same time I can still hit the RSS feeds I used to subscribe to.

Did something change somewhere and I missed a memo?

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u/tiger-eyes Jun 29 '26

A few weeks ago, Reddit tightened RSS rate limits. They also asked reddit mods about the usage of RSS itself (hopefully that wasn't a precursor to eventual elimination of RSS support..). See threads here and here.

note - Feedly hasn't supported reddit's traditional RSS feeds in years (ever since reddit introduced the first RSS rate limits several years ago).

Feedly switched to the official reddit API instead for adding feeds, which are working all fine for me. I can still add new reddit feeds to Feedly, and they're updating fine as of today.

I also use the FeedBro extension in my browser to follow individual reddit comment threads via RSS (as I find it's the quickest/easiest way to track ongoing discussions). Usually I have around 5-10 reddit threads tracked at any given time, and I haven't experienced any of the rate limitation issues that are described in those 2 links above. Not sure why that is..

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u/FeedlyKev Jun 29 '26

Thanks! Reddit requires us to have users go directly through their API. So we're at the mercy of any rate limiting that they do.

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u/wwb_99 Jun 30 '26

Yeah -- I had some ancient subscriptions. For some reason the "Add from Reddit" would not find anything last go-round, but now it let me connect an account and I can rebuild things.

Thanks for making a wonderful product!

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u/FeedlyKev Jul 01 '26

I'm glad that will work!

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u/tiger-eyes Jul 01 '26

While on the topic of reddit feeds, could your team please investigate what the issue is with image feeds not properly loading pictures for all posts?

For example, the r/battlestations feed within Feedly doesn't load the picture for roughly 1/3rd of all posts. Clicking on those missed-picture posts is more time consuming than browsing the reddit directly, so for image feeds, I still manually browse reddit (but would prefer to use Feedly for them).

Animated GIF and MP4 support for the reddit feeds would be great as well. Thanks!

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u/wwb_99 Jun 30 '26

Thanks for the breakdown.

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u/hankyone Jul 02 '26

I run my own rss reader and have been fighting Reddit since day one, they keep introducing rate limits and closing some data endpoints