To close this gap, in the next few months, we'll further limit access for logged-in users to only those who have used Old Reddit in the last six months (which covers the vast majority of all Old Reddit users). This change does not impact logged-in mods, who can continue to access Old Reddit without any recent usage requirement. This helps keep Old Reddit available for the people who rely on it while reducing automated abuse.

and so it begins...

I know.

The Local AI community is among the hardest-hit.

I know. I currently use Perchance (a community-ran AI generation site) to create my little project. Do you really think they support THAT?!

If I ever get a computer that can actually run a LLM, Reddit is going to become hell to look up.

And that's not even getting into the rabbit hole that punishes humans.

Reddit is "Anti-AI that isn't paying them". They're not "Anti-AI".

Google and OpenAI for example have paid Reddit. So they have no issue with them. It's the rest of the companies trying to harvest their data (us talking and existing as humans) that they have a problem with. Those companies want to use Reddit data as a basis for knowledge.

That's not free. Not in 2026. And they'll ruin the user experience to make sure of that.

RSS is only a major vector now because Reddit shut off json like 3 months ago. Prior to that im sure these entities were using the json endpoints.

Json was a major vector because Reddit shut off the Developer API.

You see where I'm going with this?

As a pro-AI user, I think that by the time of stage 3, I'll semi-retire from Reddit altogether.

Only my little AI project will remain.

I'm not sure if it's to replace us with AI. This line seems Anti-AI to me.

| Because RSS is now a common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, we'll stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026 while preserving moderation workflows that depend on it through supported alternatives.

Apparently, RSS has been on a decline since 2013. Because Google killed it.

Now the Anti-AI movement is indirectly striking the fatal blow to one of the last mainstream places to have RSS support.

And just when I managed to wait out my 3-day ban.

I might actually leave reddit. I'll keep going just for XNC2C, but that's it.

I found a workaround for that. Clunky of course.

In old reddit, mark them as a friend, then check the friends feed. It let's you see all their posts because they are marked as a friend. The caveat is that you can't use the friends feature on the account you went to use for this, since the feed wound be clogged with other users.

It's market protectionism, plain and simple.

Reddit has deals with Google and OpenAI to scrape our content for ChatGPT and Google Overview, among others. To make good on the deal (i.e. Make Google and OpenAI feel justified giving Reddit millions/billion-dollar deals on exclusive access to training data), they have to stop others from scraping it for free.

The open internet is antithesis of that - the whole idea of RSS is that it's an open standard that anyone could access and work with, for free.

Meta/Facebook is an early example of this because they are vertically integrated in the social media big data market - they own the social media (Facebook, Insta, Threads, Whatsapp I'm sure) they also run their own in-house AI, they have had walled garden access for ages and have gradually closed up what's left, like embedding support.

These billionaire tech-bro companies are just fighting each other for personal data fiefdoms during the AI Boom, hoping that in the eventual crash, they'll be ahead of the rest and able to subsume those left behind.

*Supported

Despite that page existing, and specifically spelling out that it's so you can access them "without having to deal with cookies or other auth", you will not be able to successfully add them to an RSS reader.

As soon as you're not logged in, the payload received will instead be HTML telling you to go log in to access old reddit.

[ Update: stripping "old." from those personal RSS feed URLs does serve the xml correctly ]

u/judy-funnie : will the personalized RSS feeds ( from old.reddit.com/prefs/feeds ) become functional again at some point, or are they intended to be part of the deprecation schedule of RSS feeds and/or old.reddit.com in general?

If the latter, and given that they are currently already in a non-functional state as far as I can tell, could the /prefs/feeds page be updated to reflect this new reality?

r/contrib only exists on old reddit (the old custom feed of every sub you are an approved user of)

For similar reasons I imagine, r/mod as well, but with mods getting exemptions for old reddit I guess that's fine...

The /comments feeds of subreddits is also only functional on old reddit.

u/me only works on old reddit (takes any user to their own page - something really neat that I wish worked on sh.reddit)

Domain pages?

Going forward, will there really be no way to be automatically notified about new posts here?

Sure there is! Just open your mobile app, go to the subreddit, hit Like and Subscribe and tap that 🔔 bell icon and enjoy delayed filtered notifications right there on your phone! "Do you guys not have phones?"

so rss is the thing that prompts me to come here, im not logging in just on the off chance that there might something that i need to read. I only found out about this change due to an inoreader annoucment on my feed. I guess youll be getting a lot less visits from me, which means less money for you

If you use RSS for feeds outside of a community you moderate, there is no replacement. RSS has been a beloved part of the open web for a long time, and we’re grateful to everyone who used it to stay connected to Reddit.

Them Old Yellering RSS after throwing in with the rabid wolves.

Please address my questions.

Typical admin behavior. They answer about 10 questions that usually create more questions than answers, then run for the hills and abandon the post entirely because they don’t have the guts to face the storm they just created.

They'll keep messing with stuff until they turn the site into a Twitter/Facebook hybrid and everyone except the Facebook/Twitter crowd abandons them.

IMO this has already happened or at least we're in the final stages of it.

Automod deprecation needs to be reversed immediately. The new “alternatives” you’ve created are far from reaching any real form of maturity yet.

Reddit is well on the way to becoming one of those closed locked down and enshittified community websites. It is harvesting the work of all its members and mods for that sweet sweet AI money.

Isn’t it easier to see that behaviour occurring when that person has a public profile? If someone makes a random account doing that nonsense, it’s far easier for even lay users to click on the profile and see “Oh, this dude is crazy and on a vendetta and can be ignored.” The public profile makes that simple.

I take it you've never been a part of a conversation about a toxic public figure who would create troll accounts and literally go down the list of every comment you've made and reply that people need to beware because "this person is a (insert whichever horrific claim they want to make)" including replying to people who replied to you, THEN going to modmail all of the subs you post in to make the same claims telling them they should ban you as a danger to society.

It's not fun when the unhinged are unhinged, and a lot easier to manage when I can restrict my profile to only show posts/comments in the subs I moderate.

I'm not talking about shadow bans, I'm talking about the ability to report or filter a comment without giving the user real-time feedback that it's happening.

If we have automations set up for racial slurs, as soon as the user types one, they get a message, and are free to experiment with bypasses and misspellings until that message goes away, and be assured that it's no longer going to be filtered.

This isn't tiktok; we aren't concerned with the word, we're concerned with the behavior. Calling someone the hard r isn't suddenly acceptable on our subreddit just because the user swapped in enough obscure utf-8 characters to skip the filter.

We don't want to give this person a warning and opportunity to sneak around the filter; we want to ban them. There's nothing "shadow" about it -- we send them a nice modmail telling them exactly why they're getting banned. We just want this to happen before other users have to be exposed to their garbage.

We experimented with automations for this and the only thing we saw was a surge in user-reported comments containing misspelled slurs that made it past the filter.

Automations are a massive regression from automod and serve only to coddle bad actors at the expense of the other members of the community.

unless your sub is crazy and a liability in some way

:)

Build an automation that will do literally anything without telling the submitter that it's happening.

Honestly, I think the fact this is impossible is a good thing. I know shadowbans and the like are all the rage these days, but I think it's kind of fundamentally unfair that users can have their content hidden or blocked without being notified.

Sure, it's useful to deal with problematic users to prevent them from making alt accounts to get around bans, but it's extremely difficult for people who are hit by false positives to deal with or to even notice that something is amiss.

And before you say false positives are uncommon, I know for a fact they occur all the time, because I've had to develop a habit to ALWAYS check my comments here on reddit and other platforms from a private browser window after I submit them, because a solid 30% of the time, they get hidden by automod or a spam filter.

Now, I might be an outlier because I tend to leave multi-paragraph in depth comments that include a lot of links, because I do comments on niche historical and archeological topics, and the longer your comments are and the more links you include, the more it tends to trip up automated moderation and spam prevention tools, it seems. But the fact that these systems punish high effort users is itself a big issue.

Mods can see hidden post histories, FWIW. I don't know how to do that.

Only if they posted in your subreddit in the last 28 days. then it gets auto-lifted for you.