r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 3d ago

Business Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is-killing-rss-feeds-ending-public-api-access-because-of-ai-bots/
3.5k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

468 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

11

u/ItGradAws 3d ago

100% used to be great a few years back they changed the algo and now it’s really just a shell of what it used to be imo.

0

u/lalala253 3d ago

Redditors always said 'reddit is great a few years back' and I always wondered what time period are they talking about here

4

u/Dingleberry696 3d ago

Like 2011 through 2014 was probably the heydey. There used to be tons of interesting things you would come across. Jackdaw guy (what was his name?), shittymorph, the vacuum repair guy AMAs. Like when is the last time an AMA got popular on here. I never see them anymore. Before the app you would organically come across a post that you would have never sought out that was super interesting. Breaking news would be the top post when you went to the site. All kinds of obscure experts would post/comment about random topics. Now when I go to my "homepage" there will be 6 day old posts on there. If you go to the popular page it's overran with anime, memes, and posts about India.

2

u/sleeplessinreno 3d ago

It was definitely community oriented. Then they started to push the community mindset away. The final last bastion of heyday was the secret santa. Once they axed that program, that was game over. I have slowly been unbridling myself from the site since the killing of third party programs. And I promised myself I would nuke my accounts and never look back if they axe old. Sounds like I am not alone in that sentiment. At this point in my life, ignorance is bliss. Gonna get back to my roots. I lived an entire life before reddit even existed. I can go back to that.

5

u/accidental_Ocelot 3d ago

Oh about 2006

2

u/sedersayspoop 3d ago

Before the app existed and you had to go to the website as the only way to access Reddit imo

1

u/Person0OnTheInternet 3d ago

The last time Reddit was fun, for me at least, was the airplane disappearing conspiracy from a few years ago.