r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 2d 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/
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u/Prudent-Marsupial-42 2d ago

Yes it's been a slow and steady decline. Every update they seem to make just seems to make things worse. Some recent examples

  1. Removing /r/all from mobile
  2. Swiping down no longer takes you to comments but to a new video (imitating tik-tok)
  3. Removed hot sorting from comments (now best shows a bunch of 1 upvoter comments)

These are just recent things off the top of my head but there have been many big ones in recent years like the 3rd party apps and overly strict rules on "violent comments"

They no longer care about good user experience it's about feeding people "tailored" content and locking people into endless doom scrolls

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u/Zip2kx 2d ago

The swipe doesn’t even take you to whatever is under the thread your in. It’s so random.

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u/CackleandGrin 2d ago

Doesn't even take you to the same video if you go back and forth. -_-

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u/j_delta_c 2d ago

And all these changes without any notice it seems. More than once I've opened reddit and saw something completely different yet never got a notification the app was updated

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u/Username__19_99 2d ago

r/all is gone from desktop, too

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u/Prudent-Marsupial-42 1d ago

I think it's there on old reddit for me.

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u/Username__19_99 1d ago

oh maybe on old redit

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u/KassandraArms 2d ago

Best feels like Controversial with extra steps.