Reddit is killing RSS feeds on 13 November, blaming AI scraping
Reddit will stop supporting RSS feeds on 13 November, blaming AI scraping. RSS is now widely used for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, the company said in a post to moderators on Wednesday.
RSS lets people follow a site’s new posts in a feed reader. Moderators who use it for alerts can move to a Discord Relay app instead, Reddit said. Everyone else loses it.
“If you use RSS for feeds outside of a community you moderate, there is no replacement,” Reddit wrote.
Old Reddit and the API
Reddit is also tightening access to Old Reddit, the site’s classic text-heavy design. It already requires people to log in. In the next few months, only moderators and people who used it in the past six months will keep access. That covers “the vast majority” of its users, Reddit said.
Public API access ends in March 2027, Reddit said in a separate...
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