Reddit will stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13th

Reddit is restricting access to the “Old Reddit” interface to cut down on scraping and automated abuse: users must now log in, and within a few months they’ll also need to have used Old Reddit in the prior six months to continue accessing it (moderators are exempt). As part of that push, RSS feeds will be disabled on November 13 because RSS has become a common vector for large-scale scraping; Reddit notes there’s no replacement for RSS for non-moderators while suggesting tools like Discord Relay for moderation workflows. The changes follow other anti-scraping moves such as blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, suing an AI company over alleged unauthorized access, and earlier statements from leadership about preserving Old Reddit only while it’s actively used.

Reddit is also transitioning apps and bots to a formal developer platform: apps must be registered by January 12, 2027 or lose API access, and all remaining public API access will end in March 2027. Those deadlines will disrupt third-party apps, bots, and any tooling that depended on open feeds or the public API, reflecting a deliberate tradeoff between preserving an open ecosystem and preventing large-scale data scraping that fuels AI training and other automated abuse.