Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20261001100032/https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is-killing-rss-feeds-ending-public-api-access-because-of-ai-bots/
…because of AI bots
Also old.reddit will become an old user thing only and you need to log in every 6 months to keep it going on the account and most likely no new accounts can be created that can access old.reddit. I guess it was always inevitable that they would do this, since they forced login to use old.reddit a month back, even if they said that old.reddit would never go anywhere. The next step will be “there are so few old.reddit users that we have decided to axe it entirely”.
Bullshit lol
I thought API access was already dead? Thats the reason a lot of us are here… (But not the reason we stayed ;) )
I may not understand this correctly so take this with a grain of salt but I believe there was a few different APIs going on. The one that allowed all data to apps to function was killed and why we are all here. I believe this was more of a content reader, no interaction from the user.
RedReader still works with Reddit on the basis it’s providing accessibility features which was a carve out they got during the exodus.
Things like Stealth never used the API but did scraping which I think is dead now due to mandatory login.
Ending RSS support really sucks. But I guess it’s a bit of a blessing to remove that last bit of reddit from my feed.
