Reddit Killed r/all. Here’s What Comes Next

Reddit just pulled the plug on one of its most iconic features. If you’ve been a longtime user, you might have already noticed something missing.

r/all, the beloved “less filtered” feed that let you browse trending posts from across the entire platform, is officially being deprecated. And honestly, this one stings a little for old-school Reddit fans.

What r/all Actually Was

For anyone newer to Reddit, a quick explainer. r/all was essentially a firehose of trending content from every corner of the site. It showed you popular posts regardless of which communities you followed.

The key thing that set it apart from r/popular? r/all included Not Safe for Work (NSFW) content. r/popular kept things cleaner and more advertiser-friendly. So r/all had a wilder, more unfiltered feel to it.

It was the kind of feed where you’d stumble across something hilarious from a community you’d never heard of, then spend the next two hours deep in a rabbit hole. Reddit veterans loved it for exactly that reason.

How the Shutdown Unfolded

This didn’t happen overnight. Reddit has been quietly phasing out r/all for months.

Back in December, Reddit first announced it was removing r/all from its mobile apps. Then in January, the company framed it as an “experiment,” which felt like a soft way of testing whether anyone would riot. Some desktop users also stopped seeing r/all in their sidebar during that same period.

By February, Reddit confirmed the experiment was over and the decision was made to remove r/all entirely. Then on Thursday, the company published update notes saying the “final steps to deprecate r/all are being implemented.”

Now, if you click a link to r/all, it redirects straight to your Home feed.

r/popular Steps Into the Spotlight

So where do you go if you want to see what’s trending across Reddit? The answer is r/popular.

Reddit confirmed Thursday that “trending content remains available via r/popular.” So the trending feed experience isn’t completely gone, it’s just consolidated.

Here’s the interesting wrinkle though. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said last year that the company was “moving away from” r/popular in favor of more personalized feeds. And Reddit spokesperson Clarissa Colmenero told The Verge that “we are rethinking parts of the global feed experience, especially for new users, and that may include changes to r/popular over time.”

So r/popular might not be safe forever either. Worth keeping an eye on.

Old Reddit Still Has Your Back

Good news for the old.reddit.com crowd. Reddit confirmed that r/all isn’t completely vanishing from existence.

If you access Reddit through old.reddit.com, you can still use the r/all feed. So die-hard fans of the old experience have a lifeline, at least for now.

Old Reddit has survived longer than most people expected it to, so maybe r/all will stick around there for a while. But counting on it long-term feels risky given Reddit’s direction.

Teen Privacy Changes Are Coming Too

Reddit also announced one more significant change alongside the r/all deprecation. New default privacy settings for users under 18 are rolling out in early April.

Under the new rules, teens won’t be able to have followers. Their profiles will also be hidden by default. Reddit framed this as part of its broader push toward personalization and user safety, though the timing of bundling it with the r/all news is a bit curious.

The Bigger Picture Here

Reddit is clearly betting big on personalization. The move away from r/all fits neatly into a pattern of pushing users toward their Home feed, which shows content tailored to your own subscriptions and browsing habits.

That’s great for keeping people engaged. But it also means fewer happy accidents, those random posts from unexpected communities that made r/all so fun to scroll through.

Whether personalized feeds can replicate that sense of discovery is the real question. So far, r/popular exists as a middle ground. But if Reddit eventually scales that back too, the platform will feel noticeably smaller and more siloed.

For now, r/popular is where you should head if you want to see what Reddit is talking about. Just don’t get too attached.