What is going away
Reddit's announcement covers every feed the site served: the .rss and .xml suffixes on subreddit listings, on user pages, on search results, on the front page and on multireddits. They stop on 13 Nov 2026. Reddit has said there will be no replacement feed and has pointed developers at its Data API, which itself closes to unregistered apps on 12 Jan 2027 and to the public in March 2027.
In practice that is the end of feed readers reading Reddit, of Discord and Slack channels echoing new threads through an RSS bot, of mod alerts built on a comments or search feed, and of every script that found RSS simpler than OAuth.
What maps to what
| Reddit feed | Redlisten feed |
|---|---|
reddit.com/r/{sub}/new.rss | api.redlisten.com/r/{sub}/new.rss?key= |
reddit.com/r/{sub}/comments.rss | api.redlisten.com/r/{sub}/comments.rss?key= |
reddit.com/r/{a}+{b}/new.rss | api.redlisten.com/r/{a}+{b}/new.rss?key= |
reddit.com/r/all/new.rss | api.redlisten.com/r/all/new.rss?key= |
reddit.com/user/{name}.rss | api.redlisten.com/user/{name}.rss?key= |
reddit.com/search.rss?q= | api.redlisten.com/search.rss?q=&key= |
reddit.com/r/{sub}/search.rss?q= | api.redlisten.com/r/{sub}/search.rss?q=&key= |
reddit.com/r/{sub}/hot.rss, top.rss | Served, newest at the top. Use new.rss. |
Multireddit feeds /user/{name}/m/{multi}.rss | Not served. Combine the communities with + instead. |
| Front page and home feeds | Not served. There is no logged in view; /r/all/new.rss or a + list replaces them. |
The layout is the Atom layout Reddit served, with the same entry fields, so a reader that parsed the old feed parses the new one. The key goes in the URL because readers cannot send headers. The RSS switch page walks through readers, chat bots and mod tools one by one.
What is different
A key is required, and a key in a feed URL is a secret to keep inside the reader or the bot. There is no logged in view, so private communities, your home feed and your saved items are not served. Feeds are read access. Removed and deleted items show [removed] or [deleted] in place of their text, as Reddit's feeds did. Listings and search feeds cover the last 30 days on paid plans.
The comments feed is more complete than Reddit's was. /r/{sub}/comments.rss carries every public comment in a community, and /r/all/comments.rss carries every public comment on the site, which Reddit's feed did not do well. Moderators watching replies get more, not less.
Limits, plainly
Each feed fetch is one request against your monthly quota. Plans are metered per calendar month with no daily cap. As listed on the pricing page on 6 Nov 2026:
- Free, $0: 250 requests a month, 30 requests a minute, 50 entries per feed, search feeds cover the last 7 days. One feed polled hourly uses about 720 requests a month, so a free key suits a feed polled every three hours or a test.
- Pro, $29 a month: 50,000 requests a month, 120 a minute, 100 entries per feed, search feeds cover 30 days. A reader with 20 feeds polled every 15 minutes uses about 58,000 a month, so Pro suits up to about 15 feeds at that interval or many more at an hour.
- Team, $99 a month: 250,000 requests a month, 300 a minute, 100 entries per feed.
- Business, $299 a month: 1,000,000 requests a month, 600 a minute, 100 entries per feed.
Yearly billing takes two months off each paid plan. A feed that a bot polls on behalf of many users is a product, and a product belongs on Team or Business; email us if the numbers above do not fit.
Beyond a feed
RSS was often a workaround for an alert. If what you wanted was "tell me when someone says this", a keyword stream does that directly: it matches every post and comment against your words and posts each match to Slack or Discord, fires a webhook, or sends an email digest, with no feed URL and no reader. Streams are on paid plans, with email digests on Free. The keyword alerts page shows the setup, and the feed readers page covers the moderator case.