What is changing on 13 Nov 2026
Every .rss and .xml feed on reddit.com stops on 13 Nov 2026. That covers subreddit feeds, user feeds, search feeds and the front page. Reddit's announcement said the feeds are being retired without a replacement, so a reader that depends on them goes quiet on that date and stays quiet.
Redlisten serves the same feed paths at api.redlisten.com. 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 without changes. The hostname changes and your key is added to the URL. Nothing else moves.
The URL form
Feed readers cannot send headers, so the key travels in the query string as ?key=. Take any Reddit feed URL, swap www.reddit.com for api.redlisten.com, and append your key.
# Before (stops on 13 Nov 2026)
https://www.reddit.com/r/python/new.rss
# After
https://api.redlisten.com/r/python/new.rss?key=rl_live_YOUR_KEY
https://api.redlisten.com/r/python/comments.rss?key=rl_live_YOUR_KEY
https://api.redlisten.com/user/example_user.rss?key=rl_live_YOUR_KEY
https://api.redlisten.com/search.rss?q=road+closed&key=rl_live_YOUR_KEYThe paths that take .rss are the listing paths: /r/{sub}/new, /r/{sub}/comments, /r/{sub}+{sub}/new for several communities at once, /r/all/new for everything, /user/{name} for an author, and /search?q= for a saved search. The RSS section of the docs lists every one.
A key in a URL is still a secret. Keep the feed URL inside your reader or your bot config, not in a public channel topic or a shared document. If a key leaks, revoke it in the dashboard and mint a new one. The feed URL changes, the path does not.
Repointing a feed reader
Most readers let you edit a subscription's URL in place. Open the subscription settings, replace the hostname and add the key, and save. The reader keeps your read state and your folder. Readers that do not allow editing need the old feed removed and the new one added, which loses read state for that one feed but nothing else.
Do this before 13 Nov 2026 so the reader never hits an empty feed. A reader that sees a dead feed may mark it as broken and stop polling it, and some readers back off for days before trying again. Switching while the old feed is still alive avoids that gap.
Polling interval matters for the free plan. A free key has 250 requests a month across everything you call, so a reader on a 15 minute schedule uses that in about three days. A free key fits one feed checked every three hours. For more feeds, or a reader that checks more often, a Pro key has 50,000 requests a month, which covers about fifty feeds checked hourly. Plans are listed on the pricing page, dated 6 Nov 2026.
Discord and Slack RSS bots
Community Discord servers post new threads from a subreddit into a channel through an RSS bot, and the same pattern runs in Slack through the RSS app. Both read a feed URL you give them, so the fix is the same: edit the feed URL in the bot's configuration and the posts keep arriving.
In Discord, run the bot's edit or remove command on the existing feed and give it the new URL. In Slack, remove the old feed with /feed remove and add the new one with /feed subscribe followed by the Redlisten URL. Slack treats the feed URL as private to the workspace, which is fine for a key. If you would rather not place a key in a chat tool at all, the keyword streams on paid plans post straight to Slack and Discord through an incoming webhook, with no feed URL anywhere.
Mod alert tools
Moderation teams lean on RSS more than most. A feed of new posts drives a review queue, a feed of new comments drives a watch on a heated thread, and a search feed catches a phrase the automod rules miss. All three map to Redlisten paths: /r/{sub}/new.rss, /r/{sub}/comments.rss and /search.rss?q=.
The comments feed is the one Reddit never made easy, and it is the one moderators ask for. Redlisten serves every public comment in a community through /r/{sub}/comments.rss, so a reader can follow replies rather than just new threads. For a phrase or a name across several communities, a search feed with subreddit: in the query does it in one URL.
What is the same and what differs
The same: the Atom layout, the entry ids, titles, authors, links and timestamps, and the paths. The same feed reader code, the same bot, the same alert rules.
What differs: the key is required, there is no logged in view and no private subreddit content, and the feed is read access. Removed posts show [removed] in place of their text, as they did on Reddit. Each poll is one request, and each post or comment in the feed counts as one result.
Step by step guides cover Feedly, Inoreader, Discord bots, Slack, Zapier and IFTTT and self hosted readers. Sign up, copy the key from the dashboard, and change the URL.