Why the channel goes quiet
Most community servers that mirror a subreddit use an RSS bot such as MonitoRSS or Readybot, or an automation tool, pointed at reddit.com/r/{sub}/new.rss. Reddit retires every feed on 13 Nov 2026. The bot keeps asking, gets an error, and either posts nothing or disables the feed after repeated failures. Nothing in the server tells members why the channel stopped.
Option one: a new feed address for the bot
Redlisten serves the same feed paths at api.redlisten.com in the Atom layout Reddit used, so any bot that read the old feed reads this one. The key goes in the address because a bot cannot add a header to a feed fetch.
- Create a free account and copy your key from the dashboard.
- Build the address:
https://api.redlisten.com/r/yourcommunity/new.rss?key=plus your key. - Open the bot's control panel or use its edit command, and replace the feed URL on the existing feed. Bots that cannot edit need the old feed removed and the new one added to the same channel.
- Check the next post lands, and keep the message format you had, since titles, links and authors arrive in the same fields.
Bot dashboards show the feed address to anyone with manage rights on the server. Give the bot its own key, since an account holds two, and revoke it alone if a moderator leaves on bad terms.
Option two: a stream straight into the channel
On paid plans a keyword stream watches communities, words or both, and posts each match to a destination you set. Create a webhook in the Discord channel's Integrations settings, paste its address into the stream's Discord destination in the dashboard, and new posts arrive with no bot and no feed address at all.
# Give the bot this in place of the reddit.com feed
https://api.redlisten.com/r/yourcommunity/new.rss?key=rl_live_YOUR_KEY
# Or skip the bot: a stream that posts to a Discord webhook (paid plans)
curl -X POST "https://api.redlisten.com/v1/streams" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer rl_live_YOUR_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"name": "yourcommunity to discord", "subreddits": ["yourcommunity"], "types": ["post"]}'A stream can narrow what reaches the channel, which a feed cannot: posts that mention certain words, posts from a set of communities, or comments as well as posts. It also costs no requests while it waits, since matches are pushed rather than polled.
If the channel stays quiet
A 401 or an empty feed means the key is missing or mistyped. Open the address in a browser: a working feed shows XML with entries, a bad key shows an error naming the problem. A 429 means the key has used its requests for the month or is being polled faster than its per minute limit; the dashboard shows which.
A burst of old posts right after the switch is the bot treating the new address as a new feed and posting its recent entries. Many bots have a setting to skip existing entries when a feed is added; turn it on before you paste the address, or warn the channel. Posts without text usually means the bot's message template uses just the title and link, which is a template setting in the bot, not a feed problem.
Which to choose
If the server already runs an RSS bot and you want the same behaviour, change the address and you are done; that works on the free plan for one community checked every few hours. If the channel needs to be fast, filtered or fed from several communities, a stream is cleaner and keeps the key out of the bot's settings.
What it costs
Every time the bot checks a feed it makes one request, and each entry in the feed counts as one result. A free key has 250 requests a month, which fits one feed checked every three hours, enough to test the switch. A Pro key at $29 a month has 50,000 requests and covers about fifty feeds checked hourly. Plans are listed on the pricing page, dated 6 Nov 2026, and there are no daily caps.
Feed paths are on the RSS switch page, and streams are described in the docs.