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Reddit is moving on from r/all

2026-04-02T17:56:30-04:00

Reddit is deprecating r/all, one of its feeds that shows popular posts on the platform, as part of "ongoing efforts to simplify Reddit and improve Home feed personalization."

Reddit has offered both r/popular and r/all as ways to see trending posts, with r/all being a "less filtered feed" where "sexually explicit posts are filtered out but other popular Not Safe for Work (NSFW) posts are included." But in January, Reddit said it had removed r/all from its apps as part of an "experiment" and that, as part of a separate experiment, some desktop users wouldn't see r/all in their sidebar. (The company earlier announced r/all's removal from its …

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Reddit accounts with ‘fishy’ bot-like behavior will soon need to prove they’re human

2026-03-25T12:34:03-04:00

Reddit is taking new steps to identify bots on the platform - a process that may require some users to confirm that they're human. In a post on Wednesday, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman writes that the company will introduce a labeling system for accounts registered as bots, and ask users with "automated" or "fishy behavior" to verify that they're human using methods like fingerprint scanning or submitting their ID.

With this update, developers can register automated accounts with Reddit, which will then receive an "[APP]" label. However, Reddit also notes that it will be on the lookout for unlabeled accounts with suspicious behavior. "If somethi …

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Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam

2026-03-13T16:51:15-04:00

It's only been a year since Digg founder Kevin Rose, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, and a few others announced the link-sharing site would relaunch, promising a "social discovery built by communities, not by algorithms." Now, two months after opening its Reddit-like platform to the public, Digg is announcing a "hard reset" that's shutting down operations and will "significantly downsize the Digg team."

When they announced its relaunch, Rose told The Verge that AI could "remove the janitorial work of moderators and community managers." Now, the new Digg's CEO Justin Mezzell writes in a note pinned to the homepage that, "We knew bots were …

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Reddit is testing verification

2025-12-10T14:33:26-05:00

Reddit is starting to test verified profiles, the company announced today. Users who are verified as part of this "limited alpha test" will have a gray checkmark next to their username "across profiles, communities, feeds, post detail pages, and search results."

For this "initial test," Reddit says it's "selected a group of public figures and trusted partners," and they'll need to opt in, have accounts in good standing, and "actively contribute" on the platform. Reddit notes that verification "doesn't grant special privileges."

Currently, users can't request verification. Businesses that already have the "Official" label that Reddit starte …

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Reddit’s CEO says r/popular ‘sucks,’ and it’s going away

2025-12-04T11:31:15-05:00

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman. | Photo: Getty Images

Reddit is "moving away" from r/popular, the default feed for new users, and plans to replace it with "better, more relevant and personalized feeds," according to CEO Steve Huffman (aka Spez). Huffman also notes that r/popular "sucks."

"For a long while, we were known as the 'front page of the internet,' but we've outgrown a singular front page for everyone," Huffman says. "You have different interests than I do, and your Reddit should look different from mine. And from your neighbor's, or your coworker's, or your best friend's."

Regarding r/popular, he says that "in theory, it's what's most popular on Reddit, but it's actually what is like …

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Reddit sues Perplexity for allegedly ripping its content to feed AI

2025-10-23T11:58:07-04:00

Reddit is suing Perplexity and three "data-scraping service providers" to "stop the industrial-scale, unlawful circumvention of data protections by a group of bad actors who will stop at nothing to get their hands on valuable copyrighted content on Reddit," according to the complaint.

The company equates the data scraping companies - SerpApi, Oxylabs, and AWMProxy - to "would-be bank robbers" who "knowing they cannot get into the bank vault, break into the armored truck carrying the cash instead." Reddit alleges that Perplexity is a customer of "at least one" of the data scraping companies, saying that it "will apparently do anything to get …

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Reddit is testing a way to read articles without leaving the app

2025-09-10T12:52:26-04:00

As AI tools gobble up news publishers' traffic on traditional referral platforms like Google, Reddit is offering publishers another way to share their content - within its app.

On September 10th, Reddit announced a slew of new features available to some publishers that are meant to help them better understand where their stories are being shared and to encourage them to post more on the platform. On the user side, the most significant change is a test that allows readers to open article links directly in the Reddit app, with Reddit comments from other users pinned to the bottom. In other words, you can scroll through an article while readi …

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Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits

2025-09-10T08:44:30-04:00

Reddit users can no longer see how many people are subscribed to their favorite subreddit communities. The platform has announced that it's removing the member count metric that appears on subreddit pages - located under the page bio on the right for desktop users, or at the top under the subreddit name on mobile - to better focus on real-time engagement.

The member count is being replaced by two metrics. One shows how many users have visited a subreddit in the past seven days, "based on a rolling 28-day average," according to Reddit, and the other displays how many contributions have been made in the past seven days, excluding any posts or …

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Reddit will block the Internet Archive

2025-08-12T04:10:06-04:00

Reddit says that it has caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, so it's going to start blocking the Internet Archive from indexing the vast majority of Reddit. The Wayback Machine will no longer be able to crawl post detail pages, comments, or profiles; instead, it will only be able to index the Reddit.com homepage, which effectively means Internet Archive will only be able to archive insights into which news headlines and posts were most popular on a given day.

"Internet Archive provides a service to the open web, but we've been made aware of instances where AI companies violate platform policies, …

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Reddit pauses its paywall plans

2025-08-01T12:04:07-04:00

Reddit is pausing its plans to let people make subreddits with content behind a paywall, CEO Steve Huffman said as part of Thursday's earnings. The company is making the change as part of a shift in how it's prioritizing its resources.

Huffman said last year that the company was looking into a way for users to make subreddits with "exclusive content or private areas," and he hinted at the possibility of those subreddits having a paywall. Earlier this year, he said the feature was set to arrive in 2025.

But now, "to stay focused on what matters most, we're shifting resources away from a few areas, such as work on the user economy," Huffman …

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