Technology

Shhh no one tell spez there's still RSS feeds

Reddit is dead to me

TIL reddit has RSS feeds. Welp, I'll see if I can use it to plug in my favorites until they cut it for 'profit-seeking measures' and 'loosing 200 billion dollars a year'

Its only a matter of weeks now, days after the 1st of July. RSS feeds count as free access to the Reddit API and therefore unauthorized third party apps, so the're definitely be gone.

After the userbase has been conditioned to the fact that there isn't a 3rd party Reddit reader anymore, they will kill off old.reddit.com.

It's hard to imagine a practical reason to do so. This, however, has not been a good heuristic for determining what a CEO having a temper tantrum will do, so who the hell knows.

I think eventually they will. They wish to put up their walled garden.

As for Their current RSS feed, it only grabs the post, right? Not the comments as well. That limits its usefulness a bit, depending on what you use reddit for.

It should always be possible to scrape and make a feed. I use this at the moment: https://github.com/trashhalo/reddit-rss

well don't give then ideas

Yep I just finished setting up Feeder for the websites I read most and a few subreddits.

I don't think reddit has merit on blocking RSS, because you can't act on the posts, no comment, no upvote etc... You'll have to visit the site directly to do so. But I might be wrong, I just don't think it's their priority.

At the current usage, I really doubt it. If a significant amount of people start using RSS readers as an alternative to the third party clients they were using previously, it's a possibility.

I hope not but who really knows at this point? I imagine the amount of people following subreddits via rss is really small in the grand scheme of things so hopefully they don’t see a reason to kill them.

About 90% of my visits to reddit are via RSS (to read comments). If they remove it, I'll never visit except for reading my local town feed.

For anyone interested this is how. https://www.reddit.com/wiki/rss/

Reddit has a feature where you can make an RSS feed of the subreddits that you follow. It's an RSS feed specific to my Reddit account. Currently, this is how I use Reddit and once they take it away, I'm done with Reddit.

It's nice to be able to scroll through the RSS feed which only contains the top posts of each subreddit. It also shows all the posts that get removed by mods...

How do you add a subreddit as an rss feed?

Fun fact: Feedly supports Reddit, and will list hot threads like any news article. Sure, you have to click the link to go to the thread, but you'll be able to choose which thread you want to engage with without a single ad.

I mean, the sites that get aggregated on Reddit themselves often have RSS feeds. That's what I've slowly been assembling. I can't get quite such the steady drip of information as I would directly from reddit, but I definitely don't feel like I'd be completely out of the loop if reddit vanished now.

Probably, but you will likely be able to use RSS Bridge to get an RSS feed anyway. Not very convenient though

i would if was them.

I suspect they will at some point. I used their RSS feeds for years but, whatever they choose to do now, it won't effect me anymore.

Is it really a loss in revenue if you used a 3rd party app previously?

If you want to bypass Reddit, why not just set up RSS for the things you get from Reddit instead? Most news sites have RSS. You could almost certainly find a feed for most of the stuff posted to Reddit.

They might