Reddit is finally sunsetting r/all, the anything-goes firehose of viral posts that many longtime users treated as the site’s true front page. Instead of that chaotic, mostly unfiltered stream, Reddit wants you to lean on your personalized Home feed and r/popular if you still want a broader look at what’s trending.
For years, r/all sat alongside r/popular: r/all showed a looser, “less filtered” mix of top posts from across the site, including most NSFW content, while r/popular hid more sensitive communities and content types. Earlier experiments quietly signaled the shift—Reddit pulled r/all from its official apps late last year and then hid it for some desktop users, framing it as a test before ultimately deciding to kill it off for good.
As of the latest update, links to r/all now just bounce you back to your Home feed, and the option has disappeared from the sidebar on web and in the iOS app, making the deprecation feel effectively complete for anyone using “new” Reddit. The company says this is all about simplifying the product and pushing harder on personalization, which is where it wants most users spending time anyway.
That said, Reddit hasn’t completely ripped out the wiring: if you still use old.reddit.com, r/all is hanging on there for now, almost like a legacy power-user feature. And even though CEO Steve Huffman previously talked about moving away from r/popular in favor of more tailored feeds, Reddit is now reassuring people that trending content will continue to live on via r/popular as r/all fades away.
This change also lands alongside new teen-focused privacy defaults, which give a sense of where the platform’s priorities are heading. Under the updated settings rolling out in early April, users under 18 won’t be able to have followers and will have their profiles hidden by default, tightening the experience for younger Redditors at the same time the company is consolidating how everyone discovers content on the site.
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