Reddit Is (Mostly) Shuttering r/all, but There’s Still a Way to Access It

Reddit is what you make it. The “front page of the Internet” is actually a collection of different subreddits, each with their own communities, rules, and cultures. The main idea is to subscribe to subreddits that match your interests, so that the “home page” of your Internet is tailored to Younot other users.

Still, it can be fun to browse posts from subreddits that are exploding on Reddit, even if you’re not personally subscribed to them. This is the purpose of r/popular and r/all: the former offers popular posts from a variety of subreddits, while the latter does the same thing, but with fewer filters. You might not want to browse r/all while you’re at work, for example, although Reddit says it doesn’t include sexually explicit content. However, there may be other types of NSFW posts appearing here that would not otherwise appear in r/popular.

Now that changes. As The Verge reports, Reddit is officially removing r/all. This decision did not come out of nowhere, however. The company announced plans to remove r/all in December, before doing so in January (although it called it an “experiment”). It also removed r/all from users accessing the site on desktop, although that was also part of the experience. Then, in February, Reddit declared that the experiment was over and that they had finally decided to get rid of r/all.

Reddit confirmed the news in its latest changelog, saying that in order to “simplify Reddit and improve home feed customization, the final steps to deprecating r/all are being implemented.” Moving forward, links to r/all will now go to your home feed. If you want to check out trending posts, you’ll want to visit r/popular instead. At least, that’s the case for most users.

“Old” Reddit users can still see r/all

If you’re a relatively new Reddit user, you may not even know about “old” Reddit, the version of the site that matches its original basic theme. Reddit began rolling out its current theme in 2018, but those of us who preferred a simple text-based experience have always had the option to do so, either by accessing the site from old.reddit.com or if you have the “Default to old Reddit” button enabled in the “Preferences” tab in Settings.

Users accessing the old Reddit will still see r/all in the top menu bar and will also be able to navigate directly to r/all. It’s unclear why Reddit keeps this option only for old users, but I don’t question it. The less attention old Reddit receives, the less likely Reddit will remove it as well.