Reddit is moving on from r/all
Reddit is deprecating r/all, one of its feeds that displays popular posts on the platform, as part of “ongoing efforts to simplify Reddit and improve home feed personalization.”
Reddit offered both r/popular and r/all as ways to see trending posts, with r/all being a “less filtered feed” in which “sexually explicit posts are filtered 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 would not see r/all in their sidebar. (The company previously announced the removal of r/all from its apps in December, but did not call the change an experiment at the time.) In February, Reddit said the experiment was over and that “the decision was made to remove r/all.”
In patch notes posted Thursday, Reddit said that “final steps to deprecate r/all are being implemented” and that links to r/all now redirect to your home feed. r/all also doesn’t appear in the Reddit sidebar on the web or in the Reddit iOS app for me.
However, not everything disappears completely; If you’re using the old Reddit, you can still access the feed. And although Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said last year that the company was “moving away from” r/popular in favor of more personalized feeds, Reddit said Thursday that “trending content remains available through r/popular.” However, r/popular may still change: “As previously noted, we are redesigning parts of the overall feed experience, especially for new users, and this may include changes to r/popular over time,” said spokesperson Clarissa Colmenero. The edge.
Reddit also announced Thursday that it would launch new default privacy settings for teens. With the changes, which will be rolled out “at the beginning of April”, users under the age of 18 will not be able to have subscribers and will have hidden profiles.
