Reddit Retires the Unfiltered r/all Feed

r/all was one of Reddit's oldest discovery surfaces: a feed that aggregated the most popular posts from across all subreddits with minimal filtering, excluding only sexually explicit content but otherwise surfacing whatever was trending site-wide. It differed from r/popular, which applies more filtering. For years, r/all functioned as a chronological, algorithm-light window into the 'front page of the internet.'

The removal happened in stages, and began amid mixed messaging from Reddit's leadership. In early December 2025, CEO Steve Huffman published a post titled 'Beyond the front page of the internet' announcing that Reddit was 'moving away' from r/popular in favor of 'better, more relevant and personalized feeds,' arguing the platform had outgrown the idea of a single front page for everyone. Days later it was r/all, not r/popular, that vanished: users who updated to version 2025.48.0 of the Android app found the r/all link gone from their community lists, with manual searches redirecting to the algorithmic Home feed. A Reddit admin confirmed the removal on r/bugs, pointing users to r/popular or the Latest feed, while a spokesperson told The Verge the company was 'still in the early stages of testing.' Users pointed out that Huffman had specifically said r/popular was the surface being retired, not r/all. By February 2026 the removal had reached more iOS and Android users, and on April 2, 2026, Reddit made the change permanent, removing r/all entry points from both the mobile apps and the desktop interface.

Reddit framed the removal as part of efforts to 'streamline the platform experience' and improve personalization, fitting a broader strategic pattern of deprioritizing chronological and unfiltered surfaces in favor of algorithmically personalized feeds designed to boost engagement. User reaction was overwhelmingly negative: commenters called it a 'terrible decision' and argued that removing r/all eliminated a fundamental aspect of the platform — the ability to stumble onto new subreddits and topics outside one's existing subscriptions.

Workarounds persisted but narrowed. Third-party apps such as Apollo and Relay and the desktop version of Old Reddit initially retained full r/all access. In June 2026, however, Reddit announced that old.reddit.com would itself begin requiring users to log in, citing abusive scraping of its logged-out experience, and an employee acknowledged the company could not promise Old Reddit 'will be around forever' — further constraining the last unfiltered, login-free views of the site.