Reddit is deprecating r/all, one of its feeds that shows popular posts on the platform, as part of “ongoing efforts to simplify Reddit and improve home feed personalization.”
Reddit offers both r/Popular and r/All as ways to view trending posts, with r/All being a “less filtered feed” where “sexually explicit posts are filtered out 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, as part of a separate experiment, some desktop users would no longer see r/all in their sidebar. (The company had previously announced the removal of r/all from its apps in December, but did not qualify the change as an experiment at the time.) In February, Reddit said the experiment had ended and “the decision was made to remove r/all.”
In update notes published Thursday, Reddit said that “the final steps to remove r/all are being implemented,” and that links to r/all now redirect to your home feed. r/all doesn’t show up on the Reddit sidebar on the web or even in the Reddit iOS app for me.
However, R/ALL is not going away completely; If you use 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 a more personalized feed, Reddit said Thursday that “trending content remains available through r/popular.”
Reddit also announced that it will launch new default privacy settings for teens. With the changes, which will come into effect “in early April”, users under the age of 18 cannot have followers and their profiles will be hidden.
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