在周三宣布的一系列针对版主和开发者的更新中，对于支持更开放网络的人来说，有一个坏消息：Reddit 将停止对 RSS 订阅源的支持。

Reddit 表示，RSS 现已成为“大规模抓取和自动化滥用”的常见途径，这就是其决定在其平台上逐步淘汰 RSS 订阅源的原因。

该公司在公告中指出：“我们知道 RSS 长期以来一直是开放网络中备受喜爱的一部分，我们感谢所有使用它来保持与 Reddit 连接的人。”公告中还公布了其公共 API 将于 2027 年 3 月关闭的日期。

Reddit 表示，RSS 支持将于 11 月 13 日停止。

RSS（Really Simple Syndication/Rich Site Summary，即简易信息聚合/丰富站点摘要）是一种网络订阅源，允许用户和应用程序以标准化格式访问网站的更新内容。该格式在博客时代变得尤为流行，因为它提供了一种通过新闻阅读应用订阅网站新帖子的方式。Google 曾运营过其中最受欢迎的一个，但在 2013 年将其关闭，将市场让给了 Feedly 和其他独立应用程序等公司。

Reddit 决定终止其 RSS 订阅源之际，该网站论坛中丰富的用户生成内容已成为该公司通过 AI 授权协议获利的副业。

在其第二季度财报中，Reddit 表示，除广告之外的“其他收入”同比增长了 24%，达到 4300 万美元。难怪 Reddit 不愿免费交出任何数据。

对于依赖 RSS 频道进行自身警报的版主，Reddit 现在建议转向使用 Discord Relay Devvit 应用程序。该公司建议版主及其团队在 11 月 13 日的关闭日期之前审查其设置并迁移工作流程，以确保没有中断。然而，Reddit 表示，对于那些用于版主社区之外订阅源的 RSS 用法，目前没有替代品。

版主们已经对这种转变将如何影响他们的工作流程表达了担忧。当 Reddit 早些时候暗示其网站正在为结束 RSS 做准备时，许多人回应称这会使 Reddit 对他们来说变得难以管理。与此同时，许多用户强调，RSS 是他们享受访问 Reddit 内容的方式。

此次 RSS 变更是该公司周三发布的几项更新之一。另一项重大变化是其公共 API 的终结。

公共 API 访问也将在 2027 年 3 月结束，这将影响到任何使用它通过编程方式访问 Reddit 对话的工具，包括社交聆听产品、研究人员使用的工具以及 AI 产品（如 AI 助手）。目前，这些助手可以利用 Reddit 来回答问题，但在关闭公共 API 访问后，它们需要与 Reddit 达成商业协议以获取其数据。

此外，Reddit 对其规则中心进展和自动版主（auto-mod）变更提供了更新，并表示正在为其众所周知的以文本为主的经典网站版本 Old Reddit “增加保障措施”。后者将限制已登录的版主和近期用户的访问——Reddit 也表示这些更改是由于“滥用抓取和自动化流量”所必需的。

Reddit 表示，在未来几个月内，它将把已登录用户访问 Old Reddit 的权限限制为在过去 6 个月内使用过该网站的用户。（该公司在新闻发布之际将此期限从 90 天改为 6 个月。）

该公司还提醒正在构建经批准的第三方应用程序和机器人的开发者，务必在 2027 年 1 月 12 日之前向公司注册，以避免中断。在此日期之后，Reddit 将取消任何未注册开发者的 API 访问权限。

发布后，我们进行了更新，指出 Reddit 将 Old Reddit “近期访问”期限从 3 个月延长至 6 个月。Reddit 早些时候分享给 TechCrunch 的材料曾表示该时间框架为 90 天。

Amid a number of updates for moderators and developers announced Wednesday, comes bad news for supporters of a more open web: Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds.

Reddit says RSS has now become a “common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse,” which is why it’s made the decision to wind down RSS feeds on its platform.

“We know RSS has been a beloved part of the open web for a long time, and we’re grateful to everyone who used it to stay connected to Reddit,” the company noted in its announcement, where it also shared a March 2027 shutdown date for its public API.

Reddit said RSS support will cease on November 13.

RSS, or Really Simple Syndication/Rich Site Summary, is a web feed that lets users and applications access updates to a website in a standardized format. The format became particularly popular in the blogging era, as it offered a way to subscribe to a site’s new posts in a news-reading app. Google once operated the most popular of these, but shut it down in 2013 , ceding the market to companies like Feedly and other indie applications.

The decision to kill Reddit’s RSS feeds comes at a time when the site’s treasure trove of user-generated content in its forums has become a profitable side business for the company in the form of AI licensing deals.

During its second quarter , Reddit said its “other revenue” beyond advertising had grown 24% year-over-year to $43 million. It’s no wonder that Reddit doesn’t want to give any of that data away for free.

For moderators who have relied on RSS channels for their own alerts, Reddit is now recommending a shift to the Discord Relay Devvit app. The company suggested that moderators and their teams review their setups and migrate their workflows before the shutdown date of November 13 to ensure there’s no disruption. However, Reddit said that there’s no replacement for the use of RSS feeds that were being used for feeds outside of the moderators’ community.

Moderators have already expressed worry about how this shift would impact their workflow. When Reddit hinted earlier that it was preparing for the end of RSS on its site, many responded by complaining that Reddit would become unmanageable for them. Meanwhile, many users stressed that RSS was how they enjoyed accessing Reddit’s content.

The RSS change was one of several updates issued on Wednesday by the company. Another big change will be the end of its public API.

Public API access will also end by March 2027, which will impact any tools that used it for programmatic access to Reddit conversations, including social listening products, those used by researchers, and AI products, such as AI assistants. Today, those assistants can use Reddit to answer questions, but after closing public API access, they will need commercial deals with Reddit for its data.

In addition, Reddit provided an update on its Rules Hub progress and auto-mod changes, and said it was “adding safeguards” to its classic, text-heavy version of its site known as Old Reddit. The latter will include limiting access to logged-in moderators and recent users — changes Reddit also said were required because of “abusive scraping and automated traffic.”

Reddit said in the next few months it will limit access for logged-in users to those who have used Old Reddit in the last 6 months. (The company changed this from 90 days to 6 months, just as their news went out.)

The company also reminded developers building approved third-party apps and bots to register them with the company before January 12, 2027, to avoid disruption. After that date, Reddit will remove API access for any developer that hasn’t registered.

After publication, we updated to note that Reddit extended the Old Reddit “recent access” period from 3 to 6 months. The earlier materials Reddit shared with TechCrunch said the time frame would be 90 days.