What to Read Once Reddit's RSS Feeds Are Gone

On November 13, Reddit turns off its RSS feeds. If you follow subreddits in a feed reader, they'll simply stop updating in a couple of days, and Reddit says there's no replacement for anyone outside the communities they moderate. (Reddit blames scrapers. I think there's more to it, and I've written about that here.)

The good news is that most of what a subreddit feed gave you was links to stories from sites that publish feeds of their own. You can follow those directly, starting today, and they'll keep working no matter what Reddit decides next. Before the 13th, export your subscriptions from your feed reader (most can save them as an OPML file), so you still have a list of the subreddits you followed. That list tells you which topics to rebuild.

Follow the sites, not the subreddit

When you follow publishers directly, you get everything they post instead of just what got upvoted, so pick a few good sources rather than a lot of busy ones. Every name below links to its page in our directory of RSS feeds, which shows how often it posts and gives you the feed address to copy into any reader.

Instead of r/news and r/worldnews

BBC News and Al Jazeera cover the whole world, at hundreds of stories a day. For a pace a person can keep up with, try NPR, PBS NewsHour or Semafor. More in world news RSS feeds.

Instead of r/technology and r/gadgets

The Verge and Engadget cover gadgets and the companies behind them, while Ars Technica and MIT Technology Review run fewer, deeper stories. 404 Media covers who runs the internet and what they're doing with it. More in tech RSS feeds.

Instead of r/science and r/space

If you add just one, make it Quanta Magazine, which explains new research in math, physics and biology without dumbing it down. Science News does short write-ups of new studies and Nautilus runs longer essays, while Space.com, Universe Today and The Planetary Society cover launches, missions and astronomy. More in science and space RSS feeds.

Instead of r/programming and r/webdev

Hacker News is the closest thing to a programming subreddit's front page. Add Simon Willison's Weblog for a working developer's notes, The Pragmatic Engineer on how software teams work, and Smashing Magazine for web design. More in programming RSS feeds.

Instead of r/gaming and r/pcgaming

Try Rock Paper Shotgun for PC games with opinions, Eurogamer for every platform, Aftermath, a small site owned by its writers, and Nintendo Life for everything Nintendo. Digital Foundry works too, since a YouTube channel can be followed like any other feed. More in gaming RSS feeds.

Instead of r/movies and r/television

IndieWire covers film and TV for people who care who made it, and RogerEbert.com has reviews worth reading after you've seen the movie. Letterboxd Journal runs features from the film-logging site, and Deadline and TVLine keep up with the industry and what's been renewed or canceled. More in movie and TV RSS feeds.

Instead of r/sports and your team's subreddit

Front Office Sports covers the business side, Pro Football Talk has NFL news as it breaks, Awful Announcing covers sports media, and Joe Posnanski writes long, thoughtful pieces about baseball and much else. Most teams have an independent fan blog too; paste its address into the feed finder to get its feed. More in sports RSS feeds.

Instead of r/personalfinance, r/investing and r/economics

A Wealth of Common Sense and NerdWallet cover everyday money, and Apricitas Economics and Kyla Scanlon cover the bigger picture. Abnormal Returns is a person doing what upvotes used to do: a daily, hand-picked list of the best finance reading. More in finance RSS feeds.

Instead of r/politics

POLITICO Politics and Roll Call cover Washington and Congress, Stateline covers policy in the states, and SCOTUSblog follows the Supreme Court. More in politics RSS feeds.

Instead of your city's subreddit

Local papers and TV stations publish feeds for the road closures, power outages and new taco places your city's subreddit used to tell you about. Browse local news RSS feeds, or paste your paper's address into the feed finder.

Missing the upvotes?

A few communities still publish their front pages as feeds. Hacker News and Lobsters do it for tech. The discussion site Tildes has a feed for each of its groups, like technology, and so do communities on Lemmy, like technology on lemmy.world. And many of the writers people found through Reddit now post on Bluesky, where you can follow any account as a feed. Smaller places like these can't take your whole reading list away at once the way one big platform just did.

Where to read it all

Every feed here works in any RSS reader. If you're choosing one, Zetfeed is ours: it follows news sites, blogs, YouTube channels, Bluesky accounts, podcasts and newsletters that publish a feed, with no ads and no tracking.

A couple of questions

Will Reddit RSS feeds work after November 13?

No. Reddit says it stops supporting RSS that day, and only moderators get a replacement, for the communities they run.

Is there a workaround?

A few services rebuild subreddit feeds from Reddit's pages, but they depend on access Reddit is closing on a schedule that ends in March 2027. They may work for a while. They're not something to build a reading habit on.