Algorithmic-Free 'What Reddit Is Actually Upvoting' Surfacer For Power Users Cut Off From the Killed r/all Feed
Reddit completed the deprecation of r/all in April 2026, replacing the unfiltered firehose with an algorithmic Home/Popular feed. Power users on Reddit, Bluesky, and tech press are openly mourning the loss of the platform's last uncurated front page — old.reddit.com is the only remaining workaround and Reddit hasn't promised that survives long. There's an opening for a third-party 'real r/all' surfacer that pulls genuine cross-subreddit upvote velocity (no personalization, no engagement bait) the way redditors actually used to discover content.
Don't build it as a standalone site that has to talk to Reddit's API on every page load — Reddit will rate-limit you out of existence. Make it a browser extension that hits old.reddit.com using the user's own session, decorates the result with cross-subreddit aggregation client-side, and writes nothing back to a server. Zero infra cost, zero API politics.
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The cheap version of this is a public site that hits Reddit's `/r/all/.json?sort=hot` endpoint and renders without personalization. The trick is doing it sustainably under Reddit's API limits (and political mood) — likely via OAuth-the-user, browser-extension-as-aggregator, or scraping old.reddit while it lives. Whoever builds a stable home for 'just show me what's actually upvoted' will inherit the disenchanted power-user crowd.