Third-party unfiltered Reddit discovery feed after r/all deprecation
Reddit permanently killed r/all on April 2, 2026, redirecting all traffic to algorithmic Home/r/popular. Longtime users want a third-party client or web app that reconstructs the raw, unpersonalized upvote-ranked firehose across all public subs (old r/all behavior) using the public JSON API plus caching.
builder note
The moat here is not the feed but the rate-limit engineering. Ship a read-only PWA + browser extension that keeps a rolling 6-hour cache so a few hundred users can share one API budget, and charge $2/mo for notification keyword filters.
landscape (3 existing solutions)
No hosted replacement is positioning itself explicitly as the r/all discovery experience. Self-hosted forks exist but suffer from API rate limits and aren't packaged for casual users.
r/popular Curated, excludes NSFW and many niche subs, does not reproduce the raw cross-sub upvote firehose
old.reddit.com r/all Works today but Reddit has stated old.reddit is on borrowed time and most users are on new UI or mobile
Redlib / Libreddit forks Privacy-focused mirror but instances get rate-limited and blocked, not positioned as a discovery product
sources (3)
other https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/47822249050... "all links to r/all now redirect to the Home feed" 2026-04-02
other https://tech.yahoo.com/social-media/articles/reddit-just-kil... "r/all represented that ethos... not what an algorithm decided" 2026-04-03
other https://nationaltoday.com/us/ca/los-angeles/news/2026/04/03/... "forcing algorithmic feeds... power users push back" 2026-04-03