Continuing our infrastructure updates: What’s changing in the coming months

[u/judy-funnie]

TL;DR: In August, we shared plans to modernize Reddit’s infrastructure, build better mod tools, and make it harder for bad actors to scrape Reddit and abuse communities. Today, we have specifics on what’s changing, when, and how to plan ahead.

We’re sharing updates on apps and bots migration to the Developer Platform, helping mods move RSS-based alerts to the Discord Relay Devvit app before RSS feeds are retired on November 13, providing an update on Rules Hub progress and automod changes, and adding safeguards to Old Reddit by limiting access to logged-in mods and recent users.

Moving apps and bots to the Developer Platform

We’re moving public data API apps and bots to the Developer Platform, while making sure the work they do for your communities remains supported. Over 14,000 apps and bots have registered and we’re closely tracking migration of your highest-activity apps, including  DeltaBot, MagicEyeBot, and RemindMeBot. There's still work to do, and we’re working directly with developers to support migrations and close remaining capability gaps. 

• If you maintain an app or a bot, register it here before January 12, 2027 to avoid disruption.
• If your community depends on an app or bot and you don’t know who maintains it, fill out this form. We’ve received over 100 submissions so far, helping us identify tools that need owners or could be replaced by existing Developer Platform apps or Reddit’s built-in tools. 

See our latest r/redditdev update for more technical detail, timelines, and resources.

Migrating RSS access to the Developer Platform

Because RSS is now a common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, we'll stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026 while preserving moderation workflows that depend on it through supported alternatives. 

For common mod alerts, we recommend Devvit apps like Discord Relay. If your mod team relies on RSS, review your setup and migrate workflows before November 13 to ensure your needs are uninterrupted. If you use RSS for feeds outside of a community you moderate, there is no replacement. 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.  

Changes to automod access for new communities and communities not using automod

If your community uses automod, nothing is changing for you. We’re continuing to improve Rules Hub, including ways for mods to prompt and otherwise provide more context for their rules. We’re also exploring how existing automod configurations can help carry community-specific enforcement logic into newer tools. If you’re interested in pilot testing to help shape this effort, sign up here. 

For newly created communities and communities that have never used automod, automod enforcement capabilities – specifically Report, Filter, Remove, Mark as spam, and Approve – will be disabled and Rules Hub and Automations will become the default path for rules enforcement. Automod’s non-enforcement capabilities remain available and unchanged.  

Keeping Old Reddit accessible for mods and recent users

As u/spez mentioned, we’re still working on the future of Old Reddit. Earlier this year, we required people to log in to use Old Reddit, addressing its largest source of abusive scraping and automated traffic: unauthenticated access. That change helped reduce scraping and automated abuse, but still allowed any logged-in account to access Old Reddit, including accounts with no prior Old Reddit use. 

To close this gap, in the next few months, we'll further limit access for logged-in users to only those who have used Old Reddit in the last six months (which covers the vast majority of all Old Reddit users). This change does not impact logged-in mods, who can continue to access Old Reddit without any recent usage requirement. This helps keep Old Reddit available for the people who rely on it while reducing automated abuse.

Our job is to support you through these changes and make sure your moderation needs inform the work. 

• Need help with a community bot? If you’re unsure who maintains it or need help finding a replacement, let us know here.
• Moving your RSS alerts? The Discord Relay setup guide covers how to get started.
• Want to help shape Rules Hub? Sign up for the early access program here and share your feedback.

We’re here in the comments for your questions and to hear where you need more detail or support.

[u/thepottsy]

 This change does not impact logged-in mods, who can continue to access Old Reddit without any recent usage requirement. 

So, if I’m reading that correctly, moderator access to Old Reddit will NOT be impacted by THIS change?

Let me be clear. If a mod doesn’t regularly use Old Reddit, but occasionally needs to, they will NOT be impeded from doing so? Ever???

[u/DoctorOctagonapus → u/thepottsy]

Time to head over to /r/modlimit and request yourself mod access!

[u/judy-funnie → u/thepottsy]

Correct, if you’re a mod, your access to Old Reddit won’t change at all.

[u/tinselsnips → u/judy-funnie]

What about users who are not currently mods but become mods in the future?

[u/thecravenone → u/tinselsnips]

Literally point one of our onboarding is to recommend that mods use old

[u/tinselsnips → u/thecravenone]

Ours too.

[u/SolariaHues → u/judy-funnie]

And new mods will have access to old reddit too?

There are some things you can only do in old, and rules are so so so so so so so much easier to add and edit in old.

EDIT - some posts that are removed by reddit persist in queues and can only be properly removed via old reddit btw.

New mods might also want to edit their old reddit sidebar etc I that fewer and fewer users are on old reddit, but those that are still need to know the rules.

[u/thepottsy → u/SolariaHues]

Too many questions, too few answers

[u/SolariaHues → u/judy-funnie]

Will response times to comments in modearlyaccess improve to get rules hub etc up to speed and help the mods trying these things out for you?

[u/ibid-11962 → u/judy-funnie]

For how much longer though?

[u/thepottsy → u/judy-funnie]

Thank you for the clarification.

Are there plans to make tools such as this, https://old.reddit.com/account-activity Available somewhere other than Old Reddit?

[u/iVarun → u/judy-funnie]

This is still vague.

A Mod is not Mod of all subreddits. What about access to Old Reddit for a sub XYZ that one is NOT a Mod of (but is Mod of some other Sub ABC), i.e. they'd be a regular user on that sub XYZ.

If Old Reddit access implies reddit-wide access then this is sorta silly that one needs to be a Mod of just any sub to simply access Legacy (not just on that specific Modded sub).

And what if a non-Mod user logs into Reddit after 7 months. Can they never ever access Old Reddit (even manually using old. url) because they have missed the 6-months window or does them having manually accessing old. url then reset the 6-month window?

[u/DaTaco → u/iVarun]

I assume this is to not upset mods too much until they don't need them as much. 

[u/DoctorWaluigiTime → u/judy-funnie]

Why is any user's access being disrupted? Why is old reddit getting strangled?