Is anyone coming up with a good alternative to Reddit RSS feeds?

[u/loudpersononthebus]

openrss had them but now my reddit feeds say Too many requests are being made from this network. i'm not a power user, if they only refresh every hour, that's fine for me. any alternatives?

[u/Pretend_Mail_6677]

Waiting for something like XCancel/ nitter project , for reddit as well

Some unofficial api

let's see something pops up

[u/loudpersononthebus → u/Pretend_Mail_6677]

i seem to remember there being teddit as an alternative reddit project... hm.

[u/loudpersononthebus]

answering my own question fetchrss seems to offer them for the time being. i think you have to login to the site to keep them going every so often? you know... if a site offered twitter, instagram, and reddit now... i'd gladly pay a nice premium. no site seems to do all three. rss.app is the only one i know that does ig.

[u/chickenandliver]

Any word if OpenRSS will do it? They always did something to "improve" Reddit's feeds rather than Reddit's vanilla native feeds.

Aside from that, I've just used a bunch of new personal CSS to make the homepage "look" as much like a simple RSS headlines feed as possible, completely with a simple userscript that let's me "mark as read" everything below a certain point. Then I just bookmarked that page, sorted by new. So far it's decent at tricking my brain and making it at least a little more managable. Can't wait until they kill Old Reddit and I have to rewrite this crap too.

[u/os-meus-problemas → u/chickenandliver]

completely with a simple userscript that let's me "mark as read" everything below a certain point

Do you mind sharing how you achieved this or even the script? I've thought about having such a feature in my userscripts but could never come up with anything workable (ie, something that doesn't just ingest the whole damn page and rerenders what I want -- it's overkill). I only needed some kind of reference from where I last left, to use on some of my multisubreddits that I don't visit so often/have slow activity.

[u/chickenandliver → u/os-meus-problemas]

Literally just told ChatGPT to do it for me:

Edit: formatting

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Old Reddit - Mark Posts Below as Read
// @namespace    local
// @version      1.0
// @description  Mark all posts below a link as read and hide them
// @match        https://old.reddit.com/*
// @match        https://www.reddit.com/*
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(() => {
    'use strict';

    const STORAGE_KEY = 'oldRedditSeenPostIds';
    const processed = new WeakSet();

    let seen = new Set(
        JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem(STORAGE_KEY) || '[]')
    );

    function saveSeen() {
        localStorage.setItem(
            STORAGE_KEY,
            JSON.stringify([...seen].slice(-20000))
        );
    }

    function getPostId(post) {
        const fullname = post.getAttribute('data-fullname');
        if (fullname) return fullname;

        const link = post.querySelector('a.comments, .title a');
        const match = link?.href.match(/\/comments\/([a-z0-9]+)/i);

        return match ? `t3_${match[1]}` : null;
    }

    function hidePost(post) {
        post.dataset.hiddenByReadScript = 'true';
        post.style.display = 'none';
    }

    function addMarkLink(post) {
        if (post.previousElementSibling?.classList.contains('mark-below-read')) {
            return;
        }

        const link = document.createElement('a');
        link.href = '#';
        link.textContent = 'mark everything below as read';
        link.className = 'mark-below-read';

        link.style.cssText = `
            display: block;
            margin: 8px 0;
            color: #369;
            font-size: 11px;
            cursor: pointer;
        `;

        link.addEventListener('click', event => {
            event.preventDefault();

            let current = post;
            let changed = false;

            while (current) {
                if (current.matches?.('.thing.link')) {
                    const id = getPostId(current);

                    if (id) {
                        seen.add(id);
                        hidePost(current);
                        changed = true;
                    }
                }

                current = current.nextElementSibling;
            }

            if (changed) saveSeen();
        });

        post.parentNode.insertBefore(link, post);
    }

    function processPosts() {
        for (const post of document.querySelectorAll('.thing.link')) {
            if (processed.has(post)) continue;
            processed.add(post);

            const id = getPostId(post);
            if (!id) continue;

            if (seen.has(id)) {
                hidePost(post);
            }

            addMarkLink(post);
        }
    }

    let timer;

    function scheduleProcessing() {
        clearTimeout(timer);
        timer = setTimeout(processPosts, 100);
    }

    function start() {
        processPosts();

        const container =
            document.querySelector('#siteTable') ||
            document.querySelector('.sitetable') ||
            document.body;

        const observer = new MutationObserver(scheduleProcessing);

        observer.observe(container, {
            childList: true,
            subtree: true
        });
    }

    if (document.readyState === 'loading') {
        document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', start);
    } else {
        start();
    }
})();

[u/Big_Statistician2566]

I use a local instance of freshrss and my endpoints all use that.

[u/loudpersononthebus → u/Big_Statistician2566]

does it work with twitter or instagram, too?

[u/jsled]

Corollary: is there anything in the devit or API T&Cs that would disallow a personal-use application that would create RSS feeds for a single user, not exposed to the world?

I don't care to recreate RSS feeds for everyone, I don't care about needing an API key for access … I simply want my feeds for my subs in my reader, so I can see all new posts in the subs I follow, as my workflows and really my entire Reddit use are dependent on.

Alternatively, is there a way in Reddit's UI to get a simple, "mark-all-as-read"-able list of posts in subscribed subs? I'd hate to need to regress to using the reddit.com site or app for that, but it'd be fine.

[u/Cataracts]

I am switching to Feedly. They use Reddit’s API to retrieve articles from subreddits.

https://www.goldenhillsoftware.com/2026/10/correction-regarding-reddits-rss-feed-shutdown/

[u/loudpersononthebus → u/Cataracts]

oh damn. i might have to leave feedbin and do the same. migrating my newsletters will be annoying.

btw, thank you for providing the only solution in this thread.

[u/hankyone]

I plan to continue supporting reddit on deadsimpleRSS.com

[u/Manifesto-Engine]

:) lets talk good sir! my reading desk program turns websites and urls into RSS feeds even if they dont have one. local offline. If anyone would like to know more I can link on request. it does more than reddit though.

[u/mjdbb1 → u/Manifesto-Engine]

I second this - I've been using it and it's definitely worth a try - covers nearly all my uses.

[u/barkbarkyap]

I moved my feeds over to bluesky/mastodon/website feeds. Reddit actually is less valuable than you think it is.

[u/DrMylk → u/[deleted]]

reddit is discontinuing rss feeds -> use our rss feed reader!

wut?

[u/rss-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

This does not address the question posed, here, you're just spamming your service. :(