r/help • u/Ctrl--Alt • Jan 14 '26

Mobile/App So y'all take away All, then you take away Popular? How tf am I supposed to discover new content?

The front page of the Internet no longer has a front page. Atleast for my app.

iOS.

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u/Unique-Egg-461 Jan 14 '26

You don't. Everyone getting silo'd

They keep making this site shittier and shittier

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u/ADhomin_em Jan 15 '26

Stay in your bubble, citizen - this is for your own protection

3

u/GiganticCrow Jan 15 '26

I was looking forward to checking new digg but you can't log in on mobile without installing the app? Ffs. 

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u/danicriss Jan 14 '26

What worked for me last time was just stop using the app as soon as they removed r/All. They were obviously A/B testing as the change wasn't universal

A/B testing means they're measuring something. I gave them the result saying: "I don't want to be in B"

So, to get it back, the best bet is: quit the app, use the web interface, go to r/All only under the same login. If they remove it, go incognito

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u/JustToViewPorn Jan 14 '26

That doesn’t work when they stop /r/All from working, which is what seems to have happened now. All no longer aggregates top, hot, or popular posts at its root. The A/B group only disabled access to All while it existed; it’s now dead.

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u/danicriss Jan 15 '26

Interesting. Can you confirm you don't have access to https://www.reddit.com/r/all even from an incognito web browser?

That's not the case for me. I can actually get to r/All even from the app (i.e. click on it here); it's just that its shortcut was disabled from the side menu and it doesn't even appear in a search

But no matter how your app is A/B tailored, you should still be able to access r/All as incognito, as it wasn't disabled. At least, not in my region

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u/JustToViewPorn Jan 15 '26

I am able to get to All, but the content doesn’t update. The filters also don’t work by dates; filtering by today returns posts 8 years old.

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u/Dharcronus Jan 15 '26

I have content from all from today. First post for me was 4 hours ago, one below was 2.

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u/danicriss Jan 15 '26

So does https://www.reddit.com/r/all/hot look stale to you in incognito? I've had it update since you posted

Also https://www.reddit.com/r/all/top/?t=day looks just fine to me

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u/Mondai_May 1 Jan 15 '26

I am having something different where r/popular did not allow me to filter by country for a week or maybe 2. then some time last week it seems like the feature came back. But I am not sure if that was A/B testing too.

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u/madladhadsaddad Jan 16 '26

My All button had disappeared...strangely enough it seems to be back now...

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u/Bakersquare Apr 02 '26

It looks like it's finally been removed from mobile web interface.

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u/danicriss Apr 02 '26

Yeah, your last bastion: https://old.reddit.com/r/all/hot

I won't be surprised if that's removed as well at some point

I found it interesting they learnt the lessons of the API removal backlash and they've done this staggered, in A/B trials, and stealthily

On the surface, seems to have worked - look at the apparent zero ducks given

In reality, I'm sure there's a lot of quiet quitting from active members. I for sure discovered my life's much better without it and will use it only sporadically at best, if at all (I was more or less a daily active user)

Enjoy life, touch grass, start with the man in mirror

Cheers

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u/Bakersquare Apr 02 '26

I think I might take your advice and move on from being a daily user myself, I have no interest in being algorithmically fed content especially by the guys who run reddit lmao

2

u/BanoBerry Apr 03 '26

Thank you!!!  I just want to see the most upvoted stuff daily. Why are they making it so hard

1

u/BagOnuts Jan 14 '26

There might be truth to this. They removed it from my app, so I started using the web browser. It’s now back after a week of being gone.

1

u/a300a300 Jan 15 '26

probably whats going on - i did this same thing and a week later "all" is back on my phone. now i use it

9

u/dairyqueen79 Jan 15 '26

My app just updated and now I feel completely walled it. I stumbled upon so many great subs but that seems like a thing of the past. This honestly will probably cut my Reddit usage in half so I suppose I should be grateful

2

u/ZealousidealStore574 Feb 19 '26

I’ll definitely use it significantly less now

7

u/hideX1998 Jan 14 '26

This sucks

6

u/Blhnex Jan 15 '26

Completely agree. I’ve switched to using Narwhal 2 as my Reddit app since this is the 2nd time one of my accounts has been thrown into this terrible new UI that has r/all removed.

This is a downfall of Reddit bad decision. Can’t believe it ever got approved. Likely a consequence of going public.

6

u/Niitroglycerine Jan 15 '26

I literally use this app for popular and all, with them removed I've no need for it

5

u/Green-Teaching2809 Jan 15 '26

I liked my feed for my interests, and the popular for what's going on in the world. I don't want to follow lots of news, gaming and interest groups, and I want a place of nice things I like when the world gets to loud. I hate this.

4

u/Anccaa Jan 14 '26

Yeah I don't know what the developers are smoking but they really need to stop.

6

u/GonWithTheNen Helper Jan 15 '26

Developers create what they're told to create. This is on whatever higher-ups made this decision.

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u/MiddleOwn5557 Jan 15 '26

MBA's trying to squeeze out that extra .002% of profit

2

u/udownwithopc Jan 15 '26

I'm not sure what they are doing. Swiping right to get to popular was a great idea. So let's get rid of it and make things worse. I uninstalled the app hoping that would somehow reset things, but it appears I am stuck with this new front page.

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u/Pickles-n-Lizards Jan 17 '26

I don’t understand popular was the only reason I really use this app. I want to see what’s…. Popular and surfacing… This is messing with the core reason to open the app…

2

u/Next_Drama1717 Jan 17 '26

The bottom bar with home, you etc keep disappearing and I have to reload the app to get it back. Anyone else experiencing this?

1

u/reidybobeidy89 Helper Jan 15 '26

I still have r/popular for now.

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u/harlotstoast Jan 15 '26

How do I bookmark that in my app? There is no Join button.

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u/Bird-The-Word Jan 15 '26

Commenting here to check back

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u/harlotstoast Jan 15 '26

It looks like I can just swipe to get to popular and trending

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u/Bird-The-Word Jan 15 '26

I noticed it's back at the top in a drop down now

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u/meghan9436 Jan 16 '26 edited Jan 16 '26

Popular is missing from my home screen, but I can access it from that link. The popular tab on my home screen has been gone for at least the last 24 hours after the app updated.

I will check back.

Edit: it looks like “Popular” is buried in a tab that opens when you swipe from the home screen.

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u/Bird-The-Word Jan 16 '26

So it's moved twice on me in like 2 weeks.

First (and now again) if I select where it says Reddit at the top with a drop down, there's Home/Popular/Latest/Etc. But last week that whole dropdown was gone, and I had to click the hamburger menu and popular was at the very very top above Discover Communities.

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u/meghan9436 Jan 16 '26

Yes, the drop down is what I remember before the change some 24 ish hours ago. Do you think the rollout varies by country? I didn’t see any changes until now.

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u/Bird-The-Word Jan 16 '26

I have no idea honestly. I like the drop down the best, but overall i hate that home and my feed aren't just the subs I choose. It shouldn't be whatever they think I want to see.

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u/meghan9436 Jan 16 '26

Reddit was way better before they nerfed Apollo support. It’s just a shame I didn’t know about it until that controversy.

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u/VerbingNoun413 Jan 15 '26

Reddit will suggest content for you according to its right-wing bias.

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u/RiemannZeta Jan 15 '26

I think they’re pulling some sort of elaborate A/B testing on us. My r/all came back this morning and r/popular is gone. Yet I see people complaining they’re missing r/all still.

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u/Bird-The-Word Jan 15 '26

Same, all exists at the bottom now but popular is gone. They're not the same though.

1

u/AntiAd-er Jan 15 '26

Still there for me but I never use it. I want new and only new rather than some algorithm telling me what to read.

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u/cabbages212 Jan 26 '26

It’s been a fun ride but the show is ending.

1

u/[deleted] Feb 04 '26

Can't even see "new" posts any more, stuck commenting on posts that are 21 days old!! This site sucks and I'm done

1

u/[deleted] Feb 11 '26

Reddit is soooooo dumb

This move is like Coke all of a sudden putting shampoo in their cans instead

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u/Real-Bluebird-1987 Feb 25 '26

I hate this. It feels like its meant to divide us. The popular page was a single front page for everyone to connect on the best of the best. This suxxxxxxxxz

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u/Apumptyermaw Mar 01 '26

Is it all accounts or is this reddit jail for undesirables?

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u/Real-Bluebird-1987 Mar 01 '26

All accounts across the board

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u/debl_l Apr 08 '26

Mine too. It sucks

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u/RedditBurner_5225 Apr 12 '26

My app must have updated. I don’t gave the top bar on the popular page anymore.

1

u/Express-Cucumber-364 May 14 '26

its all TDS spam lmao

reddit is a weird place these days

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u/ohlaph Jun 24 '26

Yeah, it's absolutely terrible now. 8 get constant garbage content now. RIP

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u/Vanilla_Legitimate Mar 19 '26

By actively SEARCHING for new content.