Reddit might be experimenting with cutting off access to r/all completely

Reddit briefly blocked access to r/all earlier today, with users trying to visit reddit.com/r/all getting silently redirected to the homepage instead. Reports started coming in roughly 15 hours ago, and the issue cleared up within an hour or so. Right now, r/all loads normally.

One thread discussing the problem picked up close to two thousand upvotes.

So this could have been a bug. Or it could have been an intentional test that got pulled. Hard to say for certain.

For what it’s worth, Reddit has already confirmed, in its own words, that r/all is going away. A February 26 weekly recap post on r/help, written by a Reddit admin, stated: “The r/all experiment has concluded and the decision was made to remove r/all.” The admin added that Reddit is “leaning toward simplifying your experience to make it more personalized,” and pointed users toward r/Popular and the Latest feed as alternatives.

Then, in the March 5 weekly recap, a Reddit admin confirmed things had moved further: entry points to access r/all from both the apps and desktop had already been removed.

In case you missed it, back in December, we reported that Reddit removed r/all from its mobile apps in what it called a “streamlining test,” with users on version 2025.48.0 of the Android app finding the link simply gone overnight. Shortly after, Reddit’s UI started burying r/popular too, replacing the easy swipe-to-popular gesture with a chunky search bar and making users dig through the hamburger menu to find sitewide content.

So the broader direction has been clear for a while. Reddit wants more personalized, subscription-based feeds, and universal aggregators like r/all don’t fit that vision. 

Whether today’s redirect was an accidental misfire or a brief live test is genuinely unclear. The direct URL still works for now, but given everything Reddit has confirmed over the past month, that’s probably not a permanent situation.

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