Reddit RSS Feeds Stop on November 13: How to Keep Getting Reddit Keyword Alerts

What is Reddit changing?

The news came in two posts on September 30, one in r/modnews for moderators and one in r/redditdev for developers. Reddit's reason fits in one line: it says RSS "is now a common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse."

Feeds are only one step in a longer schedule. These are the dates Reddit gave, as reported by TechCrunch and PPC Land.

For marketing, support, and founder-led teams, November 13 is the date that bites. The API dates mostly hit bots and developer tools, and Reddit gives those a migration path onto Devvit, its own developer platform. Feeds get no such path.

Moderators get one exception. Reddit recommends a Devvit app called Discord Relay for mod alerts, and it can post to Slack as well as Discord. It only covers communities you moderate, though, so it won't tell you when someone mentions your product in r/sysadmin.

If you wrote your own script against Reddit's unauthenticated .json endpoints, that door closed earlier. Reddit confirmed in a moderator post around June 2026 that those endpoints had been shut down.

Which feeds do you have?

Before you replace anything, you need a list, and RSS feeds are easy to forget. They usually live in one of three places: someone's personal feed reader, a Slack channel that subscribed with Slack's RSS app, or a Zapier or n8n workflow that starts from an RSS trigger.

Search each of those for reddit.com. In Slack, typing /feed list in a channel shows what it's subscribed to. In Zapier and n8n, open any workflow with an RSS trigger and check whether the URL points at Reddit. Ask around, too. The feed that matters most is often the one a teammate set up for themselves.

Once you have the URLs, the shape of each one tells you what it was doing. A feed and a keyword alert both watch for something new, but they ask different questions. A feed asks "what's new on this page?" A keyword alert asks "did anyone just say this?" Most feeds translate cleanly, and one kind doesn't.

Search feeds are the easy case, and they're the most common one for brand monitoring. Create a Reddit alert with the same keyword and choose whether to match posts, comments, or both. If your search needed several words to appear together, put them in one alert separated by commas, like acme, pricing, because every comma-separated keyword has to match.

You'll probably notice one difference right away. A feed reader fetches on its own schedule, so a mention could sit for a while before anyone saw it. On KWatch, alerts usually arrive within a couple of seconds, or up to about a minute when things are congested.

Subreddit feeds are where the two models part ways. If you followed every new post in a small subreddit, there's no keyword to give us, and KWatch needs one. The closest setup is a few alerts scoped to that subreddit, using the words you care about most, like your product category, a competitor's name, or "recommend". You'll miss the off-topic posts. That may be fine, but if you really do read everything in r/yourniche, keep a Reddit tab open for it instead.

User feeds work the same way. An included-user filter limits an alert to one person's posts and comments, but the alert still needs a keyword.

Thread feeds map to conversation tracking. You give us a Reddit post, and we alert you on every new comment. You can also track a single comment, and then you'll only hear about replies below it. That's handy for a launch thread, or a long complaint you want to answer quickly.

How many alerts will you need?

With your list mapped, count the Reddit alerts and tracked conversations and match them to a plan. These limits are from the KWatch pricing page as of October 2026.

If all you had was a search feed on your brand and one on a competitor, Free covers it by email. Most real setups need a bit more than that. The pricing page lists filtering as a paid feature, so plan on Essential once you're scoping alerts to subreddits or users, or tracking a thread.

If your feeds landed in a Slack channel, Business is the plan that rebuilds the setup you had. It's the first one with Slack and webhooks.

Putting alerts where the feed used to go

The last step is reconnecting whatever the feed was feeding. If it went to an inbox or a reader, email alerts cover that on every plan.

If it went into Slack, add a Slack webhook in KWatch, either once for the whole account or per alert. A per-alert webhook overrides the account one. That's how brand mentions can go to your support channel while competitor mentions go to marketing.

If a Zapier or n8n workflow consumed the feed, swap its RSS trigger for a webhook trigger and point a KWatch API webhook at it. Each match arrives as a POST request with a small JSON body. This is the example from our docs.

{
  "platform": "reddit",
  "query": "Keywords: vllm",
  "datetime": "19 Jan 24 05:52 UTC",
  "link": "https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/19934kd/sglang_new/kijvtk5/",
  "author": "lmzoo",
  "content": "sglang runtime has a different architecture on the higher-level part with vllm.",
  "sentiment": "neutral"
}

Most of your workflow's mapping carries over. link takes the place of the item link, content replaces the description, and datetime stands in for the publish date. You also get sentiment, which a feed never had, so a step can route negative mentions somewhere more urgent.

Our guides on Slack notifications for social listening and KWatch with Zapier and n8n walk through both setups.

While you're cleaning up, you can leave your Hacker News feeds alone. Reddit's change doesn't touch them. If you'd rather have Reddit and Hacker News mentions arrive in one place, though, KWatch alerts on both.