Reddit forum feeds not updating (rate limit?)

problem
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I have feeds for several Reddit forums. Newsblur has shown no new posts for the last few days. In the statistics I see this similar pattern:

Feed Fetch
2026-06-14 22:21:49 Rate Limited (429) (429)
2026-06-14 11:28:29 Rate Limited (429) (429)
2026-06-14 00:21:50 Rate Limited (429) (429)
2026-06-13 14:09:51 Rate Limited (429) (429)
2026-06-13 05:21:06 Rate Limited (429) (429)
2026-06-12 22:04:18 Rate Limited (429) (429)
2026-06-12 15:25:51 Rate Limited (429) (429)
2026-06-12 09:50:08 Rate Limited (429) (429)
2026-06-12 04:40:34 Rate Limited (429) (429)
2026-06-12 00:20:58 Rate Limited (429) (429)
2026-06-11 20:41:56 Rate Limited (429) (429)
2026-06-11 18:21:13 Rate Limited (429) (429)
2026-06-11 16:40:45 Rate Limited (429) (429)
2026-06-11 15:49:09 Rate Limited (429) (429)
2026-06-11 14:55:09 OK (200)
2026-06-11 14:03:09 OK (200)
2026-06-11 13:09:53 Rate Limited (429) (429)
2026-06-11 12:15:51 OK (200)
2026-06-11 11:22:07 OK (200)
2026-06-11 10:32:38 OK (200)
2026-06-11 09:46:08 OK (200)
2026-06-11 08:54:36 OK (200)
2026-06-11 08:04:16 OK (200)
2026-06-11 07:15:59 OK (200)
2026-06-11 06:27:30 OK (200)
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Some low-signal related traffic in https://www.reddit.com/r/rss/comments/1u4j2pv/update_from_reddit_admin_on_rss_rate_limits/ recently.

(Incidentally, reddit RSS feeds seemed to get an improvement recently (sub icons as the feed icon in NB) … not sure if that’s a Reddit or NB improvement, tho.)

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here’s one of the subreddits I like. Tons of 429s.

Screenshot 2026-06-18 at 4.35.44 PM
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I have this problem too. I would love to see a response

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Yep, those 429s were Reddit throttling our public RSS requests. Just shipped a fix: NewsBlur now pulls Reddit feeds through Reddit’s authenticated API, which has a much higher limit and doesn’t trip those 429s. It’s live now, so your subreddit feeds should start catching up over the next hour. Let me know if any stay stuck.

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This seems to be causing a problem with RSS feeds for specific posts.

E.g.: Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/PostgreSQL/comments/1ucs1ap/multitenant_saas_architecture_postgresql_schema/

with feed: https://old.reddit.com/r/PostgreSQL/comments/1ucs1ap/multitenant_saas_architecture_postgresql_schema/.rss

When added to Newsblur seems to get the feed for the entire PostgreSQL reddit instead: https://old.reddit.com/r/PostgreSQL/

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Also feeds contain wrong posts now, e. g. https://old.reddit.com/r/television/top/.rss?sort=top&t=monthly does not contain the top post of the month but recent posts.

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Ok, individual Reddit post feeds (the /comments/ ones) were still broken because they got treated like a subreddit and pulled the wrong stories. Fixed and deployed now. They go through Reddit’s API too, returning the post followed by its comment thread.

Here’s the commit: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/commit/2db2279c4b3232f9744dff548e25597a63c1c57f

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Reddit’s “r/example” story tags are no longer working. For example, the RSS <category term="worldnews" label="r/worldnews"/> no longer shows “r/worldnews” as a story tag.