I got back /r/all in my reddit official app and you probably can too
The catch is you need to find something to do other than reddit. The key is understanding reddit’s engagement metrics, and the depth of tracking the app does.
Back in late 2025, like a lot of users, I had /r/all disappear out of my sidebar. I was basically only scrolling /r/all at this point so this was a direct attack on my main vector of interaction. Would not do. Pretty clearly from confused users on r/help meeting confused users who still had r/all, it was just the beginning of A/B testing for removing /r/all.
So, I counterattacked. I went and touched grass. I actually played my videogames. I made a conscious, concerted effort, to cut my reddit usage by at least 90%, avoiding “Popular” like the plague just browsing my feed (Best is such a terrible sort it made this easy), and, I *think* this was the key, I made sure that the majority of times I opened the app (usually muscle memory) I made sure not to scroll, just opened the sidebar, scrolled all the way to the bottom where r/all used to be, and then then completely force closed the app and went and did something else. Like I said, for me, it *felt* like this was what made the difference, but obviously I can’t be sure.
Reddit broke in like three weeks under my siege. One day I opened up the app, and r/all was just there, back. I resumed my habit of only really scrolling r/all, at reduced usage, because unplugging had genuinely helped me go find other rewarding feeling things to do. The numbers of people claiming to still have r/all on r/help and r/bugs dwindled as I watched from my castle.
Around late December ‘25, they yoinked r/all again. Now admittedly, as far as social media addiction, I did stumble here that I actually managed to resist the siren call of short form video content until 2026, and it was in my renewed boycott of the reddit app that I fell prey to instagram and facebook reels. Heed my warning traveler, it got me where I was going but it is not the way, stay the course, touch grass. I’m a week clean from short form video content now, it’s possible.
Around february/march, I started some renewed discipline of just totally deleting the reddit app off my phone on weekdays. I kept checking for r/all as I scrolled less and less.
As a side note, it was hilarious how long my 600+ day reddit streak hung out. You could actively watch the app’s processes of denial that I was unplugging, that I would have not opened it for three days, open it, open a comments section, and opening a comments section would be action enough for the reddit app to throw up its hands “Hurrah! Your streak lives to another day, 576, good job!” and I just laugh.
So, over the last couple months, I’ve totally broken the “open reddit, scroll” muscle memory and the engagement metrics know it. I got to the point I didn’t have to delete the app to not open it on weekdays. The last few weeks even, I was basically only using it occasionally for porn. And today, I come to you declaring victory in my second siege. r/All is *back* in my reddit app, it probably can be in yours, too, if you stop tacitly accepting its absence and continuing to scroll and start actively manipulating the engagement metrics instead of reporting to them.