Reddit’s CEO says r/popular ‘sucks,’ and it’s going away

Published: 5 months ago (December 3, 2025 at 04:20 PM EST)

1 min read

Source: The Verge

Reddit is “moving away” from r/popular

Reddit is “moving away” from r/popular, the default feed for new users, and plans to replace it with “better, more relevant and personalized feeds,” according to CEO Steve Huffman (aka Spez). Huffman also notes that r/popular “sucks.”

“For a long while, we were known as t…”

Back to Blog

AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone

Reddit is considered one of the most human spaces left on the internet, but mods and users are overwhelmed with slop posts in the most popular subreddits....

Google's First AI Smart Glasses Coming in 2026

Google is developing two pairs of smart glasses with artificial intelligence that will launch in 2026, the company said today. The first set of glasses have AI...

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 233 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser that was first introduced in March 2016. Apple designed ‌Safari Techno...

The best robot vacuum and mop to buy right now

Robot vacuums that can both mop and sweep your floors have improved significantly in recent years. While they are still not as effective as good ol’ manual labo...

Reddit is “moving away” from r/popular

Related posts

AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone

Google's First AI Smart Glasses Coming in 2026

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 233 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

The best robot vacuum and mop to buy right now