Comment by bmlbytes on 15/02/2017 at 23:11 UTC

15 upvotes, 2 direct replies (showing 2)

It sounds like to me that it is just a filtered /r/all. They couldn't make the regular /r/all the logged out front page, because it has a lot of NSFW and controversial posts. This new change allows other subreddits than the 50 default ones to make the front page. If you look at /r/all, you will see that most of them are from huge subreddits, but every once in a while, an obscure subreddit will hit the top of /r/all. I assume this is the same with /r/popular

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Comment by Damian4447 at 16/02/2017 at 00:34 UTC

3 upvotes, 1 direct replies

I'm not sure if they implemented this but I feel like if a logged out users first experience in reddit is seeing a /r/ImGoingToHellForThis would put them off

Comment by simbawulf at 16/02/2017 at 17:26 UTC

5 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Thanks for the accurate description!