Reddit RSS feeds recent rate limiting and solution

For years, I’ve followed Reddit via RSS. I mentioned Reddit RSS feeds in a 2022 blog post. Among the various ways my customers can contact me, there’s a subreddit for my products. I follow a number of Apple-related subreddits such as r/apple, which is helpful to me in unearthing information relevant to my business and helpful to redditors, whose technical questions I sometimes answer. I also follow a few local, Wisconsin-area subreddits. Overall, I subscribe to around 25 Reddit RSS feeds. This worked fairly well until yesterday afternoon. Suddenly, all of my Reddit RSS feeds started returning HTTP 429 Too Many Requests. The issue continued into this morning, and I found confirmation in a couple of Reddit posts: Reddit seems to have severly [sic] rate limited their RSS feeds The previous rate limit was 100 updates per 10 minutes. After some investigation I found that the current rate limit is 1 update per 1 minute. Did Reddit change the rate limit? It looks like only the first request…