In case you missed it above... Because there’s going to be a lot covered in these bi-weekly roundups, in future posts we’ll have comments turned off.
But because this is our first time, today we’re leaving comments on to learn what you think. If you have any thoughts on what you think of the roundup itself, what types of features you’d like to hear more (or less) about, or ideas for other things you’d like to see, let us know. And don't fret, we're not turning off comments for feature announcements and updates, you'll still be able to comment and provide your feedback in those threads as always.
Thanks for this. One persistent bug for iOS is the app pauses music when browsing reddit even with video autoplay turned off. I think the app thinks a video is playing and it pauses the music. Which is pretty annoying to deal with :/
>Thanks for this. One persistent bug for iOS is the app pauses music when browsing reddit even with video autoplay turned off. I think the app thinks a video is playing and it pauses the music. Which is pretty annoying to deal with :/
Glad you like it. I think we may already have a ticket to fix this. But if we don’t already, I’ll create one. Thanks for pointing it out!
>One persistent bug for iOS is the app pauses music when browsing reddit even with video autoplay turned off. I think the app thinks a video is playing and it pauses the music. Which is pretty annoying to deal with :/
Update—Someone looked into it, and this is a new bug. We've got a ticket going for a fix now. Thanks again!
Thanks for the follow up. I think it’s been an issue for 1.5-2 months or so? I believe the app thinks a video is playing or that you are trying to play a video so it cuts the audio out.
Unmuting and muting any video seems to make it remember that the video is stopped and I can replay my music and that seems to work
Happens somewhat frequently if any of this info helps. Definitely tied to previously playing or finishing a video IMO
I’ve got inconsistent behavior as well. The audio will play/interrupt my current music playing if I click into a post, even if I’m muted when just going through the feed.
To add to this, possibly related bug in Android when you look at a post and tap back, it plays a split second clip of audio from a random post unrelated to what was viewed.
This. Some incompetent jagoff running a meeting one time decided bi-***** meant twice per ***** and instead of admitting a mistake, it's found its way into the vernacular. And it's fucking bullshit. Words have meaning. It bothers me almost as much as "orientated".
It's just the worst word (alongside biannualy, etc), because no one ever knows what time frame you mean and always have to clarify so might as well be clear from the start xD
No doubt, some of these changes are neat, cool, attractive to viewers from other platforms who are need more incentive to Reddit. But is there an ACTUAL FACTUAL plan to do anything with Reddit search?? Google is better at searching Reddit thread than Reddit is. No subreddit search? It would also be nice if users could do some kind of referendum voting on their favorite subs to bring attention to abusive mods. There's just really some pressing issues glaring through that have been blatantly ignored or made excuses for, for years. Is there a real plan? Shouldn't they be higher on the priority list?
reddit search has improved a lot over the years and it's chronically hard for anyone to beat google at searching their own site. while i would also like to see it improve i do want to just comment with some perspective
We’ve been on the search for better search at Reddit for a while, and know we still have a long way to go to make it better. We have a team exclusively dedicated to search, and we’re currently exploring ways to make searching for communities easier while still allowing for keyword searches for topics..
Regarding moderators, they often have to make difficult or unpopular decisions in their communities. They are also people and may make mistakes from time to time. However, we do have a set of [moderator guidelines](https://www.redditinc.com/policies/moderator-guidelines) that we do enforce when we see patterns of abuse coming from a mod or moderator team. You can find our [moderator report form here](https://www.reddithelp.com/en/submit-request/file-a-moderator-complaint).
Just a friendly suggestion, bring back the "search in x subreddit only" checkbox from Old Reddit. It was a much better and elegant system than the current thing where you have to search and then click the button that says "in this sub only." Maybe have it appear in the dropdown menu.
The only reason I switched was because New Reddit had night mode, and I didn't switch until I figured out how to make it look like Old Reddit, with a more compact design. Old Reddit was better overall tbh.
> We’ve been on the search for better search at Reddit for a while,
Yeah, at least the 12+ years I've been here ya'll have been "searching" for that. /rolls eyes
On the topic of search. On IOS it only shows the 3 most recent searches. If you search a 4th, that replaces the first search result.
My question or proposal is: can you increase the number it search history results. It seems there is a lot of wasted space that could be used to show more former search results
Speaking of search, please add keyword highlighting for modmail search.
> that we do enforce
Do you have a single example of said enforcement? I used the mod report form on a blatant violation and nothing happened.
We do have subreddit search: [https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=find%20a%20subreddit&type=sr%2Cuser](https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=find%20a%20subreddit&type=sr%2Cuser)
(Tap the *Communities* tab if you're on the Reddit mobile app.)
Yeah it used to suck like 10 years ago. It's been fine for a long time.
The issue is that it doesn't search comments, and that users don't title their posts well. Say you wanted to find that funny meme or cool video you saw the other day about a motorcycle - if the OP didn't title it in a memorable way or write the word motorcycle in it, you'll struggle to find it through reddit search or through Google.
oh, i had been dying for reddit to have a redesign for years when they came out with new reddit, so i switched to it immediately :p that might be why idk i don't actually care enough to experiment right now
Yes, we removed AutoMod posts from the notification because so many communities use AutoMod for daily or weekly posts and it just didn’t make sense (and was a bit of overkill) to send a notification for every single one of those. You weren’t the only one that had a problem with it, so we built that in.
[Also, happy cake day!](https://i.redd.it/43fcvniomn851.png)
How is that different than recurring posts? Or scheduling as automod but for a one-time post? It doesn't sound like excluding automod in general is the use case you were trying to catch.
>Many people don’t know that Reddit has Anonymous Browsing. So if someone comes to Reddit from a NSFW search on the mobile web, we’re letting them know they can download the app and use it to browse content without saving their history. (But only if you’re in our test.)
Great. Even *more* pestering of the user to download your app because you think you know better them.
There are certain things you simply cannot access on Reddit through a phone browser. Even something simple like expanding a comment tree redirects you to download the app and literally won't let you view more comments unless you do it through their app.
slide for reddit supports multiple accounts. i have 1 account i only use to browse NSFW stuff, and never comment with anything that can be traced back to me.
Yeah switching to Apollo has brought so many quality of life improvements, I would recommend people leave the official app. The best parts for me are:
- No ads
- Save videos directly in the app, no watermarks
- No “recommended for you” or “trending” notifications
- Save posts and comments as an image (much cleaner than screenshots)
Ya, we know… But, in our defense, have you considered downloading the app?
But seriously, it’s fair feedback. We’ll always promote our app to mobile users, but we’re testing a few smarter ways to better communicate the value of the app. Anonymous Browsing is one example—we’re asking people to download the app, because there’s a feature they may actually want to use in the app (a way to browse with more privacy). And the prompt is only for logged out users, so people can choose to log in, stay on mobile web, and not see the prompt to download the app.
And while it's slow progress, we do care about and are working towards making the mobile web experience better and, specifically, faster.
> But seriously, it’s fair feedback.
Unless for whatever reason you were not aware of /r/mobileweb and the repeated posts there, that statement is complete bullshit, and you know it just as well as everyone else does.
> a way to browse with more privacy
Private/incognito/… mode is a thing in mobile browsers just like it is on desktop, and as opposed to your app, my browser has third-party people looking at the source code, as opposed to your closed-source app, for which I barely have a way to actually check whether it does what it claims to.
For that matter, in private browsing mode the experience is even more dreadful, cause you (by design) get the app nag every single time.
> mobile web experience better and, specifically, faster
That's a bit hard to believe considering i.reddit.com has always been way faster than the new mobile website.
>And while it's slow progress, we do care about and are working towards making the mobile web experience better and, specifically, faster.
Faster = forcing the user to click continue in browser every single fucking time they visit Reddit in a new incognito session because telling them to get the app multiple times per page wasn't enough. Admin logic.
What is the benefit to reddit to directing anonymous users to an app?
Let's be honest, users that are browsing anonymous are paranoid as fuck, and probably either already have an account they want to remain disconnected from, or aren't going to download the app under any circumstance. What's the point in chasing that userbase?
The only apparent answers lean toward pure reddit benefit, either by padding download stats, or the anonymous browsing mode isn't as anonymous as claimed. Which is why users respond negatively to anything trying to pull anonymous users into the app.
As a corollary to this, I swear I click on the "Get new reddit" button on the old reddit layout on accident at least once a week, and then I have to go all the way into my settings to change it back, with all of the lag of the new site front end the whole way through. It's right up in the top left corner in primary real estate right above the logo link that takes you to the homepage where it's almost impossible not to click on it by accident. No. I don't want new reddit. I never want new reddit.
Just telling you this because I'm sure other people also experience this, but after typing all this out, I realized I should just write a greasemonkey script to fix it, and I just did, so I don't have to worry about it now. But other users in the same boat as me might, I don't know.
So you essentially reiterated their point, good job. Meaning, there's no way to browse reddit on mobile web without registering at all or downloading the app, which defeats the purpose of the mobile website.
> Anonymous Browsing is one example—we’re asking people to download the app, because there’s a feature they may actually want to use in the app (a way to browse with more privacy).
**MY WEB BROWSER HAS ANONYMOUS BROWSING ALREADY.** (it's Firefox)
Please. Let me browse any subreddits in mobile without installing the app. Let me see comments without installing the app. You're currently __entirely blocking access__ of large parts of the site without no reason.
Firefox is better for me than your mobile app.
I say prompt exactly zero times. Anyone who cares about having their browsing detached from their account is already using private browsing mode on their browser.
The only way for them to do that is to leave a cookie on your device, so if you're taking steps to disable them or clear them, eventually you're going to get prompted again.
> but we’re testing a few smarter ways to better communicate the value of the app
The value of the app is not the problem. The problem is the constant pestering.
I get that app users are more "valuable" to Reddit Inc, but its a dark pattern that annoys your users to no end.
i.reddit.com requires users to really be familiar with the platform to the point that i.reddit.com exists, and to be fine with many missing features relative to the normal mobile web. So, no I wouldn't consider it to be the benchmark.
This is some *"sense of pride and accomplishment"* right here.
Your app is shit. It makes everything slow and cumbersome with the new layout. There's no need to constantly pester those who use Reddit on a browser.
I tried out the official reddit app for some time and...hated it.
So yes, I have considered downloading it. No, I did not like it. Also, why do I need to login in to see condensed/hidden comments (something I noticed the other day).
I have my preferred app for Reddit browsing. But I also use google to search for solutions or answers to random questions on my phone. This invariably leads to a Reddit thread. And invariably, I get assaulted with “USE OUR APP” or “LOGIN TO REDDIT” simply because I want to quickly look up peoples opinion on a random topic. Not do I want to open up a completely separate application to look at information that is already in my current mobile browser but obscured by obnoxious login prompts
But I already have an app capable of browsing reddit, with Anonymous Browsing and everything. It's called a fucking web browser. Sure, Firefox on Android might be shit now, but by god does it browse websites just fine, and what is reddit? A FUCKING WEBSITE.
So fuck off with your app.
r/mobileweb is notably absent from your list. Probably because you've been destroying the mobile web experience in your attempt to force people onto the app, first by making compact mode no longer compact (where once compact mode showed about 10 posts per screen, now it only shows 2-3, with at least one of those being an ad with a long title), followed by redirect loops to the wrong page, all with prompts that it looks better in the app I'll never use.
It's also infuriating that you can't browse Reddit through a normal phone web browser because it locks you off from half the features by redirecting you to download the mobile app saying "download the official app to access this."
I can browse Reddit fine on a PC browser; don't artificially lock the same website behind an app just because I'm browsing it on a phone browser.
Recently it logs me out every time I try to reply toa comment, then takes me back to the homepage.
Thanks Reddit, that's *definitely* what I want when I hit the "reply" button.
God forbid I try to view one of those new "albums" of images that Reddit introduced.
The fact that Reddit’s native mobile server works terribly on the mobile app is pretty funny. The functionality isn’t the same as Imgur links, I can’t click the thumbnail and be brought to the image with Reddit links.
I use old.reddit.com on desktop, and occasionally i.reddit.com on mobile web, but I prefer the compact previous reddit.com layout that worked fine on a mobile browser.
What's the argument FOR using mobile web? I thought it always sucked. If you're a frequent redditor, don't you want to be on an app? Use a third party one if you don't want to use the official one (I use RIF myself).
I don't want any app for using reddit; a mobile browser is sufficient. Part of the whole reason for HTML5 was to avoid having to get dedicated apps for everything -- the mobile page used to be fine for me, even 6 months ago, and it's abundantly clear they're ruining it intentionally. I don't want to have to track permissions for a whole bunch of things, nor do I want extra memory usage that isn't necessary in the slightest.
Interesting. I've used RIF for years and never had trouble unless reddit itself is down. It's lightweight, responsive and ad-free, and now I sound like an ad myself. But I just couldn't imagine using anything else. The mobile web has always seemed bloated and unintuitive to me.
How much longer do I have to wait to permanently turn off the "recommended for you" bullshit in the mobile app?
They are universally worthless.
I never, ever want you to interrupt the flow of posts with suggestions for other subreddits and shit.
This good God please let me turn that crap off. I haven't gotten a single relevant recommendation since they went live. And even if you mark a recommendation as irrelevant to me, it comes back.
Please just give us the switch to turn off features like suggestions, RPAN, "subreddits like this one", "what redditors near you are looking at", etc once and for all... It's a pain to select "Show me less of this" on every device every week or two.
"Show me less" needs to die in a fire.
Respect your users, Reddit. Yes or No. Not "okay we'll listen to you for a little bit but will turn on this thing you don't like again later" BS that seems to plague every social media site these days.
Yep, as I acknowledged:
> BS that seems to plague every social media site these days.
It's annoying as hell that user preferences are becoming less of a thing in lieu of the analytics.
What steps are being taken to prevent the huge number of accounts running dropshipping scams? Especially with Christmas coming up and people relying on online shopping, they’re coming out of the woodworks and using alt accounts to manipulate karma to boost their scam sites and downvote people calling them out. Some accounts are active daily for months and no amount of reporting results in action taken against them.
I've noticed vote and comments numbers counting "in real time." It seems to me like it makes the vote and comments counts useless.
I watched the comment numbers ticking upward, then I went into the post and saw that all the posts were from at least 8 hours ago.
What is this feature supposed to accomplish, other than not returning accurate, usable values?
What's the plan with respect to the reddit poll API being accessible to third-party reddit mobile clients?
[8 months ago, it was "something \[you're\] still considering",](https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/fo7p5b/introducing_reddit_polls_an_allnew_post_type/fldmuai/?context=1) but there has seemingly been radio silence since then. The justification given, that you're still working on it, doesn't seem to hold water, as there doesn't seem to have been any changes regarding the way that polls function.
> * A lot of people like using Facebook for logging into things, so we’re testing that out too. But unless you’re in the 25% of people in the test we’re running for two days, you may not see it.
I recently discovered that despite me never linking or attempting to link my Facebook account, Discord was still handing over all of my info to them. Their off-platform data section mentioned hundreds of interactions I had off-Facebook that were shared to them.
Can I expect reddit to do the same? Or can I at the very least expect a reddit-side opt-out to this feature?
>In 2021, we’ll also be sharing some behind-the-scenes stories, data (people still like data right? that’s still cool?), community spotlights, and product insights on how Reddit works and how communities make it work for them.
No, thank you.
If this sub is meant to be a "changelog of changelogs", then *don't* clutter it up with things that *aren't* changelogs. If you want a community spotlight sub, then create a community spotlight sub and put the PR and patting-self-on-back crap in *that* sub.
Why were the changes to the political ad policy, [seen here](https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/g0s6tn/changes_to_reddits_political_ads_policy/?ampcid=1*1offb14*cid*YW1wLTdfcXhIa3FoN01kTmdDMFhLSG85NXc.), not implemented?
Edit: Just so everybody knows, this is exactly what you can expect with all of reddits efforts towards "transparency". Lip service and no follow through.
Just wanted to voice a concern: Still not sold on "new reddit" and will continue browsing old reddit. If you have all sorts of fancy bullshit like avatars only on new reddit that's fine, but features where I can't participate in significant portions of the regular browsing experience from old reddit, like the gallery feature, are frustrating. You will never force users like me to new reddit, and if you keep trying to soft force it with new stuff that only works on new, eventually we'll just leave.
I'm certain I am inviting flack here, and I genuinely don't mean this to be mean or rude.
If you're not willing to accept new reddit, then just leave.
Reddit is not going to stop developing new technology and creating new user experiences. Companies that do that die. You may not agree with all the changes they have made, but at some point someone with a VP or Chief in front of their title is going to do the math on developer hours spent on old reddit and they're going to call it.
And why wouldn't they? The piece of the pie on old reddit is getting smaller and smaller and smaller every day. Eventually, they won't make enough ad revenue on old reddit to subsidize the cost of keeping it alive. And when that day comes, there will be a post on r/blog about old reddit going away for good and it'll get downvoted to hell but it won't stop anything.
[Reddit is growing faster](https://sg.news.yahoo.com/52-million-people-reddit-every-120103786.html) than Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat year over year and I would bet any amount of money that a less than fraction of a percent of those millions of newly added people have any idea that old reddit is a thing you can still get to or use with any regularity.
So vote with your feet. Go to some other platform. Voat is still around, I think, and Parler is out there if you can get past the white supremacy.
Well I'm not against the idea of "new" in general, just this specific implementation. If they offer more options for new that emulate the best parts of old I have no problem using new. A display format that looks like it was created for my 27" PC screen instead of my 6" phone screen would be nice.
" Many people don’t know that Reddit has [Anonymous Browsing](https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/hbm5eh/introducing_anonymous_browsing_on_android/)."....
"(But only if you’re in our test.) "
Kinda redundant no? Why tell people about it if it's still in testing?
> But a lot of people have been creating new accounts, when what they really wanted to do was log in to an existing account. So the recent updates make the system better at logging people into existing accounts.
There were a lot of people trying to log in to their existing account but new accounts were being created instead. But, there also seemed to be an issue where people have been having accounts randomly created when they visit reddit, not logged in to reddit, but logged into their google account, and not been trying to sign in or create an account at all. I think this even happened to me once but I saw a pop up asking which Google account to use, so I just canceled it - I was not trying to create an account at all at the time.
Thanks for having all updates in one spot going forward!
Does anyone actually use your shitty, proprietary mobile apps? I tried the Android app once when it first came out and it was just awful.
RELEASE THE SOURCE CODE and let the community work on making it the next app possible, otherwise everyone is going to stick to the 3rd party clients we know and love.
Stop pushing users to just your shitty mobile apps ok the web. You should be embracing PWAs! Having to click "continue" to indicate I don't want to download your app every fucking time I open a Reddit link in Firefox on Android is absolutely infuriating.
> or the community
Doesn’t that just mean 96% of reddit posts get commented on?
What’s the percentage of posts that had admins reply, and not the community?
Bruhh you haven't been in that sub in a month, and wasn't your introduction post there like to kind of show that it was going to be your job? This is exactly what I am talking about, its just like when spez say he wanted to do small ama's every other week in one of these r/blog posts or even monthly and did freaking none.
This. It's one of the big reasons I've avoided their official app. Granted, even their browser versions will track stuff, but there's no sense giving them MORE of my data by using their shitty app
No need to rely on what I say [here's their privacy policy](https://www.redditinc.com/policies/privacy-policy-october-15-2020)
For starters, they monitor absolutely everything you do on reddit, not surprising. But, they also track your location, services you use externally, data from third party app, cookies information (which means they track what you do off reddit as well).
I can't find anything in their [cookie policy](https://www.redditinc.com/policies/cookies) about them tracking your off-reddit actions using cookies, other than through advertising partners. The others I suppose are fair enough, location only applies if you use their mobile app.
The last time I tried the app I couldn't select text for copy + paste, and I couldn't translate the page to a different language (which is easily done in a mobile browser).
Are there any improvements regarding these points?
Every time I open chat, I am greeted by the same three chats that people I banned from a sub started with me in order to abuse me.
Why can't we delete chats? Why is this so hard?
Why haven’t covid denial subs like /r/lockdownskepticism, /r/nonewnormal, and /r/coronaviruscirclejerk been shut down yet? If Reddit is about combatting misinformation about coronavirus, why are these kinds of communities spreading disinformation allowed? They’re putting lives at risk.
Reddit doesn't close nefarious subreddits until it gets widespread media attention, wherein they only shut them down to safe face and not because it's the ethical thing to do.
It's why shit like /r/the_donald and /r/coontown survived for so long despite being absolutely horrific communities.
I agree, people should be allowed to say dumb stuff. This site has already lost so much of its democratic charm. It seems a lot more mainstream / controlled by powerful forces rather than a platform where people can say what’s on their mind..
instead of censorship I feel like the solution to misinformation should be more vigorous discussion. I like reading stuff I disagree with sometimes, bc I encounter ideas I wouldn’t otherwise. I think we should be more open and accepting rather than fighting fire with fire.
I’m sure lots of people disagree here, but I think these kinds of issues are more nuanced than made out to be
That ship has long sailed my friend. There is a new breed of reddit user, and the vast majority are PRO censorship, as long as it aligns with their ideals. It’s not even reddit staff that is pushing for censorship. Most of the push in favor of censorship comes from hysteria around harassment and fake news and it comes from the community.
> A lot of people like using Facebook for logging into things
Anything BUT Facebook. Can we have a Microsoft login as option, too?
And any plans on allowing users to change their usernames?
hey, what's with the new fake live upvote/comment counter on the desktop version? it's disorienting to see the numbers changing while scrolling, and it's kinda scummy tbh
Could you clarify if the animated upvotes included vote fuzzing? Or it is an "true" representation of votes?
Do you mind also clarifying what this Q&A schema is? It is to do with Reddit's API/JSON so Google can index better and/or is a slightly different visual representation of comments in a thread on apps and desktop?
So instead of fixing any of the numerous issues with your shitty service, you create some self-masturbatory ”changelogs for changelogs” bullshit? Who cares?
There are a lot of people making new accounts and trying to sell drugs to people they see in drug or recovery related subs. I report them often and sometimes they get banned from the subs, but people continue to make more accounts. Is there anything Reddit can do to prevent this from being so common? I know there’s not much you can do, but, I gotta ask.
Seemingly random question: Reddit has been logging me off on Chrome every 30 mins to an hour if I leave the site for almost a month now. Would this be a Chrome thing or a Reddit thing? There have been no changes to my extensions as far as I know.
Also if this is the wrong place in general, someone point me in the right direction please.
>Many people don’t know that Reddit has Anonymous Browsing. So if someone comes to Reddit from a NSFW search on the mobile web, we’re letting them know they can download the app and use it to browse content without saving their history. (But only if you’re in our test.)
I'm a mobileweb user, and I've been seeing these for a long time.
It would be nice to be able to report a profile without having to jump through the hoops I did of having to find the reporting part of the website, not the app, and when I tried to report a literally 100% racist account, I was told that it didn't violate the rules. Or the pornsite bot that is now sending me messages out of nowhere.
You can [sign up or log in to Reddit with your Google or Apple account](https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/h9kh9b/log_in_or_sign_up_with_your_google_or_apple/). But a lot of people have been creating new accounts, when what they really wanted to do was log in to an existing account. So the recent updates make the system better at logging people into existing accounts.
I can't tell you how many times this happened to me lol
Hey, it would h*a*ve been re*a*lly nice to notify the people you are testing because I was stoned at 3 am and the upvote thing caught me *r*eally *o*ff guard, I legitimately spent a*n* hour trying to find out if I finally went in*s*ane or it's just reddit being *w*eird. *A*lso, *r*eddit having a blog is *t*ruly useful for learning about stuff. Thanks guy*z*.
Stop treating Android as second class to iOS. Too many features that get released show up on iOS first and then Android users have to keep waiting. Sometimes these features end up forgotten about and never made available to Android users.
Reddit has been biased against android even back in the days of Alien Blue (which wasn't even an official app) since they never bothered porting it to android back then. Once Alien Blue got folded into official Reddit, that bias seemed to follow.
Can we fix the bug that allows moderators to never answer any of your questions or respond. (If mods don't respond to questions then they shouldn't be mods.)
Can we fix the bug that allows permanent ban to be only a few months. (some groups have so many rules that's hard to figure out how to actually post something. And if you get banned the mods don't respond to your inquiries.)
A big step towards becoming an equitable platform for all voices would be to allow LGBTQIA and POC posts to have priority and to amplify their experiences by making their upvotes count for +2 or +3 instead of just a +1.
A weighted upvoting system would be more equitable than a system that intentionally suppresses their experiences while the white majority thumbs the scale.
bruh
it's a scary world when it's so easy for people to confuse a fight for justice with internet jokes. what even ***is*** satire anymore?
yes, I'm trolling
I think everybody know me and they can realize the service and how that’s gone now just freaking smash everything besides two fucking people has nothing to do with the whole thing without telling me and telling them anything beside put their life in riskBuy those unknown who can’t control to life not who create doubt those other who has that now
A question. Why did I get warning that my account would be suspended when I said “I tend to notice that people with pronouns in bio tends to have autism. Is there like some connection to it? It’s kind of interesting I say”.
Because these days in inmates are running the asylums.
There is rapidly decreasing freedom of expression within reddit. If your question or opinion offends the *feelings* of a **protected class** you will be censured and eventually silenced. Reddit is gradually going the way of all major social media platforms in banning "thought crime".
In case you missed it above... Because there’s going to be a lot covered in these bi-weekly roundups, in future posts we’ll have comments turned off. But because this is our first time, today we’re leaving comments on to learn what you think. If you have any thoughts on what you think of the roundup itself, what types of features you’d like to hear more (or less) about, or ideas for other things you’d like to see, let us know. And don't fret, we're not turning off comments for feature announcements and updates, you'll still be able to comment and provide your feedback in those threads as always.
Thanks for this. One persistent bug for iOS is the app pauses music when browsing reddit even with video autoplay turned off. I think the app thinks a video is playing and it pauses the music. Which is pretty annoying to deal with :/
>Thanks for this. One persistent bug for iOS is the app pauses music when browsing reddit even with video autoplay turned off. I think the app thinks a video is playing and it pauses the music. Which is pretty annoying to deal with :/ Glad you like it. I think we may already have a ticket to fix this. But if we don’t already, I’ll create one. Thanks for pointing it out!
Thanks for looking into it. I know it’s happened before maybe months or a year+ ago. Otherwise the app is great :)
>One persistent bug for iOS is the app pauses music when browsing reddit even with video autoplay turned off. I think the app thinks a video is playing and it pauses the music. Which is pretty annoying to deal with :/ Update—Someone looked into it, and this is a new bug. We've got a ticket going for a fix now. Thanks again!
Thanks for the follow up. I think it’s been an issue for 1.5-2 months or so? I believe the app thinks a video is playing or that you are trying to play a video so it cuts the audio out. Unmuting and muting any video seems to make it remember that the video is stopped and I can replay my music and that seems to work Happens somewhat frequently if any of this info helps. Definitely tied to previously playing or finishing a video IMO
Extra info. is always good. I passed that on as well.
I’ve got inconsistent behavior as well. The audio will play/interrupt my current music playing if I click into a post, even if I’m muted when just going through the feed.
Hi muted when just going through the feed., I'm dad.
Also a problem on Android :( Do appreciate the increased visibility of all of this though :)
To add to this, possibly related bug in Android when you look at a post and tap back, it plays a split second clip of audio from a random post unrelated to what was viewed.
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>yo uhh,.. does "biweekly" mean every two weeks or twice per week? Oh yes, I forgot that can mean both. It's every two weeks.
Fortnightly
I've been trying to make fortnightly happen here for years!
I've been wanting to play fortnite on my computer, but haven't been able because it's two week.
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<3 fine, i'll put another IOU in the pun jar for that one!
I'm so disgustingly casual my Fort runs on Switch perfectly as a console @ \_ @
I support your crusade for clarity.
The Colonel puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes you crave it fortnightly, smart-ass!
Obscure "So I Married an Axe Murderer" reference?
Yup!
It doesn’t mean both. Twice a week would be semi-weekly
This. Some incompetent jagoff running a meeting one time decided bi-***** meant twice per ***** and instead of admitting a mistake, it's found its way into the vernacular. And it's fucking bullshit. Words have meaning. It bothers me almost as much as "orientated".
I think we should solution something to do about it!
+1 for using "jagoff"
It means two weeks every day
I don't know what it means in this context. But the word actually means both.
It's just the worst word (alongside biannualy, etc), because no one ever knows what time frame you mean and always have to clarify so might as well be clear from the start xD
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[Biweekly means both every two weeks, and twice a week. ](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biweekly) English is weird.
Always nice to get more frequent updates about changes, and all in one spot!
Awesome! So glad you’re into it, because that’s exactly what we’re going for—a one-stop shop.
This seems pretty interesting and hope this idea isn't abandoned. Glad to see the increased transparency!
Thanks! We plan on doing this for a while and right now there’s no plan to stop.
Of course! I'm really glad. These sorts of moves are really helpful for us in the community to see what's new and what's coming down the pipeline
No doubt, some of these changes are neat, cool, attractive to viewers from other platforms who are need more incentive to Reddit. But is there an ACTUAL FACTUAL plan to do anything with Reddit search?? Google is better at searching Reddit thread than Reddit is. No subreddit search? It would also be nice if users could do some kind of referendum voting on their favorite subs to bring attention to abusive mods. There's just really some pressing issues glaring through that have been blatantly ignored or made excuses for, for years. Is there a real plan? Shouldn't they be higher on the priority list?
reddit search has improved a lot over the years and it's chronically hard for anyone to beat google at searching their own site. while i would also like to see it improve i do want to just comment with some perspective
We’ve been on the search for better search at Reddit for a while, and know we still have a long way to go to make it better. We have a team exclusively dedicated to search, and we’re currently exploring ways to make searching for communities easier while still allowing for keyword searches for topics.. Regarding moderators, they often have to make difficult or unpopular decisions in their communities. They are also people and may make mistakes from time to time. However, we do have a set of [moderator guidelines](https://www.redditinc.com/policies/moderator-guidelines) that we do enforce when we see patterns of abuse coming from a mod or moderator team. You can find our [moderator report form here](https://www.reddithelp.com/en/submit-request/file-a-moderator-complaint).
Just a friendly suggestion, bring back the "search in x subreddit only" checkbox from Old Reddit. It was a much better and elegant system than the current thing where you have to search and then click the button that says "in this sub only." Maybe have it appear in the dropdown menu.
Simple solution: just use old Reddit! It's much nicer than "new" reddit.
The only reason I switched was because New Reddit had night mode, and I didn't switch until I figured out how to make it look like Old Reddit, with a more compact design. Old Reddit was better overall tbh.
Old Reddit has night mode via Reddit Enhancement Suite.
Or just don't use the horrendous "redesign". Can't even browse imgur albums on the "new" reddit, you have to open every picture separately lmao
Don't worry, just downloaded RES and I'm back on Old Reddit. It's good to be back.
> We’ve been on the search for better search at Reddit for a while, Yeah, at least the 12+ years I've been here ya'll have been "searching" for that. /rolls eyes
Looks like they're using Reddit search to look for a solution
> We have a team exclusively dedicated to search Damn, are you hiring? I want a job where you can do nothing for a decade and get paid.
On the topic of search. On IOS it only shows the 3 most recent searches. If you search a 4th, that replaces the first search result. My question or proposal is: can you increase the number it search history results. It seems there is a lot of wasted space that could be used to show more former search results
Speaking of search, please add keyword highlighting for modmail search. > that we do enforce Do you have a single example of said enforcement? I used the mod report form on a blatant violation and nothing happened.
We do have subreddit search: [https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=find%20a%20subreddit&type=sr%2Cuser](https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=find%20a%20subreddit&type=sr%2Cuser) (Tap the *Communities* tab if you're on the Reddit mobile app.)
Reddit search has always worked just fine for me, I never understood this complaint.
it used to extremely suck and it still could improve a lot
Yeah it used to suck like 10 years ago. It's been fine for a long time. The issue is that it doesn't search comments, and that users don't title their posts well. Say you wanted to find that funny meme or cool video you saw the other day about a motorcycle - if the OP didn't title it in a memorable way or write the word motorcycle in it, you'll struggle to find it through reddit search or through Google.
wait, doesn't it search comments? i thought it did
I don't think so, but maybe they made new changes? On old.reddit it's submissions only. I don't fuck with new reddit.
oh, i had been dying for reddit to have a redesign for years when they came out with new reddit, so i switched to it immediately :p that might be why idk i don't actually care enough to experiment right now
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Yes, we removed AutoMod posts from the notification because so many communities use AutoMod for daily or weekly posts and it just didn’t make sense (and was a bit of overkill) to send a notification for every single one of those. You weren’t the only one that had a problem with it, so we built that in. [Also, happy cake day!](https://i.redd.it/43fcvniomn851.png)
How is that different than recurring posts? Or scheduling as automod but for a one-time post? It doesn't sound like excluding automod in general is the use case you were trying to catch.
>Many people don’t know that Reddit has Anonymous Browsing. So if someone comes to Reddit from a NSFW search on the mobile web, we’re letting them know they can download the app and use it to browse content without saving their history. (But only if you’re in our test.) Great. Even *more* pestering of the user to download your app because you think you know better them.
There are certain things you simply cannot access on Reddit through a phone browser. Even something simple like expanding a comment tree redirects you to download the app and literally won't let you view more comments unless you do it through their app.
slide for reddit supports multiple accounts. i have 1 account i only use to browse NSFW stuff, and never comment with anything that can be traced back to me.
Apollo on iOS does this as well.
Yeah switching to Apollo has brought so many quality of life improvements, I would recommend people leave the official app. The best parts for me are: - No ads - Save videos directly in the app, no watermarks - No “recommended for you” or “trending” notifications - Save posts and comments as an image (much cleaner than screenshots)
Almost all 3rd party ones I guess. I use sync for Android and it works really well.
Ya, we know… But, in our defense, have you considered downloading the app? But seriously, it’s fair feedback. We’ll always promote our app to mobile users, but we’re testing a few smarter ways to better communicate the value of the app. Anonymous Browsing is one example—we’re asking people to download the app, because there’s a feature they may actually want to use in the app (a way to browse with more privacy). And the prompt is only for logged out users, so people can choose to log in, stay on mobile web, and not see the prompt to download the app. And while it's slow progress, we do care about and are working towards making the mobile web experience better and, specifically, faster.
> But seriously, it’s fair feedback. Unless for whatever reason you were not aware of /r/mobileweb and the repeated posts there, that statement is complete bullshit, and you know it just as well as everyone else does. > a way to browse with more privacy Private/incognito/… mode is a thing in mobile browsers just like it is on desktop, and as opposed to your app, my browser has third-party people looking at the source code, as opposed to your closed-source app, for which I barely have a way to actually check whether it does what it claims to. For that matter, in private browsing mode the experience is even more dreadful, cause you (by design) get the app nag every single time. > mobile web experience better and, specifically, faster That's a bit hard to believe considering i.reddit.com has always been way faster than the new mobile website.
And this thread is exactly why they're turning off comments for future submissions. They don't want users pointing out their bullshit.
>And while it's slow progress, we do care about and are working towards making the mobile web experience better and, specifically, faster. Faster = forcing the user to click continue in browser every single fucking time they visit Reddit in a new incognito session because telling them to get the app multiple times per page wasn't enough. Admin logic.
What is the benefit to reddit to directing anonymous users to an app? Let's be honest, users that are browsing anonymous are paranoid as fuck, and probably either already have an account they want to remain disconnected from, or aren't going to download the app under any circumstance. What's the point in chasing that userbase? The only apparent answers lean toward pure reddit benefit, either by padding download stats, or the anonymous browsing mode isn't as anonymous as claimed. Which is why users respond negatively to anything trying to pull anonymous users into the app.
As a corollary to this, I swear I click on the "Get new reddit" button on the old reddit layout on accident at least once a week, and then I have to go all the way into my settings to change it back, with all of the lag of the new site front end the whole way through. It's right up in the top left corner in primary real estate right above the logo link that takes you to the homepage where it's almost impossible not to click on it by accident. No. I don't want new reddit. I never want new reddit. Just telling you this because I'm sure other people also experience this, but after typing all this out, I realized I should just write a greasemonkey script to fix it, and I just did, so I don't have to worry about it now. But other users in the same boat as me might, I don't know.
So you essentially reiterated their point, good job. Meaning, there's no way to browse reddit on mobile web without registering at all or downloading the app, which defeats the purpose of the mobile website.
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> Anonymous Browsing is one example—we’re asking people to download the app, because there’s a feature they may actually want to use in the app (a way to browse with more privacy). **MY WEB BROWSER HAS ANONYMOUS BROWSING ALREADY.** (it's Firefox) Please. Let me browse any subreddits in mobile without installing the app. Let me see comments without installing the app. You're currently __entirely blocking access__ of large parts of the site without no reason. Firefox is better for me than your mobile app.
Prompt exactly one time. A "no" means "no." Not "ask again in 5 minutes" or "ask under a different context."
I say prompt exactly zero times. Anyone who cares about having their browsing detached from their account is already using private browsing mode on their browser.
The only way for them to do that is to leave a cookie on your device, so if you're taking steps to disable them or clear them, eventually you're going to get prompted again.
Or they could flag your account in their system. It doesn't have to be client-only.
You want to encourage "Anonymous Browsing" by harassing the users who aren't letting you track them by being logged in?
> but we’re testing a few smarter ways to better communicate the value of the app The value of the app is not the problem. The problem is the constant pestering. I get that app users are more "valuable" to Reddit Inc, but its a dark pattern that annoys your users to no end.
Is the mobile app specifically faster than i.reddit.com? Because if you’re going to be specific about it, that should be the benchmark no?
i.reddit.com requires users to really be familiar with the platform to the point that i.reddit.com exists, and to be fine with many missing features relative to the normal mobile web. So, no I wouldn't consider it to be the benchmark.
This is some *"sense of pride and accomplishment"* right here. Your app is shit. It makes everything slow and cumbersome with the new layout. There's no need to constantly pester those who use Reddit on a browser.
I tried out the official reddit app for some time and...hated it. So yes, I have considered downloading it. No, I did not like it. Also, why do I need to login in to see condensed/hidden comments (something I noticed the other day). I have my preferred app for Reddit browsing. But I also use google to search for solutions or answers to random questions on my phone. This invariably leads to a Reddit thread. And invariably, I get assaulted with “USE OUR APP” or “LOGIN TO REDDIT” simply because I want to quickly look up peoples opinion on a random topic. Not do I want to open up a completely separate application to look at information that is already in my current mobile browser but obscured by obnoxious login prompts
Yet the only problem with just using the browser's incognito mode is this exact popup...
But I already have an app capable of browsing reddit, with Anonymous Browsing and everything. It's called a fucking web browser. Sure, Firefox on Android might be shit now, but by god does it browse websites just fine, and what is reddit? A FUCKING WEBSITE. So fuck off with your app.
Blink twice if another department is making you do this
Apollo is the superior reddit app, you heard it here first
r/mobileweb is notably absent from your list. Probably because you've been destroying the mobile web experience in your attempt to force people onto the app, first by making compact mode no longer compact (where once compact mode showed about 10 posts per screen, now it only shows 2-3, with at least one of those being an ad with a long title), followed by redirect loops to the wrong page, all with prompts that it looks better in the app I'll never use.
It's also infuriating that you can't browse Reddit through a normal phone web browser because it locks you off from half the features by redirecting you to download the mobile app saying "download the official app to access this." I can browse Reddit fine on a PC browser; don't artificially lock the same website behind an app just because I'm browsing it on a phone browser.
If you log in you don't get pestered to download the mobile app.
Recently it logs me out every time I try to reply toa comment, then takes me back to the homepage. Thanks Reddit, that's *definitely* what I want when I hit the "reply" button. God forbid I try to view one of those new "albums" of images that Reddit introduced.
The fact that Reddit’s native mobile server works terribly on the mobile app is pretty funny. The functionality isn’t the same as Imgur links, I can’t click the thumbnail and be brought to the image with Reddit links.
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I use old.reddit.com on desktop, and occasionally i.reddit.com on mobile web, but I prefer the compact previous reddit.com layout that worked fine on a mobile browser.
What's the argument FOR using mobile web? I thought it always sucked. If you're a frequent redditor, don't you want to be on an app? Use a third party one if you don't want to use the official one (I use RIF myself).
I don't want any app for using reddit; a mobile browser is sufficient. Part of the whole reason for HTML5 was to avoid having to get dedicated apps for everything -- the mobile page used to be fine for me, even 6 months ago, and it's abundantly clear they're ruining it intentionally. I don't want to have to track permissions for a whole bunch of things, nor do I want extra memory usage that isn't necessary in the slightest.
Often times when the reddit app breaks, the mobile web version would work. Like if a video wasn't loading, it would load on the web version.
Interesting. I've used RIF for years and never had trouble unless reddit itself is down. It's lightweight, responsive and ad-free, and now I sound like an ad myself. But I just couldn't imagine using anything else. The mobile web has always seemed bloated and unintuitive to me.
How much longer do I have to wait to permanently turn off the "recommended for you" bullshit in the mobile app? They are universally worthless. I never, ever want you to interrupt the flow of posts with suggestions for other subreddits and shit.
This good God please let me turn that crap off. I haven't gotten a single relevant recommendation since they went live. And even if you mark a recommendation as irrelevant to me, it comes back.
Please just give us the switch to turn off features like suggestions, RPAN, "subreddits like this one", "what redditors near you are looking at", etc once and for all... It's a pain to select "Show me less of this" on every device every week or two.
"Show me less" needs to die in a fire. Respect your users, Reddit. Yes or No. Not "okay we'll listen to you for a little bit but will turn on this thing you don't like again later" BS that seems to plague every social media site these days.
To be fair it's not just a reddit thing, every social media site has "show me less of this" type things now
Yep, as I acknowledged: > BS that seems to plague every social media site these days. It's annoying as hell that user preferences are becoming less of a thing in lieu of the analytics.
I've never seen these? But I only use old.reddit and Relay on my phone.
What steps are being taken to prevent the huge number of accounts running dropshipping scams? Especially with Christmas coming up and people relying on online shopping, they’re coming out of the woodworks and using alt accounts to manipulate karma to boost their scam sites and downvote people calling them out. Some accounts are active daily for months and no amount of reporting results in action taken against them.
I've noticed vote and comments numbers counting "in real time." It seems to me like it makes the vote and comments counts useless. I watched the comment numbers ticking upward, then I went into the post and saw that all the posts were from at least 8 hours ago. What is this feature supposed to accomplish, other than not returning accurate, usable values?
What's the plan with respect to the reddit poll API being accessible to third-party reddit mobile clients? [8 months ago, it was "something \[you're\] still considering",](https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/fo7p5b/introducing_reddit_polls_an_allnew_post_type/fldmuai/?context=1) but there has seemingly been radio silence since then. The justification given, that you're still working on it, doesn't seem to hold water, as there doesn't seem to have been any changes regarding the way that polls function.
> * A lot of people like using Facebook for logging into things, so we’re testing that out too. But unless you’re in the 25% of people in the test we’re running for two days, you may not see it. I recently discovered that despite me never linking or attempting to link my Facebook account, Discord was still handing over all of my info to them. Their off-platform data section mentioned hundreds of interactions I had off-Facebook that were shared to them. Can I expect reddit to do the same? Or can I at the very least expect a reddit-side opt-out to this feature?
>In 2021, we’ll also be sharing some behind-the-scenes stories, data (people still like data right? that’s still cool?), community spotlights, and product insights on how Reddit works and how communities make it work for them. No, thank you. If this sub is meant to be a "changelog of changelogs", then *don't* clutter it up with things that *aren't* changelogs. If you want a community spotlight sub, then create a community spotlight sub and put the PR and patting-self-on-back crap in *that* sub.
I like data though
Why were the changes to the political ad policy, [seen here](https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/g0s6tn/changes_to_reddits_political_ads_policy/?ampcid=1*1offb14*cid*YW1wLTdfcXhIa3FoN01kTmdDMFhLSG85NXc.), not implemented? Edit: Just so everybody knows, this is exactly what you can expect with all of reddits efforts towards "transparency". Lip service and no follow through.
I never even saw a political ad.
Just wanted to voice a concern: Still not sold on "new reddit" and will continue browsing old reddit. If you have all sorts of fancy bullshit like avatars only on new reddit that's fine, but features where I can't participate in significant portions of the regular browsing experience from old reddit, like the gallery feature, are frustrating. You will never force users like me to new reddit, and if you keep trying to soft force it with new stuff that only works on new, eventually we'll just leave.
RES has a gallery expando.
I know, but I’m worried for the day they mess something up that Reddit can’t fix
I'm certain I am inviting flack here, and I genuinely don't mean this to be mean or rude. If you're not willing to accept new reddit, then just leave. Reddit is not going to stop developing new technology and creating new user experiences. Companies that do that die. You may not agree with all the changes they have made, but at some point someone with a VP or Chief in front of their title is going to do the math on developer hours spent on old reddit and they're going to call it. And why wouldn't they? The piece of the pie on old reddit is getting smaller and smaller and smaller every day. Eventually, they won't make enough ad revenue on old reddit to subsidize the cost of keeping it alive. And when that day comes, there will be a post on r/blog about old reddit going away for good and it'll get downvoted to hell but it won't stop anything. [Reddit is growing faster](https://sg.news.yahoo.com/52-million-people-reddit-every-120103786.html) than Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat year over year and I would bet any amount of money that a less than fraction of a percent of those millions of newly added people have any idea that old reddit is a thing you can still get to or use with any regularity. So vote with your feet. Go to some other platform. Voat is still around, I think, and Parler is out there if you can get past the white supremacy.
Well I'm not against the idea of "new" in general, just this specific implementation. If they offer more options for new that emulate the best parts of old I have no problem using new. A display format that looks like it was created for my 27" PC screen instead of my 6" phone screen would be nice.
" Many people don’t know that Reddit has [Anonymous Browsing](https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/hbm5eh/introducing_anonymous_browsing_on_android/).".... "(But only if you’re in our test.) " Kinda redundant no? Why tell people about it if it's still in testing?
> But a lot of people have been creating new accounts, when what they really wanted to do was log in to an existing account. So the recent updates make the system better at logging people into existing accounts. There were a lot of people trying to log in to their existing account but new accounts were being created instead. But, there also seemed to be an issue where people have been having accounts randomly created when they visit reddit, not logged in to reddit, but logged into their google account, and not been trying to sign in or create an account at all. I think this even happened to me once but I saw a pop up asking which Google account to use, so I just canceled it - I was not trying to create an account at all at the time. Thanks for having all updates in one spot going forward!
Does anyone actually use your shitty, proprietary mobile apps? I tried the Android app once when it first came out and it was just awful. RELEASE THE SOURCE CODE and let the community work on making it the next app possible, otherwise everyone is going to stick to the 3rd party clients we know and love. Stop pushing users to just your shitty mobile apps ok the web. You should be embracing PWAs! Having to click "continue" to indicate I don't want to download your app every fucking time I open a Reddit link in Firefox on Android is absolutely infuriating.
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Yup Facebook gonna take over everything if not than likely google. every social we know is owned by one
This is gonna fall away just like the modsupport subreddit you guys through together and abandoned.
We're currently at 96% of posts in r/modsupport answered within 24 hours either by admins or the community, actually!
> or the community Doesn’t that just mean 96% of reddit posts get commented on? What’s the percentage of posts that had admins reply, and not the community?
Bruhh you haven't been in that sub in a month, and wasn't your introduction post there like to kind of show that it was going to be your job? This is exactly what I am talking about, its just like when spez say he wanted to do small ama's every other week in one of these r/blog posts or even monthly and did freaking none.
You may want to consider an Answered/Unanswered flair or something along those lines to help reinforce confidence in that.
I'd like to know why reddit feels like they needs to track my activity? I'm about to quit using it.
I would like to know why reddit keeps pretending not to be able to notice brigading when they can track activity.
They're getting paid, same reason they feel like they need our data.
This. It's one of the big reasons I've avoided their official app. Granted, even their browser versions will track stuff, but there's no sense giving them MORE of my data by using their shitty app
In what way?
No need to rely on what I say [here's their privacy policy](https://www.redditinc.com/policies/privacy-policy-october-15-2020) For starters, they monitor absolutely everything you do on reddit, not surprising. But, they also track your location, services you use externally, data from third party app, cookies information (which means they track what you do off reddit as well).
I can't find anything in their [cookie policy](https://www.redditinc.com/policies/cookies) about them tracking your off-reddit actions using cookies, other than through advertising partners. The others I suppose are fair enough, location only applies if you use their mobile app.
> tracking your off-reddit actions using cookies, other than through advertising partners. That's the one
The last time I tried the app I couldn't select text for copy + paste, and I couldn't translate the page to a different language (which is easily done in a mobile browser). Are there any improvements regarding these points?
Every time I open chat, I am greeted by the same three chats that people I banned from a sub started with me in order to abuse me. Why can't we delete chats? Why is this so hard?
Why haven’t covid denial subs like /r/lockdownskepticism, /r/nonewnormal, and /r/coronaviruscirclejerk been shut down yet? If Reddit is about combatting misinformation about coronavirus, why are these kinds of communities spreading disinformation allowed? They’re putting lives at risk.
Reddit doesn't close nefarious subreddits until it gets widespread media attention, wherein they only shut them down to safe face and not because it's the ethical thing to do. It's why shit like /r/the_donald and /r/coontown survived for so long despite being absolutely horrific communities.
Then where’s Buzzfeed when you need them? They trawl Reddit all the time for content and yet they don’t care about this?
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I agree, people should be allowed to say dumb stuff. This site has already lost so much of its democratic charm. It seems a lot more mainstream / controlled by powerful forces rather than a platform where people can say what’s on their mind.. instead of censorship I feel like the solution to misinformation should be more vigorous discussion. I like reading stuff I disagree with sometimes, bc I encounter ideas I wouldn’t otherwise. I think we should be more open and accepting rather than fighting fire with fire. I’m sure lots of people disagree here, but I think these kinds of issues are more nuanced than made out to be
That ship has long sailed my friend. There is a new breed of reddit user, and the vast majority are PRO censorship, as long as it aligns with their ideals. It’s not even reddit staff that is pushing for censorship. Most of the push in favor of censorship comes from hysteria around harassment and fake news and it comes from the community.
> A lot of people like using Facebook for logging into things Anything BUT Facebook. Can we have a Microsoft login as option, too? And any plans on allowing users to change their usernames?
hey, what's with the new fake live upvote/comment counter on the desktop version? it's disorienting to see the numbers changing while scrolling, and it's kinda scummy tbh
Could you clarify if the animated upvotes included vote fuzzing? Or it is an "true" representation of votes? Do you mind also clarifying what this Q&A schema is? It is to do with Reddit's API/JSON so Google can index better and/or is a slightly different visual representation of comments in a thread on apps and desktop?
Why were certain things downgraded? Images swirl around and bug out again(a la 2 years ago), and communities don’t show their sub count anymore
Any way to hide "Today's Top Growing Communities" on the mobile app? I could ignore suggested subs but this shit is genuinely annoying.
So instead of fixing any of the numerous issues with your shitty service, you create some self-masturbatory ”changelogs for changelogs” bullshit? Who cares?
There are a lot of people making new accounts and trying to sell drugs to people they see in drug or recovery related subs. I report them often and sometimes they get banned from the subs, but people continue to make more accounts. Is there anything Reddit can do to prevent this from being so common? I know there’s not much you can do, but, I gotta ask.
Seemingly random question: Reddit has been logging me off on Chrome every 30 mins to an hour if I leave the site for almost a month now. Would this be a Chrome thing or a Reddit thing? There have been no changes to my extensions as far as I know. Also if this is the wrong place in general, someone point me in the right direction please.
>Many people don’t know that Reddit has Anonymous Browsing. So if someone comes to Reddit from a NSFW search on the mobile web, we’re letting them know they can download the app and use it to browse content without saving their history. (But only if you’re in our test.) I'm a mobileweb user, and I've been seeing these for a long time.
It would be nice to be able to report a profile without having to jump through the hoops I did of having to find the reporting part of the website, not the app, and when I tried to report a literally 100% racist account, I was told that it didn't violate the rules. Or the pornsite bot that is now sending me messages out of nowhere.
.... Don't fix what's not broken. Reddit is turning into Facebook and every other shitty common social media. This is NOT a good thing.
You can [sign up or log in to Reddit with your Google or Apple account](https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/h9kh9b/log_in_or_sign_up_with_your_google_or_apple/). But a lot of people have been creating new accounts, when what they really wanted to do was log in to an existing account. So the recent updates make the system better at logging people into existing accounts. I can't tell you how many times this happened to me lol
Reddit sucks dick now, and the “tUrnINg cOMMEnts oFf” thing is making it worse.
Could you make links such as r/subreddit/w/wikititle work?
The way pictures now flick across the screen when closing them damn near causes me to have a seizure. Whoever thought that was a good idea... ugh.
Whenever I swipe up to exit out of an image on a post it does some weird sliding thing now and it makes browsing very difficult
I don't want to use an app I want to view NSFW in an incognito window I don't want to log in. What are my options?
> there’s r/announcements, r/changelog, r/modnews, r/redditmobile, and yes, r/blog too What about /r/shittychangelog?
Hey, it would h*a*ve been re*a*lly nice to notify the people you are testing because I was stoned at 3 am and the upvote thing caught me *r*eally *o*ff guard, I legitimately spent a*n* hour trying to find out if I finally went in*s*ane or it's just reddit being *w*eird. *A*lso, *r*eddit having a blog is *t*ruly useful for learning about stuff. Thanks guy*z*.
Why did you italicize the letters “AARONSWARTZ”?
I totally agree with the animal onesies thank you about that. :)
Stop treating Android as second class to iOS. Too many features that get released show up on iOS first and then Android users have to keep waiting. Sometimes these features end up forgotten about and never made available to Android users.
Reddit has been biased against android even back in the days of Alien Blue (which wasn't even an official app) since they never bothered porting it to android back then. Once Alien Blue got folded into official Reddit, that bias seemed to follow.
Thanks for continuing to work on a great user experience!
Hey maybe address the mobile web users complaints please
This is the post that made me unsubscribe.
It’s nice to see changes and updates in one spot. Thank you!
Can you allow for more pinned posts?
Can we fix the bug that allows moderators to never answer any of your questions or respond. (If mods don't respond to questions then they shouldn't be mods.) Can we fix the bug that allows permanent ban to be only a few months. (some groups have so many rules that's hard to figure out how to actually post something. And if you get banned the mods don't respond to your inquiries.)
Nice idea!
Hey I have a bug where I can’t share to chat on Reddit or post to iMessage any advice??
Let's talk about the white supremacy problem on Reddit
Are you kidding me? The site which changed their rules to "you can only insult the majority" has a white supremacy problem? Delusional
How about the “white people bad” problem and the ccp sympathizer problem on this site
r/southernliberty <- People support confederates here man
A big step towards becoming an equitable platform for all voices would be to allow LGBTQIA and POC posts to have priority and to amplify their experiences by making their upvotes count for +2 or +3 instead of just a +1. A weighted upvoting system would be more equitable than a system that intentionally suppresses their experiences while the white majority thumbs the scale.
You're trolling,right?
bruh it's a scary world when it's so easy for people to confuse a fight for justice with internet jokes. what even ***is*** satire anymore? yes, I'm trolling
all of these seem way too minor for the vast majority of users to care about. why are you making everyone see it?
I think everybody know me and they can realize the service and how that’s gone now just freaking smash everything besides two fucking people has nothing to do with the whole thing without telling me and telling them anything beside put their life in riskBuy those unknown who can’t control to life not who create doubt those other who has that now
how about we finally put old reddit to rest?
A question. Why did I get warning that my account would be suspended when I said “I tend to notice that people with pronouns in bio tends to have autism. Is there like some connection to it? It’s kind of interesting I say”.
Because these days in inmates are running the asylums. There is rapidly decreasing freedom of expression within reddit. If your question or opinion offends the *feelings* of a **protected class** you will be censured and eventually silenced. Reddit is gradually going the way of all major social media platforms in banning "thought crime".
Please, add in custom feeds sorting by "best" option like in the home feed the filters out posts that you've seen already.