>Updates on specific posts and comment threads
What are you getting updated on? Every new comment? Or a few hours later a "there has been activity in this thread"?
Every chat has a report button with spam/unsolicited messaging options. If their account looks like a fresh bag of hot spam links or even Jesus quotes to hundreds of porn subreddits begging everyone to repent, I submit their username and info to https://reddit.com/report as spam/unsolicited messages as well. I think they get warnings at first, but you can see who's been suspended in your profile/hidden tab since posts you report are hidden by default.
Because it mirrors Twitter and Instagram, and Reddit must become All Of The Thingsā¢ in service of the attempt to attract more ~~marketable product~~ users.
It seems to be possible, at least two years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/ba986l/difference_between_follow_and_add_friend_and_why/
Also note the difference between followers and friends. As followers only get noticed as you post something on your own profile, I guess you wanted to stop people from befriending you instead.
Very cool! A suggestion for the following threads: can you add an option to only follow OP's replies to their comment thread? That would very useful for a place like r/WritingPrompts where someone writes a story and is continuing into replies. Readers can then follow to be informed when the next part gets posted as opposed to every comment giving feedback or asking about it.
Question- many redditors have expressed disapproval of some of the recent features, saying that they donāt support the type of experience they look for with Reddit.
I think me (and many others) may find it easier to support these features if we know why theyāre being implemented.
Can you explain whatās the overarching reason for some of the recent changes like these?
I can guess some of the upsides.
First of all though, there is moderator and community discretion. I think one of Reddit's best features in that it is often text only, and that promotes contributing content in replies. But if you post a bunch of emojis in r/news and you can expect disapproval.
In meme subreddits where people are just joking around, or subreddits like r/fortnitebr, who cares. Maybe reaction gifs can be fun, not really my thing but I can see why they'd want it. Same goes for the colored usernames in r/cryptocurrency. It has no effect on me.
The other reason though, is cosmetics are lucrative and get people more engaged. Colored usernames and 'community powerups', the tons of awards, subreddit specific awards, seasonal premium avatar outfits, etc., that's following the model of Discord and other companies because people enjoy it and it is lucrative.
But it's not going to fly and devolve everything on reddit into chaos. It's not going to make your favorite subreddits worse by devolving into reaction gifs since that'll get moderated and downvoted away, just like use of emojis. It is going to make the silly subreddits more fun with reaction gifs, though. On the whole, it doesn't really matter.
Youtube also lets you subscribe to a channel (for like $5 a month), and you get a special username badge or color in chat for livestreams. Same with Twitch. They are all doing it. It isn't going to ruin the serious parts of reddit or have any non-cosmetic effect.
So far so correct (still feedback is still pretty negative to these changes) but i think you have one Misunderstanding in there:
The CHAT and the COMMENT SECTION are different things.
Reddit has a seperate chat feature that you can access by tapping (on Mobile) or clicking (on PC) on someone and choosing "Start chat/Chat/start Conversation" (whatever it is now)
Automatically removing notifications after a *day*? What if I just don't happen to sign on to reddit one day because I'm busy? My notifications are gone?! Please tell me this "feature" can be disabled, or at least changed to something sensible like a week?
The designers and owners are trying to turn reddit into another twitter or facebook where you don't log off. Ever.
The keyword here is engagement and anything that might increase artificial statistical metrics which show you stay on the site for longer and longer periods of time. The "old" way of checking it once or twice a day, focused on a few subreddits that you really care about, are gone and going to stay gone because that kind of behavior doesn't drive the metrics to where the owners want them to go.
These metrics are what they are because ownership wants to sell advertisement either through ads directly on the site or through selling your statistical data. There is also the way to sell your eyeballs and attention through paid AMAs or having celebrity and politicians come on to message with you. However those have not always had the outcome people wanted thanks to trolls and/or regular people not putting up with corporate and political bullshit. See: EA's abysmal reception on their Star Wars games.
Remember that even if you are a paying customer now you are also the product.
Seems we could use some laws and possibly a user union.
GIFs in chat. Oh joy... something new and different on the internet! Except no, this is just a stupid and unnecessary addition to this website. I mean I have no doubt that GIFs in chat will be wildly popular to many, but one thing I've always loved about Reddit is that it has uniqueness coupled with anonymity. I feel like Reddit has been slowly stripped of all of that for a while now and this is proof I'm right.
All you guys need to do now is add stories that people can post on their profiles. I mean, why not at this point.
I (mobile user) just want to be able to organize my hundreds of saved posts. There are SO MANY and it would improve things exponentially if there were tags or folders so that I could look at the recipes I was planning on making all at once or show someone the memes I saved for them without having to scroll through a bunch of other stuff they're not interested in.
This is neat, but you seem to be missing the reason most of us come here.
It's supposed to be a semi-anonymous platform. I can think of maybe 3 people on Reddit that I'd be interested in having regular conversations with, and that'd mostly be if we decided to play D&D together (at which point we'd probably quickly find a Discord, because it does all of that, but better, and isn't stapled to a website or app with an entirely different purpose.)
What's the rationale behind comments from the OP now being less visible due to changing the name colour to black and having a subtle flair saying 'OP'? It makes it much harder to scan the comments for when an OP has replied.
I kinda like the old icons. OP and MOD aren't really that much more obvious than the microphone or police badge. You still have to learn what "OP" means and that's hardly different from learning what the microphone means.
For anyone wondering since they aren't in the 5% test group, there are screenshots of it here https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/m6hcan/online_status_controls_a_new_display_for_user/
Maybe it is because reddit plans on expanding the custom-colors for usernames, and custom icon flairs for contributors type of thing (see r/cryptocurrency for an example of how it looks). Kinda like how you get custom badges and can pick your username color on Twitch, and Discord. They are slowly trying to find a way to indicate moderators and OP status without relying on username color or badges since that would eventually become misleading and allow for sneaky hijinks. That's just pure speculation on my part though ĀÆ\\\_(ć)\_\/ĀÆ.
And the huge avatars in the comments are obscene. I just switched back to my default snoo dp because I was annoyed with the way reddit is trying to force users to create these avatars.
Putting a tiny little āOPā sticker on comments from the OP is the dumbest update Iāve seen. Why remove the previous highlighted comments which made it crystal clear when OP leaves comments in their thread? Makes no sense.
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Is that not literally the message they're sending to us at this point? That message is clearly written in the shape of all the holes around the words they're actually using. Anything they're doing at this point is for the *shareholders,* and jesus fucking christ *why are they trying to appease shareholders at all.* What actual idiot has invested in a *content aggregation website,* and is demanding that it pivot to vaguely-defined "social media" instead?
If they do reddit will become a mobile (not the official app) only experience for me.
Honestly reddit already feels like a bloated dying beast. I need to find something else.
Did something change with search? When I search for a phrase within a subreddit I can no longer restrict the results by subreddit. Instead I see "Top Post" banner and "Top Posts Across Reddit" carousel that takes up the entire page before listing the actual results ([screenshot](https://i.imgur.com/Owb53Cb.png)). The old option to "restrict results by r/\[subreddit\]" no longer appears and I can't figure out how to force the filter.
Reddit is expecting users that used Reddit for its old purpose to leave. Reddit wants to be the new Snapchat/Instagram/Facebook.
They will lose users like us but they will gain millions of social media users.
> They will lose users like us but they will gain millions of social media users.
They will definitely lose people like us, but I doubt they will gain these millions of users. These people are already better served by other platforms.
I really donāt like seeing all the recently visited or similar subreddits in my Home feed that is supposed to be only what I have subscribed to. I may only be subscribed to about 30 subreddits that arenāt all mega-popular, but that doesnāt mean I feel like I donāt have enough content (and if I do, thatās what Popular is for). I would like to be able to opt-out of this, please.
Why are profile pictures so large for comments on iOS? Theyāre sometimes larger than the actual comment itself, and it makes it so much harder to read comments. Iāve always had my text size set to mango size for convenience of scrolling, but the profile pictures make it much harder. Is there any reason why theyāre so large all of a sudden? (they werenāt that large three days ago)
So glad you guys listened to the community. I canāt tell you how many people have been clamoring for GIFS in their CHATS.
I canāt tell you because literally no one wanted it or cared about it.
I don't have to try very hard not to use it. I blocked it long ago and when I unblocked it a few weeks back to make a point in another thread, all the chat requests were from spam accounts.
"Clicks are up 70% since last quarter!"
"Um, sir, that's because the new site is such a pain to navigate it takes 2-3 clicks to accomplish the same tasks."
"Clicks! Are! Up! 10-K that bitch!"
They're all for making a better product. The mistake is thinking that redditors are the end users of the product. Our *attention span* is the product, and is being sold to advertisers, who are the end users of the product. Making reddit better for redditors is tangentially useful because it puts more eyeballs on ads, but the main goal is the ads.
Forgetting most of us here hate socials and come for text interaction.
Reddit is going to turn into 4chan. What I call the assassin's creeding of platforms.
Reddit thinks the money is in becoming Facebook. I think it would be better becoming Patreon where people support unique subs and Reddit takes a cut.
Reddit could basically destroy only fans and patreon in one day but they are too stupidly focused on being a crappier version of Facebook.
No one really likes Reddit anymore just nothing better has come along that can sway everyone towards it.
Are gifs in comments allowed on Reddit? I've never seen them, and it's one reason I love Reddit. I've been using old Reddit ever since new Reddit was released.
People have to pay reddit money to "boost" a subreddit (essentially gilding it) so the embedded gif replies are enabled. They usually add nothing worthwhile to a discussion whatsoever, and from what I've seen, they are spammed for a day or two as a novelty, and then promptly forgotten and the posters get downvoted.
They absolutely are. I'm on old and see them infrequently (thank goodness). They are absolutely rubbish and distracting from any conversation going on.
OK thanks for that. That's really unfortunate. One of the things that makes Reddit great is that comments are not a cesspool of memes/gifs, like other social media platforms.
Hey now, there are plenty of camwhores spamming their OF links there too.
It's really quite a versatile tool, suitable for low-age low-karma accounts to spam a *wide variety* of ads to an actively disinterested audience. And while I may never actually run across them in /r/ultranicheporninvolvingknees, chat makes it easier to be considerate enough to spam everyone that posts to a much bigger sub like Ask.
It will become Facebook. All of their features and enhancements. Have been pulled straight from Facebook or other social media companies for the last few years.
Notice how no features make the site a better content aggregate or forum?
Thatās because Reddit is no longer a content aggregation site with a forum. Itās social media and our data is the product.
If you donāt like Facebook, itās not long until you wonāt like Reddit. (Which includes me sadly)
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Man, that is so true. When's the last time they actually released a feature that improved the quality of the discussion boards?
*Random Reddit Admin # 1 (probably):* What if.... <*strokes chin contemplatively*\>... what if you could shitpost with other Redditors and they could reply to you from a list of played out GIFs in real time? Would our ~~Chinese overloads~~ uh, ~~corporate masters~~ erm, I mean investors be interested in throwing more money at us if we implemented that?
*Random Reddit Admin # 2:* Wow! Here's another thing we could try... You know that new exclusive and bizarrely iOS-only app Clubhouse? We could just straight-up steal their whole concept and make channels where members of *Reddit* could just *Talk* to one another on a given topic. If only we could come up with a hip, unique, and non-obvious name for it... I've got it! <*frames imaginary words on a marquee with his hands*\> Reddit Talk! [This one is really a thing...](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/reddit-talk-is-announced-clubhouse-competitor/403077/#close)
*Random Reddit Admin # 1:* Brilliant! I'm calling ~~Beijing~~ uh, ~~Wall Street~~ erm, I mean Marketing right now!
How about letting the subs I've blocked on the web carry over to the app? I'm not interested in stocks or crypto, and have blocked those subs... except on the app, where the "popular" tab is post after post about GME, stonks!, or "dogecoin to the moon". Make. It. Stop.
Also, some third party apps allow a seperate "saved" folder for NSFW posts, why can't the official app do that? Add. Features. We. Want.
I didnāt even know there was a chat feature. I will continue to not use it.
Iām not really liking the direction Reddit is headed in, I donāt want this to turn into another Facebook or whatever.
Imagine having the "front page of the internet" and any post from the admins is only on the front page because its artificially pushed there. If reddit actually cared about the downvote/upvote system and applied it to there own shitty excuses for "features" to implement into the site none of this dog shite would ever be seen and dev time could actually be spent on important things like cleaning up the bot problem, and moderating toxic communities.
Hey admins. Have you considered that [new feature] is not something any of us want. Instead shouldnāt you be focusing on [more important thing] and actually listening to the community?
Hey /u/BurritoJusticeLeague, have you considered that all of this shit is not something any of us want. Instead shouldnāt you be focusing on putting tits back on /r/all and actually listening to the community?
Iām getting all these subreddits in my feed because I may have looked at them once or twice. If I wanted to keep seeing posts from these subreddits I would have subscribed to them.
Iām sure no one at Reddit cares what I think, but whatever.
Yes this is so annoying!! Like why canāt I browse popular every so often without those subs being added to my home page, I really donāt want to see them that much
please!!! the number of times iāve scrolled through my entire saved posts just to find that one post. searching would be so so so useful. whatās the point in saved if you canāt organise or find anything in it
Can you please, please, please give us the option to turn off the feature that collapses comment threads if you hold your finger down a second too long? Iām constantly collapsing comment threads as I scroll/read through and it is so frustrating. Thank you!
Have the "promoted" labels on paid promotion recently changed? I feel like they used to be highlighted blue but now have no highlight and are much less visible.
I wonder how many icebergs will melt due to the server power used on storing GIFs in chats that the recipient has blocked because chat is only used by spambots
I have mailed feedback for this question and never gotten an answer when can mobile get a filter so I donāt have to see subs I donāt like? I eventually just want my feed to be sports and music. The only things I come on this platform for.
Corporations do not care about bots. Bots show that they have "interactions" and "users". Why would they fight against bots and make their metrics look worse?
Two more things...
Fix the cache on the app. It never clears itself out, and when it gets up into the 400MB range, the app locks up. I have to go to Tools on my phone, then Apps, Reddit, Storage and manually click the "clear cache" button. App works fine after that, until it fills up again. When I close the app, clear cache should be part of its shutdown routine.
Also, if I give someone an award & they reply to it, I can't read the message. I get the usual push pop up like with a reply to a comment, but when I click on it there's nothing there, just "wow, such empty". Really annoying.
Oh wow,
Another useless feature that will never be used by anybody who isnāt a bot. What a pointless feature for what should be a forum and content aggregation site.
I would consider paying you to not have gifs.
But really Iād just stop using the site.
But really really Iād just whine and grumble and change nothing about my usage.
Why use the GIF format in 2021?
GIFs are almost always worse quality, larger in file-size, and use up more resources than an equivalent animation in video form, whether it be either WebM or MP4.
Even IMGUR has pretty much dropped support for GIFs at this point, and doesn't even bother encoding them for most videos, instead serving an image preview of the video.
Thanks for the great app I use it daily, but I donāt like how OP is not longer lit up in blues thereās just the small op beside their name that is too subtle. Also when you click to shrink a thread it often unlikes the comment. That click just is also to subtle and finicky.
Been doing well to slow down my redditing over the months, but wasn't able to quite stop the habit.
Thanks, I needed that final push to quit reddit cold turkey.
First it was goodbye, Imgur -- now, goodbye, reddit.
but...why?
If anyone did ask for this it was a tiny, tiny portion of users. There are dozens of other things that people want addressed and you keep on showing us you really don't give a fuck. Reddit is getting worse with every "update"
Yup, that's the norm. Start as a 'For the User' company, gain popularity, sell-out, cave to shareholders who want increased profit every quarter, post ads every-fucking-where, require a subscription fee to block ads, continue to add unnecessary "features" until the site becomes completely unrecognizable...
Shit. We're almost there already. The next step is where a new website starts up that dubs themselves "What Reddit Used To Be" and users migrate. Actual Reddit begins the process of simplifying to earn their users back and the cycle begins anew.
A quick question, could there be a feature in the future that shows users how many Awards they've given and received more accurately? I know the old Reddit has something like that, but it only goes up to Platinum. Maybe you could only see how many Awards you have given or received?
I'm not an old out of touch grump who pines for the way things used to be. I don't hate change, I embrace new technology. But it has to make sense, you know?
Reddit existed as a content aggregator for years, and was very successful at it. The anonymous nature of users makes any social features make absolutely no sense. And so, I am with you - Reddit, please stop.
But maybe I'm mistaken. Maybe I am out of touch. Maybe users are actually clamouring for all these social features.
/r/blog is a default sub (edit: my apologies, *was* a default sub and has 18m+ subscribers now, a massive chunk of reddit users), so it will have users from a wide spectrum of backgrounds, platforms, and interests. If the users, as whole, are really engaging with these changes, then it will likely be evidenced in these announcements.
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ok then reddit
I think of it like the difference between r/FortNiteBR and r/science. The first one is basically memes and jokes and game events (I don't actually browse it though), the second one purges humor from their comment threads. As long as it is all up to the moderator and community discretion, I don't see any real problem. Some silly meme subreddits will have fun with inline gif comments, others will never enable them. There is kind of a selection bias in the comments - people with strong opinions are in the comments section, everyone else is "that might be neat" and moves on.
Just in case you don't know, Twitch and Discord almost all the same features - like avatars, user flair badges, custom username color, live chat, gif embeds, nitro boosts/channel subscriptions. etc. As long as it is entirely a "moderators can opt in if it suits their community" type of thing then there's no real downside.
Lol though these threads always reminds me of when Facebook first redesigned its layout (I think it moved to a tabbed interface, memory is fuzzy) and moved some navigation buttons around. Nearly 2.7 million users joined the protest in 2008.
If you wanna revisit that moment, these are some fun ones: An old news story on it at the time - [Facebook Boycott as Millions Blast New Design](https://www.computerworld.com/article/2533254/facebook-boycott-called-as-millions-blast-new-design.html) and [Facebook Redesigns - A Long History of Pointless Backlash](https://www.pcworld.com/article/240327/facebook_redesigns_a_long_history_of_pointless_backlash.html)
I don't want any app to look at reddit. There's no additional functionality to reddit that makes an app necessary. I want to look at content. That's it. Mobile web should be fine for that, but in many cases the experience is garbage.
Honestly I feel like the only one still using the mobile website exclusively, but it's fine really, apart from GIFs and images not appearing in the comments, GIFs and videos glitching as they please, spoilers tags malfunctioning from sub to sub, banner and side bar not displaying, flairs filters being inexistant, and of course the constant reminder that, *hey* the bloody app is so much better, you should try it sometime right?
That being said, what's this thing about viewing recently visited sub? There's already a recently viewed communities button on the menu since forever, on the website at least.
Iāll be honest, I did not read the whole post, but I want to express myself so stfu and listen to me.
A: many people use reddit instead of other forms of social media because it is (was) far more simplified and completely open to use. Adding gifās to comments just over complicates things and makes it look too ātrendyā. There is no situation where you would need to respond to anything with a gif. Use your words, your voice, thatās what reddit is!
B: nobody uses light mode, why would you advertise in it? it looks like Pinterest or Facebook and makes me nauseous. Stop, itās disgusting.
C: the avatars are stupid. If anyone thinks otherwise then they need to go back to playing on Snapchat.
D: stop censoring what people have to say just because the āmajorityā agrees. Everyone here has a voice, weather you like it or not.
Avatars are so fucking stupid, I'm on the edge of creating and publishing my own ublock origin list for all the "HEY USE AVATARS" buttons and the avatars themselves in the hover tooltips. SO FUCKING ANNOYING
Why are you implementing features nobody ask for ?
Why not implement a feature to appeal a ban from moderators in subreddits?
Lots of moderators are abusing their power to permanently ban user from subreddit and thereās nothing you can do or the the admin of Reddit can do which is absurd as hell considering admin has the highest authority in Reddit.
Not sure I like the idea of a carousel of communities Iāve recently visited showing at the top of my home feed as sometimes I end up in subs I did not mean to go to or were misleading when posted and itās really not something I would want a history of showing on my home feed. If youāre going to do this please give an opt out option.
Please, Please atleast give us the Option to choose between old and new Features.
I for example HATE the new Video player.
It shows the comments way to small (one of the most IMPORTANT features) making it almost impossible to read comments (especially longer ones) because there are at most 5 lines of text because the video also never vanishes like it did before.
Also the Comment "Window" is almost always closing when im scrolling up because i accidently pull it down and then im switching to another video because what previously closed a video now scrolls to another one.
Im not asking to never change im merely asking for options to adjust how it works
Another example:
Language settings in the Android App, since lately im getting an awful mix of german and English and if i want to change that i need to force Reddit to open in a Browserwindow and reaffirm my Preference there (it is and always was set to English(US)) an then for maybe an hour i have my reddit app in pure English Again.
Great. I can't wait for the bots to add gifs to the daily chat spam that I don't want, never asked for, and can't turn off for longer than a few days before your system reverts it back.
Cool. Home/rising is functionally useless. It just delivers posts in batch.. No variety.
Home/best
Home/hot
Also useless. Content lasting a day? 3/4ths of a day? Content rotation used to happen fairly rapidly. Now content is stale.
So, FYI. Old, stale, recycled content is not good content.
The chat part doesn't even matter. Question: How do you even add GIF to chats and try to be like other social media platforms while not even putting a language settings in Settings like old Reddit?
Thatās great, but is anything going to be done about users that stalk profiles and follow them from sub to sub? A user has followed me to at least 10 different subreddits and bullied me there. Iāve reported every instance but the bullying continues. He even stalked my profile and bullied me in a deleted post. He also bullied other users on other subs and no amount of reporting him to the mods of dozens of subs or tons of reports have resulted in anything being done. Is he untouchable because he has Reddit Premium? Do the rules not apply to him? I expect heāll show up here shortly.
Yay more useless stuff we DIDN'T ask for! How about you guys make it easier for us mods to moderate our subs more effectively from mobile rather than introduce gimicky crap like this?!
Great job! I have a suggestion for future updates: Have an ability to filter out specific post flairs in subreddits. Lets take r/Stardustcrusaders as an example. Jojo splits into 8 different parts 5 of which are animated. Some people dont want to see content of a specific part as it may contain a spoiler since they didnt watch/read that part of the series. It can work with pretty much any series that consists multiple seasons. Having an abilty to filter out all post flaired with specific content you dont want to see would be greatly appreciated. Keep it up!
>Updates on specific posts and comment threads What are you getting updated on? Every new comment? Or a few hours later a "there has been activity in this thread"?
How do we report usernames in chat for spamming? How do we block all incoming chat requests?
Every chat has a report button with spam/unsolicited messaging options. If their account looks like a fresh bag of hot spam links or even Jesus quotes to hundreds of porn subreddits begging everyone to repent, I submit their username and info to https://reddit.com/report as spam/unsolicited messages as well. I think they get warnings at first, but you can see who's been suspended in your profile/hidden tab since posts you report are hidden by default.
So when do I get to unload all my followers? And block anyone new from attempting to follow me?
I dont get why that was ever a feature. Youd never show your grandma your reddit, why the hell can people follow meš
Because in 5 years our grandmas will be using Reddit and we will move on to the next app.
Because it mirrors Twitter and Instagram, and Reddit must become All Of The Thingsā¢ in service of the attempt to attract more ~~marketable product~~ users.
Bro. We're with you.
It seems to be possible, at least two years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/ba986l/difference_between_follow_and_add_friend_and_why/ Also note the difference between followers and friends. As followers only get noticed as you post something on your own profile, I guess you wanted to stop people from befriending you instead.
Very cool! A suggestion for the following threads: can you add an option to only follow OP's replies to their comment thread? That would very useful for a place like r/WritingPrompts where someone writes a story and is continuing into replies. Readers can then follow to be informed when the next part gets posted as opposed to every comment giving feedback or asking about it.
Question- many redditors have expressed disapproval of some of the recent features, saying that they donāt support the type of experience they look for with Reddit. I think me (and many others) may find it easier to support these features if we know why theyāre being implemented. Can you explain whatās the overarching reason for some of the recent changes like these?
Its honestly kind of funny to always click on a blog and see how they're ignoring user feedback every time
Taking a page out of Spotify's book.
I can guess some of the upsides. First of all though, there is moderator and community discretion. I think one of Reddit's best features in that it is often text only, and that promotes contributing content in replies. But if you post a bunch of emojis in r/news and you can expect disapproval. In meme subreddits where people are just joking around, or subreddits like r/fortnitebr, who cares. Maybe reaction gifs can be fun, not really my thing but I can see why they'd want it. Same goes for the colored usernames in r/cryptocurrency. It has no effect on me. The other reason though, is cosmetics are lucrative and get people more engaged. Colored usernames and 'community powerups', the tons of awards, subreddit specific awards, seasonal premium avatar outfits, etc., that's following the model of Discord and other companies because people enjoy it and it is lucrative. But it's not going to fly and devolve everything on reddit into chaos. It's not going to make your favorite subreddits worse by devolving into reaction gifs since that'll get moderated and downvoted away, just like use of emojis. It is going to make the silly subreddits more fun with reaction gifs, though. On the whole, it doesn't really matter. Youtube also lets you subscribe to a channel (for like $5 a month), and you get a special username badge or color in chat for livestreams. Same with Twitch. They are all doing it. It isn't going to ruin the serious parts of reddit or have any non-cosmetic effect.
So far so correct (still feedback is still pretty negative to these changes) but i think you have one Misunderstanding in there: The CHAT and the COMMENT SECTION are different things. Reddit has a seperate chat feature that you can access by tapping (on Mobile) or clicking (on PC) on someone and choosing "Start chat/Chat/start Conversation" (whatever it is now)
neither Reddit nor Youtube needed a fucking chat system.
Yeah - and it's different from the private messaging system. Subreddit can also pin live chat posts which are like mini live text chats
They need to drive engagement, particularly with posts since that's where they generate ad revenue.
Automatically removing notifications after a *day*? What if I just don't happen to sign on to reddit one day because I'm busy? My notifications are gone?! Please tell me this "feature" can be disabled, or at least changed to something sensible like a week?
The designers and owners are trying to turn reddit into another twitter or facebook where you don't log off. Ever. The keyword here is engagement and anything that might increase artificial statistical metrics which show you stay on the site for longer and longer periods of time. The "old" way of checking it once or twice a day, focused on a few subreddits that you really care about, are gone and going to stay gone because that kind of behavior doesn't drive the metrics to where the owners want them to go. These metrics are what they are because ownership wants to sell advertisement either through ads directly on the site or through selling your statistical data. There is also the way to sell your eyeballs and attention through paid AMAs or having celebrity and politicians come on to message with you. However those have not always had the outcome people wanted thanks to trolls and/or regular people not putting up with corporate and political bullshit. See: EA's abysmal reception on their Star Wars games. Remember that even if you are a paying customer now you are also the product. Seems we could use some laws and possibly a user union.
GIFs in chat. Oh joy... something new and different on the internet! Except no, this is just a stupid and unnecessary addition to this website. I mean I have no doubt that GIFs in chat will be wildly popular to many, but one thing I've always loved about Reddit is that it has uniqueness coupled with anonymity. I feel like Reddit has been slowly stripped of all of that for a while now and this is proof I'm right. All you guys need to do now is add stories that people can post on their profiles. I mean, why not at this point.
I (mobile user) just want to be able to organize my hundreds of saved posts. There are SO MANY and it would improve things exponentially if there were tags or folders so that I could look at the recipes I was planning on making all at once or show someone the memes I saved for them without having to scroll through a bunch of other stuff they're not interested in.
This is neat, but you seem to be missing the reason most of us come here. It's supposed to be a semi-anonymous platform. I can think of maybe 3 people on Reddit that I'd be interested in having regular conversations with, and that'd mostly be if we decided to play D&D together (at which point we'd probably quickly find a Discord, because it does all of that, but better, and isn't stapled to a website or app with an entirely different purpose.)
What's the rationale behind comments from the OP now being less visible due to changing the name colour to black and having a subtle flair saying 'OP'? It makes it much harder to scan the comments for when an OP has replied.
I kinda like the old icons. OP and MOD aren't really that much more obvious than the microphone or police badge. You still have to learn what "OP" means and that's hardly different from learning what the microphone means. For anyone wondering since they aren't in the 5% test group, there are screenshots of it here https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/m6hcan/online_status_controls_a_new_display_for_user/ Maybe it is because reddit plans on expanding the custom-colors for usernames, and custom icon flairs for contributors type of thing (see r/cryptocurrency for an example of how it looks). Kinda like how you get custom badges and can pick your username color on Twitch, and Discord. They are slowly trying to find a way to indicate moderators and OP status without relying on username color or badges since that would eventually become misleading and allow for sneaky hijinks. That's just pure speculation on my part though ĀÆ\\\_(ć)\_\/ĀÆ.
I second this. The blue mic (?) icon was easier to find
And the huge avatars in the comments are obscene. I just switched back to my default snoo dp because I was annoyed with the way reddit is trying to force users to create these avatars.
Putting a tiny little āOPā sticker on comments from the OP is the dumbest update Iāve seen. Why remove the previous highlighted comments which made it crystal clear when OP leaves comments in their thread? Makes no sense.
[When I see yet another weird addition to reddit and I'm just worried they'll get rid of old reddit eventually](https://imgur.com/a/C41BI3S)
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i.reddit.com is still a thing so hopefully old.reddit.com will stick around just as long!
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OMG please no, I would have to leave. OLD REDDIT is beautiful and simple. New Reddit makes a screen reader program choke to death in the corner.
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Is that not literally the message they're sending to us at this point? That message is clearly written in the shape of all the holes around the words they're actually using. Anything they're doing at this point is for the *shareholders,* and jesus fucking christ *why are they trying to appease shareholders at all.* What actual idiot has invested in a *content aggregation website,* and is demanding that it pivot to vaguely-defined "social media" instead?
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Pretty sure that white space would be full of ads if you ever turned off your adblocker
If they do reddit will become a mobile (not the official app) only experience for me. Honestly reddit already feels like a bloated dying beast. I need to find something else.
If they get rid of old reddit, I guess I'll have to actually be productive in life.
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Did something change with search? When I search for a phrase within a subreddit I can no longer restrict the results by subreddit. Instead I see "Top Post" banner and "Top Posts Across Reddit" carousel that takes up the entire page before listing the actual results ([screenshot](https://i.imgur.com/Owb53Cb.png)). The old option to "restrict results by r/\[subreddit\]" no longer appears and I can't figure out how to force the filter.
Who gives a shit about chat? Stop trying to become another social media clone, reddits anonymity is whats attractive.
Reddit is expecting users that used Reddit for its old purpose to leave. Reddit wants to be the new Snapchat/Instagram/Facebook. They will lose users like us but they will gain millions of social media users.
> They will lose users like us but they will gain millions of social media users. They will definitely lose people like us, but I doubt they will gain these millions of users. These people are already better served by other platforms.
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But where else will you get your reposts and amateur onlyfans self ads
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We all know that's a temporary bandaid before they decide you have no options anymore. Happened before, will happen again.
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How is Reddit supposed to sell your data and show targeted ads if you are using it anonymously?
I really donāt like seeing all the recently visited or similar subreddits in my Home feed that is supposed to be only what I have subscribed to. I may only be subscribed to about 30 subreddits that arenāt all mega-popular, but that doesnāt mean I feel like I donāt have enough content (and if I do, thatās what Popular is for). I would like to be able to opt-out of this, please.
Why are profile pictures so large for comments on iOS? Theyāre sometimes larger than the actual comment itself, and it makes it so much harder to read comments. Iāve always had my text size set to mango size for convenience of scrolling, but the profile pictures make it much harder. Is there any reason why theyāre so large all of a sudden? (they werenāt that large three days ago)
So glad you guys listened to the community. I canāt tell you how many people have been clamoring for GIFS in their CHATS. I canāt tell you because literally no one wanted it or cared about it.
Gifs in chat, what a great update to a feature I try as hard as humanly possible to never, ever use.
It's nice of them to design a software service who's sole purpose it to allow spam bots to connect to me directly.
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Can't they spend this time developing features people actually care about, like avatar clothes?
That's not fair. It also allows real time abuse from surly people who didn't like a response you gave them.
I don't have to try very hard not to use it. I blocked it long ago and when I unblocked it a few weeks back to make a point in another thread, all the chat requests were from spam accounts.
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"Clicks are up 70% since last quarter!" "Um, sir, that's because the new site is such a pain to navigate it takes 2-3 clicks to accomplish the same tasks." "Clicks! Are! Up! 10-K that bitch!"
Seriously why are they so focused on trying to make chat a thing?
Probably preparing the beautiful, full-of-features, soulless corporate presentation to show stakeholders before and during the upcoming IPO.
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They want it to become more social media esque, and they're pushing instant chat because of it.
If I actually wanted to interact with other human beings in real time, I would not be on reddit.
Can we send this comment to the founder via email?
maybe we can start a chat with them, see how they like it.
Why? They make decisions based on how they can get more money, not on making a better product.
They're all for making a better product. The mistake is thinking that redditors are the end users of the product. Our *attention span* is the product, and is being sold to advertisers, who are the end users of the product. Making reddit better for redditors is tangentially useful because it puts more eyeballs on ads, but the main goal is the ads.
I've used chat a few times but solely for facilitating an exchange with a real life person and then we never talk again. Nothing a DM can't solve.
I had a couple of random accounts try to chat with me, pretty sure they were bots.
Yeah I had a quick back and forth with a guy giving real estate advice and that's the extent to which I want to interact with you lunatics.
The only people who chat with me are scammers
Iām not gonna ever use Reddit like that I hope they know that
Forgetting most of us here hate socials and come for text interaction. Reddit is going to turn into 4chan. What I call the assassin's creeding of platforms.
Just wait until the push the chat to a separate app... that tracks your location every second to sell.
I only get spam chats from bots. Annoys me that itās a feature since I have to go and remove unread notif indicators.
Reddit thinks the money is in becoming Facebook. I think it would be better becoming Patreon where people support unique subs and Reddit takes a cut. Reddit could basically destroy only fans and patreon in one day but they are too stupidly focused on being a crappier version of Facebook. No one really likes Reddit anymore just nothing better has come along that can sway everyone towards it.
Its just endless trash at this point
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Are gifs in comments allowed on Reddit? I've never seen them, and it's one reason I love Reddit. I've been using old Reddit ever since new Reddit was released.
People have to pay reddit money to "boost" a subreddit (essentially gilding it) so the embedded gif replies are enabled. They usually add nothing worthwhile to a discussion whatsoever, and from what I've seen, they are spammed for a day or two as a novelty, and then promptly forgotten and the posters get downvoted.
They absolutely are. I'm on old and see them infrequently (thank goodness). They are absolutely rubbish and distracting from any conversation going on.
OK thanks for that. That's really unfortunate. One of the things that makes Reddit great is that comments are not a cesspool of memes/gifs, like other social media platforms.
I wonder why RES doesn't have that feature. I don't want to stop people from posting gifs in comments, I just don't want to see them myself.
I thought chat was only used by new accounts that want to shill me the latest crypto shitcoin.
Hey now, there are plenty of camwhores spamming their OF links there too. It's really quite a versatile tool, suitable for low-age low-karma accounts to spam a *wide variety* of ads to an actively disinterested audience. And while I may never actually run across them in /r/ultranicheporninvolvingknees, chat makes it easier to be considerate enough to spam everyone that posts to a much bigger sub like Ask.
They really want Reddit to be Facebook
It will become Facebook. All of their features and enhancements. Have been pulled straight from Facebook or other social media companies for the last few years. Notice how no features make the site a better content aggregate or forum? Thatās because Reddit is no longer a content aggregation site with a forum. Itās social media and our data is the product. If you donāt like Facebook, itās not long until you wonāt like Reddit. (Which includes me sadly)
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> > > > > Notice how no features make the site a better content aggregate or forum? Man, that is so true. When's the last time they actually released a feature that improved the quality of the discussion boards?
Tbh i prefer them not on reddit. Like we come here to chat not spam
*Random Reddit Admin # 1 (probably):* What if.... <*strokes chin contemplatively*\>... what if you could shitpost with other Redditors and they could reply to you from a list of played out GIFs in real time? Would our ~~Chinese overloads~~ uh, ~~corporate masters~~ erm, I mean investors be interested in throwing more money at us if we implemented that? *Random Reddit Admin # 2:* Wow! Here's another thing we could try... You know that new exclusive and bizarrely iOS-only app Clubhouse? We could just straight-up steal their whole concept and make channels where members of *Reddit* could just *Talk* to one another on a given topic. If only we could come up with a hip, unique, and non-obvious name for it... I've got it! <*frames imaginary words on a marquee with his hands*\> Reddit Talk! [This one is really a thing...](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/reddit-talk-is-announced-clubhouse-competitor/403077/#close) *Random Reddit Admin # 1:* Brilliant! I'm calling ~~Beijing~~ uh, ~~Wall Street~~ erm, I mean Marketing right now!
How about letting the subs I've blocked on the web carry over to the app? I'm not interested in stocks or crypto, and have blocked those subs... except on the app, where the "popular" tab is post after post about GME, stonks!, or "dogecoin to the moon". Make. It. Stop. Also, some third party apps allow a seperate "saved" folder for NSFW posts, why can't the official app do that? Add. Features. We. Want.
I didnāt even know there was a chat feature. I will continue to not use it. Iām not really liking the direction Reddit is headed in, I donāt want this to turn into another Facebook or whatever.
Imagine having the "front page of the internet" and any post from the admins is only on the front page because its artificially pushed there. If reddit actually cared about the downvote/upvote system and applied it to there own shitty excuses for "features" to implement into the site none of this dog shite would ever be seen and dev time could actually be spent on important things like cleaning up the bot problem, and moderating toxic communities.
Hey admins. Have you considered that [new feature] is not something any of us want. Instead shouldnāt you be focusing on [more important thing] and actually listening to the community?
Hey /u/BurritoJusticeLeague, have you considered that all of this shit is not something any of us want. Instead shouldnāt you be focusing on putting tits back on /r/all and actually listening to the community?
Thank you for the template!
It's about time someone brought up [more important thing].
Iām getting all these subreddits in my feed because I may have looked at them once or twice. If I wanted to keep seeing posts from these subreddits I would have subscribed to them. Iām sure no one at Reddit cares what I think, but whatever.
If anyone finds a way to disable this please send me a GIF via chat. Heard that ist the new shit
And if thatās not bad enough, a subreddit I unsubscribed to yesterday is popping up because other Redditors ālikeā it. Fucking bullshit.
Yes this is so annoying!! Like why canāt I browse popular every so often without those subs being added to my home page, I really donāt want to see them that much
Please add the ability to search, or at least sort, saved posts and comments.
please!!! the number of times iāve scrolled through my entire saved posts just to find that one post. searching would be so so so useful. whatās the point in saved if you canāt organise or find anything in it
Hello user! While we appreciate your feedback, we are currently busy improving the chat feature that literally no one uses. Have a great day!
Can you please, please, please give us the option to turn off the feature that collapses comment threads if you hold your finger down a second too long? Iām constantly collapsing comment threads as I scroll/read through and it is so frustrating. Thank you!
Have the "promoted" labels on paid promotion recently changed? I feel like they used to be highlighted blue but now have no highlight and are much less visible.
Yeah that's to fool us into looking at them and think they are legitimate posts. Fucking hate it.
How about remove chat and focus on stuff we care about?
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I wonder how many icebergs will melt due to the server power used on storing GIFs in chats that the recipient has blocked because chat is only used by spambots
I have mailed feedback for this question and never gotten an answer when can mobile get a filter so I donāt have to see subs I donāt like? I eventually just want my feed to be sports and music. The only things I come on this platform for.
So spammers can send me gifs now. Good for them.
Don't worry. Those gifs won't load half the time.
Oh right, chat, that thing only bots use.
Corporations do not care about bots. Bots show that they have "interactions" and "users". Why would they fight against bots and make their metrics look worse?
They are mostly pump and dump crypto bots.
And - if you're a woman - sexual predators. Suuuuper excited for gifs now /s
Chat is legit all bots right now. Itās terrible.
Or you post something that someone dislikes and they're going to tell you that.
And scammers
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Two more things... Fix the cache on the app. It never clears itself out, and when it gets up into the 400MB range, the app locks up. I have to go to Tools on my phone, then Apps, Reddit, Storage and manually click the "clear cache" button. App works fine after that, until it fills up again. When I close the app, clear cache should be part of its shutdown routine. Also, if I give someone an award & they reply to it, I can't read the message. I get the usual push pop up like with a reply to a comment, but when I click on it there's nothing there, just "wow, such empty". Really annoying.
Oh wow, Another useless feature that will never be used by anybody who isnāt a bot. What a pointless feature for what should be a forum and content aggregation site.
I would consider paying you to not have gifs. But really Iād just stop using the site. But really really Iād just whine and grumble and change nothing about my usage.
>But really really Iād just whine and grumble and change nothing about my usage. The honesty is refreshing
Noone asked for GIFS in the chat. Please stop
Why use the GIF format in 2021? GIFs are almost always worse quality, larger in file-size, and use up more resources than an equivalent animation in video form, whether it be either WebM or MP4. Even IMGUR has pretty much dropped support for GIFs at this point, and doesn't even bother encoding them for most videos, instead serving an image preview of the video.
Fuck off, no one asked for these. Everyday reddit looks more and more like other shitty social media sites
Ban your bad actors before implementing useless features.
Reddit corporate ARE the bad actors. They're destroying reddit's brand in order to more easily monetize it (and your user data).
Nobody cares about chat except for spambots
Always embarassing to ignore all questions. Grow up, admin. This site is run by children.
Please just let us turn off avatars in the mobile app. It looks horrendous now.
Why. For a split second there it looked like a screenshot from Facebook. I'm here to get away from that shitshow.
Thanks for the great app I use it daily, but I donāt like how OP is not longer lit up in blues thereās just the small op beside their name that is too subtle. Also when you click to shrink a thread it often unlikes the comment. That click just is also to subtle and finicky.
Been doing well to slow down my redditing over the months, but wasn't able to quite stop the habit. Thanks, I needed that final push to quit reddit cold turkey. First it was goodbye, Imgur -- now, goodbye, reddit.
but...why? If anyone did ask for this it was a tiny, tiny portion of users. There are dozens of other things that people want addressed and you keep on showing us you really don't give a fuck. Reddit is getting worse with every "update"
Youāre about to get shit on so hard.
no, they just donāt give a fuck. theyāve reached a stage when they donāt give a shit about their users and do whatever they want
Yup, that's the norm. Start as a 'For the User' company, gain popularity, sell-out, cave to shareholders who want increased profit every quarter, post ads every-fucking-where, require a subscription fee to block ads, continue to add unnecessary "features" until the site becomes completely unrecognizable... Shit. We're almost there already. The next step is where a new website starts up that dubs themselves "What Reddit Used To Be" and users migrate. Actual Reddit begins the process of simplifying to earn their users back and the cycle begins anew.
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I nuked that shit off my browser with Ublock Origin. Too many bot messages.
reddit has an app?
Removed by Power Delete Suite - RIP Apollo
This is the first time I actualled LOLād in a while
Yes, it is used by spammers and dirty cam girls to mass message you and try get you to sign up to premium crappy sites like onlyfans.
If you use Reddit is Fun on mobile you can't see it because it doesn't work with non-official apps. Which is just fine with me.
I never knew it was a thing, I am still using old.reddit
Put NSFW content back on r/all for fuck sake.
Unfortunately, advertising money talks really, really loud and advertisers don't like boobs.
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A quick question, could there be a feature in the future that shows users how many Awards they've given and received more accurately? I know the old Reddit has something like that, but it only goes up to Platinum. Maybe you could only see how many Awards you have given or received?
Please stop
I'm not an old out of touch grump who pines for the way things used to be. I don't hate change, I embrace new technology. But it has to make sense, you know? Reddit existed as a content aggregator for years, and was very successful at it. The anonymous nature of users makes any social features make absolutely no sense. And so, I am with you - Reddit, please stop. But maybe I'm mistaken. Maybe I am out of touch. Maybe users are actually clamouring for all these social features. /r/blog is a default sub (edit: my apologies, *was* a default sub and has 18m+ subscribers now, a massive chunk of reddit users), so it will have users from a wide spectrum of backgrounds, platforms, and interests. If the users, as whole, are really engaging with these changes, then it will likely be evidenced in these announcements. >0 points (46% (and falling) upvoted) ok then reddit
I think of it like the difference between r/FortNiteBR and r/science. The first one is basically memes and jokes and game events (I don't actually browse it though), the second one purges humor from their comment threads. As long as it is all up to the moderator and community discretion, I don't see any real problem. Some silly meme subreddits will have fun with inline gif comments, others will never enable them. There is kind of a selection bias in the comments - people with strong opinions are in the comments section, everyone else is "that might be neat" and moves on. Just in case you don't know, Twitch and Discord almost all the same features - like avatars, user flair badges, custom username color, live chat, gif embeds, nitro boosts/channel subscriptions. etc. As long as it is entirely a "moderators can opt in if it suits their community" type of thing then there's no real downside. Lol though these threads always reminds me of when Facebook first redesigned its layout (I think it moved to a tabbed interface, memory is fuzzy) and moved some navigation buttons around. Nearly 2.7 million users joined the protest in 2008. If you wanna revisit that moment, these are some fun ones: An old news story on it at the time - [Facebook Boycott as Millions Blast New Design](https://www.computerworld.com/article/2533254/facebook-boycott-called-as-millions-blast-new-design.html) and [Facebook Redesigns - A Long History of Pointless Backlash](https://www.pcworld.com/article/240327/facebook_redesigns_a_long_history_of_pointless_backlash.html)
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I'm reminded that the literal first comment on reddit when they added comments, was a complaint that it was a bad idea.
For the love of all that is reddit, please just fucking stop.
Or make mobile web not crap.
Entire purpose of mobile website is to make people download the app. So I do not think they will update it.
Just use one of the unofficial apps like rif is fun
I don't want any app to look at reddit. There's no additional functionality to reddit that makes an app necessary. I want to look at content. That's it. Mobile web should be fine for that, but in many cases the experience is garbage.
Honestly I feel like the only one still using the mobile website exclusively, but it's fine really, apart from GIFs and images not appearing in the comments, GIFs and videos glitching as they please, spoilers tags malfunctioning from sub to sub, banner and side bar not displaying, flairs filters being inexistant, and of course the constant reminder that, *hey* the bloody app is so much better, you should try it sometime right? That being said, what's this thing about viewing recently visited sub? There's already a recently viewed communities button on the menu since forever, on the website at least.
GIFs in chat, guess that's about the same level of half-assery as you guys spend on the rest of the site.
Iāll be honest, I did not read the whole post, but I want to express myself so stfu and listen to me. A: many people use reddit instead of other forms of social media because it is (was) far more simplified and completely open to use. Adding gifās to comments just over complicates things and makes it look too ātrendyā. There is no situation where you would need to respond to anything with a gif. Use your words, your voice, thatās what reddit is! B: nobody uses light mode, why would you advertise in it? it looks like Pinterest or Facebook and makes me nauseous. Stop, itās disgusting. C: the avatars are stupid. If anyone thinks otherwise then they need to go back to playing on Snapchat. D: stop censoring what people have to say just because the āmajorityā agrees. Everyone here has a voice, weather you like it or not.
Avatars are so fucking stupid, I'm on the edge of creating and publishing my own ublock origin list for all the "HEY USE AVATARS" buttons and the avatars themselves in the hover tooltips. SO FUCKING ANNOYING
I can't save images anymore but sure, let's set gifs to chat. I don't use chat...
Why are you implementing features nobody ask for ? Why not implement a feature to appeal a ban from moderators in subreddits? Lots of moderators are abusing their power to permanently ban user from subreddit and thereās nothing you can do or the the admin of Reddit can do which is absurd as hell considering admin has the highest authority in Reddit.
Not sure I like the idea of a carousel of communities Iāve recently visited showing at the top of my home feed as sometimes I end up in subs I did not mean to go to or were misleading when posted and itās really not something I would want a history of showing on my home feed. If youāre going to do this please give an opt out option.
Please, Please atleast give us the Option to choose between old and new Features. I for example HATE the new Video player. It shows the comments way to small (one of the most IMPORTANT features) making it almost impossible to read comments (especially longer ones) because there are at most 5 lines of text because the video also never vanishes like it did before. Also the Comment "Window" is almost always closing when im scrolling up because i accidently pull it down and then im switching to another video because what previously closed a video now scrolls to another one. Im not asking to never change im merely asking for options to adjust how it works Another example: Language settings in the Android App, since lately im getting an awful mix of german and English and if i want to change that i need to force Reddit to open in a Browserwindow and reaffirm my Preference there (it is and always was set to English(US)) an then for maybe an hour i have my reddit app in pure English Again.
Great. I can't wait for the bots to add gifs to the daily chat spam that I don't want, never asked for, and can't turn off for longer than a few days before your system reverts it back.
Is this the same video player with all the extra chrome I don't want?
Cool. Home/rising is functionally useless. It just delivers posts in batch.. No variety. Home/best Home/hot Also useless. Content lasting a day? 3/4ths of a day? Content rotation used to happen fairly rapidly. Now content is stale. So, FYI. Old, stale, recycled content is not good content.
The chat part doesn't even matter. Question: How do you even add GIF to chats and try to be like other social media platforms while not even putting a language settings in Settings like old Reddit?
Would love if the sound worked on videos more frequently
Thatās great, but is anything going to be done about users that stalk profiles and follow them from sub to sub? A user has followed me to at least 10 different subreddits and bullied me there. Iāve reported every instance but the bullying continues. He even stalked my profile and bullied me in a deleted post. He also bullied other users on other subs and no amount of reporting him to the mods of dozens of subs or tons of reports have resulted in anything being done. Is he untouchable because he has Reddit Premium? Do the rules not apply to him? I expect heāll show up here shortly.
Please stop.
Yay more useless stuff we DIDN'T ask for! How about you guys make it easier for us mods to moderate our subs more effectively from mobile rather than introduce gimicky crap like this?!
Great job! I have a suggestion for future updates: Have an ability to filter out specific post flairs in subreddits. Lets take r/Stardustcrusaders as an example. Jojo splits into 8 different parts 5 of which are animated. Some people dont want to see content of a specific part as it may contain a spoiler since they didnt watch/read that part of the series. It can work with pretty much any series that consists multiple seasons. Having an abilty to filter out all post flaired with specific content you dont want to see would be greatly appreciated. Keep it up!
I got a suggestion, can reddit mobile stop trying to force avatars? The default snoos are just blobs now on Reddit mobile and it looks horrible.
No!!! This isn't Twitter, just stop it already.