TL;DR: This year we’re focused on making it easier for redditors to discover, join, and contribute to communities – and feel safe and welcome along the way.
Hey redditors! I’m Pali, Reddit’s Chief Product Officer. Today, I’d like to share how we’re thinking about making Reddit simpler. But before we look forward, let’s take a quick look back at 2022.
Last year’s product priorities were centered around five key pillars: making Reddit Simple, Universal, Performant, Excellent, and Relevant – and we made progress on those focus areas by improving posting experiences, launching our developer program, making comments searchable, updating our moderator tools, and so much more.
As we head into our 18th year, a lot about Reddit has changed, but our core ethos hasn’t: Reddit remains the de facto space for online communities. While we build the platform, it’s all of you who build the diverse communities where millions of people worldwide post, vote, and comment daily. You make Reddit unique by contributing with creativity, passion, and memes. We want to empower all redditors – new and tenured – to easily connect with the communities that they find meaningful and rewarding.
As you know, Reddit is a big place. To help people find their home on Reddit, we’re prioritizing product and design improvements that will simplify and streamline how redditors discover, join, and contribute (post, vote, comment) to communities and bring new ways to engage in conversations and content across Reddit.
Here’s a look at some of the features you’ll soon see on Reddit (including one that just launched):
The ability to search within post comments
Last month, we introduced the ability to search within post comments, so that you can quickly get to the parts of the conversation you’re looking for – without having to expand comments or embark on a long scrolling session (we’ve all been there).
search within post commentsNew content-aware feeds
What’s up, Reddit?
It’s officially March (what is time?) and we’ve cooked up a bunch of fresh updates for y’all. Whether you want to learn about new supported languages or changes coming to Chat, dig into the latest Reddit product news below.
Search Within Post Comments
In case you missed Monday’s announcement, you can now search comments within a post on desktop, iOS, and Android! You don’t have to “cmd-f” on the post page anymore and you can search comment threads without expanding them. Learn more about this exciting update and other search improvements here.
Supporting More Languages
Reddit now supports Dutch, Swedish, and Canadian French for Android. We’ll be rounding out coverage for these languages to iOS, web, and more throughout 2023. Reddit should default to your phone’s language settings, but you can always access User Settings to change your language. If you’re curious about which other languages Reddit supports, please see here.
Pardon the Interruption: We’re Making More Chat Changes!
In the pursuit of empowering communities, we have been building a new Reddit chat (one-to-one and group chats) from the ground up. In the coming weeks, we’ll be gradually transitioning to a new chat infrastructure. And in the coming months, we look forward to building awesome features to improve your chat experience.
The transition will occur over several months. While our priority is to ensure a smooth transition, some Redditors may still experience temporary issues with chat during this process.
If you run into any issues with your chats during the transition, let us know in r/help and we’ll be happy to help further. You can also check out this help center article.
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TL;DR: You can now search comments WITHIN a post on desktop, iOS, and Android! And we’ve made new improvements to image and subreddit search over the last few months.
*NEW* SEARCH WITHIN POST COMMENTS
A few months ago, we released the ability to search comments across Reddit on all platforms, but that’s not all we’ve been up to! We’ve been listening to your feedback and you can now search comments within a post on desktop, iOS, and Android apps. So what does this mean? You don’t have to “cmd-f” on the post page anymore and you can search comment threads without expanding them. No more long scrolling sessions — quickly get to the parts of the conversation you’re looking for and jump in where you want.
Search within post commentsNote: In communities you moderate, here’s how you can search within post comments on the mobile app.
MEDIA AND SUBREDDIT SEARCH
Over the last few months, we’ve also made numerous improvements to the quality of results and media results experience when you search across Reddit.
Searching image posts with text - In October, we introduced text search within images. This means you can now search for your favorite memes that have text in them. (Note: This is only available for search across Reddit and not on comment search in the post details page)
Improved subreddit search - Our subreddit search algorithm has been improved to deliver a larger number of and more relevant subreddits for most searches. We've also made improvements to autocomplete to make it easier to search for communities without having to type in the exactly right name in the exactly right order to find relevant results.
Better media experience - Browsing through video search results has become easier. When you tap into a video search result, you can now easily swipe up and down to go between video results on Reddit’s mobile apps.
Have any feedback for us about comment search? Love something? Want us to change something? Let us know! You can also leave us comments below.
Well hello, Reddit! Pleasure to be with y’all.
If you’re in the mood to learn about some cool communities and stories that gained traction on Reddit in January, there’s some great stuff for you below (including photos, which we’re hoping to include more of in these posts – I mean, look at those cuddly cats).
And if you’re looking only for product info, you may want to skip to the part of the post titled “Reddit, Inc. Happenings,” where we round up updates from a few more of our communities.
Without further ado, let’s get into some January highlights!
📈TRENDING COMMUNITIES
Watch out, minimalist design, maximalism is on the rise. Ok, minimalism is cool too, but right now we’re highlighting this trending community where “less isn’t more, more is more.” In r/maximalism, you can find photos of fellow redditors’ spaces (or share your own!) filled with colorful art, patterns, decor, and design.
Source: https://redd.it/106u3o3Ever wanted to count to infinity with redditors around the world? You’re in the right place. In r/CountOnceADay, redditors are “collaboratively counting to infinity using daily posts of images.” Pretty cool, if you ask us!
TL:DR Based on our investigation so far, Reddit user passwords and accounts are safe, but on Sunday night (pacific time), Reddit systems were hacked as a result of a sophisticated and highly-targeted phishing attack. They gained access to some internal documents, code, and some internal business systems.
On late (PST) February 5, 2023, we became aware of a sophisticated phishing campaign that targeted Reddit employees. As in most phishing campaigns, the attacker sent out plausible-sounding prompts pointing employees to a website that cloned the behavior of our intranet gateway, in an attempt to steal credentials and second-factor tokens.
After successfully obtaining a single employee’s credentials, the attacker gained access to some internal docs, code, as well as some internal dashboards and business systems. We show no indications of breach of our primary production systems (the parts of our stack that run Reddit and store the majority of our data).
Exposure included limited contact information for (currently hundreds of) company contacts and employees (current and former), as well as limited advertiser information. Based on several days of initial investigation by security, engineering, and data science (and friends!), we have no evidence to suggest that any of your non-public data has been accessed, or that Reddit’s information has been published or distributed online.
Soon after being phished, the affected employee self-reported, and the Security team responded quickly, removing the infiltrator’s access and commencing an internal investigation. Similar phishing attacks have been recently reported. We’re continuing to investigate and monitor the situation closely and working with our employees to fortify our security skills. As we all know, the human is often the weakest part of the security chain.
Our goal is to fully understand and prevent future incidents of this nature, and we will use this post to provide any additional updates as we learn and can share more. So far, it also appears that many of the lessons we learned five years ago have continued to be useful.
Since we’re talking about security and safety, this is a good time to remind you how to protect your Reddit account. The most important (and simple) measure you can take is to set up 2FA (two-factor authentication) which adds an extra layer of security when you access your Reddit account. Learn how to enable 2FA in Reddit Help. And if you want to take it a step further, it’s always a good idea to update your password every couple of months – just make sure it’s strong and unique for greater protection.
Hello Reddit!
I’m u/unavailable4coffee, a software engineer at Reddit.
Since you’re here on r/reddit, it might be safe to say you’re interested in what Reddit is launching and the features we are building. Now, imagine all of that in podcast form.
For the last few months, we’ve been working on a new podcast series called “Building Reddit” – and today it’s officially live! You can listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and more. For the full scoop, check out this post in r/RedditEng, and for a quick preview, watch the trailer below.
Building Reddit TrailerNew episodes of the podcast will be posted monthly, so make sure to subscribe to get all the behind-the-scenes goodness.
I’ll be hanging out in the comments today, so if you have questions about this podcast, making podcasts in general, engineering at Reddit, or my vast collection of houseplants, ask away!
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