Hellooooooo, Reddit! How goes it?
I’m back for our latest edition of In Case You Missed It… but the least interesting workplace coup d’etat in history™ continues. Who will author it next month? Will u/JabroniRevanchism make a comeback? Guess you’ll have to wait and find out.
(For those of you completely confused about what you just read, here’s last month’s ICYMI post for context.)
Anyway, let’s get into the good stuff! Keep reading to find out about five fantastic communities that trended last month, plus some company news you may have missed, and of course, an extra highlight at the end.
📈 TRENDING COMMUNITIES
“If it is to be said, so it be, so it is.” -Cousin Greg
Current and soon-to-be Succession fans, this one’s for you. With season 4 of the HBO dark comedy underway, r/SuccessionTV is the perfect place for fans to gather and share opinions, ask questions, post memes (of course), and discuss everything Succession-related. And let’s just say, there’s a lot to discuss.
For those unfamiliar, stained glass is a type of art consisting of pieces of colored glass to create all kinds of beautiful and interesting scenes, designs, and more. When light passes through it, it’s pretty dang gorgeous. In r/StainedGlass, people ask for project advice and share their creations. If you’re not a stained glass artist, worry not – scrolling through fellow redditors’ beautiful pieces is reason enough to be there!
TL;DR Sharing Reddit content on and off platform is easier thanks to a series of updates including improved link previews, shorter sharing flows, and revamped self-serve content embed tooling.
Every day redditors come across a post, conversation, or meme so good they want to share it with others. We want to make this easier so that you and your friends can enjoy this content together even if they’re not on Reddit.
New Sharing Features
The sharing experience on Android and iOS has been streamlined and link previews improved to include:
An updated preview design for text posts with a snapshot of the post title and description along with a greater emphasis on the community it’s from
Customized share sheet that prioritizes your preferred sharing channels
The ability to share content to Instagram Stories directly from Reddit
The ability to share screenshots of posts with a link back to the original content
Note: Your Reddit username isn’t revealed when you share content
How a link to a text post appears on messaging appsIn addition, downloaded images from public community posts will now include attribution to the community the image is sourced from. (Or, if you’d rather not, you can remove this attribution through your “saved image attribution” user setting.)
Improved Embeds Tooling
Greetings, Reddit! It’s Changelog time.
Today we have a short and sweet post for y’all – as easy as 1, 2, 3 (which is the exact number of updates you’re about to read, if you stick around). Let’s get right into it!
Chat is getting…channels?!
This month, we’re experimenting exclusively with 25 volunteer subreddits on a new way to chat within subreddits - chat channels! Chat channels are dedicated spaces within a subreddit to connect, ask questions, or just hang out.
Chat channels in a subredditYou may be wondering…how is this different from our past chat products, like Live Chat?
For one, we’re taking a mod-first approach based on allll the past Chat learnings we’ve had. That means building with mods in mind (tooling, management, etc.) from the ground up. Mods even get a dedicated mod-only channel to talk mod-things among fellow mods.
Second, these will be dedicated spaces, rather than a one-off post that floats on by. This is your place for general discussion, a place to share random quips and reactions that you otherwise wouldn’t have in a post.
This is just the start. We’re first building with our volunteer communities in a small pilot program, and we’ll slowly expand for other subreddits to try out by request as the product continues to develop. In other words, we’ll be learning and iterating as we go with mod and user input along the way.
Are you a mod? Check out our r/modnews post for more details. Submit your subreddit to the waitlist if you’re interested in testing it out in the future.
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Hi Reddit! It’s u/Go_JasonWaterfalls, VP of Community here at Reddit. You may remember hearing from me in r/reddit’s very first [test] post, which you hopefully ignored. I’m happy to be back today for an exciting occasion… the one-year anniversary of Community Funds. Oh, how time flies.
Just a year ago, we formally announced the launch of Community Funds alongside a $1 million commitment to bring community passions and ideas to life. Since then, you’ve made magic happen with this one-of-a-kind program, from fundraising for local food banks to creating an art gallery exhibition.
We’re excited to recap some program highlights, celebrate all of the communities and redditors who have participated, and answer your questions about all things Community Funds.
Community Funds by the Numbers:
114 applications received
14 proposals funded (and 14 more being considered)
$156,162 in funding disbursed
10 million+ redditors engage in these funded communities
6 countries represented across these initiatives, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Australia, and Germany
Here’s what these folks have been up to recently with Community Funds:
r/constructedadventures hosted an IRL and virtual puzzle adventure, involving their community during every step of the game construction and puzzle-solving fun.
r/alberta partnered with other Canada-based subreddits to raise funds for local food banks. Together with Community Funds, they raised $54,055.69 CAD.
Greetings all you redditors, developers, mods, and more!
I’m joining you today to share some updates to Reddit’s Data API. I can sense your eagerness so here’s a TL;DR (though I highly encourage you to please read this post in its entirety).
TL;DR:
We are updating our terms for developer tools and services, including our Developer Terms, Data API Terms, Reddit Embeds Terms, and Ads API Terms, and are updating links to these terms in our User Agreement.
These updates should not impact moderation bots and extensions we know our moderators and communities rely on.
To further ensure minimal impact of updates to our Data API, we are continuing to build new moderator tools (while also maintaining existing tools).
We are additionally investing in our developer community and improving support for Reddit apps and bots via Reddit’s Developer Platform.
Finally, we are introducing premium access for third parties who require additional capabilities, higher usage limits, and broader usage rights.
And now, some background
Since we first launched our Data API in 2008, we’ve seen thousands of fantastic applications built: tools to make moderation easier, utilities that help users stay up to date on their favorite topics, or (my personal favorite) this thing that helps convert helpful figures into useless ones. Our APIs have also provided third parties with access to data to build user utilities, research, games, and mod bots.
However, expansive access to data has impact, and as a platform with one of the largest corpora of human-to-human conversations online, spanning the past 18 years, we have an obligation to our communities to be responsible stewards of this content.
Updating our Terms for Developer Tools and Services
Ahoy, Reddit!
Now that /u/BrineOfTheTimes is out of the way, I’m free to take over the tri-subreddit area! My first order of business is to highlight some awesome communities and happenings on Reddit (that aren’t my rise to power, mwuhaha!). There’s a little something for everyone this month!
📈TRENDING COMMUNITIES
It’s a video game. It’s a television show. It’s an emotional rollercoaster. It’s The Last of Us. If you’ve played the game or watched the show (or both), or may want to do either of those things, r/thelastofus is the largest community for fans of it all.
This community is filled with photos of cats seemingly experiencing an existential crisis. You’re welcome.
Source: https://redd.it/122p9t6Folks with and/or interested in tattoos, gather ‘round! In r/tattooadvice, you can discuss anything tattoo-related – design advice, questions about healing, cover-up ideas, and more.
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