Greetings, y’all!

The seasons are changing, and so are some things on Reddit – which means… it’s officially Changelog time. Keep reading to learn about the redesigned Help Center, translations for Android/iOS, and more.

Redesigned Help Center

In case you missed it, Reddit’s Help Center got a makeover! When visiting our main homepage, you’ll see two options: Moderator Help Center and Redditor Help Center. The Moderator Help Center caters to information and answers to questions about moderating communities on Reddit. The Redditor Help Center focuses on user support and information about managing your Reddit account and using the platform.

We've combined the Moderator Help Center with the existing Help Center to create a central hub for all of your support resources. All of the Mod Help Center links redirect to their new counterparts, and the articles still live in the same categories and sections. That said, this may be a good time to update any bookmarks you have.

The Contact Us page also got a slight adjustment to better consolidate the additional contact options that may be available. Several existing options are now unified under two new categories: Other reports and Intellectual Property requests.

Translated posts on Android/iOS

¡Ya puedes traducir las publicaciones en Reddit a otros lenguages! For non-Spanish speakers, that means you can now translate Reddit posts to other languages. The post details on iOS, Android, and logged out web can be translated into eight different languages to start (English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, and Swedish). By clicking on the “translate” button at the top of the post, the post will be translated to the language chosen via your user settings.

We’ve also started experimenting with translations to the comments on iOS and Android, so a few of you may notice this experiment too. Soon, your entire conversation experience on Reddit can be multilingual!

¡Hasta luego!

Coins deprecation reminder

As previously mentioned, September 12, 2023 is the last day that coins will be operational on Reddit. Please take some time to use your coins in the upcoming week. Award-giving on old reddit and the mobile desktop experience has already been deprecated.

Cleaning up redirect subdomains

In an effort to clean up subdomains, new.reddit.com will now take logged-out redditors to our new and improved logged-out desktop experience. For logged in users, nothing has changed.

That’s a wrap on Changelog for today. Have questions about these updates? We’ll stick around in the comments for a bit to reply.

TL;DR we’ve made improvements to reddit.com to deliver a more consistent, reliable, and fast web experience for people not logged in. This experience is now available to everyone globally on desktop and mobile web.

Hello all,

I’m u/whizlogic, a product lead at Reddit focused on the performance, stability, and quality of our web platforms, and today I’m sharing an update from our earlier post on improving the web experience. This year we’ve been focused on updating the logged out web experience to make it easier for redditors to connect with relevant communities and conversations.

To set some context: Many of Reddit’s logged out visitors find us from external search engines. These people are often looking for community-verified content on their mobile, tablet or desktop devices. While some people in this group know Reddit and are seeking it out specifically, many others visit Reddit infrequently or are just finding it for the first time.

With these people in mind, we’ve made some changes to the logged out experience:

• Performance: The new logged out web experience is more than twice as fast as our previous web platforms - which means Redditors can get directly to the content they came for – instead of waiting… and waiting for the page to load.

• Search: Redditors can more easily find relevant content with a simpler, consistent, and more intuitive search results page. We’ve simplified the post units and layout to make scanning for relevant results effortless, and completely modernized the mobile experience to prioritize posts.

• Feeds: The feeds all have a similar look and feel and the Popular feed will now include six trending post units (an increase from four slots) at the top of the page on desktop to keep you looped in on what’s happening around the world. The desktop home feed features a sticky sidebar on the right showcasing Reddit’s popular communities. Post units have been refreshed – unused space within and between post units is reduced to highlight the content in your feeds. The size of post titles has increased in size and images and videos will now have an inset within the post for a cleaner looking post unit and less wasted vertical space.

• Comments page: On larger devices the content in the right sidebar has been updated to show related posts which helps folks understand what else they can find on Reddit. The right sidebar also scrolls independently, to ensure redditors don’t lose their place. (On smaller devices (like mobile) you can find the same content under the post.)

• Community page: Just like on the Comments page – the right sidebar has been updated to scroll independently, providing consistent context and access to community info (about, menu, rules, etc.) for users while they browse the feed. Post units within the community feed have been refreshed to match with the home feeds. The community banner has been relocated to the top right of the page so that visitors can easily locate your community’s content. Custom community styling is not available for the logged out experience at this stage. However, we recognize that community styling is an important part of Reddit communities. Mods will have the ability to customize their communities for logged in users.

• Profile: The page has been simplified and refreshed to match the other logged out experiences and an overflow menu has been added to the profile card to organize actions like “send message”, “report” user, and “add to custom feed” in one place.

Check out the mobile web pages here.

In terms of what’s next, we’re focusing on modernizing and improving the stability and performance of the logged in experience. As previously mentioned, we’ll continue to partner with the Mod Council to ensure communities can continue expressing their unique identities, and improve the moderation experience.