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The most official Reddit community of all official Reddit communities. Your go-to place for Reddit updates, announcements, and news. Occasional frivolity.
The most official Reddit community of all official Reddit communities. Your go-to place for Reddit updates, announcements, and news. Occasional frivolity.
Ah, good catch -- sorry about that! Should be good to go now.
The most official Reddit community of all official Reddit communities. Your go-to place for Reddit updates, announcements, and news. Occasional frivolity.
The most official Reddit community of all official Reddit communities. Your go-to place for Reddit updates, announcements, and news. Occasional frivolity.
To get a sense of how people are feeling about the experience, we conduct user research via surveys, collect feedback from the Reddit Mod Council (ongoing), and as always, continue to pay attention to posts and comments across Reddit.
The most official Reddit community of all official Reddit communities. Your go-to place for Reddit updates, announcements, and news. Occasional frivolity.
Happy Monday, y’all!
Another month has passed, which means it’s time for Changelog. Keep reading to learn about the latest changes on Reddit, including new chat channels features, an easier way to follow conversations, and improvements to reddit.com on mobile and desktop.
Chat channels updates: pinned messages, threading, and typing indicators!
Speaking of chat channels, we’ve launched some new features and mod tools in the past couple of months that we are excited to share with you.
As a mod, you can now pin your message to the top of a chat channel. Many of our communities are using pinned messages to welcome members, share rules, keep conversations on topic, or highlight something funny/interesting in the chat.
https://preview.redd.it/changelog-comment-spotlights-new-chat-channels-features-and-v0-bufarb36n50c1.png?width=1100&format=png&auto=webp&s=e2922ba6ad9596651f0c14f395db19b7a5cae024As a user, you can now have threads or side conversations in a chat channel. Simply tap on the message you’d like to respond to and select ‘reply.’ Other people will be able to see the thread and respond to the message as well.
Lastly, we’ve added typing indicators to the experience so that you’ll be able to visually see other redditors typing in the channel.
If you're a mod, you can request the chat channels beta in your community by filling out this brief form.
Comment Spotlights on iOS and Android
Conversations on Reddit are now easier to follow, thanks to Comment Spotlights. Comment Spotlights give you additional context when you click on the overflow menu on a comment by highlighting the comment in focus and also providing a preview of a comment’s direct parent if it’s a reply.
Comment Spotlights are also available when clicking on the mod shield to improve the moderation experience on the post and comments page.
https://preview.redd.it/changelog-comment-spotlights-new-chat-channels-features-and-v0-o7vn04bgn50c1.gif?width=1254&auto=webp&s=dac1be34352203a256e14e7071bcc7c187f0d52fUpdates to reddit.com
We’ve started to allow a small number of redditors to access the improved logged-in desktop and mobile web experience. This updated web experience loads significantly faster and will be similar to the recently updated logged-out web experience.
We’ll be continuously working on making progress over the next few months and will work to expand these improvements to moderators as well. We plan on sharing mod-specific updates on this in r/modnews soon.
If you’re a user (non-mod) and interested in getting early access to the improved web experience please let us know here. If selected, we’ll reach out via DM.
Screen reader improvements on mobile for better accessibility
In case you missed it, last week we announced the accessibility updates made on 14 core surfaces to improve the experience of mobile users who engage and navigate content on Reddit with VoiceOver (iOS) and TalkBack (Android).
That’s all for today, folks. Have questions about these updates? Holler in the comments – we’ll stick around for a bit to reply.
The most official Reddit community of all official Reddit communities. Your go-to place for Reddit updates, announcements, and news. Occasional frivolity.
The most official Reddit community of all official Reddit communities. Your go-to place for Reddit updates, announcements, and news. Occasional frivolity.
Additional text sizing options are on the way, and we’ll keep you posted on when those become available.
The most official Reddit community of all official Reddit communities. Your go-to place for Reddit updates, announcements, and news. Occasional frivolity.
Hey y’all, it’s Changelog time. Keep reading for updates on iOS in-app text sizing, Android comments page, and a brand new mobile beta program.
iOS in-app text sizing
Calling all iOS device holders – as of this week your in-app text size will be based on your device settings. Now that your app text size depends on your phone’s settings, you can select your text size from several different options to best fit your reading needs. If you want your text size on Reddit to be different from your OS text size, you can follow these steps:
Open device settings > Tap “Accessibility” > Select “Per-App Settings” > Tap “Add app” and select Reddit > click on Reddit and select “Larger Text”
Voila! You’ve unlocked the ability to change the app text sizes directly from the iOS system settings.
Android comments page updates
Android users, we’ve got an update for you too. The comments page has gotten a bit of a revamp to ensure a consistent experience across pages. Visually, media in posts now have an inset with rounded corners, and the size of the subreddit avatar in the post is smaller to match the size found in post units on the community page. Additionally, the presence information (e.g. # people here, # people typing…) at the bottom of the page now appears in the top navigation bar on scroll, giving you more real estate to read and engage with comments. iOS updates to follow.
https://preview.redd.it/changelog-ios-in-app-text-sizing-android-comments-page-v0-v023uln9fttb1.png?width=719&format=png&auto=webp&s=0a3d47adbec319ea4cfd84fd9e9ae1725720906dReddit Mobile Beta launch & closing of r/beta
We’ve launched a brand new mobile beta program! If you're interested in joining please take a look at our announcement post and submit the form linked at the bottom of that post to sign up. We’re currently enrolling both Android and iOS users, but we’re capping sign ups to 1,000 users in this initial round. If you aren’t accepted into the program this time around, stay tuned for future opportunities to join.
To make it easier for redditors to more easily find the support they need, we recently archived r/beta (which, over time, strayed away from its original purpose). Learn more about the change and info on how to report bugs here.
That’s it for today! Have questions about these updates? We’ll stick around in the comments for a bit to reply.
The most official Reddit community of all official Reddit communities. Your go-to place for Reddit updates, announcements, and news. Occasional frivolity.
The most official Reddit community of all official Reddit communities. Your go-to place for Reddit updates, announcements, and news. Occasional frivolity.
We appreciate your candor -- that all makes a lot of sense, thanks for reaching back out.
The most official Reddit community of all official Reddit communities. Your go-to place for Reddit updates, announcements, and news. Occasional frivolity.
The most official Reddit community of all official Reddit communities. Your go-to place for Reddit updates, announcements, and news. Occasional frivolity.
We're currently using Google services for translations in a manner consistent with our privacy policy. In the future we may change that and build our own service, which we're still experimenting with.
The most official Reddit community of all official Reddit communities. Your go-to place for Reddit updates, announcements, and news. Occasional frivolity.
The most official Reddit community of all official Reddit communities. Your go-to place for Reddit updates, announcements, and news. Occasional frivolity.
Since we’re still in the assessment and ramp up phase, we’re testing out a mix of things until we find the right fit (this might depend on post language, user language, etc.). As for feedback, we encourage users to “rate” the translation to help us in cases where translations are off.