Updates
TL;DR
Here’s what we’re getting up to this year:
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Making moderating easier and introducing new safety tools.
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Improving the user experience.
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Enabling developers to bring new experiences to Reddit.
Hi, redditors, this is the Reddit Product Team and we’re here to share what we’re building to make Reddit the best place for communities and conversations. Here are some of the big things we’re working on.
Making moderating easier
We’re rolling out more sophisticated and AI-powered moderation tools to make mobile modding easier. Think superpowered Post Guidance on mobile, keyword highlighting to quickly find content that contains phrases captured by Automod, and saved responses so mods no longer need to leave the app to copy and paste when they need templated responses. Tools to help mods more efficiently manage influxes of community members and conversations are also on their way. More deets on this are posted .
Last, but not least, you’ll continue to see that expand on features we released in the past few months, like improved automated removal of undesired content, LLM-powered harassment filters, and user details reporting.
Improving the user experience
TBH, we’re really trying to amp up the number of times we can comment with FTFY this year. Here’s what’s on the way:
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Faster redditting and improved access to shortcuts and transitions. ICYMI, our new web platform is more than twice as fast, and 2023 saw a more than 10% reduction in app start time.
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New ways to search.
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Simpler experiences for navigating conversations that will be the same regardless of how you use Reddit: in-app, on desktop, logged-out, etc.
We want to bring you cohesive, intuitive, and speedy experiences across every single screen. And before you ask, we’re going to continue to support old Reddit, which many of you (and us) love! IYKYK. We’ve already incorporated some of the best elements of old.reddit into recent updates.
We also want everyone to be able to make Reddit their own, regardless of where they live or the language(s) they speak. We’re making communities and conversations more accessible across more languages, meaning people can engage with content in their own language, no matter what language that subreddit is originally created in.
In terms of improving accessibility, so far this year we’ve introduced closed captioning on videos and font resizing on our native mobile apps. There’s much more on the way, and our goal is to be compliant with the World Wide Web Consortium’s accessibility guidelines (WCAG 2.1) by the end of 2024.
We said goodbye to a few products and features in 2023, some of which we may have parted with too early – specifically Awards. We messed up; we lost some of the whimsy and Reddit-y-ness that Awards brought to the platform. This year we’re working to bring back Awards in a way that combines the fun and expression they originally offered, combined with real money value to redditors participating in the Contributor Program.
AMAs - you know them, you love them, sometimes you didn’t even get the chance to ask Keanu your question because wait, that was today? I thought I set a !remindme…
This year we’re revamping and modernizing the entire AMA experience - from hosting, to the questions, and yes, even event reminders. More to come this AMAy (see what we did there?)
Enabling developers to bring new experiences to Reddit
We’re ramping up our Developer Platform to bring new ways for the community to co-create elements that make Reddit more engaging and fun. While admins are building new tools for the platform all the time, we want to give community developers the same opportunity - because, at the end of the day, it’s redditors who know the best and most exciting ways to move the platform forward.
Already this year we’ve seen new, developer-built apps on Reddit, like the in , and a new module highlighting what’s trending in .
Watch this space. You’ll see more live score formats for sports, interactive games, and new post types in the coming months.
These are just a few highlights of what’s coming in 2024. We know we need to build what you want, so if you’re interested in providing feedback on Reddit products, you can join our .
A few of us are sticking around to answer any questions you may have, so fire away!
Updates
Hello, redditors!
Today we published our , which shares data and insights about our content moderation and legal requests from July through December 2023.
Reddit’s biannual Transparency Reports provide insights and metrics about content that was removed from Reddit – including content proactively removed as a result of automated tooling, accounts that were suspended, and legal requests we received from governments, law enforcement agencies, and third parties from around the world to remove content or disclose user data.
Some key highlights include:
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Content Creation & Removals:
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Between July and December 2023, redditors shared over 4.4 billion pieces of content, bringing the total content on Reddit (posts, comments, private messages and chats) in 2023 to over 8.8 billion. (+6% YoY). The vast majority of content (~96%) was not found to violate our or individual community rules.
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Of the ~4% of removed content, about half was removed by admins and half by moderators. (Note that moderator removals include removals due to their individual community rules, and so are not necessarily indicative of content being unsafe, whereas admin removals only include violations of our Content Policy).
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Over 72% of moderator actions were taken with Automod, a customizable tool provided by Reddit that mods can use to take automated moderation actions. We have enhanced the safety tools available for mods and expanded Automod in the past year. You can see more about that .
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The majority of admin removals were for spam (67.7%), which is consistent with past reports.
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As Reddit's tools and enforcement capabilities keep evolving, we continue to see a trend of admins gradually taking on more content moderation actions from moderators, leaving moderators more room to focus on their individual community rules.
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We saw a ~44% increase in the proportion of non-spam, rule-violating content removed by admins, as opposed to mods (admins remove the majority of spam on the platform using scaled backend tooling, so excluding it is a good way of understanding other Content Policy violations).
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New “Communities” Section
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We’ve added a new “Communities” section to the report to highlight subreddit-level actions as well as admin enforcement of Reddit’s .
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Global Legal Requests
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We continue to process large volumes of global legal requests from around the world. Interestingly, we’ve seen overall decreases in global government and law enforcement legal requests to remove content or disclose account information compared to the first half of 2023.
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We routinely push back on overbroad or otherwise objectionable requests for account information, and fight to ensure users are notified of requests.
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In one notable U.S. request for user information, we were served with a sealed search warrant from the LAPD seeking records for an account allegedly involved in the of an LA City Council meeting recording that resulted in the resignation of prominent, local political leaders. We fought to notify the account holder about the warrant, and while we didn’t prevail initially, we persisted and were eventually able to get the warrant and proceedings unsealed and provide notice to the redditor.
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You can read more insights in the full document: . You can also see all of our past reports and more information on our policies and procedures in our .
Please let us know in the comments section if you have any questions or are interested in learning more about other data or insights.
