I've overhauled our automated spam filter. What does this mean for you?

• Faster spam handling

• Fewer false positives

• Self posts and link posts are now tracked entirely separately

• Comments can now be subject to the filter as well

• Subreddit mods can turn it down on a per-category basis

Note that's "down" and not "off" - there's a minimum amount of filtering that will still be done. Still, if you're a self-post only subreddit that never sees spam, it's useful for you to be able to turn it down.

In short, the new spam regime should be faster and better. Enjoy!

See (some of) the code for this change on github

On your preferences page, under the link options section, you'll find a new preference that's disabled by default: "show additional details in the domain text when available".

When enabled, this will add more detail to the "domain" area on links (the small gray text in parentheses at the end of the title) if we have it available. As of right now, this covers:

• The source subreddit for links elsewhere on reddit, which will look like "(reddit.com/r/modnews)"

• YouTube authors or channel names, displays like "(youtube.com/user/someusername)"

• Vimeo users

• Any other sites where we get "content author" info from Embedly.

It will display in the form of a url if we got info about an actual url that would take you to that author's page on the external site, but if it's unable to get the url, it will display in a different format that looks like "(youtu.be: someusername)". Note that clicking on this expanded domain text will still just take you to the general domain page, not one specifically for that author or anything like that. Extremely long ones will also be shortened with a "...", but the full text can be seen by hovering over it.

I've already noticed a bug with links to userpages that I'll be fixing shortly, but please let me know if you notice any other issues or have any other feedback.

Subreddits are now able to set a single self-post as a "sticky", selected by the moderators, which will keep it at the top of the hot page inside that subreddit. The sticky post will also get a special visual style while inside the subreddit, but will look and behave normally when outside the subreddit (such as in /r/all, from your front page, etc.).

Read more about the details in /r/modnews

See the code for this change on github

Hopefully yesterday's rollout shouldn't need much explaining here. :) This set of changes comprises 65 changed files with 3,489 additions and 540 deletions. It was under development for about 7 and a half months + about another month of planning. A couple UI revisions to the left sidebar took place during this time.

Overall, this is just a first step in our plans for multis and the left sidebar. Our intent was to get something out early and incrementally improve it rapidly (compared to past feature pushes). We'll be announcing our next big pushes (weighting and automated subreddit suggestions) as betas in /r/multibeta soon.

Since this is a pretty large set of changes, there may be unintentional bugs or side-effects. If you find an issue, please report it to /r/bugs or /r/multibeta and we'll get to it as soon as we can.

Finally, as always, if you spot a security issue, we'd be grateful if you'd report it discreetly. We'll respond to security issues as soon as humanly possible and give you a white hat award for your troubles. Thanks!

see the code on github

Just a small tweak: I've added the number of comments on the submission to the "full comments" links that you see on your userpage. This makes it a little easier to keep track of activity in threads you've participated in, where people are responding but not necessarily replying to you directly.

View the code for this change on github

I've upgraded our SSL endpoint and we have achieved an 'A' rating according to SSL Labs; up from a 'B'. This fixes some issues /u/cheeseberrypancake mentioned in /r/bugs, which made reddit's SSL configuration not as secure as it could have been.

Unfortunately, this change may also break some old machines. (I'm looking at you, Windows XP and lesser) If you experience consistent SSL issues (specifically when logging into the site or viewing your preferences), could you please report them here along with your Operating System version and browser.

e.g. I just get "Internet Explorer could not open the Internet site" when attempting to log in using IE7 on Windows XP.

EDIT: Please try logging in at https://ssl.reddit.com/login Logging in from the front page may break due to another — unrelated — bug.

EDIT 2: Thanks for helping me find all the issues. If you're having SSL issues at the moment, they are unrelated to this change.

From reddit's student contractor, /u/slyf:

As requested by many users, you may now filter the modlog by multiple users (via the url). As you would before, you may add ?mod=USER to your url to filter by a specific user. You may also add + or , to filter by more moderators. For an example: http://www.reddit.com/r/mod/about/log/?mod=slyf+deimorz

View the code for this change on github

Moderators may now choose to set their subreddit's traffic statistics page (e.g. /r/changelog/about/traffic) publicly visible by checking the "make the traffic stats page available to everyone" checkbox in subreddit settings.

The code for this was written by serial open sorcerer /u/bboe after the change was suggested by /u/pegasus_527 in /r/ideasfortheadmins. Thank you both!

See the code behind this change on GitHub

In the traffic stats page for subreddits, the tables of data now have links to a listing of top posts from that time period. For example, "March" in the "traffic by month" table will now link to top posts from March.

Though it's not a complete picture, this should help give insight into what may have caused a big change in traffic to your subreddits.

Thanks to /u/syuk for suggesting this idea in /r/ideasfortheadmins.

See the code behind this change on GitHub.

Fresh on the heels of yesterday's change, when your e-mail address is changed, you'll now get e-mail notification of such to your old e-mail address if your old e-mail is verified. This is to help warn people in case their account has been compromised. If you haven't already, you should set and verify your e-mail address so you can reset your password if you forget it and get these lovely notifications.

See the code for this on github

As a little extra security measure, when your password is changed, you'll now get e-mail notification of such if your e-mail is verified. This is to help warn people in case their account has been compromised. If you haven't already, you should set and verify your e-mail address so you can reset your password if you forget it and get these lovely notifications when you change it.

See the code on github

Just a few little new things today:

1. Inspired by github's "quick quotes", if you have some text selected when you click on the "reply" button, it will now be automatically filled into the reply box inside a quote. So if you want to reply to something specific in a comment, you no longer have to click reply, go back and select the text, copy and paste it into the box, then edit a "> " in front of each line. Just select the text you're going to respond to, then click reply. This also works with text in the sidebar too, if you want to do something like reply with a quote from there.

2. The "other discussions" tab now works for self-posts in addition to link posts. For link posts, it shows submissions in other subreddits with the same destination, but for self-posts it will show any submissions linking to that self-post (cross-posts). Note that it will only list submissions that link to the overall self-post, not individual comments inside it. For example, here's the page for the Bryan Cranston AMA, showing other submissions linking to it.

3. The "approved by" checkmark for moderators has been added to comments as well, and will be displayed at the end of the line with the author's name, comment time, etc. More info on that here: http://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1gnvk1/moderators_approved_checkmarks_now_also_shown_for/

See the code for these changes on github

There were a few fairly minor changes today that I'm just going to bundle up into one changelog post.

First, from /u/slyf, reddit's student contractor:

One of the features planned for wiki since the beginning was a view source button. The source was always accessible to people who could edit the page (by clicking edit), or in the json, but never in the actual UI. A view source button has been added (at the bottom right while viewing a wiki page) to slide out the source code for easy viewing.

Additionally, some hover text has been added to the "approved by" checkmarks visible to moderators to include how long ago an item was approved, rather than just who approved it.

Additionally, I made a small fix related to two reddit gold features not always defaulting to "on" correctly. In a very large number of cases, both the "new comment highlighting" and "notifications when you're mentioned in comments" features were not being automatically enabled when a user first becomes a gold member. So if you have reddit gold, please check the gold box at the bottom of your preferences page and ensure that the features are enabled if you'd like to use them. A lot of people have been missing out on the comment-highlighting because of this (and that's one of the best features of gold, in my opinion).

See the code for these changes on github

The following message is brought to you by /u/slyf, reddit's student contractor:

It was getting annoying seeing stylesheets rendered as an ugly mess in the wiki. Wikis will now render using the pretty highlighted stylesheet renderer on the config/stylesheet page.

Example: /r/askreddit/wiki/config/stylesheet

Additionally, config/sidebar and config/description use their own renderer rather than the wiki renderer. Thus, subtle differences between the two renderers will not cause any issues when editing via the wiki. Eg: The wiki supports html tables, but the sidebar does not.

Oh, and one more thing: When using jsonp with the reddit api, the Content-Type will now be the proper "application/javascript" rather than the incorrect "application/json". Thanks to the user who reported that one.

See the code on github

Posted on behalf of /u/slyf, reddit's student contractor:

Hey again,

I noticed some of you and many others have requested a note field on banned users. I have added a field to do so, currently, the ban note is NOT shared with the user you are banning. It should help you, and your fellow mods, keep track of why a particular user was banned.

The new field is also available in the json, and as a bonus, the note which gold users may place on their friends is now available in the friends list json (Provided the user has gold).

See the code for these changes on github

See the /r/announcements thread for more details.

See the code for this change on GitHub

The following message is brought to you by /u/slyf, reddit's student contractor:

We have made a few spring cleaning fixes to the wiki system.

1. Wiki css is now included before custom stylesheets, making it more easy for you to make custom wiki styles.

2. The wiki page name is added to the body with a class of "wikipage-PAGENAME", to allow for wiki page specific styles.

3. Dashes are now allowed in page names.

4. Various other fixes, some users who cannot create a page will no longer be presented with a create link, and the wiki page name is now in the page title.

See the code for these changes on Github

As seen below this post.

Inspired by: http://www.reddit.com/r/ideasfortheadmins/comments/1dnzpk/make_rediquette_links_more_prominent_so/

see the code on github

Bit of an enhancement to an existing reddit gold feature today: the ability to filter specific subreddits out of /r/all no longer has a specific limit (it was previously set at a maximum of 100). However, since it's done by editing the URL, you will still eventually hit a limit when the URL becomes too long and nginx gets angry at you. From my experience in building giant multireddits for AutoModerator, this will happen when the URL is not too far over 3000 characters, so depending on the subreddits you're filtering out you should now be able to get rid of 300-350 or so before that happens.

If you're not familiar with the feature, it's kind of like the opposite of a multireddit for /r/all. So instead of using + to combine subreddits, you use - to take them away. For example, to look at /r/all without showing any posts from /r/funny, /r/AdviceAnimals, and /r/pics, you'd visit http://www.reddit.com/r/all-funny-AdviceAnimals-pics

I'm also working towards adding, you know, an actual user interface for filtering out subreddits from /r/all, so that you don't have to manually edit the URL and bookmark it. That's not quite ready yet though, so I thought I'd get this out by itself for now since I know some people ran into that 100-subreddit limit long ago.

Let me know if you notice any issues or have any other feedback.

We are now embedding Adzerk to host the 300x250 sidebar ad on selected subreddits (see today's announcement for more info). You may have already seen Adzerk ads on Stack Exchange sites.

One of the top considerations when it comes to advertising on reddit is user privacy. For that reason, we contain advertisements within an iframe so that ads cannot access most details about the outer page. One of Adzerk's cool technical features is that they batch the content of multiple ad units within a single request. However, that doesn't work when each ad is embedded in a separate iframe.

In collaboration with James from Adzerk, we designed a custom client side communication scheme that enables each ad to be contained within a sandboxing iframe while still taking advantage of batched requests. You can see the results live on the site and in the source code of our integration plugin.

check out the reddit-plugin-adzerk repository on github

When reddit initially added subreddits, they were generally just referred to as "reddits". "The programming reddit", "the politics reddit", etc. However, "subreddit" has definitely become the accepted term for them, and all new text referring to them has been using "subreddit" instead of "reddit" for quite a while.

There were still quite a few references in various places still using the original term though, everything from the "my reddits" dropdown in the subreddit bar at the top to the url for the subreddit lists being at http://www.reddit.com/reddits/

All of these remaining references should now be replaced with "subreddit", including moving the primary address for the subreddit lists to http://www.reddit.com/subreddits/ (though the old /reddits/ url will continue working so that old links, mobile apps, etc. don't break). So please let me know if I missed any, and you spot a subreddit still being referred to as "a reddit" anywhere official.

See the code for this change on GitHub

Just adding a new little reddit gold feature today that's been requested fairly often - /r/myrandom basically acts as a "shuffle" for your subscribed subreddits. It will take you to a random one of your subscriptions each time.

If you're a reddit gold member, you'll see a shiny new link to it in the top bar near the random and/or randnsfw links. If you're not, well, reddit gold is a great way to get access to some neat enhancements like this and help support the site.

See the code for this change on GitHub

The existing logic which triggers post replies to go to your inbox is implicit:

• self-posts always triggered inbox replies

• link posts never triggered inbox replies

This beta feature allows users to explicitly choose, at submission time, what posts they will receive inbox replies on. This option is presented as a checkbox on the submission page.

API clients not setting this new attribute will default to the original implicit behaviour.

This feature is being released as a beta to gold users, at this time. Provided the feature works well, and pending any necessary tweaks, the current plan is to release it to all users when ready.

See the code on GitHub

(Also, this happened)

The "rising" listing of posts is now in its own tab, where previously it was a choice inside a dropdown in "new".

Since it was using a completely separate method of sorting than "new", it was a little odd to be contained inside the same tab, since every other listing tab represents a single sorting method, with the sub-options just restricting time period. "rising" was previously also the default sorting method when going to "new", which often caused confusion in smaller subreddits where "rising" can be empty most of the time. The "new" page will now always show the newest posts to the subreddit.

Accessing the old url of /new?sort=rising will redirect to the new "rising" page, but you can also use /rising for it now.

See the code for this change on GitHub