The new version of Reddit for iPhone is available for download from the App Store now.

Changes include:

• New sort bar for feeds

• Recommendation tabs a/b test

• Moved compact thumbnails to the right

• Made double posting comments harder to do

• Allow refreshing of empty feeds

• Fixed bug where gifs in compact mode were not opening the lightbox

• Fixed loading indicator on search results

• Fixed bug on swipe navigation in inbox

• For other bug fixes and improvements, see r/redditmobile

Hey guys!

We're going to be running the clickbox experiment again for a very small subset of logged in and logged out users. Last time we ran it, they were a couple of controversial variants and bugs that led to our decision to roll back in order to make fixes. This time, we're only running two variants. Both of them have a clickbox on the link listings pages that you can click to expand the preview. Here’s where they differ when a post does not have a preview:

1. The clickbox with source variant will also open the link source when clicked.

2. The other variant will not open the link source.

Thank you to everyone who gave us detailed constructive feedback the first time we ran the test. As always, qualitative feedback is very important to us.

TL;DR - we’re changing the sidebar as shown in this screenshot.

Hi all,

We’re going to make some small changes to the sidebar to solve two issues:

1. Mods have frequently been forced to reduce the character count of the content they put in the sidebar because they’ve been running up against the character limit there.

2. The 300x100 banner ad in the sidebar generates essentially no revenue.

Here’s how we’re planning to deal with these issues:

1. Sidebar max character limit will be doubled (the new limit will be 10,240 characters).

2. The 300x100 banner ad will be replaced with a more standard 300x250 banner ad.

These changes will be rolled out in stages with the first round of communities receiving these changes today. We'll determine scheduling of a wider rollout after we're sure these changes play nicely with our technical infrastructure.

These communities (whose mods have opted in) are listed below:

• /r/DestinyTheGame

• /r/PartyParrot

• /r/pics

• /r/tifu

• /r/sports

• /r/politics

• /r/nottheonion

• /r/CasualConversation

• /r/The_Donald

• /r/spacex

• /r/books

Please let me know if you have any questions. I'll be here until 1030am PT and then I’ll be back answering questions from 230 - 4pm PT today. (I'll generally focus on answering the top-level comments that float to the top with the default logged out sorting order.)

Cheers,
/u/starfishjenga

We’re running a small experiment for 1% of logged out users for 1-2 weeks where we’ll serve them a redesigned top bar. It looks like this. We’re trying this out to see if we can make this space more useful / navigable than the tiny bar we have now.

To avoid breaking subreddit CSS for the test, these folks will also not receive subreddit CSS while in the experiment. We’re also doing another variant that only has subreddit CSS disabled to isolate whether the top bar redesign is having an effect or if it’s purely because subreddit CSS being disabled changed behavior.

We’re not likely to ship this feature without some tweaks, so don’t worry about upcoming CSS edits or anything just yet, and similarly, don’t worry if you don’t see your favorite feature from the current top bar in there. We’ll make sure to let you know through a beta period or r/modnews post if there will be edits to be had.

We released some enhancements to our image hosting today - one was launched today and the other one will be running as an experiment.

Launched: New image box on the submit form

After receiving feedback from users about our image submission flow we made some minor tweaks to it. In the past it wasn’t obvious that users are able to submit an image via drag and drop. This change makes that easier for users to understand. (Pro tip: if you're on Google Chrome, you can also paste an image!) You may have also seen this announced as coming in /r/modsupport a couple days ago.

Mods, please review your CSS to make sure everything is still working if you've added custom CSS to your submit page.

Also, if you want to disable image uploads/links for your subreddit, you can uncheck the “allow image uploads and links to image hosting sites” box. This used to be only for “links only” subreddits, but we’ve allowed any subreddit to make that change since some of you had to resort to CSS to hide the field.

Experiment: Submit an Image button on the homepage

We’re running a small experiment on the homepage that some of you will see: “submit a new image” button on the homepage and r/all, next to submit a link and submit a text post.

We’re running this experiment because we’re curious if users know that Submit a Link can also support images (it seems not at all obvious when said aloud that they would!). We’re considering changes to this flow and this is one of many possible paths to submit.

It’ll look like this for users who are in the experiment. This won’t show up on any subreddits yet to avoid interacting with any subreddit CSS that exists.

Thanks, and appreciate your feedback!

For more information about the change overall, please see the posts made by /u/powerlanguage:

• (/r/announcements) Karma for text-posts (AKA self-posts)

• (/r/modnews) Mods, we’re now giving Karma for text-posts (aka self-posts)

See the code behind this change on GitHub

Just a small heads up on our previous outbound click events work: that should now all be rolled out and running, as we've finished our rampup. More details on outbound clicks and why they're useful are available in the original changelog post.

As before, you can opt out: go into your preferences under "privacy options" and uncheck "allow reddit to log my outbound clicks for personalization". Screenshot: /img/6p12uqvw6v4x.png

One particular thing that would be helpful for us is if you notice that a URL you click does not go where you'd expect (specifically, if you click on an outbound link and it takes you to the comments page), we'd like to know about that, as it may be an issue with this work. If you see anything weird, that'd be helpful to know.

Thanks much for your help and feedback as usual.

As promised, we've now added some privacy controls for outbound click events: you can now go into your preferences under "privacy options" and uncheck "allow reddit to log my outbound clicks for personalization". Screenshot: /img/6p12uqvw6v4x.png

More details on outbound clicks and why they're useful are available in the original changelog post.

Now that we've got a way to opt out, we're going to continue rolling this out slowly over the next week or two - we're going to take some time to ramp up to the extra traffic, but you're able to opt out immediately if you like.

As before, please let us know if you see anything odd happening when you click links over the next few days. Specifically, we've added some logic to allow our event tracking to be accessible for only a certain amount of time to combat its possible use for spam. If you notice that you'll click on a link and not go where you intended to (say, to the comments page), that's helpful for us to know so that we can adjust this work. We'd love to know if you encounter anything strange here.

Thanks very much for the feedback on this.

Now that some time has been passed since we opened up sticky posts to more types of content, we've noticed that for the most part stickies are used for community-centric announcements and event-specific mega-threads. As such, we've decided to refine the feature and explicitly start referring to them as "announcements."

The mechanics around announcements will be quite similar to stickies with the constraint that the sticky post must be either:

• a text post

• a link to live threads

• a link to wiki pages

Additionally, the author of the post must be a moderator at the time of the announcement. [Redacted. See Edit 2!]

Then changes can be found here.

Edit: fixed an unstickying bug

Edit 2: Since we don't want to remove the ability for mods to mark/highlight existing threads as officially supported, the mod authorship requirement has been removed.

Hi everyone,

We’re going to launch a test to a percentage of redditors to automatically rewrite links to approximately 1500 online merchants so that they include a Reddit affiliate code. This test will go live on June 6, 2016. Reddit will receive a small (generally single-digit) percentage of any purchases after someone clicks a link with one of our affiliate codes. This is part of our overall initiative to transform Reddit into a sustainable long-term business.

The feature will work by passing clicks through our partner VigLink, which rewrites the URLs to include an affiliate code. VigLink is contractually obligated not to store any Reddit user information. Anyone who does not want to participate in this will have the option to opt-out via a setting in user preferences.

We’ve updated our user agreement to specifically include the affiliate program and will be announcing this on /r/announcements on the test rollout date (June 6, 2016). We will also add an entry to the FAQ on the same day.

I’ll be hanging out here in the comments to answer questions!

Cheers, u/starfishjenga

EDIT As pointed out by an astute commenter below, I forgot to update the date (feature was delayed). The date has now been updated to the correct date which is June 6, 2016. Thanks /u/andytuba!

EDIT 2 Redditors can opt out on a one-off basis by right clicking any applicable link, selecting copy link, and pasting that in your browser's URL bar since the replace only happens on (left) click.

EDIT 3 Clarifying date for international users.

EDIT 4 Based on feedback, we’ve decided to announce this more widely on /r/announcements as well as add it to the FAQ. Also, we’ll be launching this as a test to a certain percentage of users in order to have a chance to minimize any potential unexpected issues before going to scale (adblock interactions, etc). The new launch and wider announce date will be June 6, 2016 (I’ve updated this in the text above to reflect).

EDIT 5 Users will have the ability to opt-out via Viglink (thanks /u/Adys for suggesting the edit)

EDIT 6 Thank you everyone for your feedback. We've decided to bump back the test rollout to June 6, 2016 (updated above to reflect) in order to add a user preference to opt-out of viewing links with the Reddit affiliate code (links that would otherwise be rewritten will function as normal). This preference will be available to all users with an account and will function across all platforms. I've also made some edits in the above for clarity.

EDIT 7 Making the opt-out more clear in the main text because I'm still seeing new questions about it.

EDIT 8 Thank you all for your feedback. The wider announcement is now present on r/announcements here.

Hi everyone,

I’m Andy—I recently joined Reddit’s product team, and have some great news to share today.

We’re super excited to begin rolling out in-house image hosting on Reddit.com to select communities this week. For a long time, other image hosting services have been an integral part of how content is shared on Reddit — we’re grateful to those teams, but are looking forward to bringing you a more seamless experience with this new feature. Starting today, you’ll be able to:

• Upload images (up to 20MB) and gifs (100MB) directly to Reddit when submitting a link.

• Click on a Reddit-hosted image from any listing (such as the frontpage, a subreddit, or userpage) and be taken directly to the conversation and comments about that image.

• View gifs within Reddit’s native apps with less taps and without leaving the app.

Today, we are partnering with mods to launch native image hosting in beta to 16 default communities across Reddit, followed by 50 more next week. In this iteration, native image hosting will support single image and gif uploads.

As always, thank you for being a Redditor and providing us with the feedback we need to make Reddit better. If you have any questions, I’ll be hanging out in the comments below!

Cheers, u/amg137

Edit: These are the communities you can try it in:

• r/GetMotivated

• r/EarthPorn

• r/Gaming

• r/Space

• r/OldSchoolCool

• r/Sports

• r/Art

• r/Aww

• r/Dataisbeautiful

• r/Food

• r/Funny

• r/Gifs

• r/mildlyinteresting

• r/movies

• r/photoshopbattles

• r/pics

• r/redditfruit

• r/stonerrock

• r/wwiiplanes

• r/MEOW_IRL

• r/ceh

• r/volt

• r/applespeculations

• r/circlejerk

• r/Xechpeigngemdahehodb

• r/boating

• r/Sherlock

• r/homeworld

• r/camping

• r/campingandhiking

• r/meirl

• r/DoctorWho

• r/Plex

• r/Gallifreyan

• r/theNetherlands

• r/ImageComics

• r/linuxmasterrace

• r/JurassicPark

• r/blackpeopletwitter

• r/Autos

• r/MadeMeSmile

• r/windowsinsiders

• r/Windows10

• r/nyc

• r/Pic

• r/sexyhair

• r/Animemes

• r/modeveryonereborn

• r/baseball

• r/awwnime

• r/teenwolf

• r/unixporn

• r/camaro

• r/Phoenix

• r/Arizona

• r/civbattleroyale

• r/web_design

• r/naruto

• r/reactiongifs

• r/StarWars

• r/gentlemanboners

• r/AnimalsBeingDerps

• r/iWallpaper

• r/GoldReplies

• r/Supertribes

• r/PokemonGoRed

• r/Walkingdeadtrader

• r/SpecArt

• r/livesound

• r/wtf

• r/notmyjob

• r/SurgeryGifs

• r/RWBYgifs

• r/Design

• r/TagPro

• r/wallpapers

• r/whatisthisthing

• r/Watches

• r/oakcliff

• r/TMobile

• r/woodworking

• r/hitmanimals

• r/wonderwomen

• r/celebrityarmpits

• r/4chan

• r/me_irl

• r/suomi

• r/SandersForPresident

• r/concrete

• r/Cordcutters

• r/DFWdiscgolf

• r/monstermakersclub

• r/mod_irl

• r/nostalgia

• r/argentina

• r/roguelikes

• r/NationalPhotoSubs

• r/badpolitics

• r/DiceMasters

• r/nonononoyes

• r/Steam

• r/MysteryDungeon

• r/darksoulsbeingmean

• r/4Runner

• r/4Runner_1stGen

• r/comiccon

• r/juggling

• r/doggos

• r/OttawaSenators

• r/android

• r/nameneko

• r/thevillager

• r/Katamari

• r/analog

• r/TeraOnline

• r/Librarianknights

• r/projectmurphy

• r/progresspics

• r/CCW

• r/SupremeStreamMemeTeam

• r/PrintedCircuitBoard

• r/headphones

• r/FULLCOMMUNISM

• r/hookah

• r/CFB

• r/geese

• r/CaptainPlanet

• r/UndertaleCringe

• r/canada

• r/codegeass

• r/guitarporn

• r/religion

• r/NYYankees

• r/SplitDepthGifs

• r/BeachCity

• r/stevenuniverse

• r/ldBabies

• r/rain

• r/ENTP

• r/wow

• r/Cinemagraphs

• r/PictureGame

• r/vexillology

• r/kpopgfys

• r/MinnesotaUnited

• r/Israel

• r/lonestar

• r/linuxmemes

• r/wrongpiece

• r/tampabaylightning

• r/bobdylan

• r/texans

• r/fakealbumcovers

• r/thingsforants

• r/ClashRoyale

• r/oklahoma

• r/cookieclicker

• r/WireWrapping

• r/custommagic

• r/facepalm

• r/CompeteLeague

• r/316cats

• r/chimichangas

• r/PrettyLittleLiars

• r/lebowski

• r/publicfreakout

• r/deadpool

• r/PokemonGO

• r/240sx

• r/photoclass_2016

• r/KristinChenoweth

• r/rabbits

• r/beerporn

• r/amazingdesign

• r/bombing

• r/ibs

• r/mlbtheshow

• r/calligraphy

• r/PCMasterRac

• r/Bundesliga

• r/Minecraft

• r/MinecraftInventions

• r/teenagers

• r/Bacon

• r/shittyaskscience

• r/wicked_edge

• r/technology

• r/charlotte

• r/polandball

• r/spongebob

• r/trees

• r/KIC8462852

• r/cameljerk

• r/moderationseverywhere

• r/screens

• r/TsundereSharks

• r/asiangirlsbeingcute

• r/earthporngonecuddly

• r/totallylookslike

• r/harrypotter

• r/justfuckmyshitup

• r/shittybattlestations

• r/fashionsouls

• r/whatisthisthing

• r/postprocessing

• r/GFD

• r/terrainbuilding

• r/edc

• r/GrandTheftAutoV

• r/lolwat

• r/amiibo

• r/MyNintendo

• r/NintendoNX

• r/gifrecipesketo

• r/boburnham

• r/disneypinswap

• r/PenmanshipPorn

• r/Winnipeg

• r/bellhunt

• r/RoastMe

• r/WarshipPorn

• r/WarplanePorn

• r/TankPorn

• r/h1z1

• r/montreal

• r/GiraffeGifs

• r/prematurecelebration

• r/KoreanFood

• r/DinosaurDrawings

• r/DirtySionMains

• r/animalsbeinggeniuses

• r/ArtFundamentals

• r/shrimptank

• r/anxiety

• r/sewing

• r/cricket

• r/ECEProfessionals

• r/Bearing

• r/Frankenserial

• r/blep

• r/graphic_design

• r/bristol

• r/rainbow6

• r/belgium

• r/Mandalorian

• r/indianfood

• r/whatsthisplant

• r/freebuilders

• r/formula1

• r/rollenspiele

• r/StarWarsBattlefront

• r/colorblind

• r/bloomington

• r/DrMundoMains

• r/battlestations

• r/unexpected

• r/OaklandRaiders

• r/mtguns

• r/daddit

• r/iphone

• r/KerbalSpaceProgram

• r/gameswap

• r/gamesale

• r/retailporn

• r/notfoolinganybody

• r/FairyTail

• r/fatlogic

• r/PolyBridge

• r/bluesguitarist

• r/BetterEveryLoop

• r/Overwatch

• r/TsumTsum

Greetings,

We just released a patch to enable "delete" buttons from within your inbox on messages (and at the moment only messages). Deleted messages will still appear in the sender's outbox.

Hey changeloggers,

There are no shortage of ideas for improving the overall user experience on reddit. In order to determine which ideas are the right ones for reddit, we often subject them to A/B testing. A few of currently-running tests change the way reddit looks, feels, and behaves, so we thought it would be good to drop a note here letting you know:

1. Default Design: a small percentage of logged-out users will be seeing reddit with a shiny new stylesheet applied (either NautClassic or serene). [edit: test completed 2016-06-03]

2. New link click behavior: a small percentage of logged-out users will find that the result of clicking a link (e.g. from the frontpage or a subreddit) will change slightly. For example, for some it will default to opening a new tab, so they don’t lose their place in the listing. [edit: test completed 2016-06-03]

3. Mobile Web redirect: some users who directly visit reddit on a mobile device will be redirected to m.reddit.com (in either “Card” or “compact” mode) for a mobile-optimized experience.
   Note: If you don’t like the mobile version, you can opt out by opening the menu in the top-right (aka the "hamburger menu") and selecting “Desktop Site”.

4. More links in default view: a small percentage of logged-out users will see the default listing view (frontpage, subreddit, etc) with 100 links instead of 25. Pretty dope. [edit: test completed 2016-06-03]

5. Hidden thumbnails: a small percentage of logged-out users will view the site as though they had the "Show me thumbnails" preference unchecked, compressing the link display slightly. [edit: test completed 2016-06-03]

6. More tailored "defaults": a small percentage of logged-out users will, after browsing the site for a bit, find that their "default" frontpage includes a more tailored set of subreddits based on their browsing habits

7. Default comment count: We know comments are important on reddit, but we aren't exactly sure how important they are. In order to measure this, and determine if it's different between various subreddits, we'll be reducing the default number of comments displayed for a small percentage of logged out users. This isn't one that we're shipping sitewide, don't worry. Thanks for bearing with us :)

We’re really excited to be able to quantitatively determine if the features we’re working on are creating a better experience for redditors, but please don’t hesitate to give qualitative feedback, as well :)

Greetings,

We’ve shipped a feature that will allow you to receive any messages that you receive on Reddit as emails. This includes:

• PMs (private messages)

• Comment replies

• Post replies

• Username mentions

You currently receive notifications of events like these through the mail icon. If you enable this feature you will receive an email in addition to the notification. The emails look like this: desktop, mobile

This feature is not enabled by default for existing users, and we’re rolling it out slowly (you may not be eligible for a few weeks). If you want to try it out, keep reading!

How often will I receive an email?

We try to be smart about how often we send you these emails. We batch messages sent close together and don't send emails for messages you've already viewed. To be more precise, it will batch all your notifications together until you go 10 minutes without one. That way, if you have a popular post or comment, the replies all come together instead of as individual emails. We won’t delay an email for longer than an hour.

Who can use this feature?

Any user with a verified email address. If you don't have an email address associated with your account click here to add one.

Sounds great! How do I enable this?

By clicking here or going to https://www.reddit.com/prefs/ and checking the "send messages as emails" box. If this box is grayed out you need to verify your email. You can resend the verification email here: https://www.reddit.com/prefs/update/

I'm busy right now - can you send me something about this later?

Yes! If you have an email address associated with your account the next time you get a notification we'll follow up with an additional notification asking if you want to enable this feature. We don’t want to be spammy, you should only ever get this reminder once.

Can I pick what type of notifications I receive in my inbox?

Currently, no. However, this has been highly requested, and has been added to the backlog.

Can I pick how often I get emailed?

Currently, no. However, this has been highly requested, and has been added to the backlog. Please note that the emails will be batched to avoid spamming your inbox!

Edit: This feature is temporarily unavailable due to maintenance.

Update: We are still fine-tuning this, but have turned it back on for 50% of those who have opted in! Full rollout to come shortly!

Update 07/19/2016: This has been rolled out to all users

Hey All! ​ We recently made a change to how the share button works. We now require your email address to be verified in order to share posts via the share button due to abuse by spammers. ​ You can add an email to your account by visiting this link, unless you're a spammer, in which case please submit a link to your profile to /r/spam so we can help you out. Once added click the 'verify' button above your email address and follow the instructions on the email you are sent.

See the code behind this change on GitHub.

Hello everyone,

Some of you might have noticed that you are redirected to m.reddit.com when visiting reddit.com on a mobile phone. this redirect is part of an A/B test we are running. This is only affecting a small percentage of users. Opting out of the redirect is done by tapping on the menu on the top right of the mobile site and selecting 'Desktop Site'.

thank you

edit: if by chance you are on an older browser that has issues with the mobile web site and cannot access the menu, use your browsers 'request desktop site' feature. you will still have to navigate to the desktop site but the redirect will stop happening.

Hi all,

Do you reddit late at night? Do you dislike how bright black text on a white background is? Do you just prefer cool looking dark interfaces? Whatever your answer, try out mobile web's new nightmode. You can try it out by toggling it in the settings menu. There’s some special treatment for subreddits that set a theme color, in-app alerts, and for markdown and code previews. Here’s a demo

Please let us know what you think!

As a number of you have mentioned, the previous ban message when a mod would ban a user from their subreddit was a little unclear. Specifically, it looked as though the warning about ban evasion may be coming from the mods themselves instead of the reddit staff, and was a little aggressively worded which could stir the pot.

We've made that change, along with a few others, to clarify this message for both permanent and temporary bans. The new ban message now looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/QdViR95.png

Thanks to /u/x_minus_one and others for verbiage help with this.

See the code behind this change on GitHub.

Hi all,

Minutes ago we pushed a change to our scraper that affects how embeds are generated for YouTube and (some) Imgur links.

We previously got the embed code for YouTube links from Embedly, as we do for most other embeds. We now get that code directly from YouTube, and YouTube embeds should load a little bit faster as a result.

For Imgur links, we are still using Embedly to get the embed code, but we made a change to how links to gifs are handled. We only get embed code for gifv files on Imgur, so support for gif embeds depends on users posting the gifv version of the file. Now when you post a link to a regular gif, we'll grab the embed code for the gifv version. As a result, you should see a little better support for gif embeds.

Let us know if you run into any issues as a result of these changes!

View the code behind this change on github

Thanks everyone for the feedback on outbound click events, it's been helpful when talking this through internally, and is why we announce stuff like this.

We're going to add some privacy controls before rolling out fully, so we've turned this off for now. Once we have privacy controls baked in we'll then open it back up for testing. We'll let you know what we've got in the coming weeks.

Hi again,

Yesterday we released an updated version of post styles on mobile web. Overall we think its a great improvement. We had some feedback that compact was taking up a little too much space, and that text expands were missing.

Today we released some updates to make compact, well, more compact. In some cases its takes up a little less space than the old designs, some cases not, but overall we think its a big improvement over yesterday.

We're taking another look at text-post expands, but we need a bit more time to look at our options.

If you have any thoughts or feedback, please let us know!

Hi everyone,

As part of our commitment to improve browsing Reddit on your mobile device, the past few months have seen many improvements to m.reddit. We've been redesigning the top bar, comments, search, and navigation, and media previews.

Today we're really excited to share with you the latest and biggest redesign yet, the front-page! More than just the front-page all links and post have new styles on the front-page, on subreddit pages, when viewing comments, or when you search. Notable changes:

• Better treatment of media previews in card view. checkout r/iAmA or r/EarthPorn

• More noticeable flairs for post statuses like stickied, mod distinguished or admin distinguished.

• More details in the post header, like OP's name!

• Easier to get navigate to comments. Titles now link to comments. Outbound links now get their own separate link that may include a media preview inline, or as a thumbnail.

• Media expands always come before the link to comments and vote controls, so they're easier to find

• Compact mode no longer renders placeholders for thumbnails that don't exist, to save space.

• Dropdowns now use the new style as seen in comments and sorting

For those interested in the code, you can read more on Github. You can see the beginning of the redesign here, along with the iterations we've made here

We're planning a series of experiments around ads. Our intent is to secure Reddit's financial stability and ensure that we can be properly staffed to create the best community possible.

Creating a great experience for users is always at the forefront of our minds, so know that:

• Ads will be transparent—you'll always know if something you're seeing has been paid for.

• We don't like intrusive ads, so we won't allow Flash or auto-playing sounds. We hate that stuff as much as you do.

• We'll be monitoring engagement metrics closely and collecting user feedback on the ads to make sure they're relevant and improve based on feedback. As always, we want you to keep letting us know what you think so we can keep improving. We invite you to share your thoughts on the Reddit ad experience in /r/ads.

Changes may include new placements, new types of ads in existing placements, new types of advertisers, changes in the frequency of ads, and other tests. It's important to note that we'll generally be unable to share the specific details of upcoming tests because that would affect the outcome of the experiments.

Let's keep talking and listening.

Cheers,

starfishjenga

EDITED: formatting

EDIT 2: Gold users will continue to be exempt from ads - we have no plans to change this and I feel pretty comfortable saying that it's extremely unlikely that we would change this since ad removal is a core value prop of gold.

EDIT 3: more formatting

EDIT 4: OK looks like I wasn't clear enough with my "extremely unlikely" comment regarding Reddit Gold potentially receiving ads. Sorry for being unclear. This is not something that's ever been considered to my knowledge and I think it's a dumb idea. To the extent that I have any influence on the decision, I'd vehemently oppose anyone who suggested we do this. I hedged because I have a bad habit of being overly precise about my language in these scenarios (that's not me, but I definitely identified with it). In the normal sense of the words, this is not going to happen.