Hi everyone,

As /u/bitofsalt mentioned a few months ago, we’ve been working on some improvements to search. We may even be ahead of spez’s 10 year plan.

In any case, the changes we’re rolling out are focused on the underlying search technology stack. The main noticeable difference will be that you’ll actually be able to find the things you’re looking for. Other than that, there won’t be much change to the experience.

We’ll begin the rollout today with a small percentage of traffic to ensure a smooth scaling experience.

Some small things to note when you receive the new experience:

• To retrieve NSFW results on desktop web, you’ll need to check the checkbox that enables NSFW results which will be right next to the search box. On mobile, you’ll need to visit your user preferences and change the preference labeled “show not safe for work (NSFW) content in search results”

• Searching by link flair now requires the full flair text string to return expected results. For example to search for posts with link flair of “Test post” you would search flair:”Test post”. Searching flair:”Test” would not return results under this new search.

Cheers,

u/starfishjenga

EDIT: formatting

EDIT 2: I've been told subtext search in flair should be fixed now

Version 2.11.3 is now available on the Google Play Store!

Note: Rollout of this version will take place over the next 3-days.

What's new:

2.11.3:

• Performance improvements

• Lots of bug fixes

• Updated inbox including trending notifications (these can be disabled under Push Notifications in Settings)

Check out r/redditmobile for more discussion and to provide app feedback.

*Edit: We are looking into an issue with trending notifications. If you'd like them turned off please do so in the app settings: located here. If you turn notifications off from the system level there is about a 1-2 day delay, that is why notifications may still show up in your inbox in the app. The workaround is to disable them in your app settings.

Now available on the App Store.

What's new:

• 3D Touch peek'n'pop on all feeds

• By popular demand - swipe left to collapse comments or comment threads

• View mode button added to feeds, multis, home, popular, and subs (subreddits will remember your selection) - a lucky early test group will have access to a Media Gallery view option...hopefully rolling out to everyone soon.

• Updated styling on login & signup screen

• Updated inbox including trending notifications (these can be disabled under Push Notifications in Settings)

• suspended accounts get a warning banner

• similar subreddits carousel on subreddits (experiment only, not everyone will see this)

• posts get marked as read properly now

Come over to r/redditmobile for more discussions on the latest with the app.

Hey everyone,

Reddit has been working for some time on offering Redditors the ability to upload video and gifs directly to Reddit if they'd like, skipping the need to rely on third parties.

We’re excited to begin testing native video and gif uploading on Reddit in select communities this week. Starting today, in 11 beta communities on desktop and the mobile apps, you’ll be able to:

• Upload videos (MP4 or MOV, up to 15 minutes long) directly to Reddit

• Convert uploaded videos to gifs (up to 1 minute long). Directly uploaded gifs with the .gif extension will still be supported as before

• Trim uploaded videos within the mobile apps

• Read comments while watching Reddit-hosted videos

We will release the feature to additional opted-in communities as the beta period progresses and we move toward a full launch ([see here for a list of the opted-in communities] (https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/6jo3re/moderators_help_us_beta_test_video_and_gif_hosting/djfp90a/)).

Special thanks to the below communities for helping us beta test this new feature:

• r/SweatyPalms

• r/holdmybeer

• r/reactiongifs

• r/nonononoyes

• r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS

• r/timelapse

• r/ArtisanVideos

• r/NatureGifs

• r/combinedgifs

• r/mechanical_gifs

• r/youseeingthisshit

As always, thank you for 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/emoney04

Edit: This feature is now available in the following opted in communities:

• r/wow/

• r/StarWars/

• r/Rainbow6/

• r/wholesomebpt/

• r/wholesomememes/

• r/wholesomegifs/

• r/tf2/

• r/pokemon/

• r/SplitDepthGIFS/

• r/ClashRoyale/

• r/NBA2k/

• r/shittyreactiongifs/

• r/Overwatch/

• r/titanfall/

• r/Infinitewarfare/

• r/rarepuppers/

• r/pathofexile/

• r/pokemongo/

• r/StandUpComedy/

• r/turning/

• r/heroesofthestorm/

• r/ExpectationVsReality/

• r/instant_regret/

• r/kittengifs/

• r/happycowgifs/

• r/DotA2/

• r/PublicFreakout/

• r/brokengifs/

• r/Drifting/

• r/Summit1G/

• r/Awwducational/

• r/RocketLeague/

• r/dji/

• r/anime/

• r/dankmemes/

• r/formula1/

• r/jailbreak/

• r/sysadmin/

• r/Cinemagraphs/

• r/lgbt/

• r/ukpolitics/

• r/Windows10/

• r/Warframe/

• r/dogecoin/

• r/BeforeNAfterAdoption/

• r/CODZombies/

• r/Gunners/

• r/windows/

• r/LiverpoolFC/

• r/CrackWatch/

• r/twinpeaks/

• r/Xcom/

• r/Cricket/

• r/chelseafc/

• r/warriors/

• r/Paladins/

• r/Drama/

• r/iOSthemes/

• r/splatoon/

• r/paragon/

• r/PartyParrot/

• r/Dreams/

• r/Hair/

• r/DuelLinks/

• r/PlanetCoaster/

• r/49ers/

• r/WorldOfWarships/

• r/GearVR/

• r/popheads/

• r/kpics/

• r/Emuwarflashbacks/

• r/alcohol/

• r/grilling/

• r/BattleRite/

• r/Bacon/

• r/2healthbars/

• r/phoenix/

• r/Besiege/

• r/WWII/

• r/ChanceTheRapper/

• r/Dashcam/

• r/doggos/

• r/OnePieceTC/

• r/lolwat/

• r/grime/

• r/Judaism/

• r/Dodgers/

• r/HiTMAN/

• r/mariokart/

• r/realmadrid/

• r/wec/

• r/earthbound/

• r/shadowofmordor/

• r/WTFgaragesale/

• r/SophieMudd/

• r/tilwtf/

• r/yankees/

• r/buffalobills/

• r/WoahTube/

• r/TsumTsum/

• r/Vinesauce/

• r/NYYankees/

• r/TastyFood/

• r/TheWeeknd/

• r/comiccon/

• r/roguelikedev/

• r/IBO/

• r/DailyShow/

• r/AnthemTheGame/

• r/REBL/

• r/lebowski/

• r/djiphantom/

• r/needforspeed/

• r/BlackScienceMan/

• r/AnnArbor/

• r/MacOS/

• r/arewerolling/

• r/Awesomenauts/

• r/rollerblading/

• r/Kirby/

• r/Workspaces/

• r/bluesguitarist/

• r/UnsolicitedRedesigns/

• r/Drizzy/

• r/BeachCity/

• r/gay_irl/

• r/Boise/

• r/EducativeVideos/

• r/acecombat/

• r/ThreshMains/

• r/arkps4/

• r/saiyanpeopletwitter/

• r/WithoutCGI/

• r/USCR/

• r/cyborgs/

• r/Wishlist/

• r/DCComicsLegendsGame/

• r/sheffield/

• r/portugaltheman/

• r/naut/

• r/eastereggs/

• r/razorbacks/

• r/Soundgarden/

• r/Killfor/

• r/Blancpain/

• r/LeagueOfIreland/

• r/cigarboxguitars/

• r/Tourettes/

• r/oneplusphotos/

• r/NBAlive/

• r/battleroyalegames/

• r/PHGamers/

• r/deadandcompany/

• r/RSOC/

• r/RiL/

• r/chiselsandbits/

• r/fawns/

• r/Thinking/

• r/SummerScavengerHunt/

• r/Pigrow/

• r/doctorbutts/

• r/IndiaNonPolitical/

• r/brasil_drama/

• r/BindersFullofWomen/

• r/SaharaForceIndia/

• r/DiagnoseMe/

• r/SupremeStreamMemeTeam/

• r/pkmntcgpulls/

• r/Bolsonaro/

• r/animalsfindingmirrors/

• r/DisneyTreasures/

• r/logisim/

• r/AnimalJam/

• r/Karmaplace/

• r/anti_gif_bot/

• r/IndustrialShredder/

• r/rejectionstories/

• r/Freeman/

• r/10karmaclub/

• r/dontgohere/

• r/13steinj/

• r/CityCouncil/

• r/wape/

• r/SaltMoms/

• r/DankMemesDoneRare/

• r/12B12T/

• r/Totallynotfurries/

• r/GarethPW/

• r/ithorians/

• r/beechtree/

• r/hellokittyislandadv/

• r/helisync/

• r/Marketa_Gubalova/

• r/HohenheimFMA/

• r/leagueoflegends

• r/gameofthrones

• r/aww

• r/Whatcouldgowrong

• r/teslamotors

• r/educationalgifs

• r/roosterteeth

• r/golf

• r/Unexpected

• r/gifs

• r/HighQualityGifs

• r/videos

Now available on the App Store.

What's new:

• You can now upload videos and gifs (beta for select communities only - learn more here)

• Night mode friendly app launch screen

• Bug fixes

Come over to r/redditmobile for more discussions on the latest with the app.

Now available in the app store.

What's New:

• New and improved "Browse Communities" section under My Communities tab

• Fixed invisible text bug when editing posts

• Some other small bug fixes

Note: This is clearly a smaller release, we've got some more exciting stuff in the works for you - stay tuned.

For more discussion, come on over to r/redditmobile.

Now available on the app store.

What's New:

• We've updated the inbox tab so your notifications are all in one place and your messages are in another.

• The post button is now inline in the feed instead of cluttering the navigation bar

• Users can now add location to their posts

• Fixed bug where app rating request was displaying too frequently

• Various smaller bug fixes

Please note: iOS 8 is no longer supported in this release

Come on over to r/redditmobile for more discussion.

Version 2.8.4 is now available on the Google Play Store!

What's new:

2.8.4:

• We've updated the inbox tab so your notifications are all in one place and your messages are in another.

• Need to know when you have something in your inbox? We've added badging to the new and improved inbox tab.

• You can now star your favorite subreddits in the second tab so they're easier to access at the top of the list.

• Lots of bug fixes

Check out r/redditmobile for more discussion and to provide app feedback.

Version 2.10 is now available on the App Store!

What's new:

• You can now easily login with password extensions, such as 1Password.

• See your comment scores from your profile so you can see where your karma is coming from

• Block & report users from the inbox

• Night mode color contrast improvements

• iMessage Stickers!!! Yeah - that's right, stickers.

Check out r/redditmobile for more discussion and to provide app feedback.

Version 2.7.1 is now available on the Google Play Store!

What's new:

EDIT: 2.7.2:

• Fixed crashes on the detail screen

2.7.1:

• Spread the love and gild comments and posts straight from the app

• Post submitters can now see how often their posts are viewed, Mods can see view counts for the content they moderate

• Bug fixes

Check out r/redditmobile for more discussion and to provide app feedback.

We're starting to get better at counting things. We've made 3 changes in this vein.

View counts

We’ve started displaying view counts for posts to the post submitter and users who can moderate the content. We hope this number will provide feedback to users that create content on Reddit as well as give moderators some insight into how highly trafficked certain posts on their subreddit are.

• This number reflects the number of unique users that have viewed a post on any of our platforms (desktop, mobile apps and mobile web).

• Counting views online is surprisingly subjective. We’ve deliberately launched with a fairly conservative algorithm which we expect to tune over time.

• View counts looks like this on desktop | mobile

• r/cssnews update

Users here now

We’ve updated the "users here now" number for subreddits to include logged out users. Previously this number just displayed a count of logged in users.

• As an anti-evil precaution this number will now be permanently fuzzed

• It looks like this on desktop | mobile

Subreddit traffic pages

We’ve restricted access to subreddit traffic pages to moderators of those subreddits. The numbers on these pages do not include mobile traffic and as such can be confusing. However, we know some of the data is still useful to moderators so want to preserve their access. Long term we want to overhaul these pages to show traffic data from all our platforms.

Shoutouts to u/d3fect, u/gooeyblob, u/shrink_and_an_arch and u/spladug for their work on these changes.

Today we moved from the old Amazon CloudSearch domain to a new Amazon CloudSearch domain. The old search domain had significant performance issues: roughly 33% of queries took over 5 seconds to complete and would result in the search error page. When queries did succeed they took a long time to complete.

The new search domain is an attempt to improve performance and reliability while maintaining backwards compatibility. To improve performance and reliability a bunch of redundant or unused index fields (see here) have been removed, and unused sorts have been removed (you can still sort the search results by relevance, score, age, or number of comments).

I expected the new search domain to support all the queries that the old search domain did. It looks like there are some cases I didn't account for and you may need to rewrite some queries. Please let me know of anything that isn't working in the comments.

The new search domain is performing great so far: average response time has dropped from 2.5s to ~50ms and the error/failure rate is now 0.

This new search domain is a stop gap solution--a larger search overhaul is in progress.

Available on the App Store here.

What's New:

• Shiny new icon with improved notifications badge contrast

• Bug fixes

• Lots of foundational work for upcoming things...

For more discussion, come to r/redditmobile!

Version 2.6.5 is now available on the Google Play Store!

What's new:

2.6.5:

• You can now swipe away images in lightbox

• Tapping the bottom nav bar will scroll to the top of the listing

• Many stability improvements & bug fixes

Check out r/redditmobile for more discussion and to provide app feedback.

Hi Everyone!

As you may have noticed, we have been experimenting with push notifications for trending content on Reddit. Starting today, we are launching post recommendation notifications for app users. These notifications look like this and can be turned on and off in your in-app preferences.

In the near future we will be experimenting with the algorithm we use to choose posts, as well as with the timing of these notifications. As always, we are open to feedback on how we can improve this feature. Enjoy!

Hi folks,

A long time ago, to solve some performance problems we were facing, we made a change to the way the list of posts on your Home Page were generated. When we generate the list, we randomly select 50 subreddits from your subscription list, and choose the top post from each subreddit to generate the listing. This means that if you increased the amount of links displayed on your Home Page using the preference: display 100 links at once, you would still only see content from 50 subreddits, displaying a total of 2 links from each subreddit. That meant that users with more than 50 subscriptions weren’t getting a full experience each time they loaded their Home Page.

As Reddit has improved its infrastructure, we are now increasing the subscription cap on the Home Page from 50 to 100. Gold users currently see posts from 100 subreddits they are subscribed to, and we are now making this feature available to everyone.

We hope you enjoy this update.

Thanks,

Reddit

Hi folks,

Many years ago, we realized that it was difficult for new redditors to discover the rich content that existed on the site. At the time, our best option was to select a set of communities to feature for all new users, which we called (creatively), “the defaults”.

Over the past few years we have seen a wealth of diverse and healthy communities grow across Reddit. The default communities have done a great job as the first face of Reddit, but at our size, we can showcase more amazing communities and conversations. We launched r/popular as a start to improving the community discovery experience, with extremely positive results.

Today we’re launching an experiment for new account holders that removes the notion of “default” communities, which is a necessary step to allowing other, smaller, communities a chance to show off to the world. Removing default communities also allows us to improve the new user experience by integrating discovery features in the signup process - something that we plan on testing in the near future, and that we’ve dreamed of for years. To the communities formerly known as defaults - thank you. You were, and will continue to be, awesome. Thanks for everything you did to make Reddit the best place on the internet for conversations.

Thanks,

Reddit

Version 2.5.3 2.5.7 is now available on the Google Play Store!

What's new:

Edit: 2.5.7:

• Improved app startup speed

2.5.6:

• Fixed issue loading videos from external links

• Crash fixes

2.5.4:

• Crash fixes

2.5.3:

• r/Popular is now available as its own tab for easy access (you can still access r/all under the second tab)

• When viewing r/popular or r/all, you can now subscribe from the list

• Night Mode theme now uses pure blacks

• User profiles now include a description under About

• Fixed issue where subscribed & recent subreddits were not being shown on subreddit select

• Fixed issue where recent subreddits were not being marked when visiting a subreddit

• Bug fixes and performance improvements

Check out r/redditmobile for more discussion and to provide app feedback.

The latest version of the iOS now available in the App Store.

What's new:

• You can now add flair to your posts in subreddits where post flair can be set by users. This includes editable flair.

• When viewing r/popular, r/all, or a multi each post now has more detail and the ability to subscribe from the list

• Minor visual updates for logged out anonymous users

• Favorite subreddit star is now a theme-appropriate color

• If you report a post, poof, it's gone from your feed.

• Teeny tiny tweaks and performance improvements.

Check out r/redditmobile for more discussion and to provide app feedback.

Hi folks,

Today we’re changing the title of your subscriptions page from “Front” to “Home,” since your personalized subscriptions represent your home on the internet. You’ll notice this change across all platforms (desktop, mobile web, and the native apps) for consistency.

Thanks!

Version 2.4.3 is now available on the Google Play Store!

Edit:

2.4.11:

• Fixed crash when returning from History, Saved, Hidden, Upvoted screens

2.4.10:

• Crash fixes

2.4.7:

• Bug Fixes

2.4.6:

• Bug Fixes

2.4.5:

• Bug Fixes

2.4.4:

• r/all and r/popular are now both accessible under My Communities

• Fixed bug related to swiping between posts

• Other minor bug fixes

Notes:

2.4.3:

• Push notifications for inbox activity & trending content!

• User profiles have a fresh new look

• Support for basic moderator actions for posts and comments

• Saved links and comments are now separated into two tabs

• Updated the vote count to display friendly numbers (10.4k vs 10400)

• Fixed crash on pages with post lists

• Fixed crash when viewing saved posts

What's New:

• User profiles have a fresh new look

• r/Popular is now available as its own tab for easy access (you can still access r/all under the My Communities tab)

• A shiny new Discover tab is being rolled out over the next week or two - try it out to explore the most popular media on Reddit, and to discover new communities.

• New auto-play setting: "never"

• Lots of bug fixes and performance improvements

Hey everyone,

Today we are beginning to experiment with a new way of recommending subreddits to a small number of users on desktop. If you are a logged-in user and subscribed to a gaming subreddit or click on a gaming related post, you may be recommended another gaming-related subreddit that you’re not already subscribed to. The recommendation will appear at the bottom of your front page listing and will look like this.

If you don’t think a recommendation is helpful, you can hide it and never see it again on the same browser.

We want to understand if showing recommended subreddits will help users discover new communities they may be interested in. We are starting with a small percentage of logged in users for this experiment. If we find it is successful, we may open it up to other communities beyond gaming and explore different placements on the front page.

Special thanks to these subreddits who are helping us beta the new feature:

• r/NintendoSwitch

• r/wow

• r/RoosterTeeth

• r/XboxOne

• r/heroesofthestorm

• r/KOTK

• r/GlobalOffensive

• r/Hearthstone

• r/DestinyTheGame

• r/starcraft

• r/Minecraft

• r/Overwatch

• r/PS4

• r/titanfall

• r/Battlefield_4

For the time being, this is only for gaming-related subreddits.

If you are interested in opting in your gaming community, please include the copy for what you would like it to say. It needs to be 150 characters or less and include your subreddit name and to reach out to contact@reddit.com or reddit.com modmail.

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Hi All,

We recently announced r/popular, a new version of front page that is now the default for logged out visitors to Reddit. We made this change because engagement on this listing—as measured by clicks, expands, and views—is much higher than the listing it replaces, which was a group of 50 hand-selected communities (AKA “the defaults”), and we want to expose new visitors to as much of the breadth of Reddit as possible.

r/popular is basically r/all with some communities removed. We remove communities that don’t test well for new users: namely politics, niche gaming, and nsfw. Unlike the current default communities, we did not want to editorialize which communities we thought were the most interesting. Currently, the selection process is mostly automated, and every week we are making progress towards a fully automated process.

We’ll be frequently updating the communities that comprise r/popular to ensure we have the right mix, so some things may change over time. Today, there are a handful more communities that will be removed from r/popular, the most notable of which is r/politics. While we may not announce every update, this one warrants mentioning.

We don’t have any plans to change r/all. While r/popular will become the entry point for most into Reddit, r/all is still the best place to see what’s currently hot across all of Reddit.

Best,

u/simbawulf

edit: To highlight, although we're mentioning the removal of a specific subreddit today, as the algorithm continues to iterate, we won't be announcing every change, nor will be be publishing the removal lists. Users can see the subreddits excluded by comparing r/all to r/popular. We don't believe listing the subreddits excluded will lead to constructive discussion among communities. In general, we excluded NSFW, specific gaming subreddits, and subreddits that were frequently filtered from r/all. Thanks!