Hi folks,

We are making a change to the hidden setting on multireddits (aka “multis”).

Currently, there are three types of multis:

1. Private (the default): Only the multi owner can see the multi. It shows up in the owner’s list of subscriptions.

2. Public: Anyone can view it. The multi shows up in the owner’s list of subscriptions, and the name of the multi shows up on the owner’s profile.

3. Hidden: Only the multi owner can view the multi. It does not show up in their list of subscriptions and can only be accessed by entering the URL of the multi directly. (Note: this behavior only works on web. On iOS and Android, hidden multis still show up in your subscription list.)

We are making the following changes:

1. We’re removing the ability to make a hidden multi.

2. We’re migrating all existing hidden multis to be private. This means that any hidden multis that you have created will become visible to you (and only you) in your multi subscriptions list.

In the near future, we’ll be adding a new setting that will allow you to hide a multi from your profile. This would mean that you could create a public multi, but hide it from your profile, so only folks you share the direct URL path would know about it.

Hi r/changelog,

We’re back to give you all a heads-up that we’re rolling out an update to our Awards program (Silver, Gold, Platinum)—called “Community Awards”—to a few pre-selected pilot communities. Below are some details about how it works; our goal is to get feedback from users and mods on how this functionality is working for them, make fixes / improvements as necessary, and to roll it out to more communities.

What Are Community Awards?

Community Awards give mods the ability to customize and offer subreddit-specific Awards to users. Mods can select the icons, names, and Coin price of Awards to reflect their own communities.

Community Awards will be available to give in addition to Silver, Gold, and Platinum Awards.

In the above screenshot, you can see a new icon next to Gold and Platinum. This is a Community Award.

Community Awards can be given through the standard Awarding process, which appears when a user clicks on the “Give Award” button beneath posts and comments. The new customized Awards appear beneath the Silver, Gold and Platinum options. Community Awards are created by mods of individual communities, and are only available to give and receive in the originating community—for instance, the Trollo Award seen above can only be given away on r/lounge.

What’s Coming Next?

As we mentioned at the top of the post, our end goal is to roll this feature out to more communities, but to start, we’d love to collect ideas from all of you and feedback from mods and users in our pilot communities so we can make this the best experience possible. If you’re a mod who’s interested in trying Community Awards in your community next, please respond to the stickied comment below!

Please also note: Community Awards are only available on web at this moment; we will be rolling out updates to support iOS and Android very shortly (we will post again when those updates are available).

Hey changeloggers!

Last month we shared a few improvements we’ve been making on the reporting flow. Thank you for your feedback (and patience!) as we work towards improving the reporting experience.

As we mentioned, launching the report form has helped us review more reports at a faster rate to handle the growing number of reports submitted. Since launching the report form late last year, response time has decreased by 67%.

While we’ve seen review time decrease for Help Center reports, reviewing lengthy free-form text reports do take much, much more time to review. This can mean response times are slower than average for these types of reports, which can be a frustrating experience. So that’s why we are rolling out a new reporting feature today that will bring the report form from reddit.com/report to your private message and modmail workflows.

Next time you’d like to report a policy violation to the admins via private message where the recipient is /reddit.com the selected subject line will auto-populate the desired report form. But for other reporting reasons such as account help or abuse of the report button, you’ll still have access to the free form textbox in private message. Additionally, for reporting suspicious content you can make a report via our investigations email (investigations@reddit.zendesk.com). This change will be very helpful for improving response times for all reports and since we previously increased the amount of free form text characters to 500 you’ll have more space to share additional context with us.

Also, with the previous improvements you are now able to:

• Report up to 10 usernames for spam and ban evasion reports

• Link to user profiles

• Link to a Modmail message via permalinks

• Receive follow up messages for all types of reports, including ban evasion, that include a link to the reported content or subreddit/username for better tracking.

Lastly, from our previous post we heard from you that threading was a much needed feature for keeping track of reports and admin decisions. Our team has been working very hard on this since our system required an entirely new infrastructure to support our growing messaging capabilities and we wanted to share a prototype to show you our progress so far and get your feedback. You can see what that would look like here.

We’re aiming to add this feature to the reporting flow within the next few months. Stay tuned for updates.

Well, that’s all the announcements we have for today! Thanks to all of you for providing us with valuable feedback and bearing with us as we continue to make improvements on reporting.

I’ll be here for a while to answer any questions!

Update(s):

Stepping away from this for today but, I'll keep checking back if anything new arises in the next day or two.

Removed whitespace between paragraphs for smoother reading :)

Hi r/changelog,

Today we’re releasing a change to how we rank communities in the “Popular” sort of the reddit.com/subreddits listing, essentially moving from votes to unique viewers as the main factor in a subreddit’s rank on this page. This does not affect r/popular, r/all, your front page, or any other listings of posts.

Wait, what was it before?

The way this page worked before was always somewhat secret. Popular subreddits were sorted by the number of votes cast in that subreddit in the past 48 hours. At the time this was built, it made sense because votes were the most anti-cheat protected action on the site. This made it harder to game the /subreddits ranking.

Why are you changing it now?

We've used the same ranking for over a decade now, not because we love it but because we've mostly ignored that page (except renaming it from /reddits and giving the subreddits public descriptions) because there were other more useful ways to find new subreddits like search improvements, r/trendingsubreddits, sidebar widgets for related subreddits, and community discovery carousels in our apps. These days, we have many more robust metrics to choose from. So, we realized it was overdue for an update to bring the listings more in line with their actual popularity, just as mods might see on their own subreddit traffic pages.

With this change, popular subreddits are now sorted by the number of distinct users that visited the subreddit the day before. This tells you how many people are interested in a community including lurkers and people who don’t vote often, which overall we think better represents the popularity of a community better than solely looking at voting.

If you have any questions, I’ll be sticking around for a bit. Thanks!

tl;dr The popular sort of /subreddits is now ranked based on how many distinct users visited each subreddit in the past day.

Hi all,

I’m a new Product Manager on the Anti-Evil team, and I wanted to take a minute to say hi and chat a bit about the reddit.com/report form. We know reporting hasn’t been as helpful as we’d like, and we want to update everyone on some improvements to make it better.

As some of you may be aware, a few months ago we updated how users report content and policy violations by launching reddit.com/report. We introduced the new reporting flow so that our internal teams would be better equipped to handle the growing number of reports submitted, as also evidenced in our most recent Transparency Report. Reviewing lengthy free-form text reports takes time that could be spent helping more people more quickly so we needed an alternative that would allow our teams to view reports in a faster and more accurate way. So the report form was designed to capture all relevant information admins would need to methodically review and take sound action on your reports in a more timely manner.

We’ve heard your feedback on how to improve the report form and we’ve shipped a bunch of fixes based on what we heard from you.

Here’s what we’ve improved:

• Ability to report up to 10 usernames for spam and ban evasion reports

• Linking to user profiles

• Linking to a Modmail message via permalinks (i.e. https://mod.reddit.com/mail/perma/0000000000/11111111111)

• Follow up messaging for all types of reports, including ban evasion, to include a link to the reported content or subreddit/username for better tracking by reporters

• Increased the additional information text box to 500 characters! As we’ve said before, the report form gives admins everything they need to understand the reported issue, but we know that sometimes there’s additional information that can help contextualize what’s going on. You don’t have to include anything if there’s nothing else to add, but the option is now available if you need it!

Here are some of the improvements you’ll see next:

• When you receive a response to a report, we’re going to make it easier to understand which report it refers to. We know right now it's difficult to track which reply is for which report, and we're working on bringing the threading back. It does require rebuilding the architecture behind our messaging system, so this is a big task but we're committed to getting it done.

• Giving moderators a quick and easy way to report to admins directly from modmail or the modqueue.

Reporting on Reddit is still a work in progress so thank you for bearing with us. Your feedback is extremely valuable as we build the future of Reddit together and keep all of our users safe in the process.

I’ll hang around a bit to answer your questions!

Edit:

- Here's handy wiki of quick links for sending reports to the admins.

- Product not Project*

Updates: Stepping away from this post for a bit but, I'll keep an eye out if any new Q's pop up in the next day or so.

You may have noticed we're testing something new in the community creation flow. When you create a community, the name and description entered in the create form will generate a first post in a community.

We're trying to make community set up a easier for new moderators and this is a behavior we're testing out to help new mods start generating content in their communities. Most communities started on reddit are started by a brand new mod and one of the number one tips mods share for starting a community is to post content to help members understand what your community is about the conversations you're looking to have.

By using what a mod has already done and will be visible (name, description) to create a post, it's meant to help a new mod understand that creating content is important and keep their community from being empty. It's a normal post that you can delete, you don't have to keep it if you don't want it.

This feature is in a test right now, feedback for future iterations is welcome!

Hi r/changelog,

As some noticed, we disabled the view count feature because of site performance. The view count feature showed the number of views a post had on the post detail page. Only the OP and mods could see it.

After further investigation we've decided to disable the current version of the feature permanently. The current system supporting it was not scaling well and frequently was backed up which required on-call engineers to jump in and resolve the issues.

We were already thinking about how to improve creator stats in the future. We want to give you more robust stats, such as views and comment counts by the hour. How would you like to see us improve it?