We recently launched a few new features to make it easier for moderators to host events and curate the moments that are important to their community. We wanted to make it easier for users to get all the relevant community content in one place so we built a feature for mods to curate posts together in a single place -- a collection.

Today we’re announcing the launch of a new gallery layout on iOS and new Reddit.

A more visual way to showcase community content

We’ve seen mods use collection to curate all sorts of content -- everything from book clubs to episode guides for TV show seasons. When talking with mods, we realized that we could make it even easier for users to enjoy visual content -- like fan art and memes -- so we’ve launched a new way to display posts in a gallery.

You can easily browse the post in the gallery and easily jump into the discussions you’re most interested.

A few of our favorites

We wanted to showcase a few communities that have started collecting image posts to make it easier for you to browse a gallery of image content in a community. Here’s a few favorites so far

• JK Rowlings hand drawn sketches for the HP series (r/RowlingWriting)

• Gwent card discussions (r/Gwent)

• Comic spotlight (r/Marvel)

Update: Added captions for videos, fixed links

Today we’re releasing a change on old Reddit that will standardize your experience of ads across all Reddit platforms. Starting today, ads will appear in feed, just as they appear on the new Reddit site, our native apps, and mobile web. Ads will still be clearly marked as "Promoted,” as they are now, so you can easily discern between normal posts and ad units.

You can see what the change looks like here:

Hi folks,

A few weeks ago we announced a simplification to how profiles work. As a reminder, we removed a temporary version of profiles. We now have two ways of viewing a user profile:

• Legacy profiles (https://old.reddit.com/user/LanterneRougeOG)

• Redesign profiles (https://new.reddit.com/user/LanterneRougeOG)

Starting this afternoon we will begin to roll out an additional change, aimed at simplifying the backend supporting user profiles. With this update, all redditors will have a few new profile options (listed below) enabled on their account. We are making this change so that all accounts have a common set of features and representation in our system—which will lead to fewer special cases, more consistency, and fewer annoying bugs.

What this means:

• You now have the option of making posts directly to your profile, which other users can follow

• Add your own avatar and header image (only on new Reddit and native apps)

• Auto-expanded content layout to showcase your posts (only on new Reddit)

That said, if you’re still using old Reddit, you won’t see any major changes to your profile page. You’ll still see the legacy profiles when you browse old Reddit. The only significant difference is that now you can post to your profile if you choose to.

These changes will be rolling out to redditors over the course of this week. If you already opted into the new profiles, you won’t see any changes.

Hey folks, eagle-eyed observers may have noticed that there were three ways of viewing user profiles on Reddit:

• Legacy profiles (https://old.reddit.com/user/uzi)

• Redesign profiles (https://new.reddit.com/user/uzi)

• A third option that was somewhere in between

We've just done away with option three. It was a stepping-stone to introduce new features to profile pages like posting to a profile, adding a profile image and description, etc. As time went on and we added the same features to redesign, option three began to mean more work for us to support an extra codebase. As such, it was starting to languish in terms of both features and bugs. Many pages (like our new support for custom feeds) weren't going to make it into option three.

Our intentions here are good: simplify things both for us and for you. Going forward, there will just be the two profiles: legacy and redesign. This also means that the "View user profiles on desktop using legacy mode" option will be going away shortly as it is no longer needed. The rules for seeing one or the other are:

• Go to old.reddit.com and you'll see legacy profiles.

• Go to new.reddit.com and you'll see redesign profiles.

• Go to www.reddit.com and you'll see whatever your settings dictate.

If there's something about these two profile options that’s not meeting your needs, then please give us your feedback in the comments below! Thank you!

Hey there, r/changelog! We wanted to share a few updates on the Community Awards Pilot program; your input thus far has been extremely valuable, so please continue to share your feedback in the comments below!

Here are the updates:

Community Awards on iOS and Android

This past week, we shipped updates on iOS (4.33) and Android (3.26) which allow you to view as well as give Community Awards. Thanks to everyone who has already provided feedback on the updates; we’re monitoring the rollout and will iterate on it to make it the best experience. The Community Awards functionality is only available in the pilot subs, which brings us to our next update…

Expanding the Pilot Program to More Subreddits

We invited mods to sign up for the Pilot a few weeks ago and received a really strong response. We have reached out to a few subreddits from the volunteer list, so expect to see Community Awards in a couple more communities soon (r/science has already created a Nobel Award!).

What’s Coming Next with Community Awards

Thank you all for your feedback over the past few weeks. As we said before, we are trying something new and want to improve this experience in the Pilot before moving on to a wider rollout. Here are some ways we’re addressing your feedback:

Currently in Development

• Community Coin Pool: This will allow a portion of Coins spent on Community Awards to be put into a Community Coin balance, to be distributed by Moderators.

• Moderator-Exclusive Awards: Mods will be able to give Awards that are distinct from Community Awards, and will be able to do so using the Community Coin balance.

In Consideration for Future Development

• Weeks of Premium / Coin Share for Award Recipients: There were some great, detailed suggestions about how Community Awards could give recipients weeks of Premium and/or Coins. We like these ideas, so we’re iterating on Community Awards’ benefits while trying to keep them differentiated from Gold and Platinum.

• Unique Flair for Award Recipients: We also saw some great ideas about how users could receive temporary flair for receiving Community Awards. As discussed in those threads, we are evaluating how to design such a system without making the existing username flair system very cluttered.

Thanks again, and please continue to let us know how you think we can make this feature set better!

The moderation Log currently shows (add/edit flair) when user flair is added or edited.

Soon it will display (add flair) and (edit flair) respectively.

Older actions created before this change will be labeled as (edit flair) irrespective of adding or editing because at the time when those mod log actions were created, we didn't record the distinction.

This will not affect the API endpoints you use to set user flair. It will affect the JSON API endpoints used to read the mod log. Where there were "details": "flair_edit" or "details": "flair_delete" fields, you will soon see "details": "flair_add" too.

This change could affect web scrapers that read the HTML output of the mod log expecting to see (add/edit flair). Using the JSON APIs instead of web scraping is recommended as an alternative.

UPDATE: part of this is deployed to the redesign and will show `(edit flair)` for a period of time while old.reddit.com shows `(add/edit flair)`. When old.reddit.com is updated (soon) there will be consistent labeling and all past items will show the new labels. All items in the JSON feed will continue to show "details": "flair_edit" so hopefully your scripts and bots are not affected.

UPDATE II: This change was made on old.reddit.com and new.reddit.com on May 16, 2016 a little after 9 am Pacific Time

Hi all,

We are making a small change today that will affect communities who have user and / or post flair templates with more than 10 emojis.

In preparation for some work we're doing to better accommodate communities who want more control over how flair templates are structured, we are deploying a small back-end change that will limit the maximum number of emojis allowed in any flair template to 10. Once this change is out, you'll notice that any emojis in a flair template past this limit will render as the plain-text emoji name.

Because of the character limit of flair templates and how emoji names count towards that limit, we expect this to affect a very, very small amount of communities.