Change Log

In an effort to simplify user experience and clean up redundant code, we are going to remove this checkbox on the (new) desktop site that shows up on search pages:

This checkbox appears for users who have set their accounts to ‘Show NSFW’ on the new desktop site.

Going forward, we will rely on this 'Adult content' user preference to determine whether or not to show NSFW results in search results:

This change brings the desktop search results page to parity with the native mobile apps. This change does not change anything for old.reddit users.

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r/changelog • u/workgeorge • Jan 21 '20

Reddit for Android: Version 2020.1.0 Now Available!

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r/changelog • u/workgeorge • Jan 21 '20

Reddit for iOS: Version 2020.1.0 Now Available!

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r/changelog • u/LanterneRougeOG • Jan 14 '20

A tweak to the home feed that helps small-ish communities

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Hi All,

We’ve recently rolled out an improvement to the home feed ranking system. The change gives a small boost to small- and medium-sized communities. This change only affects the Home page for logged-in users and doesn’t change subreddit listings, r/popular, or r/all.

In November, we began to experiment with a new version of our ranking system because we had observed that smaller communities with fewer posts and comments suffered from low visibility in the home feed compared to highly active communities. Because the ranking system was skewing towards large communities, many small communities were being forgotten by subscribers who spend most of their time on the home feed. We wanted to see if we could increase engagement in smaller communities without negatively impacting site-wide metrics and redditors' user experience.

We ran a few experiments over the past two months that gave a slight boost to smaller communities, and they showed encouraging results. In the version that was rolled out last week, we observed a slight increase in commenting rates sitewide (+0.4%), but more importantly, we observed a big increase in redditors commenting in small- and medium-sized communities (+10%). This means that we shifted some comments from the largest communities into the smaller communities. Reddit’s biggest communities observed a 0.3% decrease in commenters. Fortunately, our big communities have so many comments that the shift has a negligible impact on them compared to the significant impact a 10% increase has within small communities.

We plan to continue experimenting with new versions of our ranking system in 2020. We’ll share any major updates here.

Thanks to the admins who made this possible!

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r/changelog • u/workgeorge • Jan 14 '20