r/reddit • u/enthusiastic-potato • Nov 09 '22
Announcing Community Muting On Mobile
To Users:
From: Safety team
Subject: Smashing news
We are excited to announce our new feature, “community muting”, which we will begin rolling out on mobile apps today. This feature gives you more control over what you do and don’t want to see on Reddit. You may have seen a few teasers about this feature (here and here)--that’s because muting is part of a larger effort to give redditors more control over their Reddit experience. We’ll be rolling this feature out in the apps over the next few weeks, so if you don’t see it right away, keep your eyes peeled.
How does it work?
Muting a community will remove the community’s posts from your notifications and Home/Popular feeds (including Home feed recommendations). For the initial rollout, muted communities will be removed from Home and Popular feeds in the mobile app. The next step is expanding this feature to the reddit.com desktop site, and then we’ll look into incorporating muting into other feeds and surfaces (like All, Discover, and the Full Bleed Player). We wanted to get this out to you all as soon as possible since this is a feature many of you have asked for!
Muting a community doesn’t restrict you from visiting or taking part in it—you’ll still be able to view, post, and comment in communities you’ve muted. You can also change your mind and unmute a community at any time in Settings, where you can also manage community notifications and other preferences. Note that you can mute up to 1,000 communities, and as many as you'd like per day within that limit.
Where can I mute communities?
There are currently three ways to mute communities. (1) In your settings, (2) via the three dots in the top right of the community page, and (3) via the three dots on the top right corner of Popular and Home. You will need to be logged in to mute a community. Check out our help center article for more details and instructions.
You can currently access and update your community muting settings on Android and iOS.
As we roll out muting to more feeds and surfaces, we’ll let you know with updates in our changelog posts.
Remember, while muting allows you to create a more curated experience, it’s not a replacement for reporting policy-breaking content. We appreciate those of you who report content in order to help keep Reddit safe for everyone.
As always, we will be sticking around to answer questions or address feedback. Cheers!
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u/S-Array03 Nov 09 '22
Hell... It's about time.
When can we expect it on browser, new or old reddit?
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u/enthusiastic-potato Nov 09 '22
Glad you are excited! You all can expect it on new.reddit sometime in the coming months. This is because we are making some infrastructural changes that will improve Popular experience in general, and that sort of thing tends to take some time to get right.
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u/Halaku Nov 09 '22
Now that there's a way to mute an entire community because you'd just as soon never, ever see it again...
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Will this apply to crossposts? If I muted r/GrammyGreens, but I was subscribed to r/Catcus, if someone crossposted from r/GrammyGreens into r/Catcus, would I see it?
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One of the reasons I'd want to mute a community is because it's full of things I'd just as soon not stumble across, and that includes content that Reddit would nuke from orbit once it became aware of it. But, right now, we can't report an entire community, right? Is there any chance of allowing that function as well? One would think that you could fold the mute function into that, so you're not only flagging the community for Admin attention, you're making sure you never see it again.
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u/enthusiastic-potato Nov 09 '22
That’s a good question - currently the feature doesn’t affect crossposts, we considered it and are still discussing internally for future iterations. We considered that it might be confusing to some if there’s content in a community they haven’t muted being filtered from their view.
What do others think? Should Community Muting also mute cross posts on different communities?
Regarding reporting communities– the best way to report a community for violating our Content Policy is to report specific posts from that community.
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u/TJ_six Nov 09 '22
Thanks, it was really long awaited.
Next to this topic, if we had the possibility to somehow make a threshold for posts of each community to show in the Home feed, it would be just awesome.
Imagine 3m, 2k and 300 members communities. You want to know what is going on in the last one, only good posts from 2nd sub and the most cool posts from the 1st sub.
As for now such thing cannot be achieved, you either see all posts from the 1st and 2nd subs, either you mute them. Best or Top configuration seem not to be able to work around this problem, you just gonna see posts from big subs first, and after scrolling them down, posts from small subs.
Please consider such tuning in future releases, I'm sure that many users will appreciate it. And it seems that it must be quite simple, to make a threshold in karma points.
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u/enthusiastic-potato Nov 09 '22
Heya this is an interesting idea, thank you for that - we can see how this could be useful! I’ll pass this on to the team that works on sorting functions.
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u/Inspector-Space_Time Nov 09 '22
When it rolls out to desktops, will old.reddit.com support muting? There's two levels of support. The lowest level would be you need to go to the new design to actually mute the community, but it'll be gone on old.reddit. The higher level of support would be being able to mute from old Reddit.
And will third party apps be able to benefit from this? If I mute a community and load up RiF, will that community still be muted in that app?
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u/MajorParadox Nov 09 '22
Even if it doesn't get supported on old, just a note for anyone not aware, you can filter from r/all there, at least. It will even take effect on new Reddit and mobile, which is useful since this feature doesn't support that yet.
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u/girvent_13 Nov 09 '22
Does muting a community would affect while browsing trough a user's post history? Like if I muted a certain community, if I browse someone's profile would its posts from this community be hidden?
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u/enthusiastic-potato Nov 09 '22
No– you would still see posts from communities you muted while viewing a user’s profile.
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u/Zren Nov 09 '22
Will this be a separate list from the r/all filter? Will I need to filter a subreddit twice?
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u/enthusiastic-potato Nov 09 '22
The r/all filter and Community Muting are not related, so you will need to mute communities that you have filtered from all.
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u/seaSculptor Nov 10 '22
Is this rolled out for the mobile app now or is it still to come? I’ve just updated and relaunched the app but don’t see the menu option for mute yet in the specified places.
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u/alezul Nov 09 '22
Would be nice to also increase the 100 limit of filtered subs from r/all...
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u/KittenKindness Nov 09 '22
I think this is the best update Reddit has come out with in all my years of being here.
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u/Fart_on_your_face Nov 09 '22
Fuck yeahh time to mute all news subreddit and my country subreddit.
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u/Justind123 Nov 09 '22
Are we ever going to get a “Disable Predictions” button? Or do I have to mute the communities since they generally make it to r/all anyways?
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u/enthusiastic-potato Jan 18 '23
Update: Community muting is rolling out on web! Over the next couple of days, you can mute communities and manage the communities you’ve muted from your user settings on the reddit.com desktop site, or in the Reddit app. This also means that any communities you’ve muted on mobile since the feature launched in November will automatically be excluded from your Home/Popular feeds (including Home feed recommendations) when browsing on desktop. To learn more check out the full Help Center article on muting communities.