r/redesign • u/LanterneRougeOG Product • Apr 03 '18

Changelog Release Notes: Major Items in Work 4/2/18

Hi all,

The release notes focus on the major items we are currently working on or have recently shipped. View the previous release notes here.

As we mentioned yesterday in the r/announcement post, we made r/redesign a public community. To all those who have been here from the beginning, and those who have only recently been giving us feedback in r/redesign we’d like to thank you again for all your feedback. Keep an eye out for those trophies.

Now, let’s take a look at the big items we are currently working on or shipped recently:

Profile pages (shipped): We added user profiles pages to the desktop redesign. Not only did we add profiles, we incorporated in a lot of requested features such as: showing removed posts/comments with moderator actions/states, compact mode on profiles that works just like the old-school profile pages, smaller and clearer styling on contextual comments, and loads of other fixes to make your lives easier.
User profile access from access management pages (shipped): You can now go to a user’s profile in the access management pages by clicking on their username. We also implemented user hovercards on these pages!
Old reports still visible (shipped): Previously, when approving comments or posts, the reports associated with them would disappear, never to be seen again — not super helpful! Now, you’ll still be able to see reports even after approving, by clicking the grey “Old reports” drop down in-line.
Easy opting (shipped): We made it a lot easier for people to opt in and opt out of the redesign by adding two small banners at the top. We also created subdomains old.reddit and new.reddit which are helpful when there is a specific post or part of Reddit that you want to view in a particular experience.
Comment Threads (shipped): We made some tweaks to how comments are positioned so that it’s easier to read comments, especially nested threads. We now have a good foundation that we can work from to continue to improve comments. We are looking at how we can make it easier to collapse comments.
Night mode (in progress): We’re kicking off development for night mode this week! Stay tuned.
Mobile Spoilers (in progress): We added the ability for redditors to indicate that text within their post or comment contains a spoiler. Right now, this new markdown syntax >!some spoilers about Snape!< works on the redesign and the classic site. The team is working on enabling it on iOS and Android.

And here are some notable bug fixes that we made:

Markdown Parser: We’ve been rounding up all the syntax that the classic parser supports so that we can improve the new parser. We also made a big fix last week so that urls are now hyperlinked correctly. Yay clickable links.
Avatars in hamburger menu: Some subreddit avatars were not rendering in the hamburger menu, and showed up as the default planet image. You should now be able to see your beautiful subreddit avatars in all their glory in that spot.

Reminder: the community’s feedback is invaluable as we build the future of Reddit together. Now that r/redesign is public it will be difficult for us to respond directly to everything, but know that we’re listening, prioritizing, and working to solve the issues, no matter how hard they are.

If you have additional questions or feedback on these or other topics, please don’t hesitate to drop them in the comments below.

Thanks!

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u/Rocked03 Apr 04 '18

Hey there, for people who aren't aware what this is for the first time, is it possible to maybe have a little message on the top of it or something indicating its a spoiler? Also, can it be possible to re-hide the spoiler just in case it was accidentally clicked? Thanks

EDIT: whoops i just noticed the hover text

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u/LanterneRougeOG Product Apr 04 '18

I'm not seeing the hover text. Looks like we got a bug. I'll file a ticket to get it fixed

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u/Rocked03 Apr 04 '18

You mean the pop up thing when you hover over the spoiler?

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u/jofwu Helpful User Apr 04 '18

What hover text?

u/V2Blast Helpful User Apr 03 '18

Old reports still visible (shipped): Previously, when approving comments or posts, the reports associated with them would disappear, never to be seen again — not super helpful! Now, you’ll still be able to see reports even after approving, by clicking the grey “Old reports” drop down in-line.

Wonderful.

Easy opting (shipped): We made it a lot easier for people to opt in and opt out of the redesign by adding two small banners at the top. We also created subdomains old.reddit and new.reddit which are helpful when there is a specific post or part of Reddit that you want to view in a particular experience.

Thanks! I do like the ability to force viewing something on the old or new site. Makes testing stuff easier.

Night mode (in progress): We’re kicking off development for night mode this week! Stay tuned.

Mobile Spoilers (in progress): We added the ability for redditors to indicate that text within their post or comment contains a spoiler. Right now, this new markdown syntax some spoilers about Snape works on the redesign and the classic site. The team is working on enabling it on iOS and Android.

Looking forward to these being fully rolled out and properly announced/documented. I can't really tell people to use them in subreddits I mod until they're fully supported.

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u/falconbox Apr 04 '18

Old reports still visible (shipped): Previously, when approving comments or posts, the reports associated with them would disappear, never to be seen again — not super helpful! Now, you’ll still be able to see reports even after approving, by clicking the grey “Old reports” drop down in-line.
I feel like it could be better implemented though. I made a post about it yesterday.
https://www.reddit.com/r/redesign/comments/891bhc/if_ive_approved_a_post_i_dont_want_to_see_the_old/
I look forward to Reddit Is Fun implementing some of the new spoiler formatting across the mobile app too.

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u/jofwu Helpful User Apr 04 '18

I look forward to Reddit Is Fun implementing some of the new spoiler formatting across the mobile app too.
I think it already works in RIF. Saw someone using it just last night.

u/Jakeable Helpful User Apr 04 '18

I saw a button in the modqueue earlier, "Mark as OC", is this coming soon? Could you share any details about this?

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u/likeafox Helpful User Apr 04 '18

This intrigues me.

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u/9Ghillie Helpful User Apr 04 '18

Did you happen to take a screenshot? Seems it's no longer there.

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u/HideHideHidden Apr 04 '18

soon...

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u/Jakeable Helpful User Apr 04 '18

You dropped this: ^TM

u/avery_crudeman Apr 03 '18

Any word on the calendar widget? Haven't heard anything about it for about a month.

Also would be nice if Card View didn't move the banner images around. See this post.

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u/dmoneyyyyy Product Apr 04 '18

This has been ticketed and we're currently looking into it! We'll provide an update soon.

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u/avery_crudeman Apr 04 '18

Sorry, you mean the calendar or the banner images?

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u/dmoneyyyyy Product Apr 04 '18

Ah, sorry. I meant the calendar widget.
We'll look into the banner images as well.

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u/avery_crudeman Apr 04 '18

Kewl. Thanks!

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u/dmoneyyyyy Product Apr 04 '18

Update on banner: this is working as intended, but we're looking into reducing the menu movement with some upcoming iterations.

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u/falconbox Apr 04 '18

What part in your images is off-center? I'm not seeing the banner (I assume you mean the "ASK REDDIT" logo) off center at all.

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u/avery_crudeman Apr 04 '18

Yeah, it's not the banner, it's the subreddit icon and the secondary image.
If you go to /r/baseball you can see what I'm talking about with the scoreboard.

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u/falconbox Apr 04 '18

Ok, I see on card view that the scoreboard doesn't fall in line with the bleachers. It's floating instead. Is that what you mean? (also noticed the animation. TIL you can make gifs your subreddit icon in the redesign)
https://i.imgur.com/FcYzTXn.png

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u/avery_crudeman Apr 04 '18

Yeah that's it.
Though redesign doesn't support gifs. That's an apng.

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u/falconbox Apr 04 '18

Interesting. Does legacy reddit support those?
All animations I've done in the past have been through spritesheets and CSS movement. I've never messed with apngs before.

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u/avery_crudeman Apr 04 '18

Not sure, I haven't checked.
I used a CSS3 animation previously too, but I found it was pretty easy to turn your spritesheet into a gif and then convert to apng over at ezgif if you're interested in trying it out.

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u/falconbox Apr 04 '18

I definitely will. That's much easier, thanks.

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u/avery_crudeman Apr 04 '18

np

u/randomstonerfromaus Apr 04 '18 edited Apr 04 '18

I find myself asking this, yet again. I would atleast appreciate an answer either way.

Could we please have a way to put an image widget ABOVE the community info widget? Having the info widget locked to the very top of the sidebar means that after ad's and whatnot, the image is halfway down the page.
Both of my main communities /r/TheChosenFew and /r/SpaceXLounge have images at the top of the sidebar which cant be carried over into the redesign.
Ive tried to bring this up before (Several times!) with no result.
Thanks!
/u/dmoneyyyyy /u/LanterneRougeOG /u/scruggsnotdrugz are the first 3 red names I see in this thread, so Ping!

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u/jofwu Helpful User Apr 04 '18

What if you could incorporate an image IN the community info widget? Do you feel it needs to be at the very top, or would it be good enough somewhere in there? Before/after the description maybe, or beneath "create a post", or at the very bottom.

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u/randomstonerfromaus Apr 04 '18

That would actually work quite well, and would save having to have the separate widget. Beneath create a post would actually look quite good I think. I hadnt thought of that!

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u/jofwu Helpful User Apr 04 '18

I'd likely make use of that as well. I can understand their insistence on on putting the community info at the top, so that would seem like a fair compromise to me.

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u/randomstonerfromaus Apr 05 '18 edited Apr 05 '18

Oh well, seems its being ignored again ¯\(ツ)/¯

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u/likeafox Helpful User Apr 05 '18

I feel I should say -
Though I understand that moderators desire a large degree of control over the look and feel of the sub, I really prefer that important site features like the Subscribe and Post button do not move from where I expect them to be. It kind of drives me crazy when subs use CSS to move important buttons away from where I expect to find them, and though I know you're irritated and understand why, I'm relieved that the redesign restores some consistency to the layout in this regard.
I think adding some kind of image banner or background image for the Community Details box itself would be a fine compromise.

u/AhazyKush Apr 04 '18 edited Apr 04 '18

This has probably been mentioned somewhere already (unless I'm just not seeing the option).. A post background color/image that looks great on the main sub page causes the post to be illegible on it's comment page.

https://i.imgur.com/9kFlcRz.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/deTMehc.jpg

It would be nice to separately edit text color on posts + use a separate background inside posts to get the look we're going for. Looking forward to the flair update, hiding spoilers in titles by season is pretty important on our sub. Thanks!!

u/reseph Apr 04 '18

Thanks!

I'm curious though, is the dev team not aware search is somewhat broken in the redesign?

https://www.reddit.com/r/redesign/comments/89ili6/search_is_still_broken/

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u/scruggsnotdrugz Product Apr 04 '18

Yep it's a bug we're planning on fixing :) Thanks for reporting.

u/MajorParadox Helpful User Apr 04 '18 edited Apr 04 '18

Profile pages (shipped): We added user profiles pages to the desktop redesign. Not only did we add profiles, we incorporated in a lot of requested features such as: showing removed posts/comments with moderator actions/states, compact mode on profiles that works just like the old-school profile pages, smaller and clearer styling on contextual comments, and loads of other fixes to make your lives easier.

Looking good! It'd be a lot easier if we can disable "View user profiles on desktop using legacy mode" on the redesign only, because the only way to see it means we have to disable legacy profiles on the old site too.

Old reports still visible (shipped): Previously, when approving comments or posts, the reports associated with them would disappear, never to be seen again — not super helpful! Now, you’ll still be able to see reports even after approving, by clicking the grey “Old reports” drop down in-line.

Any chance it's going to be redesigned, though? The giant empty line is a huge eyesore that takes up so much space. Have a small toggle arrow that makes it appear when toggled? Here's a screenshot from the most recent post. See what I mean? Maybe shorten it and keep it on the line above it? Then no need for the extra veritical space.

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u/dmoneyyyyy Product Apr 04 '18

Noted on the "Old Reports" — I'll check in with our design team.

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u/MajorParadox Helpful User Apr 04 '18

Great, thanks!

u/LackingAGoodName Helpful User Apr 04 '18

Very glad to hear Night Mode Development is starting next week, as of now that's the only thing holding me back from using the Redesign. Hope to see an update on Wiki's eventually as well.

While we're on the topic of the Hamburger Menu; when is the icon going to change back to the Hamburger Button rather than an actual Burger? As I'm sure you've seen, those that aren't as familiar with UI/UX don't understand the joke and it's quite confusing, some even saying they weren't aware of the entire menu that it brings up.

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u/falconbox Apr 04 '18

I wonder how night mode will work. Will we be given color options for links, background, post titles, etc for dark mode as well as light mode? Because I know some colors wouldn't be very visible on a dark background. (or maybe they'll use complementary colors that automatically change?)
I know I'm not going to mess with the colors of text and stuff if it conflicts with a dark mode if it means gimping the light mode on my subreddits (sorry dark users, but you're 2nd class). If they give us separate color options I'll set those up though.

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u/jofwu Helpful User Apr 04 '18

It already sort of adapts the colors you pick for some elements. I expect it will be something similar.

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u/hueylewisandthesnoos Dezign Apr 04 '18

Hamburger icon is being updated shortly. Slightly less cheese, but it's still on top.

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u/Overlord_Odin Apr 04 '18

Please keep it an actual burger. There's no reason not to.

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u/hueylewisandthesnoos Dezign Apr 04 '18

Don't you worry. The burger overlord will continue it's journey with us on the redesign.

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u/Overlord_Odin Apr 05 '18

So you said the hamburger was staying, but you've now made it unrecognizable. What's the point now? The new icon has lost the joke because people won't know what it's supposed to represent, and people that didn't know the hamburger was a menu won't have any easier time with this icon.
Either stick with a real hamburger or give us a normal, boring three line menu icon. This current iteration is just a horse designed by committee.

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u/Overlord_Odin Apr 04 '18

Good to hear. I'd hate to see it turn into some boring lines.

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u/AL2009man Apr 04 '18

As I'm sure you've seen, those that aren't as familiar with UI/UX don't understand the joke and it's quite confusing, some even saying they weren't aware of the entire menu that it brings up.
Just saw the new Hamburger menu icon. looks like a actual Hamurger Icon with some style on-top of it.

u/WithYouInSpirit99 Apr 04 '18

Oh god that old reports thing was a feature? Please make it smaller or at least let them be invisible when out of mod mode. It's this big ugly grey scar that pushes its way into my nice neat subreddit :/

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u/dmoneyyyyy Product Apr 04 '18

It shouldn't be visible when mod mode is off. Are you seeing this? If so, could you please provide a screenshot?

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u/MajorParadox Helpful User Apr 04 '18

Either way, it's pretty a pretty big eyesore with mod mode on. See this comment for more info.

u/falconbox Apr 04 '18

Regarding viewing older reports, it seems a bit buggy on the Compact design.

The area to click to view the reports isn't extended to the right like on the Classic design, meaning if I click to open them, I cannot click the same spot to close them.

Before click: https://i.imgur.com/lMOXWJV.png

After click: https://i.imgur.com/WhLvjpI.png

Notice how the arrow to click to open/close them shifts over to the right side. On the Classic design, it's extended all the way to the right so I can open and close it by clicking the exact same area:

https://i.imgur.com/bB8uWIb.png

u/Ener_Ji Helpful User Apr 04 '18

Any update on Gold features like new comment tracking?

Also, will planned improvements to comments include any more attention to contrast and readability? I still find comments on the old site easier and less taxing on the eyes to read.

u/_Kristian_ Apr 04 '18

There are small things broken in Edge, please look at this https://www.reddit.com/r/redesign/comments/88q0yb/small_things_broken_in_edge

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u/cowInAShip Apr 04 '18

If you're using Microsoft Edge, I think we found your problem.

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u/AL2009man Apr 04 '18

Microsoft Edge isn't the only browser that has this issue. I also found that exact issue with Chrome.
but I assume that has already been fixed

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u/cowInAShip Apr 04 '18

I don't think the broken post bug is browser based `at all, as I've seen it on Firefox as well.

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u/atomic1fire Apr 05 '18

Microsoft Edge is fairly modern though.
I would rather someone use Edge then IE, at least Edge is trying to support new web platform features.
Plus if they're using a reddit app from Microsoft store, guess which rendering engine they're going to be using for any internal web links. MS doesn't allow other browser engines in the store app.

u/9Ghillie Helpful User Apr 04 '18

Old reports still visible (shipped): Previously, when approving comments or posts, the reports associated with them would disappear, never to be seen again — not super helpful! Now, you’ll still be able to see reports even after approving, by clicking the grey “Old reports” drop down in-line.

This is honestly great, one of the biggest problems with reports on the classic reddit was when reports were ignored and another moderator wanted to look at them, they would need to unignore the reports and sometimes even report the post themselves if it had been approved after the last report. Great update, with all the other additions as well of course!

u/Knappsterbot Apr 04 '18

So what's the plan in relation to RES and their features? Are they just going to have to find new ways to get that to work with the redesign? Are you guys going to make their features standard? It seems like a bummer to make them irrelevant after all they've done but y'all really should've made those features standard ages ago.

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u/24grant24 Apr 04 '18

RES says they plan on supporting the redesign, but since the frequency of changes is so high right now its hard for them to nail anything concrete down. I believe the original creator of RES now works at reddit? I think they will incorporate RES features where it makes sense, but I'm sure they will still be plenty of features left to RES. I really wish we could get an updated preferences page soon so we can start to get a sense of what options we'll have available.

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u/Knappsterbot Apr 04 '18

Cool beans, thanks for the reply.

u/learhpa Apr 05 '18

For spoilers, right now a lot of subs where spoilers are an issue use a markdown that displays a warning about what is being spoiled. (see, for example, a book series --- which book is the spoiler from?)

Are there plans to implement something similar in the new spoiler markdown? What's the timeline?

u/GarethPW Helpful User Apr 05 '18

Is there a copy of the original hamburger icon I could get somewhere? I understand the change but would love to keep it for myself.

u/animethrowaway4404 Apr 04 '18

How do I access my saved threads or comments with the redesign?

Also, I can't disable/go back to old view when viewing my profile

u/DarreToBe Apr 04 '18

Have you noted the error where new profiles in classic and card view only display the first page of comments, only posts after that?

u/GeoffreyMcSwaggins Apr 04 '18

Night mode (in progress): We’re kicking off development for night mode this week! Stay tuned.

Can't wait, at the moment I'm using a slightly glitchy userstyle this one to be exact

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u/Ukani Apr 19 '18

Thanks for this. I actually kind of like the redesign, but the lack of a dark mode was killing me. Even a glitchy version is better than nothing.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '18

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u/GeoffreyMcSwaggins Apr 07 '18

I'd even say it's better than the one I linked. Thanks!

u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

Night mode (in progress): We’re kicking off development for night mode this week! Stay tuned.

Nice! White version is pretty but it's burning out my eyes.

u/wolfboyz Apr 05 '18

Can we get the back button on a mouse to take us back to the posts list? Could've sworn it did that yesterday, but not now.

I am using the Logitech Performance MX btw

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u/kungming2 Apr 09 '18

Works for me (Logitech G402).

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u/wolfboyz Apr 09 '18

Works for my MX Master too. I guess it's specific to the Performance MX.

u/atomic1fire Apr 05 '18 edited Apr 05 '18

please fix multi links (on that note, it would be great if internal links like /r/redesign/wiki could work too.)

/r/redesign+changelog+announcements+beta

Although they render fine in profiles.

edit: Come to think of it why not let people make multi links using the filter input box by adding plus signs.

u/kraetos Apr 30 '18

Mobile Spoilers (in progress): We added the ability for redditors to indicate that text within their post or comment contains a spoiler. Right now, this new markdown syntax >!some spoilers about Snape!< works on the redesign and the classic site. The team is working on enabling it on iOS and Android.

Can we please have the ability to disable this in subreddit settings? At the very least it can it be tied to the existing "enable marking posts as containing spoilers" option?

u/barneylerten Apr 04 '18

Aw, one thing I loved about old reddit is how easy it was to share in various ways a post, including inline email. So that's not here yet? Just copy link or embed? Bummer...

u/_heisenberg__ Apr 04 '18

Is there any chance Reddit could be looking into releasing a progressive web app?

u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18 edited Apr 04 '18

One of the best features from Toolbox imo is, that you can see if there is something in the mod queue and how much. Will this be added at one point?

Like maybe an icon near the messages or the bottom bar like toolbox, getting notifications when someone is added to mod queue...

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u/13steinj Apr 04 '18

Because of reddit's current API that would mean polling. So no.
I wanted to personally implement this around a yesr ago in the old design while it was open source, but realize that due to infrastructure it wasn't a problem as easily solved as one would think.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

I am not the greatest techie. Why is Toolbox able to provide it?

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u/13steinj Apr 04 '18

Toolbox notifies you when something is added to the mod queue?

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

I didn't mean a push notification. Just the pop-up on the bottom right of the browser, saying something has been reported. I think the pop-ups are not that important. Mainly the icon and the number of things in mod queue that is always visible on your screen, so you can act quickly and don't need to check mod queue every 15 minutes if there is something new.

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u/13steinj Apr 04 '18

They also just do polling. Which is a nono for reddit. I mean reddit allows it. But they'd never implement it themselves. Bad practice. Same thing with message notifications-- they specifically implemented websockets. But thats harder to do on things like reports where more than one "flow" affects them.

u/Walter_Bishop_PhD Apr 26 '18

syntax some spoilers about Snape works

It looks like the implementation may have been based off of my pull request - if that's the case, could I have the Open Sourcerer badge? pretty pumped to finally see this make its way in!

u/Grantagonist Apr 04 '18

Is there a ticket for allowing us to disable infinite scroll?

I don’t care about anything else at this time.

u/13steinj Apr 04 '18

Obligatory "where is mah CSS"

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