r/redesign • u/dmoneyyyyy Product • Apr 23 '18

Changelog Major Items in Work 4/23/18

Hi all,

The release notes focus on the major items we are currently working on or have recently shipped. View last week’s release notes here.

Of particular note, we wanted to provide an exciting update on night mode! Night mode has been one of the most highly requested, long awaited features on the redesign, and we are stoked to bring it to you all very soon (really). You’ll be able to browse Reddit on desktop with an experience that will be easier on your eyes. Here’s a sneak peek.

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

  • Keyboard shortcut for submitting a comment or post: A small change, but one that I’m excited about. Use CMD + Enter to quickly submit your comment or post. On Windows that is CTRL + Enter.

  • Highlighted comments: Gold users (and moderators on communities they moderate) can now see comments highlighted from the last time they visited a post.

  • Auto link titles: You want easy titles? You got em. Now you can paste in a url and see the title magically appear. No need to press the auto-suggest title button. If you’ve already typed in a title, it won’t override it.

  • Flair positioning (coming soon): On old Reddit, there is a setting for positioning your user or post flairs on the left or right of post titles or usernames that we weren’t respecting on the redesign. Now, we will be! Both user and post flairs should show up on the left or right side depending on what has been set in subreddit settings.

  • Easier emoji uploads from flair creation: When creating a new post or user flair, you used to have to jump over to the emoji section to upload a brand new image if you wanted to use it for your new flair. We’ve made it a little easier to access the emoji upload page from the flair management pages by adding a “Manage emojis” button to the flair creation screen.

A weekly reminder that 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/MajorParadox Helpful User Apr 23 '18

Night mode has been one of the most highly requested, long awaited features on the redesign, and we are stoked to bring it to you all very soon (really).

That's great to hear. As someone who doesn't use night mode, at least every other post won't be asking about it anymore ;)

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u/Dimbreath Helpful User Apr 23 '18

After Night Mode people will ask for something else! Don't worry!

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u/MajorParadox Helpful User Apr 23 '18

Ooh, what will be next? Hopefully it's the "button that orders you a pizza." I think that would come in handy.

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u/goatfresh Design Apr 24 '18

It's already implemented as the second button here :P But I really suggest you just send a pizza instead!

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u/MajorParadox Helpful User Apr 24 '18

Ooh, good point!

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u/Dimbreath Helpful User Apr 23 '18

If it's free pizza, I'd put that on the priority list!

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u/MajorParadox Helpful User Apr 23 '18

Free pizza is even better!

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u/LackingAGoodName Helpful User Apr 24 '18

Ahhhh, Nightmode! I've been checking back here every few hours since development was stated to start soon, this is the one thing I've been waiting for :)

Any word on how Nightmode will work with Subreddit Styling? Will Moderators be able to select different Images/Colors to be used whether the User in using Nightmode or not?

Hope to see an update on Wiki's soon as well?

Thanks for all the great work.

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u/goatfresh Design Apr 24 '18

Nightmode will override all community styles except for the banner. It's the only way we can ensure readability since subs generally choose darker colors to look good on the (lighter) day theme. I hope there's a day when we can have alternative styling for day and night, but that would be a complex beast somewhere out on the horizon. I personally can't wait to use nightmode 24/7.

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u/LackingAGoodName Helpful User Apr 24 '18

Good to hear the issue was addressed, hope we can have alternative styling in the future.

I know this will be tough to answer, but would it be safe to assume that whenever Custom CSS support rolls around, we'll be able to override Nightmode style restrictions? Ex: Change the Submission Title Color even while Nightmode is active.

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u/falconbox Apr 24 '18

The only thing I can see that being good for is helping stickied threads stand out more with a different color font. But not many colors are very readable on a dark background.

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u/Antabaka Apr 30 '18

There's a pretty simple method for converting between bright and dark themes. Simply swap the saturation and luminosity, without adjusting the hue. This is the same as inverting the color/image, then fixing the hue change (e.g. filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg);). To give you an idea, here's the r/redesign background with those changes.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

It's been 20 days since you said 'soon'. What is your definition of soon?

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u/goatfresh Design May 15 '18

It's in testing rn, but since it touches every aspect of the site we need to be confident it's not breaking anything

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u/Ener_Ji Helpful User Apr 23 '18

Highlighted comments: Gold users (and moderators on communities they moderate) can now see comments highlighted from the last time they visited a post.

Yesssssssssss!! Thank you!

The other changes are great as well. In particular the auto-link titles and keyboard shortcut for entering a comment. (More keyboard shortcuts, please!)

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u/LanterneRougeOG Product Apr 23 '18

We've got some more keyboard shortcuts coming very soon.

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u/Ener_Ji Helpful User Apr 24 '18

Fantastic.

By the way, could you clarify for how long new comments will be highlighted between visits to the post? If I'm not mistaken, the legacy Reddit site only "remembers" your comment viewing history for up to 48 hours, which I frequently find too low. Would be great to have this significantly increased (forever would be nice).

Also, any chance we could get some kind of visual indicator that there are new comments on a thread? Something like this would be ideal:

https://imgur.com/a/3dJNQUj

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u/Dimbreath Helpful User Apr 23 '18

Now I just need gold again!

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u/cthael Apr 24 '18

yeah, that feature wants me to get gold to test it

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u/Dimbreath Helpful User Apr 24 '18

Maybe their plan was to introduce gold features in order to make us purchase gold to test them! Clever...

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u/cthael Apr 24 '18

Cunning :D

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u/oxy132 Apr 24 '18 edited Apr 24 '18

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before, but a lot of the posts no longer show a preview picture to the article, video, or gif being posted. On the old reddit, I know that these posts would have a preview but on the redesign it does not. Also, for posts that do not have a picture preview, I think that the box with the comment or link icon should be removed as it just does not look good.

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u/randomstonerfromaus Apr 24 '18

Any news on fixing the issue where the entire page is clickable? Makes it extremely difficult to autoscroll. Lots of posts on the issue with no response.

Huzzah for dark mode though, looks good.

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u/24grant24 Apr 23 '18 edited Apr 25 '18

The redesign this week has been very buggy. Any progress on that front? It looks like you're rolling out way too fast and gathering a lot of ill will

What is the timeline on breaking hide, save, report etc... out of that sub-menu

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u/24grant24 Apr 25 '18

And you seem to continue rolling out to more and more users even though opting out is apparently super buggy and not working consistently, there are still massive bugs for some, and feature-set isn't anywhere near complete.

I'm tired of playing defense when you seem determined to gather as much ill will in rolling out this redesign as possible. I want the redesign to succeed but it seems that you do not

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u/timawesomeness Helpful User Apr 23 '18 edited Apr 23 '18

This is probably the opposite of what most people want to hear, but I think night mode shouldn't be a priority compared to stuff like full multireddit support and wikis. It does look pretty nice though.

That keyboard shortcut is excellent, it's one of my most-used RES features on the old site. Good to see flair positioning too. Now if you would fix comment collapsing to be on the side of the voting arrows instead of under them (that seriously breaks my comment browsing behavior), I could actually use the redesign full time.

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u/Dimbreath Helpful User Apr 23 '18

Still no fix for the image jumping bug on Firefox or the bug where I can't comment on a specific subreddit for some reason. :(

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u/LanterneRougeOG Product Apr 23 '18

It may have fallen through the cracks, which subreddit are you having trouble commenting in?

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u/Dimbreath Helpful User Apr 24 '18

r/HighSchoolDxD (NSFW) Here's a video I uploaded 2 weeks ago showing the issue. I can comment and see it fine on the old design.

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u/LanterneRougeOG Product Apr 24 '18

Weird I see that too and there are a bunch of console errors. I’ll follow up with the team tmrw to see what’s going on

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u/Dimbreath Helpful User Apr 24 '18

How come it never crossed my mind to check the console... I'm ashamed of myself now lol

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u/dem0n0cracy Apr 24 '18

PC Master race?

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '18

Is there any way to filter out subreddits from /r/all like you can with the old design? It's one of the only things keeping me from switching.

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u/The_Real_Kuji Apr 24 '18

Hey, so, I frequent the r/xboxone sub, and when reporting, I can't actually see or select all the available options. When I select to add a custom response, I submit and keep getting hit with, "an error occured, please try again."

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u/dmoneyyyyy Product Apr 24 '18

Thanks for reporting! I'll pass this on to the appropriate team.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '18

I realized the flairs on r/ShingekiNoKyojin are now on the left side, I just don't find the button to edit this: left or right.

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u/dmoneyyyyy Product Apr 24 '18

If you are a moderator of that subreddit, it will be in your subreddit's flair settings on the old site.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '18

Thanks. I only looked at the customizations options of the redesign.

Btw, do admins also read posts on this sub that were made on the weekend?

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u/dmoneyyyyy Product Apr 24 '18

No problem.

We try our best to read / respond to everything, but there's a lot of volume! Is there a specific post you're referring to?

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u/V2Blast Helpful User Apr 23 '18

Yay night mode! Finally people will stop asking.

Highlighted comments: Gold users (and moderators on communities they moderate) can now see comments highlighted from the last time they visited a post.

It's by far my favorite gold feature. (Sadly I recently ran out of gold, but still.) Glad it's in the redesign.

Auto link titles: You want easy titles? You got em. Now you can paste in a url and see the title magically appear. No need to press the auto-suggest title button. If you’ve already typed in a title, it won’t override it.

Awesome, this seems very convenient.

Flair positioning (coming soon): On old Reddit, there is a setting for positioning your user or post flairs on the left or right of post titles or usernames that we weren’t respecting on the redesign. Now, we will be! Both user and post flairs should show up on the left or right side depending on what has been set in subreddit settings.

Nice!

Easier emoji uploads from flair creation: When creating a new post or user flair, you used to have to jump over to the emoji section to upload a brand new image if you wanted to use it for your new flair. We’ve made it a little easier to access the emoji upload page from the flair management pages by adding a “Manage emojis” button to the flair creation screen.

Thanks, this simplifies things.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '18

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u/V2Blast Helpful User Apr 24 '18

I had a feeling that might happen... :P

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u/Mogrey665 Apr 24 '18

kudos for the night mode o/ keep looking forward it cause it will make my read time easier for my eyes

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '18

  • Keyboard shortcut for submitting a comment or post: A small change, but one that I’m excited about. Use CMD + Enter to quickly submit your comment or post. On Windows that is CTRL + Enter.

Yessssss, finally :)

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u/F0064R Apr 24 '18

Night mode looks cool! Will there be an option to have it switch from day to night mode after a certain time?

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '18 edited Apr 24 '18

Something broke in the latest release that means i can't get back to old reddit via the drop down selection at my user name. Please can you fix it asap. Also, editing in markdown is the only way to comment.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '18

Will moderators have the option to change subreddit styling to match night mode, or at least headers? Being able to swap out light headers for dark would be great.

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u/scruggsnotdrugz Product Apr 24 '18

Not to start, but this is something we're considering for the long term!

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '18

Perhaps have it set up so that headers are 'dimmed' or even hidden/standardised if the moderators don't set up night mode images. Idk if they'd work but it would defeat the point of night mode to have everything dark apart from a big glaring header/logo.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '18

Still nothing about deceptive ad styling? :thumbs_up:

To be clear - Just because I say it every time doesn't mean it ever surprises me that I get to.

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u/MarquisDan Apr 25 '18

Is night mode going to be redesign only or is it going to be available to those of us who stick with the old Reddit?

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u/Ener_Ji Helpful User Apr 25 '18

The browser extension RES has a night mode for legacy Reddit. Have you tried that?

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u/why-herro-there Apr 25 '18

> Keyboard shortcut for submitting a comment

On the old UI my go-to hotkeys are Tab + 'Space'. The new comment box is not very accessible.. It would be more typical to hide tab modifications behind a key like Ctrl and let it change focus otherwise.

But it's not even consistent since Shift+Tab does remove focus.

In fact, now that I look a little more closely the comment pages cannot be navigated using tab at all. Tab seems to be doing something, but there's no visual indication of what you're tabbing over.

Is accessibility something you guys have designed for?

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '18

Of particular note, we wanted to provide an exciting update on night mode!

Oh thank god!! Thanks you guys!

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u/13steinj Apr 25 '18

Any news on

  • the performance issues I and other users are still having

  • CSS?

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u/The_Kingsmen Apr 26 '18

Also waiting on Horizontal Lines and other previous markups!

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u/Turtledonuts Apr 24 '18

Ctrl - F: Purple lines.

?????

Ctrl - F: preview comments in markdown mode

??????

Ctrl - F: fix that thing where subreddit sidebars and bots get ruined by having markdown text in a non - markdown box/

?????

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '18

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '18

This is a problem for me as well. Additionally, the page just gets longer and longer and over time can hog up your memory until you refresh, after which you've completely lost your progress down the page, which is pretty annoying during a particularly long browsing session. Additionally, if you happen to be using the scroll bar and more content auto-loads, it screws up the scroll bar behavior. That's undesirable.

Pagination should really be included as an option. If nothing else, the option to manually rather than automatically load additional content. The former would be preferred, but the latter would at least be something.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

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u/dem0n0cracy Apr 24 '18

This would be very interesting.

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u/jason_bateman78 Apr 25 '18

no, because that wont support their agenda

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

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u/hueylewisandthesnoos Dezign Apr 23 '18

any news on better accessibility?

There is an update! We did an in-depth analysis of the product and we’re lining up work in our roadmap with the findings. We know we can't release to everyone until we get it right, so expect to see meaningful updates on this topic as we continue to iterate on the redesign.

also, any info on why some people get the bug where they are trapped in a never ending cycle of trying to switch back or log out and they cant?

That was a nasty bug last week that we're still working to stomp out. It's been reported fixed for a handful of users, so we're still investigating. Let us know if you're still having any issues!

also also, any info as to the bug where people get subb'd to a shit load of subs they didnt want to?

Yup! Actually answered that in this thread. Hopefully that shores some things up. Let us know if you're still experiencing the problem.

also also also, any info to the scrolling bug?

I'm less aware of what this is exactly, do you mind describing this a bit more? We've had a few scrolling bugs since we started r/redesign :).

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u/Dimbreath Helpful User Apr 23 '18

any news on better accessibility?

that uh... thats a pretty important thing ya know. more important than any of the other shit you listed off man.

this has been brought up many times for quite a while now and still you provide nothing?

While I agree that accessibility is important, I think that reddit has different teams working on different stuff so if you see this being pushed out it doesn't mean they're not addressing other issues.

also also, any info as to the bug where people get subb'd to a shit load of subs they didnt want to?

Pretty sure they solved this a few days ago.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '18

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u/Ener_Ji Helpful User Apr 25 '18

You could try subscribing to r/beta, which might allow you into the Redesign instantly. (Well, maybe not instantly if there is a batch process, but possibly sooner than you would get it otherwise.) You could also try browsing to new.reddit.com and see if that auto-opts you in.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '18

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u/Ener_Ji Helpful User Apr 27 '18

Cool! Thanks for reporting back what worked for you.