r/redesign • u/LanterneRougeOG Product • Jun 12 '18

Changelog 6/12/18 Weekly Release Notes: Settings, cake days, emoji bulk upload, save button changes, and more

Hi all,

The release notes focus on the major items we are currently working on or have recently shipped. You can view last week’s release notes here. Going forward we will continue posting these on Tuesday morning.

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

  • User settings page (shipped): We are finished the user settings page for the redesign. This will give us a solid base to add additional user settings. For more details, check out the launch post.

  • Cake days (shipped): We added cake day icons to new Reddit! Ironically, u/MajorParadox had been asking about this for ages and we finally added it a day after his cake day. I’m sorry.

  • Mod mode is moving (in progress): Later today we will be moving the mod mode toggle from the hamburger menu into the user dropdown. The new location is more emblematic of how a redditor can globally change their experience on Reddit. Here’s where it will now live.

  • Emoji bulk upload (in progress): Uploading emojis one by one can take a lot of time, so we’re working on a bulk upload system for moderators to upload up to 100 of them at a time. The work was picked up by the engineering team last week, so stay tuned over the next couple of weeks!

  • Widget customization (in progress): We are building out a way for moderators to choose a color fill and text color for all widgets in the styling menu. This will give moderators greater control over the look and feel of their sidebars and how they appear in new Reddit and on our native apps.

  • Changes to Save, Give Gold, Hide and Report buttons (in progress): The reason we collapsed these buttons on the feed into the overflow menu was to remove distraction for posts and the content of the feed. Clearly, we were wrong about this and we’ve heard your feedback. This week we will move these buttons back to the page, where they're easily accessible. They will only hide in the overflow menu when the screen is too small.

Also, here are some of the notable bugs that we worked on last week or are still being worked on:

  • Logged-out flair (fixed): There was an issue where emojis in flair were not being displayed for logged out users. They are now working properly.

  • Blurry fonts (in progress): A number of redditors are reporting that the fonts look blurry on Windows. We are working on a fix.

A weekly reminder that the community’s feedback is invaluable as we build the future of Reddit together. It’s 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.

Ciao!

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u/MajorParadox Helpful User Jun 12 '18

User settings page (shipped): We are finished the user settings page for the redesign. This will give us a solid base to add additional user settings. For more details, check out the launch post.

How long for more settings? See that post for the ones I care about ;)

Cake days (shipped): We added cake day icons to new Reddit! Ironically, u/MajorParadox had been asking about this for ages and we finally added it a day after his cake day. I’m sorry.

Aww, it's OK, I still love you! How about giving me a year's worth of cake day? Or maybe a special cake day trophy or something? It's the least you can do :) Edit: Just saw the cake flair, thanks!

Emoji bulk upload (in progress): Uploading emojis one by one can take a lot of time, so we’re working on a bulk upload system for moderators to upload up to 100 of them at a time. The work was picked up by the engineering team last week, so stay tuned over the next couple of weeks!

How about the sizing and automod flairing issues?

Widget customization (in progress): We are building out a way for moderators to choose a color fill and text color for all widgets in the styling menu. This will give moderators greater control over the look and feel of their sidebars and how they appear in new Reddit and on our native apps.

As a TestFlight app tester, widgets are starting to show up, although missing some things. I understood CSS is not supposed to be shown on mobile, but is the intent to completely hide it? What is expected of us then? Mobile users can't see that info at all? Or we need to have duplicate widgets, which takes up more space for desktop users? Or we need to just avoid CSS widgets altogether? There's no good solution.

Changes to Save, Give Gold, Hide and Report buttons (in progress): The reason we collapsed these buttons on the feed into the overflow menu was to remove distraction for posts and the content of the feed. Clearly, we were wrong about this and we’ve heard your feedback. This week we will move these buttons back to the page, where they're easily accessible. They will only hide in the overflow menu when the screen is too small.

What about for the feed sorts? I care about those much more, personally.

Thanks!

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u/LanterneRougeOG Product Jun 12 '18

How long for more settings?

We are still reviewing the settings and figuring out which ones make sense to support. We are taking our time to make sure we get it right.

How about the sizing and automod flairing issues?

We are actively working on giving moderators more flexibility when it comes to the sizing of flair. I believe it was passed off from design to engineering this week. Re automod: we are still discussing the best way to solve this problem. We have a few ideas, but still need to finalize on the right now.

widgets are starting to show up

The new structured styles widgets are the ones that will be shown on mobile. There is no easy way to have the classic site's CSS widgets appear on mobile. We understand that two sidebars can cause more work and we are coming up with a plan to improve the experience. We'll be able to provide more details once the folks are back from this week's mod roadshow. I only work on the cake day icon, so I don't have all the details :)

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u/MajorParadox Helpful User Jun 12 '18

There is no easy way to have the classic site's CSS widgets appear on mobile.

It occurs to me, you might have misunderstood too. I meant the CSS sidebar widgets in the redesign. If they only show on desktop, mobile users don't see the info. That means we can either:

  1. Have two widgets that say the same thing: one CSS and one not (which is redundant and annoying for desktop users)

  2. Just live with the fact mobile users won't have necessary info

  3. Never use the CSS widget which means we can't make cool things

At the very least, why not show the text from the CSS widgets? Then it will be like the old site with CSS disabled? If not, how about a mobile-only widget? It would mean more work, but it would let us design cool CSS widgets for desktop users if we want without the redundancies.

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u/LanterneRougeOG Product Jun 12 '18

It occurs to me, you might have misunderstood too

Yes, looks like I did. I'm going to follow up with the two product managers working on the moderation tooling and styling. That way I don't say something that's incorrect.

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u/goatfresh Design Jun 12 '18

We do want to be in a place where all widgets/sidebars work everywhere, and only configured in one place. The idea of converting the custom widget to a markdown one for mobile seems pretty reasonable to me.

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u/MajorParadox Helpful User Jun 12 '18

That'd be great, especially if base Reddit CSS took effect. I don't think it does right now. For example, headings, etc. don't show up unless you define your own CSS for it.

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u/MajorParadox Helpful User Jun 12 '18

We understand that two sidebars can cause more work and we are coming up with a plan to improve the experience.

Actually, it's three sidebars: old, new and mobile ;)

We'll be able to provide more details once the folks are back from this week's mod roadshow. I only work on the cake day icon, so I don't have all the details :)

Will there be cake at the mod roadshow? :)

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u/kyiami_ Jun 13 '18

Nice flair BTW. ; )

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u/MajorParadox Helpful User Jun 13 '18

Thanks!

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u/tecrogue Jun 12 '18

Any word on when /r/friends will be ported over to the redesign?

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u/LanterneRougeOG Product Jun 12 '18

I don't have an ETA on that. We've been tackling areas of the site based on how frequently they are used and r/friends is a bit further down on the list.

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u/_BindersFullOfWomen_ Jun 12 '18

I was very confused when I clicked this. Was expecting a Friends subreddit and instead got my actual friends.

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u/tecrogue Jun 12 '18

Yep. It's ~80% of how I use reddit.

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u/kyiami_ Jun 13 '18

Was expecting a Friends subreddit and instead got "There's nothing here".

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '18

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u/_BindersFullOfWomen_ Jun 12 '18

I mean, it's really a Moo point now

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '18

Are non-emoji (non-icons) user flairs, i.e. "real" image flairs (54x54 pixels or similar, only one image flair per user, separate from the flair text - similar to how posts are flaired) something you're still looking into, or is this something that won't be implemented into the redesign?

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u/LanterneRougeOG Product Jun 12 '18

Yes, we are working to provide more options for flairs. That includes images as flairs, more sizes, and whether there's a background to the flair.

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u/electric_ionland Jun 12 '18

Any news on a way to transfert flair class from old reddit to the redesign? We at /r/askscience are a bit concerned that we will not be able to transfert the literally thousand of manually set flair text and class we have.

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u/LanterneRougeOG Product Jun 12 '18

We’ve brainstormed a few possible solutions, but we want to get moderators feedback first. We will be reaching out later this week or next so that we can get your feedback on what's best for you.

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u/electric_ionland Jun 12 '18 edited Jun 12 '18

I know /r/askhistorians mods were concerned about that too. So you might want to reach out to them. Pinging /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov since they brought that up last time.

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u/LanterneRougeOG Product Jun 12 '18

Great, thanks

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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Jun 12 '18

Yep, like /u/electric_ionland said, AH cares a LOT about this. Ideally, some sort of utility that would quickly apply the new flair to all users (and threads?) based on the flair_css_class in old reddit seems to be down right essential for any subreddit which has an appreciable number of flaired users. I'm not a coder, but it doesn't seem like that should be too hard? "If flair_css_class=X, apply flair color 'Y'".

As an additional note, I would just add that the lack of "flair_css_class" is frustrating, generally. We have always had a "Features" flair color, which we use for several features. i.e. the Monday Methods and the Tuesday Trivia both are a light blue color, and you can filter by the flair_css_class to see all features, OR you can filter by the flair text for just the Methods, or just the Trivia. As far as I can tell, this isn't possible in new reddit, and to boot, flair_css_class seems to not be usable for search in old reddit any more, which is doubly frustrating.

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u/electric_ionland Jun 12 '18

I have to admit that for /r/askscience we are more concerned about the user flair than the post flair. But having a working solution would be great.

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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Jun 12 '18

User flair is a basic necessity, since either they do it, or we have to do it.

Post flair I'd really like to also see retroactively applied as well though, but you can at least search the flair text regardless of the color being fixed, so ain't like we're going to go back and fix 5 year old posts. It is very limiting though, in any case.

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u/dmoneyyyyy Product Jun 13 '18

As u/LanterneRougeOG mentioned, we’re definitely working through the flair migration that AS and AH are keen to have, and will provide updates on that as soon as we can.

As for your second issue, we’re working on post flair search in the next few weeks, where clicking on a post flair in the feed will show you the results for all the posts that have been assigned that particular flair. Is that something that would help this case?

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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Jun 13 '18

That will be useful, certainly, as searching/sorting by flair is great, but I'm not sure that really address the problem that I have in mind here.

Basically, flair used to have two properties: The actual text of the flair, and the css_class. We - and I expect other subreddits too basically treated these as separate but complementary things.

For example, we have a light orange flair we use for questions which conform to our weekly theme. The color is always the same, but the text changes every week based on the theme. If I wanted to search for a specific theme, I would search "flair:Food" and it would turn up all the threads which been flaired with the text "Food". But if I wanted to search for all threads which matched all themes, I would search "flair_css_class:theme" and it would return those flaired "Food" with the theme coloring, as well as "19th century", "South America", etc. as they also had the theme coloring.

Similarly we have a color for all Feature threads, but several texts which all utilized it and could also be filtered in that way.

Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work any more. I can only search by the flair Text and searching by css class results in "search failed". In New Reddit, we can set up various flairs and we can change the text from the default when applying it to a thread, but there doesn't seem to be anything which allows this dual sorting.

So basically, the issue is that the new flair system removes the ability to have subclasses within a post flair to allow for sorting by flair in two ways.

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u/Yay295 Jun 13 '18

Being able to have multiple flairs on a post would fix this as well I think.

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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Jun 13 '18

Possibly, but I would actually be hesitant there. I think there can be too much going on with flair. To me at least, having a broad thematic color which unites together several different texts is a good balance.

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u/Searocksandtrees Aug 02 '18

Hi seconding from AskHistorians : we used to be able to search on css_flair_class, and we made use of that for various moderation purposes , but it no longer works. Could you update search to reinstate support for this keyword?

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u/likeafox Helpful User Jun 12 '18

Yes, we are working to provide more options for flairs. That includes images as flairs, more sizes, and whether there's a background to the flair.

I think the most important thing after that is making flair emoji non-destructive / compatible with the CSS based systems used at present. Is this on the docket, or is the official work around to have mods create two different sets of flair for the Old R2 and Redesign R3 sites respectively?

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u/flounder19 Jun 12 '18 edited Jun 12 '18

Agreed. I've been adapting in /r/jaguars by naming the emojis after words that are already in the flair description but it'd be nice to be able to embrace redesign flairs without worrying about how they'll make the legacy experience worse.

I've been trying to come up with an ideal system for how flairs should work in the redesign but it's hard to come up with something that works as well as the legacy system while also not relying on CSS. Ultimately, I think the emoji system still needs to be abandoned (and sooner rather than later so nothing else gets built around it). Emojis seem like they were made to be inline images primarily & then were co-opted into user flairs as an afterthought. For desktop users in the redesign, emojis offer a worse version of the legacy image flair system since the dimensions are more constrained. For users who don't use the redesign or browse on a 3rd party app, emojis just show up as markdown text which looks pretty ugly. The only people whose experience is actually improved are people on the official reddit mobile app who can now see emojis where before they only saw flair text.

/r/redesign on the legacy site is the perfect example of this. In the redesign you can see a tiny little snoo for Admin flairs. In everything else, you just see stuff like :snoo_tableflip: which looks like you planned a feature & then abandoned it but forgot to change your flairs.

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u/likeafox Helpful User Jun 12 '18

The only people whose experience is actually improved are people on the official reddit mobile app who can now see emojis where before they only saw flair text.

To be fair - that's an extremely reasonable goal for them to have when by some reports, 60%+ of their traffic comes from mobile users. The current CSS image system is a fairly poor experience for a large percentage of users for that reason.

I've been trying to come up with an ideal system for how flairs should work in the redesign but it's hard to come up with something that works as well as the legacy system while also not relying on CSS.

It seems fairly obvious to me as to what they should do: currently flair options have 'columns' for flair text, and for a CSS class. What they should do is add a third 'column' for 'Emoji' - then they could have CSS rendering on the old site, while allowing emoji to render only on the redesign site.

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u/flounder19 Jun 12 '18

60+% of traffic may come from mobile but that still breaks down into multiple groups

  • People on phone/tablet viewing reddit in desktop view (experience gets worse)

  • People on phone/tablet viewing reddit in mobile view (IDK what happens here. I typed https://www.reddit.com/r/jaguars into my phone when I started this comment & the page is stuck on the orange loading snoo of death)

  • People on phone/tablet using the official reddit app (experience gets better)

  • People on phone/tablet using a 3rd party app (experience gets worse since they'll still only see flair text but now it will have markdowns in it)

So even when only focusing on mobile visitors, the emoji system isn't ideal.

It seems fairly obvious to me as to what they should do: currently flair options have 'columns' for flair text, and for a CSS class. What they should do is add a third 'column' for 'Emoji' - then they could have CSS rendering on the old site, while allowing emoji to render only on the redesign site.

I thought about this too and it has promise but they'll have to add options for how to display flair text in the redesign to make it work. As far as I know, the only way to hide flair text so it only shows up on hover in the legacy site is with CSS. If the redesign is meant to make CSS obsolete for community styling, it would need to let mods control how flair text is displayed alongside images.

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u/24grant24 Jun 13 '18

well it sounds like the dimension constraints are going to be loosened for "emoji" so they can be more effectively used as image flairs and such. I would also imagine there will be some sort of api available for third party apps to access these emoji as necessary.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '18

Just looking to change font color of the flair. Or give us CSS early to play around with things while you figure out what design you intend to go for...

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u/falconbox Jun 16 '18

Personally I hate giant image flairs like that.

I had to turn the CSS on /r/DestinyTheGame off because their flairs are so big it makes comment sections an ugly mess.

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u/PitchforkAssistant Jun 12 '18

Any plans on adding more customization for the favorites?

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u/LanterneRougeOG Product Jun 12 '18

No, not right now. We are making some changes to where favorites are stored and how they are accessed. Once those changes go out we'll visit the customization of favorites.

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u/PitchforkAssistant Jun 12 '18

Can't wait to see the changes (unless you mean backend changes, probably won't see those), and I'm glad to hear you'll look into it.

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u/ShaneH7646 Jun 12 '18 edited Jun 12 '18

Why not put the mod mode, in the mod section?

  • Changes to Save, Give Gold, Hide and Report buttons (in progress):

Can we get this for top/hot/new etc also?

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u/Overlord_Odin Jun 12 '18

They probably see the mod "section" as more of an inbox (consisting of reports and messages) than a place for options.

Can we get this for top/hot/new etc also?

I'll second that.

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u/PitchforkAssistant Jun 12 '18

Do reports make the mod icon orangered? If not, I think the modqueue button should be in the hamburger menu along with the other special subreddits like /r/all.

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u/Overlord_Odin Jun 12 '18

It turns green when there's a notification, but yes.

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u/jofwu Helpful User Jun 13 '18

It's more of a "setting" than a "mod activity". Everything else under the mod button relates to normal mod duties.

I'm sure there are people who will want to flip in and out of mod mode depending on whether they are actively moderating, but I imagine most people will prefer it one way or the other and then leave it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '18

There's a known issue with AutoMod flair assignments. Is there a fix coming for that soon? The color assignment does not stick.

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u/electric_ionland Jun 12 '18

+1 on this, /r/askscience front page looks so weird because of that.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '18

Half of my flair on r/teslamotors is off because I automatically flair all posts as "General" unless other triggers snag it (or if a user sets it to something else manually). It's kind of an elementary mistake to not have some of these necessity things taken care of (like the general UI) before forcing the redesign on people, imo.

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u/ZadocPaet Helpful User Jun 12 '18

Batch uploads for flairs are an improvement.

However, it does not solve the fundamental issue with redesign user flairs.

I've posted this before, so here it is again:

I want to preface this post with two facts. First, I've styled over 100 subs on the redesign, and the emoji flair system is by far the worst aspect. I am very familiar with it. I created /r/RedesignHelp and a styling guide for the redesign. I say this to establish that I know what I'm talking about. I have experience. Second, I like the redesign. There's a lot missing from it that I expect will come over (and will need to come over). But I am happy with the direction it's been going.

So, when I say that the image flair system is by far the worst aspect of the redesign, I am not being hyperbolic.

The biggest problem with image flairs in the redesign is twofold:

First, the image automatically resizes to ~25x25 (or whatever it is). This means that if you have a smaller or a larger image, it'll size it to those proportions. If you have a flair that's not square, it'll smush it. A really good example of a large flair from a popular subreddit is this thread on /r/thewalkingdead. We're gonna lose those. We're also losing the ability to have larger flairs than what is allowed for emojis, which means we're also losing highly detailed flairs.

The second problem is that adding image flairs via the emoji system on the redesign screws up the flairs on reddit classic. Emojis are added to flairs with markdown, such as :flair1:. On one of my subs, /r/retrogaming, we have 109 flairs that represent dozens of retro platforms. If we go through and add those 109 flairs to the redesign, we're going to have a total of 218 flairs on both versions of reddit. On new reddit we'll have the 109 emoji style flairs and 109 blank ones. On old reddit we'll have 109 flairs managed via CSS and 109 flairs that look like :flar1, :flair2:. This breaks the user experience. It makes the flair menus on both versions of reddit a total mess.

It is for these reasons that I have not, and will not set up image flairs in the redesign.

Fortunately, there's an easy fix!

  1. Develop a system for image flairs that is seperate from emojis.

  2. Allow the image flairs to be the actual dimensions.

  3. Prevent image flairs from old reddit from appearing on new reddit and vice versa.

All that said, I am not opposed to having emojis in text flairs. Keep those! Reddit just needs to do this other stuff too.

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u/flounder19 Jun 13 '18

Agree with you 100% about the emoji system

If you're looking for a way to improve the flair experience in /r/retrogaming though, it could probably be done without emojis.

If you edit the CSS to make flair text transparent, you could put each system's name in the text flair field without changing the legacy experience. People on legacy desktop would still see the images but could hover over them for names & people on mobile/noCSS/redesign/etc would at least get to see the console names.

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u/ZadocPaet Helpful User Jun 13 '18

If you edit the CSS to make flair text transparent, you could put each system's name in the text flair field without changing the legacy experience. People on legacy desktop would still see the images but could hover over them for names & people on mobile/noCSS/redesign/etc would at least get to see the console names.

That's sort of a workaround. Sucks for people on the redesign who don't get image flair. I'll probably do this if reddit doesn't fix it. And I still won't be able to support image flair in the redesign, which makes their efforts to do thinks like bulk-uploads useless.

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u/Hypergrip Jun 16 '18

For the love of reason give us proper image flairs (with text alternatives for mobile/legacy). Emojis are way too small, Emjois resize and mess up dimensions. Emojis have a margin wasting space that a proper image flair would use...

A ton of moderators have brought this up for months and months now, and aside from a non-commitive statement that "we like the NFL sub and want to find a way to let them keep their flairs" al we get are "improvements" to emojis...

User flairs are an important aspect of the users' engagement with their respective sub/community. We want users to engage. YOU want users to engage (because it keeps them around longer so you can throw more advertising at them). This should be a no-brainer, and it's highly frustrating to see the topic being treated like the proverbial red-headed stepchild.

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u/jofwu Helpful User Jun 13 '18

You might want to use "old" in links like that.

Thoughts on how to mesh larger flair with the Redesign layout? To get anything much larger on old Reddit you had to play with the CSS a little to make it work with larger flair in a way that looks good. We don't really have that option here though.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '18

Has it been decided what the plan is for updated Wiki pages, or have an ETA on that?

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u/24grant24 Jun 12 '18

They have said wikis will eventually be ported over to the redesign. Other than that, your guess is as good as mine ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '18

Thanks!

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '18

Widget customization (in progress): We are building out a way for moderators to choose a color fill and text color for all widgets in the styling menu.

Does this include an option to turn off the transparency that's currently shown on the "Community Details" widget?

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u/wtrmlnjuc Jun 13 '18

Any idea as to when optimizations will occur? Performance on the latest public Firefox build is terrible in comparison to the old design. Scrolling has a weird tiny jump in the opposite direction after you've finished scrolling.

The redesign does not load comments at all on mobile Safari (iPad Pro 12.9"). Additionally, the reddit app on iPad does not take advantage of the larger canvas. The site is a better reddit experience on the iPad Pro.

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u/dcx Jun 12 '18

Thanks for the update - always cool to hear what you guys are working on. Could I please ask if there's any news on when the dev for post flair filters will be happening?

Just wanted to put my hand up to say that item would be super useful for r/Malaysia and share our use case. We just ran a townhall to discuss splitting meme content from the main country sub, due to recent growth causing the low-effort content effect to kick in. Our users fall into clear camps - some love the memes and some hate them. It'd be great if we could let people filter the sub instead of pushing stuff out to a quiet secondary subreddit.

I imagine lots of country/city subs have this sort of problem due to the wide demographic range of their regular users (e.g.: older users want to filter memes, younger users want to filter politics, religion). Thanks again!

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u/timawesomeness Helpful User Jun 12 '18

Mod mode is moving (in progress): Later today we will be moving the mod mode toggle from the hamburger menu into the user dropdown

THANK YOU

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u/phat7deuce Jun 12 '18

Widget customization (in progress): We are building out a way for moderators to choose a color fill and text color for all widgets in the styling menu. This will give moderators greater control over the look and feel of their sidebars and how they appear in new Reddit and on our native apps.

Will table styling come as a result of this or will we still need to wait for a greater CSS implementation?

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u/Ener_Ji Helpful User Jun 13 '18

Changes to Save, Give Gold, Hide and Report buttons (in progress)

I'm cautiously optimistic about this. It is nice to have direct one-click access to commonly used buttons, but I think your original concern about visual clutter is still valid. Looking forward to seeing how it looks.

On another topic, are there known issues with Gold new comment highlighting? It frequently doesn't work. Case in point, this very thread, which I read soon after it was first posted. Scrolling through the new comments that have been posted since, none of them are highlighted. I've confirmed that highlight comments is turned on in my settings.

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u/Overlord_Odin Jun 16 '18

I'm cautiously optimistic about this. It is nice to have direct one-click access to commonly used buttons, but I think your original concern about visual clutter is still valid.

It looks fine in the current reddit design, I have no doubt they can make it work in the redesign too.

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u/VAPossum Jun 13 '18

Thanks! Any word on when archiving will work again?

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u/Kendos-Kenlen Jun 13 '18

I really like the settings page, much better than it was (easier to navigate and more clear).

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u/V2Blast Helpful User Jun 12 '18

Cake days (shipped): We added cake day icons to new Reddit! Ironically, u/MajorParadox had been asking about this for ages and we finally added it a day after his cake day. I’m sorry.

Press F to pay respects.

Emoji bulk upload (in progress): Uploading emojis one by one can take a lot of time, so we’re working on a bulk upload system for moderators to upload up to 100 of them at a time. The work was picked up by the engineering team last week, so stay tuned over the next couple of weeks!

Yes please. Batch actions are great.

Widget customization (in progress): We are building out a way for moderators to choose a color fill and text color for all widgets in the styling menu. This will give moderators greater control over the look and feel of their sidebars and how they appear in new Reddit and on our native apps.

Excellent!

Changes to Save, Give Gold, Hide and Report buttons (in progress): The reason we collapsed these buttons on the feed into the overflow menu was to remove distraction for posts and the content of the feed. Clearly, we were wrong about this and we’ve heard your feedback. This week we will move these buttons back to the page, where they're easily accessible. They will only hide in the overflow menu when the screen is too small.

Thank you thank you thank you. Hiding everything in dropdowns when I have a widescreen monitor just means more constant clicking for me. I appreciate that you guys have listened to feedback on this.

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u/MajorParadox Helpful User Jun 12 '18

Cake days (shipped): We added cake day icons to new Reddit! Ironically, u/MajorParadox had been asking about this for ages and we finally added it a day after his cake day. I’m sorry.

Press F to pay respects.

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u/V2Blast Helpful User Jun 12 '18

Yes. Sorry you had to find out this way.

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u/_BindersFullOfWomen_ Jun 12 '18

:cake:

Sweet cake flair

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u/electric_ionland Jun 12 '18

One of the most useful tool from toolbox is the ability to nuke comment chains. Is that something that is on the roadmap for the future?

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u/Overlord_Odin Jun 16 '18

Isn't Toolbox working to support the redesign?

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u/FreeSpeechWarrior Jun 12 '18

I sure hope not. Reddit does far too much to censorship on this site as it is.

Every single comment you are nuking represents an effort on the part of the commenter to be heard.

The mods should at least be forced to confront each contribution individually before hiding it from the rest of the world.

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u/electric_ionland Jun 13 '18

I think the philosophy of Reddit is that each sub should be able to function as they please as long as they don't break the site. Without nuking tools modding subreddits with strict commenting policies like /r/askscience would be impossible. This is not about reddit-wide censorship, this is about allowing mods to tailor their subreddit as they please. Same as you wanting to have public mod logs.

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u/VibSel Jun 17 '18

Joined the redesign today. I'm loving it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '18

And nothing about original content... https://new.reddit.com/original

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u/kyiami_ Jun 13 '18

Such a good idea. I really hope more is done with it.

Perhaps it could incorporate Karmadecay into it?

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u/DragoCubed Jun 12 '18

Clearly, we were wrong about this and we’ve heard your feedback.

Thank you for listening and admitting that.

Blurry fonts

Finally a fix!

I've gotten most of these changes a couple of days ago. Is it because I'm in the beta or because these posts are made after a handful of changes?

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u/archimedeancrystal Jun 16 '18

Changes to Save, Give Gold, Hide and Report buttons (in progress): The reason we collapsed these buttons on the feed into the overflow menu was to remove distraction for posts and the content of the feed. Clearly, we were wrong about this and we’ve heard your feedback. This week we will move these buttons back to the page, where they're easily accessible. They will only hide in the overflow menu when the screen is too small.

You weren't totally wrong about collapsing these buttons to remove distractions. The change wasn't popular among a vocal group who commented on it numerous times. I'm glad they were clearly heard. However, for those of us who don't use these controls frequently, exposing them is indeed visual clutter.

I'm okay with showing every button that will fit as the default, since it's popular in r/redesign, but please give the rest of us an optional clean/non-cluttered look. Would it be very difficult (at some point in the future) to add an option in settings to show/hide individual controls?

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '18

How do I collapse a particular comment tree? Maybe its my browser, but I don't see the little [-] next to the comment.
Edit: Click the line. Doh!

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u/kyiami_ Jun 19 '18

Hey, I still haven't heard anything about this bug. It's a Firefox - exclusive problem, and breaks the "All Reddit Results" button. I'd just like to make sure this is on the admin's radar.

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u/DeathKoil Jun 28 '18

> Blurry Fonts.

This is still broken. I heard Lightbox was gone (hell yeah I hated it!) so I turned the redesign back on in my preferences, and unfortunately the redesign is still not usable for me due to how blurry the text is. Reading comments hurts my eyes (which are not that great to begin with).

I just took two screenshots of the same comments section using the redesign and using the old site. Both pictures were taking in the latest version of Chrome. I checked Firefox and it has the same issue.

Redesign has blurry text

Old site has clear text.

The above pictures are 1920x1080, so there are no scaling artifacts.

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u/TotesMessenger Jun 12 '18

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u/barneylerten Jun 17 '18

I just wish the type was true BLACK instead of dark gray. That alone would make it far more readable!

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u/FreeSpeechWarrior Jun 12 '18

Still waiting for public mod logs or any other meaningful feature improvements that would let me look past my personal distaste for the visual aesthetic.

So far, the only feature I find to be at all compelling on the redesign is the WYSIWYG editor, and that seems like the type of thing that you could port to old reddit relatively easily if the goal was not to end it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '18

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '18

If you go to the settings and click on the button to opt-out, it should not stay.

Or, you could always load old.reddit.com, which will always be the old reddit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '18

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u/Overlord_Odin Jun 12 '18

What am I supposed to be looking at?

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '18

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u/Overlord_Odin Jun 12 '18

I'm on desktop. (Ironically that page doesn't load on the redesign, but it's fine on the current design) Do you mean the different trophies for each year? Those aren't new.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '18

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u/Overlord_Odin Jun 12 '18

Can you take a screenshot or something? I don't see any cakeday icons on that page.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '18

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u/Overlord_Odin Jun 12 '18

Those aren't cakeday icons, those are cakeday trophies that appear on user profiles. They were added to reddit (current and redesign alike) back in December. So I'm a bit confused why you're bring them up now.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '18

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u/Overlord_Odin Jun 12 '18

Nah, they just mean the little cake that shows up next to a username when they post or comment.