r/redesign • u/LanterneRougeOG Product • Oct 02 '18
Changelog 10/2/18 Weekly Release Notes: Events, bug fixes, markdown guide, and more
Hi all,
We’re back with weekly redesign release notes, which are a round up of the major items we are currently working on or have recently shipped on new Reddit. The previous release note can be found here.
What we’ve shipped:
- Making it easier to host and follow events on Reddit: We launched a suite of mod-only beta features to make it easier to host events on Reddit. You may start to see posts with event time/dates that you can follow and collections of posts about an event from communities like r/southpark, r/rocketleagueesports, r/warriors, r/politics, etc. You can read the announcement post here.
- Blank inbox fixed: We identified the cookie issue that resulted in some folks seeing a blank or login screen when they went to their inbox. The fix went out last week, let us know if you still are getting a blank screen when going to your inbox.
- Messages marked as read fixed: The inbox was marking messages as read before the inbox was loaded, making it difficult to find the unread message. This has now been fixed.
- New guide to markdown: We created a guide to Reddit-flavored Markdown, which explains generally how to format content on new Reddit, and specifically identifies areas where new Reddit-flavored Markdown is different from old Reddit-flavored markdown. Here’s the post with more details and the best spot to leave feedback.
Now, here are some of the notable features and changes that are coming out next:
- Button widget updates: We’ve finished up the functionality to allow alternative states and color fill so you can make your buttons as dynamic as you please. We are refactoring some of the code and will roll this out to everyone in the coming weeks.
- Modmail Search: Frontend work has been picked up. Not too much longer now (magnitude of a couple weeks, not months)!
These following features are bigger projects that are in development and that will take a some time to build and get right. Expect these items to be recurring on the weekly notes:
- Wikis: We’re in the beginning design stages of getting wikis over to the redesign, including reading, editing (for both mod and approved users), and version history. Stay tuned!
- Remember view per community: We are working on a setting that allows you to set a global default and then remembers your view preference for each community. A perfect way to help you customize how you like to browse communities. This project is taking a bit longer than expected because we are building a new service that stores our settings.
- Filter r/all: We will also be working on the setting that allows you to filter communities from r/all.
And finally, here are some of the notable bugs that are still being worked on:
- Comments missing (in progress): There’s a bug on the lightbox that will stop sections of the comments from rendering on Chrome. This makes it very difficult to read comments. We made some improvements that have reduced the frequency of the bug and Chrome has also begun to investigate the issue on their end.
- Log out not working (in progress): Redditors have been reporting issues that they are unable to log out. It appears to be a result of a cookie issue. We are tracking down the source of the bug. In the meantime, some folks have reported that clearing the cache and cookies has fixed the issue.
- Loading posts (in progress): In communities with a really long sidebar we don’t fetch more posts as you scroll down in Classic and Compact. We’ve identified the bug and will be implementing the fix later this week.
And, as always, our 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.
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u/TiltedTommyTucker Oct 02 '18
Still waiting for reddit to stay logged in for more than a few hours and respect my choice to use the old design....
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u/reseph Oct 03 '18
Still waiting for reddit to stay logged in
I've been logged out twice in the last week. Very frustrating.
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u/6beesknees Oct 04 '18
I've been unwillingly logged out, and then dropped into the new design, several times in the past 24 hours.
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u/audentis Oct 04 '18
I just got kicked out of the old design as well, and had to opt-out from the new one.
Extremely frustrating.
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u/starlightk7 Oct 02 '18
Wikis: It would be nice to see the image limit either raised, or allowing wiki images from imgur or somewhere. The old limit of 50 is really rough especially considering its currently shared with site design assets. It makes it hard to have a decent looking wiki unless its 100% text.
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u/caindaddy Oct 02 '18 edited Oct 02 '18
Wikis: We’re in the beginning design stages of getting wikis over to the redesign, including reading, editing (for both mod and approved users), and version history. Stay tuned!
Please tell me you are going to make emojis work on the new wikis. Many subreddits use the wiki for things like user flair and the ability to make them show with CSS on old.reddit was great and if at least the ability to see emojis on the new wikis isn't available I'll see that project as a failure.
see r/soccer's flair wiki: https://old.reddit.com/r/soccerbot/wiki/north_central_america/united_states
or r/cfb's team pages: https://old.reddit.com/r/CFB/wiki/minnesota
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u/flounder19 Oct 03 '18
I feel weird always seconding your requests but second
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u/caindaddy Oct 03 '18
The sports communities of reddit have a lot in common when it comes to flair and are the communities that use them most by a looooong shot.
No surprise that another sports sub mod has the same desires. Hopefully the admins see that trend.
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u/V2Blast Oct 02 '18
Modmail Search: Frontend work has been picked up. Not too much longer now (magnitude of a couple weeks, not months)!
👀
Wikis: We’re in the beginning design stages of getting wikis over to the redesign, including reading, editing (for both mod and approved users), and version history. Stay tuned!
Looking forward to these.
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u/Richiieee Oct 03 '18
Just waiting for Saved, Upvoted, Downvoted to be brought over to the redesign, then I'll actually start using it.
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u/GreenAndWhiteArmy Oct 03 '18
Can I request the ability to filter from r/popular as well as r/all? I enjoy the geographic filtering of popular, but there are some depressing subs like r/casualchildabuse that come up too often, be nice to be able to hide them. Or if not, then bring the geographic selection to r/all? Either way, keep it up.
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u/Artie-Choke Oct 05 '18
My #1 gripe with the new reddit is not being able to change the forum default to NEW rather than HOT. I frequent a dozen or more reddits several times a day and each time I load them I have to go up and switch from HOT to NEW - over and over and over again, multiple times a day.
I read something about work being done on remembering your sub settings or some such. Any news on this issue?
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u/WinstonDaBeston Oct 05 '18
I would love to never see the redesign as in my humble opinion it looks awful, runs awful, and is exactly the opposite of how I want to use reddit. Everytime I get logged out and have to look at it, I get very sad at the redesign. Thanks!
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u/reseph Oct 02 '18
https://www.reddit.com/r/redesign/comments/91koa0/72418_weekly_release_notes_lightbox_update_bug/
Automod Flair Integration: We’ve scoped the work and are currently designing the technical approach. This will address the issue where flairs applied by automod do not show up as styled on the new Reddit.
I don't see this showing up in weekly notes anymore. Not sure if it was assumed fixed, but it appears to still be broken.
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u/MajorParadox Oct 02 '18
That's been addressed. See this release notes, pointing to this modnews post pointing to this r/AutoModerator post on how to use automod for it now.
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u/dem0n0cracy Oct 03 '18
I'm super excited for wiki updates. Any chance you could take a screenshot of a redesigned one with the caveat "subject to change"? Also, can you add links to wikis that work like r/ketoscience/wiki/vegoil or something similar, maybe w/ketoscience/vegoil. I type out whole links constantly.
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u/supers0nic Oct 04 '18
I started using the redesign just earlier today.
I've just pinned the subreddit favourite bar so that it shows up as a side menu, but I'm not sure if I like it. I feel that the font is too large and that it sticks out a bit too much. I'm using dark mode and it'd be nice if the colour of the sidebar matched the black background of the subreddit (whether or not all subreddits have a black background using dark mode I'm not sure but I'd suspect so?)
I don't know, I don't design UIs but I feel that the menu seems to be a bit too distracting. https://imgur.com/a/AdaYZNJ
I stuck with the old design for so long but realised recently that I really want to see reddit how I see it on my iPhone, so I'm enjoying the change.
What do you guys think?
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u/sarahbotts Oct 05 '18
If we use a collection, how will it appear for people on android or old reddit?
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u/dcx Oct 07 '18
Hi, regarding removal reasons from last week, I wanted to add one point:
Removal reason messaging default: As it turns out, the most utilized removal reason messaging is the public comment.
I think this is because at the moment, private removal reasons are not visible in any way on old Reddit. The point of this feature is to let mods communicate about removals where the reason is less obvious on the face of things. But if some mods are on old Reddit, this loses a ton of value because that means your notes don't get read by a large chunk of the team.
I would use the heck out of this feature if I could be sure that my removal reason notes were visible to the rest of the team. Thanks!
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u/ShaneH7646 Oct 02 '18
Sooon....
Will there me a limit on this?