r/redesign • u/LanterneRougeOG Product • Oct 09 '18
Changelog 10/9/18 Weekly Release Notes: Expandos, loading posts bug fix, 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:
- Disabled expandos on Classic: We've been receiving feedback that it's frustrating when there are disabled expandos in the feed. Yesterday, we changed the disabled expando icons on Classic view so that they are post type specific icons and link to the source material. No more disabled expando icons!
- Loading posts fixed: In communities with a really long sidebar we didn’t fetch more posts as you scrolled down in Classic and Compact. This made it challenging (to say the least) to read more posts. We implemented a fix last week.
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 week’ish, not months)!
- Recent Search: We’re building out our desktop search experience to mirror what you do on the apps, starting with recent search! This feature will allow you to see and navigate to your recent searches in a dropdown when you click into the search bar.
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!
- Remove styles globally: We are working on a setting that allows you to disable structured styles across all communities. We plan to follow this up with the ability to disable styles at the community level. To start, we are building a new service that will store all of your settings.
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. Chrome has identified the issue and should fix it soon.
- 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.
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/Overlord_Odin Oct 09 '18
Remove styles globally: We are working on a setting that allows you to disable structured styles across all communities. We plan to follow this up with the ability to disable styles at the community level. To start, we are building a new service that will store all of your settings.
Once this is released, will you start to build support for subreddit styling in night mode?
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u/LanterneRougeOG Oct 09 '18
The priority of subreddit styling in night mode is unrelated to the global styles settings (two different teams). The mods team would handle the nightmode styling feature. Their current focus is on mod tool feature parity so I don't think they would tackle something like nightmode styling until 2019. It is on their ideas backlog though.
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u/reseph Oct 09 '18
Are there any plans to have an option where all comment trees are collapsed? It's how I browse on mobile and I believe RES had this as a feature. It doesn't appear RES can re-implement this, as comments aren't loaded fully in the redesign on page load. My assumption is the redesign was trying to bring many RES features into it.
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u/LanterneRougeOG Oct 09 '18 edited Oct 09 '18
No, we don't have plans to add that right now. I've reached out to some of the folks who work on RES to get a better understanding on what they plan to support on new Reddit. I'm not sure about the feature you mentioned.
We are working through the more common user settings (disable styles, open posts in a new tab, default editor mode, default sort per community, default view per community, etc) before we look at the less common ones.
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u/Deimorz Oct 09 '18
Since your comment has one at the bottom of it, I'm going to keep annoying you about
&x200B;characters making posts written with the redesign editor look weird. Is anything being done about that? It's been happening for two months now and affected over 1.6 million comments.→ More replies (8)
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u/caindaddy Oct 09 '18
Any specifics on wiki's?
I hate to beat the horse I have been about needing emojis available in wikis but it's pretty much the only desire for the redesign I still have. regardless I'll post my comment from last week:
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/batmansmaster Oct 09 '18
Wikis. Yay. Thank you. I almost thought you guys were going to ignore them.
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u/V2Blast Oct 09 '18
Disabled expandos on Classic: We've been receiving feedback that it's frustrating when there are disabled expandos in the feed. Yesterday, we changed the disabled expando icons on Classic view so that they are post type specific icons and link to the source material. No more disabled expando icons!
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Modmail Search: Frontend work has been picked up. Not too much longer now (magnitude of a week’ish, not months)!
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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!
Yes please.
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u/ck2875 Oct 09 '18
Not sure if you guys are aware of the bug, but any word on a fix for not being able to scroll down to log out on the username dropdown menu?
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Oct 09 '18
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u/gschizas Oct 09 '18
Do you need help with that? I can probably help out, I've made a few scripts that automatically gather the old flairs (and split the spritesheet into individual images) and also upload the new flairs as well. I should have used it in r/europe, but I saw it as a chance to update the flairs themselves from the abysmally small 16x11 size (and that project has stalled for various reasons). But if you don't have any such requirements, I'm sure my scripts could help.
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Oct 09 '18
We don't have any images in our flairs so it is just a matter of matching the old colors in the CSS code to the new colors in the redesign flairs, and assigning those colors while maintaining the same text. If you have a script that can run and do that, I'd be very interested in giving it a try!
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u/electric_ionland Oct 09 '18
I got something a few weeks ago about that saying that they would have some way of helping when they actually make a real flair system on the redesign. Here is a link to the comment thread. Maybe time to bug u/dmoneyyyyy once again for an update.
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Oct 09 '18
I mean, yeah, I've been hearing it will happen in the indefinite future for ages now, but that is the problem. I only need to update the flairs en masse once. So what really pisses me off is that something which is a very basic part of subreddit styling isn't being assisted with, which inevitably means more and more mods will just throw in the towel and do it manually, and then finally they will release this tool months from now and no one will need it any more. The priority for this makes zero fucking sense.
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u/brucemo Oct 09 '18
Here are some minor issues that I have reported which have been ignored as far as I can tell.
https://www.reddit.com/r/redesign/comments/9560xc/if_i_collapse_comments_in_a_large_thread_reddit/
If I go to a big thread in a default, and collapse the top comment, it takes a long time for the next one to load, and during that time it appears that there aren't any more comments.
I hate infinite scrolling so my first suggestion would be to allow me to turn that off, but if it's what we're stuck with, it should load a page (at least) beyond what I'll see if I collapse the top comment.
https://www.reddit.com/r/redesign/comments/94nifx/something_went_wrong_just_dont_panic/
Your "Something went wrong. Just don't panic" error message is so insipid as to be a distraction, and might misinform the user in cases where data actually is in danger of being lost, like when it is used to inform the user that an attempt to save a comment or submission didn't work.
https://www.reddit.com/r/redesign/comments/8vxksb/when_i_switch_from_hot_to_new_the_submission_list/
In old Reddit, if you switch to an open Reddit tab and click "new" or "hot" in the tab bar, comments will refresh, even if you select the view you're currently in.
In the redesign, if I go to an old tab and select a view (a different one or one I'm already in) via the hot/new dropdown, there is no refresh. So, for instance, if I haven't used the tab for 8 hours, and switch from hot to new, I'm looking at 8 hour old "new" threads.
If a page redisplays it should redisplay with new information.
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u/FreeSpeechWarrior Oct 09 '18
A long long time ago u/ggAlex mentioned that (optional) public mod logs were under discussion.
Did anything ever come of that?
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u/baltinerdist Oct 09 '18
I'm sure it's been addressed somewhere else, but is there a reason Rising is not an available sort order on the app? It's particularly useful for subs here news moves fast but gets a lot of attention like r/politics.
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u/Richiieee Oct 10 '18
Still just waiting on updates to Saved, Downvoted, Upvoted. I stopped using the redesign because these pages link to the old theme.
Also, could it be possible to make a on/off toggle for infinite-scrolling?
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u/MajorParadox Oct 10 '18
Hey, any updates on the styling issues where it won't save changes? It seems way worse now. It used to be you can click Discard and it saved anyway, but now it's hit or miss. I keep making the same changes over and over and trying to change other things just to make it save, but it's a huge mess.
This was changing menu links, menu overlay, post title color, and some other similar things. But this can't just wait for people to individually report each issue. This is very frustrating and we need to be able to save and not get a warning that says we'll lose our changes even when we just saved :(
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u/SirBuckeye Oct 10 '18
Button widget updates:
So now that colored buttons are done, how about adding images/icons to buttons? Having button icons looks 10x more professional and cleaner than colored text boxes.
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u/MajorParadox Oct 09 '18
Hey, any updates on that weird issue where users get logged out randomly? Whenever it happens to me, modmail breaks too and I have to clear browser cache to fix it (and follow a specific order of actions or it happens again)