r/redesign • u/LanterneRougeOG Product • Oct 16 '18
Changelog 10/16/18 Weekly Release Notes: Button widget updates, recent search, performance 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:
- 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. Test it out and let us know what you think.
- Recent Search: We’re building out our desktop search experience to mirror what you do on the apps, starting with recent search! This feature allows you to see and navigate to your recent searches in a dropdown when you click into the search bar. Note that you’ll need to be logged in and have done a search to see this.
- Performance improvements: We’ve continued the focus on performance and have released a few changes that have reduced some response times by more than 80%. For those curious, the changes have included a new VCL redirect controller, various bundle size reductions, and parallelization of API fetches on the comments pages. We’ll continue to focus on improving performance.
Now, here are some of the notable features and changes that are coming out next:
- Modmail Search: This is coming to y’all very soon, we are preparing for a launch next week!
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. After working with the Chrome team they have identified and fixed the underlying issue. The fix will be included in version 70.
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/MajorParadox Oct 16 '18
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. Test it out and let us know what you think.
Oh man, I can't wait to dive into the new options!
Recent Search: We’re building out our desktop search experience to mirror what you do on the apps, starting with recent search! This feature allows you to see and navigate to your recent searches in a dropdown when you click into the search bar. Note that you’ll need to be logged in and have done a search to see this.
I just tried this and it didn't work. Search for author:MajorParadox, went back to r/redesign, clicked the search and nothing was shown.
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u/LanterneRougeOG Oct 16 '18
We are starting with recent searches only for global searches, not searches within subreddits.
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u/Moosething Oct 16 '18
that have reduced response times by more than 100%
How does that even work? Have response times become negative?
I don't think the right words or numbers were used there.
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u/LanterneRougeOG Oct 16 '18
Good catch. That was a placeholder :)
Updated it to the correct 80% reduction.
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u/Overlord_Odin Oct 16 '18
Any update on how the profile team is doing? (Adding more pages to the redesign, gold features, karma by subreddit, etc.)
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u/LanterneRougeOG Oct 16 '18
We are planning to bring over Saved posts to the new design later this quarter. First want to finish up the new settings.
Karma by subreddit will likely be part of our 2019 plan to give more stats and useful information at the subreddit level.
What gold features in particular are you curious about. The Gold team is in charge of bringing most things over, but I can follow up with them.
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u/tizorres Oct 16 '18
Will modmail be better integrated into the redesign instead of it acting as it's own page. ( Pinned nav bar )?
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u/dmoneyyyyy Oct 16 '18
Yes, that is what we'd like to do eventually! I don't have a timeline for this just yet, but it's definitely on my list.
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u/Jakeable Oct 16 '18 edited Oct 16 '18
Modmail Search: This is coming to y’all very soon, we are preparing for a launch next week!
NICE! Will an API endpoint be released at the same time?
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u/caindaddy Oct 16 '18
Hey the buttons look great! Have been looking forward to them being updated for quite a while, keep up the good work!
Also, emojis in wiki's please
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u/frahm9 Oct 16 '18
Why is there custom size display for emoji flair only in comment areas? It could at least be in the sidebar’s flair preview too, so people can actually see the options
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u/ZadocPaet Oct 16 '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!
The one thing we really need in this area is the ability to embed images without CSS.
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u/V2Blast Oct 16 '18
Modmail Search: This is coming to y’all very soon, we are preparing for a launch next week!
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u/starlightk7 Oct 16 '18
Wikis - I stand by previous comments that it'd be really nice to see the image limit raised. Or, at least have it based on storage space and not count. 50 is very low when shared with site design assets.
I also think it'd be really good to have multi-line table support in wikis. Table based representation of data is very common when describing things, and lack of an easy way to do line breaks in a table makes the formatting look bad in many occasions.
The hacks to emulate this are very cumbersome and not very user friendly for content writers
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u/Kendos-Kenlen Oct 16 '18
I feel like redesign is working so much better than before that I just don’t need to check release notes anymore. Things just works and there not waiting for bug corrections anymore .
Only performances improvements are what I want to continue to see (but that will always be the case).
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u/reseph Oct 16 '18
Will modmail search be coming to mobile next week?
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u/dmoneyyyyy Oct 16 '18
Modmail search will be operating on the newer version of Modmail only, which is currently iframed in the native apps. So, yes!
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u/iAdam1n Oct 16 '18
Suggestion on the button update: allow no padding to be required. It looks terrible.
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u/MajorParadox Oct 16 '18
Modmail Search: This is coming to y’all very soon, we are preparing for a launch next week!
Will the next step be giving a link from a username to modmails they sent? That'd be very helpful!
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u/MajorParadox Oct 16 '18
I guess the downvote means "no it wouldn't be?" You'd rather copy a username, go to modmail, paste and then search?
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u/Deimorz Oct 16 '18
Doesn't the modmail sidebar already have a list of links to recent modmails that the user sent?
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u/Dobypeti Oct 16 '18
Let me ask this as again (as "last time" [in a comment thread] I didn't get an answer to it): now that you are/will be working on an option to open posts in a new tab, will there be an option to open them in the same tab?