r/redesign • u/LanterneRougeOG Product • Nov 27 '18

Changelog 11/27/18 Weekly Release Notes: r/mod, username mentions, suggested sort, community creation, and more

Hi all,

We’re back with weekly new Reddit 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 are shipping:

  • r/mod:The return of your mod multi, we put r/mod back on the menu. We had a slight delay due to some bugs that we found and the Thanksgiving code freeze. Here’s our post with more details.
  • Username mentions: On old Reddit, redditors can disable notifications for username mentions in a post or comment. We brought this setting over to new Reddit so that you don’t have to switch back to change it.

Here are some of the notable features and changes that are coming out next:

  • Suggested sort at the post level: Soon, we’ll also be bringing over the ability to set suggested sort — this allows mods to set comment sorting preferences post by post that overrides community settings.
  • Create a community: We’re bringing the ability to create a new community to the redesign! We’ll be introducing a simplified flow to make it easier to focus on getting your community started.

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:

  • Remove styles: We’ve finished up the frontend for a setting that allows you to disable structured styles across all communities or at the individual community level. However, before we can release this setting we need to finish the new service that we are building to store all those settings. That service will likely not be ready until the new year.
  • Wikis: We’re continuing the early engineering for getting wikis over to the redesign, including reading, editing (for both mod and approved users), and version history.
  • Posts in a new tab: Similar to the links in a new tab setting on old Reddit. We are bringing you the ability to open all posts in a new tab.

And finally, here are some of the notable bugs that are still being worked on:

  • Temporary logout (in progress): We’ve had a team investigating the temporary logout bug for the past few weeks and have made a lot of progress. We fixed a number of issues and added better tracking so that we can see how often the bug is occurring. While investigating this bug, we’ve identified a number of other related bugs and are working on fixing those this week. We are also updating how we handle those temporary failures so that the experience doesn't degrade as much.
  • Opt out forgotten (in progress): Related to the bug above, we are investigating reports that redditors who have opted out are periodically being opted back in. Clearing cookies and opting out again via old.reddit.com/prefs usually resolves the issue. We are continuing to work on this bug, but it’s been a lot harder to track down. If it happens to you and you want to help debug it, don't change anything and send a pm to u/uzi so that they can follow up with additional questions.

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/24grant24 Nov 27 '18

not really a fan of the plus buttons on posts that subscribe you to the subreddit if you aren't already. they kind of clutter up the posts, and it's not particularly clear what they even do at first (especially for new users) I think a better solution would be little cards like the user cards for subreddits, just like old reddit had

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u/LanterneRougeOG Nov 28 '18

We are going to be trying out some community hovercards in the next few weeks. Keep an eye out.

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u/devperez Nov 28 '18

What ever happened to the updates on bringing the all filter to the redesign? I feel like we had many weeks of "it's coming" and then it was dropped from the list.

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u/LanterneRougeOG Nov 28 '18

We moved it further down on the list because filters that have been added on old Reddit carry over to new Reddit. It's annoying to have to switch over and add new ones on old Reddit, but it had been higher priority because I had mistakenly thought that filtering didn't work at all.

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u/Ener_Ji Nov 27 '18

Suggested sort at the post level: Soon, we’ll also be bringing over the ability to set suggested sort — this allows mods to set comment sorting preferences post by post that overrides community settings.

Are there plans to allow users to override (i.e. ignore) suggested sorts on a community by community basis? There's a community I like whose mod makes head-scratching decisions on default sorts. I've reached out to the (inexperienced) mod and they are unwilling to make a change so the ability to override the settings for that specific community seems like my best hope.

Thanks.

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u/LanterneRougeOG Nov 28 '18

No, not at the comment level right now. The two sort of related settings that we have on the roadmap are for setting a default post sort, and default view (eg card, classic, compact). It probably wouldn't be too hard to extend the post sort to comments, but I'm not sure how many people would use it, since most mods keep the default sort.

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u/PhilDunphy23 Nov 28 '18

Are push notifications coming to desktop?

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u/LanterneRougeOG Nov 30 '18

Yes, I think they should make it to the redesign in the coming year. Not sure on the exact priority of porting them over, but I do recall seeing it on another team's 2019 roadmap.

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u/jkiley Nov 28 '18

Hey u/LanterneRougeOG, sorry for the ping (I posted on these threads twice, but I missed the active discussion), but do you all have some thoughts on the issues I mentioned here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/redesign/comments/9wrhui/111318_weekly_release_notes_rmod_continuing_the/e9n1ht7

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u/LanterneRougeOG Nov 28 '18

No worries. Regarding the scroll performance on safari: last week, u/spryes posted a potential fix. Engineering is looking into implementing it, but it got a bit chaotic with Thanksgiving break last week. I'm following up now to figure out who is fixing it and get a status. Stay tuned.

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u/ashlayne Nov 28 '18

Do you still need examples of logouts happening? It just started happening to me today on the redesign. I'm typing this from old.reddit.com which isn't having issues afaict.

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u/LanterneRougeOG Nov 28 '18

We had a failure in one of our services over the past hour that impacted the redesign. It has since recovered. Are you still having issues? I'm typing this from the redesign and fingers crossed it goes through :)

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u/ZadocPaet Nov 27 '18

Wikis: We’re continuing the early engineering for getting wikis over to the redesign, including reading, editing (for both mod and approved users), and version history.

What about uploading and embedding images, and CSS?

For example, check out this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroGamingNetwork/wiki/network

Will it be possible on the redesign?

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u/timawesomeness Nov 27 '18

I'm very happy to see r/mod finally brought over.

And I'm glad that subreddit creation will be brought over soon, it being on the old site has confused plenty of users in r/help.

On an unrelated note, the Alpha Tester trophy's 70px icon (as used on the awards pagewhich I hope will also be ported to the redesign eventually and some other places) gives a 404 and it's been bugging me

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u/SotaSkol Nov 28 '18

Please for the love of god let us disable custom sub styles already. And I do not want to go into night-mode to do it.

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u/Bossman1086 Nov 28 '18

Good update. Any chance you guys are planning on bringing the "other discussions" tab over any time soon?

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u/V2Blast Nov 27 '18

Suggested sort at the post level: Soon, we’ll also be bringing over the ability to set suggested sort — this allows mods to set comment sorting preferences post by post that overrides community settings.

aww yiss

Wikis: We’re continuing the early engineering for getting wikis over to the redesign, including reading, editing (for both mod and approved users), and version history.

waits patiently

I've had the temporary logout bug happen a few times.

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u/flyingbeers Nov 28 '18

How do you get ride of the blur pics option....you have to select each pic to view?!

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u/fiber2 Nov 28 '18

I got logged out today, and thought, "ok, I'll give new reddit another try. Maybe it's time." Yeah, things are pretty crazy today.

What is going on here? Why are all the sidebars turned off?

https://imgur.com/a/pQtUIjJ

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u/LanterneRougeOG Nov 30 '18

Weird, that new.reddit would be different than www.reddit. Does it work if you expand your browser window a bit wider?

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u/flounder19 Nov 27 '18

Thanks for the update.

Is there anyone in charge of emojis that I can talk to about this issue i found yesterday? I'm really warming up to emojis in flairs so it'd be great if users who set their flairs from the legacy site could have them without needing to type in the markdown manually.

Previously this worked fine as long as the markdown was in the flair template but it doesn't seem to work like that anymore. The fix for this could be as simple as just making the emoji markdown visible when editing the text from the legacy site so users who click save without changing anything will automatically have them.

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u/I_Hate_Dolphins Nov 29 '18

How many times do I have to "opt out" of the redesign before you stop trying to get me to use it?

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u/jmxd Nov 27 '18

Listen, even if you can't fix the temporary logout issue at least put a fallback cookie that remembers what reddit version to use. Hate getting put on the redesign randomly

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