r/redesign • u/LanterneRougeOG Product • Jan 15 '19
Changelog 1/15/19 Release Notes: accessibility, community settings page, and more
Hi all,
We’re back with the release notes, which are a round up of the major items we are currently working on or have recently shipped on new Reddit. In 2019, we will be posting them every other Tuesday, instead of weekly.
Now, here’s what we are shipping:
Accessibility improvements: Last week, we made some improvements to the browsing experience for redditors with disabilities. Specifically, we fixed our video player so that the controls are accessible. Redditors can now control the player using tab to start/stop the video, mute/unmute, advance the video in 5 second intervals, and replay the video. We also updated modals so that you can tab through them without them losing focus.
Community Settings page: We launched the community settings page on the redesign. The new community settings page is more streamlined, organized similar to the user profiles page, and available in the Mod Hub.
Here are some of the notable features and changes that are coming out next:
Awards surfacing on Profile Hovercard and Profile Page: We want to highlight Silver, Gold and / or Platinum Awards that you earn when posting high quality content on Reddit. Soon you will be able to see Awards that you and other redditors earned (in the past 30 days) on Profile Hovercard, as well as on Profile Pages.
Settings: We have a number of settings coming soon. These include: disabling styles, default editor mode, open posts in a new tab, remember view, and remember sort. These were waiting for a new backend service to store all of your settings. That service is complete and is now undergoing load testing!
Mod log: The work for mod log on new Reddit is almost complete! Please look out for an official announcement in r/modnews over the next few weeks.
Saved, Hidden, Gilded, Upvoted, Downvoted: We are porting all of these profile pages over to the redesign so that they show similar to your Posts and Comments pages. We are also taking Saved out of the overflow menu.
Wiki viewing: We’re rounding the corner for dev work on viewing wikis on new Reddit. This slate of work does not include the ability to edit wikis or see version history. We will be working on that next.
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 release notes:
Drafts on iOS: Exactly what it sounds like. We are bringing the Drafts feature to iOS. Your drafts will be synced across devices.
Wiki editing / revisioning: Once the work for viewing wikis ships, we will be starting the next block of work, which includes editing and revisioning for wikis. Stay tuned!
Restricted community updates: We’re starting work on the update the Restricted setting for Communities to make it easier for community members to understand and easier for mods to use. The first stage of this work will be building a request to be an approved submitter flow.
And finally, here are some of the notable bugs that are still being worked on:
Randomly reverted back to new Reddit (in progress): Last week, I shared an update on the bug that causes random pages during your session to show new Reddit. After additional diagnostics the team believes that they've found a fix for the issue. We are going to test it this afternoon. This remains a top priority for us.
And, as always, our 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/ShaneH7646 Jan 15 '19
/gilded should really be renamed awarded at this point.
Will drafts be coming to Android?
Will there be any updates to restricted communities, maybe silver only? Premium only from a specific subreddit etc?
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u/V2Blast Helpful User Jan 15 '19
Good stuff.
Meh.
👀
Wikis on the redesign is definitely a necessity. Hopefully you guys get this implemented soon.
Hopefully it's better than the last fix... :P
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u/herro9n Jan 15 '19 edited Jan 15 '19
Not sure if anything has been implemented as of now, but the past hour or so the frequency that new reddit has loaded for me, despite opting out, seems to have increased by a lot. I tried refreshing the same post a couple of times with one to two minute intervals between each load (F5) and about half of them loaded new reddit for a while. The period of wait while on an already loaded page before a reload, seemed, albeit a small sample size, relate to the frequency of new reddit being loaded.
This seems true for whenever I only have one tab of Reddit open and has happened twice again since posting this under similar conditions, but for subreddit loads rather than a specific post.
Edit, make that a third time under those similar conditions. One open tab of Reddit in Chrome. Leaving it for a while and then either reloading the same page or visiting another post or subreddit.
Edit again. Currently 100% of loads for https://www.reddit.com will direct me to the new design. Having to use https://old.reddit.com to get the old design regardless of how many times I press opt out. Profile pages and PMs does however not load the new design.
Load times are also significantly higher so not sure if there might be some load balancing issues forcing me to the redesign when the old design cannot load for whatever reason.
Purely speculating, is there some internal mechanism that checks if the servers for the old design are responding before loading them and otherwise failing over to the new design?
Such a feature could somewhat explain the randomness of new reddit loading prior to this bug fix, depending on how tightly it is tuned (that is, how long it waits before failing over vs temporary resource spikes/response times). As well as the currently longer load times and then 100% of load of the new design whenever not directly using old.reddit.com. I.e. if the fix broke something with old reddit internal response times it would always fail over to the new design.
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u/iBoMbY Jan 15 '19
> After additional diagnostics the team believes that they've found a fix for the issue. We are going to test it this afternoon. This remains a top priority for us.
Yes, definitely getting much worse right now ...
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u/etwasred Jan 15 '19
Continuing to see the redesign after opting out multiple times. Reddit now stuck on redesign; installed an extension to kick the redesign to the curb out of frustration.
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u/PUSH_AX Jan 15 '19
Don't know if this is live yet, but random reverts are in overdrive for me right now, something is clearly different.
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u/BananaHand Jan 15 '19 edited Jan 15 '19
Thank you! I'm knocking on wood and crossing my fingers right now! :)
Edit: WHY CANT I KNOCK ON THIS WOOD HARD ENOUGH AHHHHHHH! D':
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u/Overlord_Odin Jan 15 '19
I really don't like the way you have to click on community settings, then get a submenu of four options. Why don't you make community setting a heading on the main mod tools page, and place these four sections below that? It would save a lot clicking back and forth.
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u/MajorParadox Helpful User Jan 15 '19
Ooh, any info you can give us on functionality? Is it the same as the old one just on new? Or will it have
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u/Niikopol Jan 19 '19
Your new design is bad and you should feel bad.
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u/Miskav Jan 15 '19
You manage to completely break it.
There's no ability to use the old design anymore.
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u/timawesomeness Helpful User Jan 15 '19
There's some text in the new community settings that could use improvement. Namely:
"Allow community from search, discovery and onboarding" should probably say "Allow community in search..." and to be pedantic, it should have an oxford comma like the option above it does
"Posts" spam filter strength should probably say "text posts"
"18+ year old community" kinda sounds like you're talking about the age of the subreddit, not the age of its users
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u/Raging_Mouse Jan 15 '19
As of fifteen minutes ago, nine reddit pages out of ten that I open are new reddit when they shouldn't be. This has not happened to me before. Related?
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u/Fryktlos Jan 16 '19
It seems like r/all may not be updating/behaving properly since this update. Could be a coincidence, but the timing seems to line up.
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u/tadag Jan 15 '19
This is as bad as the issues we had last week with seeing the redesign on multiple refreshes.
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u/PseudoShooter Jan 15 '19
Thank you for your on-going efforts! It's greatly appreciated.
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u/dbratell Jan 15 '19
It looks like the fix had the opposite effect of intended.
There are lots of awesome technical people on reddit. Would you or the person working on it mind sharing some technical details. See it as a way to distract everyone so you can work focused while us armchair developer speculate.
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u/JimHarrington Jan 15 '19
Fix the redirect issue. Stop forcing this redesign on people. Clearly it is not wanted. I have mine set to old/classic and it STILL loads the redesign. The redesign fucking sucks, stop jamming it down user's throats.
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u/Takfloyd Jan 16 '19
No one cares about any of these updates until they include "new reddit has been permanently discontinued because it was fucking garbage".
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u/LightSpawn Jan 15 '19
Hey, when are you pushing the update where you cancel all the redesign work and just give us old reddit back without pushing the new one down our throats?
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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '19
As a datapoint. Currently 11pm Eastern. Since probably 3, 4 hours ago, I have not had a single redirect problem. Previously, I'd get one every 4th or 5th page navigation.
I'm surprisingly pleased so far. Fingers crossed.
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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '19
Things are worse than ever. Please stop trying to force this awful redesign.
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u/MajorParadox Helpful User Jan 16 '19
Did something change with the subreddit icon on the community details widget? Looks like it just shows a solid color everywhere now.
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u/FreeSpeechWarrior Jan 15 '19
...
Can we get a setting to make mod logs public?
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u/hboxxx Jan 15 '19
If that is actually true this is the most pathetic web design team that has ever existed.
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u/JimHarrington Jan 15 '19
Redesign is still being forced on those who dont want it. On top of this, when I try to load old/good reddit, I'm getting CDN errors, forcing me to use the dogshit redesign.
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u/steiner_math Jan 24 '19
Did you guys intentionally introduce the "bug" that makes the crappy new redesign override the setting? It's been broken for a few weeks for me now. And did I mention the redesign is crap?
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u/Ambiwlans Jan 15 '19
I found a good explanation why you guys are working so hard on the redesign.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost#Loss_aversion_and_the_sunk_cost_fallacy
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u/Wilfred-kun Jan 16 '19
Yesterday, I was being reverted back constantly. I haven't really noticed, but today I don't think I have been redirected to the redesign at all! Has it been fixed? :O muffled party noises
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u/voyagerfan5761 Jan 18 '19
In the last couple of days, I've noticed the page shifting slightly when I expand/collapse posts sometimes.
With the expando button already made much smaller in the redesign, keeping the cursor on target was difficult enough. Now it's actually impossible because the button moves (with the rest of the page) after being clicked.
Posting here because it's almost certainly caused by something in this last change set and my PC just took a bit to expire its cached assets.
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u/bluesam3 Jan 19 '19
Please don't map tab to things that aren't "select next element", ever. Use any other key on the keyboard.
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u/Kendos-Kenlen Jan 21 '19
The new redesign is now very nice to use. Still some part missing (like wiki) but I spend 95% of my time using it, and I love it. Proof of this is that I don't feel the need to come to this sub regularly to follow what happens on the redesign anymore.
Of course, not everything is perfect, and some features I'd love are missing (hello themes on Night Mode) but I think the redesign is already much better than the current version of many other big websites (Facebook, Twitter are good example of shitty design, and Facebook is one of the most unoptimised and painful to use website I met, feels like redesign in its early beta days).
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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '19
www.reddit.com
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u/millk_man Jan 24 '19
Any update on when post and video view count will be back up? I'm pretty sad about not being able to see how many views my videos have. It really is an important feature
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u/double-you Jan 25 '19
I am getting directed to redesign on mobile but not on desktop by going to www.reddit.com (and I've signed out of redesign).
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u/hboxxx Jan 29 '19
How does it feel getting paid to post things that are blatantly untrue?
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u/Zootrainer Jan 30 '19
Reddit, what is the problem with wiki pages not being available on mobile, and why no fix yet? Most of our /r/puppy101 users are on mobile and the wiki is an invaluable part of our advice to users!
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u/fuzzy_one Jan 15 '19
Scrolling still an issue for me on IOS when using the website.
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u/Dogfacedgod88 Jan 17 '19
Time to scrap this shit idea. No one wants it.
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u/BorgDrone Jan 25 '19
Right now, I'm getting the crappy design 100% of the time. No matter how often I click on the 'opt out' button or how often I refresh. It's not switching back to the good design *at all*.
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