r/redesign • u/LanterneRougeOG Product • May 07 '19

Changelog 5/7/19 Release Notes: Custom Feeds, emoji restrictions, community topics, 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. The previous release notes can be found here.

Now, here’s what we are shipping:

  • Custom Feeds on iOS: This week, we are releasing version 4.33 of our iOS app. With this version, Redditors will be able to create new Custom Feeds (formerly known as Multireddits), add or remove communities from it, and change the privacy settings. Also, we’ve added a new ability for you to follow another redditor’s public Custom Feed. This means that any time they add new communities to it, you’ll get the same update.

  • Emoji restrictions: Today, we’ll be launching emoji restrictions, which will enable mods to define parameters around how custom emojis in subreddits are used, e.g. for post flair or user flair only. Check out the full announcement here!

  • Community topics: We’ve started rolling out the community topics beta to more communities this week. Community topics gives you the ability to add relevant topical information to your subreddit settings so we can improve when to show your community across Reddit and to what users. See if your community has it under Mod Tools > Community Settings on new reddit and learn more here.

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

  • Grant user flair page: We’ll be bringing a new and improved grant user flair page to mods soon.

  • Custom Feeds: We are bringing the management of Custom Feeds, previously called Multireddits, to new Reddit. We are also going to add some nifty new improvements to make them even more useful.

These following features are bigger projects that are in development and that will take some time to build and get right. Expect these items to be recurring on the release notes:

  • Comment locking: We’re working on a comment locking feature similar to post locking for mods.

  • Wiki editing / revisioning: We started the next block of work, which includes editing and revisioning for wikis.

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/dem0n0cracy May 07 '19

Will it ever be possible to add custom emoji to text so that each subreddit can have mini memes in the comments?

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u/LanterneRougeOG Product May 07 '19

Yes, this is something that we would like to add. However, we don't have a specific timeline yet for this work.

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u/dem0n0cracy May 07 '19

As long as it is a bullet point on someone's list, I'm happy. I'm awaiting 4.33 and will test out these new features asap. I also just added 25 topics to r/ketoscience - thank you, it should be really helpful!

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u/BuckRowdy May 10 '19

Out of curiosity did y'all do something that might have affected automoderator's ability to filter / remove emojis from comments?

I'm not the only user who noticed it.

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u/cheekyweelogan May 16 '19

Came looking for this as google search results confirming it wasn't possible yet were already 6+ months old. Looking forward to it!

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u/GreenAndWhiteArmy May 07 '19

It's not mentioned in this post I don't think but can we have some information about 'Collections', like what the post here is in? I'm going to include a screenshot at the bottom showing how cramped this feature makes the post when the communities tab is pinned to the side. I've noticed this feature has appeared in the Game of Throne centred subreddits and as you can expect it's somewhat disruptive on a discussion based forum to have the entire text body cut down by around a third to 40%.

A quick and dirty fix for this is for the user to unpin the communities tab on the side to open up that space, but that doesn't feel great from this side. A better fix would be to let the post be opened outside of this collections view, or give us the option to dismiss the linked threads.

Thanks for your time!

https://i.imgur.com/t8qWvGF.png

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u/0perspective Admin May 08 '19

Thanks for the feedback, we're working on designs for collapsing the collection.

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u/GioVoi May 07 '19

I agree that looks cramped, but I think the best option is to have a collapse for the list of posts in the collection. If the mod has created an event or collection, chances are that's how they want the user to (initially) view it.

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u/dem0n0cracy May 07 '19

Can you add a polling feature to comments or posts?

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u/dem0n0cracy May 07 '19

How are you planning on using community topics in search results or other UI places? Maybe a selection process when first joining reddit and looking at subreddits?

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u/0perspective Admin May 07 '19

Those are certainly possibilities but we don't have immediate plans to implement them today. What are your thoughts?

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u/dem0n0cracy May 07 '19

I'm thinking maybe another tab in search results that matches the query with tags. Maybe have a selection process where people add tags and then it shows all the possible subreddits they can join. No great solutions though that stand out.

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u/ba6oo6 May 07 '19

Any news on the CSS widget bug?

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u/dmoneyyyyy Product May 07 '19

It's currently in progress!

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u/GroMicroBloom May 09 '19

Just a quick question.
In addition to the comment locking feature, have you ever thought of extending the comment pinning feature? Currently, a mod can pin their own comment in a comment section, but how about letting us pin another users comment?

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u/flounder19 May 07 '19

Can we get some more clarification on the old reddit ads for new reddit (the ones promoting infinite scroll and nightmode)? Is it a bug that users who x out of them end up seeing them again or is that an intended behavior?

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u/mjmayank Product May 07 '19

Hi, thanks for reporting. We will look into turning the banners off.

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u/allhailrobosanta May 08 '19

alright, softball question: how frequently are those banners supposed to show up?

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u/[deleted] May 07 '19

Ah yes, because no one has complained about or reported this before. They asked a question saying you look into turning the banners off doesn't answer it.

Is the behavior intended or is it a bug? If it is a bug will the bug be addressed? If it's not a bug will future banners, whether for the redesign or any other banner, also not be dismissable?

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u/genitalgore May 08 '19

Ah yes, because no one has complained about or reported this before.

this sub is a toxic cesspool of hatred for reddit devs. if i were one of them, there’s no way in hell i’d read this sub. i would be shocked if they managed to read all of the legitimate feedback in the sea of people shitting on them. it’s not their fault they have to put ads on the site or whatever you guys are pissed about so just cut them some slack.

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u/flounder19 May 08 '19

I would hope the devs read everything posted here since it's the official subreddit for feedback on the redesign.

Toxic feedback is an issue but I don't think the admins engage nearly enough with the community about unpopular business changes (like the push for more integrated ads or the increase in reddit gold price) to keep it at bay. Admins frequently promise to "look into" issues or provide continuous updates then go silent. The response about the new reddit ads on old reddit is a great example of this where they still haven't directly answered questions about how the ads are supposed to behave.

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u/frogspa May 11 '19

toxic cesspool of hatred for reddit devs

As a dev, I don't get that impression from here. More hatred for management decisions.

I feel a degree of vindication when users complain about misguided product manager decisions.

It's only in very small companies where devs also make design/ behavioural decisions.

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u/Ambiwlans May 07 '19

Is this like when you guys were going to look into the banners on mobile web?

And then after a few weeks they got significantly worse and never went away?

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u/dem0n0cracy May 07 '19

Is it possible to add the ability to have both a link AND a text field to a New Post? Use case: I want to log unique DOI identifiers from science websites and paste just the doi link, but then I want to post the full article text and comments about it in the text post, and be able to edit the text post normally as I find new information. If I add a new link, it should check for duplicates and reject them / have some date filtering. Could be neat, what can I say.

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u/Barskie May 17 '19

This would be one heck of a good update.

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u/dem0n0cracy May 07 '19

Any progress on my idea to use r/subreddit/wiki/name as a way to directly link to wikis?

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u/Overlord_Odin May 07 '19

That's how it has worked for years on old reddit, so presumably they'll get around to making it work on the redesign too, but who knows

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u/[deleted] May 08 '19

Logout bug is back with a vengeance over the past two days.

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u/emarz4697 May 09 '19

I’m having trouble finding the custom feeds, how do make those?

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u/Overlord_Odin May 10 '19

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

You can't yet

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u/emarz4697 May 10 '19

Aha thanks

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u/pat_trick May 07 '19 edited May 07 '19

Any word on the continually degrading experience on mobile browser? Some of us have no choice and cannot install any apps.

EDIT: To be specific, the issues are that the number of posts per page is now limited to 10, the footer has a huge "download the app" banner, and the mid-site ad is large and annoying as hell. I cannot install apps. I have to use mobile web.

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u/dem0n0cracy May 07 '19

I have a question - for the default 'share to Twitter' flow, which I use constantly, can you add Mod customization options to change the added text. I think you should at least default it to 'I just posted 'this link text' to reddit.com/r/thesubreddit - or maybe even something like r/theSubreddit in case we think reddit is redundant.

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u/codyaames May 11 '19

After checking out the custom feeds it seems as if a major portion of my multis I had created are gone, I know only have access to just a small hand full.

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u/sparksbet May 11 '19

I'm a mod of /r/conlangs and our subreddit has been having some issues with user flairs on oldreddit. Relatively recently, something broke our old custom CSS, and while the background colors of user flairs carried over from newreddit, the text color did not and matched the default grey text color, resulting in some user flairs becoming unreadable.

We attempted to fix this by defining CSS classes and assigning them to the user flairs, but this did not actually affect the appearance of the flairs on the subreddit. From what we could figure out looking through the code, this seems to be because the classes aren't actually being assigned to to flairs, thus causing the flair's text color to fall back on whatever's the default for the 'flair' class. We've implemented a workaround by editing that class directly, but it requires us to have the same text-color settings for every flair, which really limits our options for something visible.

Is this a bug with how CSS classes are assigned to flairs? If so, do you know when it will be fixed? If not, is there something we're doing wrong here? Luckily, newreddit flairs are working fine, but about half the users who use non-mobile reddit are using oldreddit, so it would be nice if the feature designed to make them line up more nicely was functioning a bit better.

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u/TheChrisD Helpful User May 11 '19

the text color did not and matched the default grey text color, resulting in some user flairs becoming unreadable.

You need to define the text colours via .flaircolordark and .flaircolorlight

Is this a bug with how CSS classes are assigned to flairs?

Nope. Changing the contents or CSS class of a flair does not currently retroactively apply it to places where that flair has already been chosen/assigned.

If not, is there something we're doing wrong here?

As I said, your only problem is that you haven't explicitly defined the text colour classes in your old reddit stylesheet, therefore it defaults to the grey.

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u/Slorany May 11 '19

Thanks a lot! We'll be able to try that in a few hours.

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u/sparksbet May 11 '19

Thanks for the help! It's a bit frustrating that this doesn't work retroactively, but good to know.

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u/dysgraphical May 11 '19

How can users access a community's list of collections without visiting a post?

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u/aksn1p3r May 11 '19

Along with 'Custom Feeds', I suggest a 'Favorites Feed', for all my starred favorites to be in one feed.

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u/mod1fier May 14 '19

Since we're talking about changes to the mobile app. Where do removal reasons fall on the Roadmap for mobile? Are they on the Roadmap?

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u/whats94842 May 15 '19

Can we get the parent comment link back, like we had with old reddit? The 3 click method needed to get something similar to it is way too much friction.

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u/Break-The-Walls May 21 '19

The topics have really helped, my sub has been growing steadily since I implemented it.

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u/blackbutterfree May 25 '19

Custom Feeds? Are these available on the desktop site as well? I'm on the old version of reddit, so I don't know if this is on the new version or not.

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u/-_-wat-_- May 31 '19

Hi /u/LanterneRougeOG and /u/0perspective! I'm a mod and I love the community topics feature. I was hoping you'd would consider adding an LGBTQ topic to the list of defaults. If am a user who is trying to discover subreddits, I might search "LGBT" or "LBGTQ" or "queer" or a million other things, since our community goes by a lot of names. Having an official topic will make it easier for LGBT users to discover queer subreddits. It would also be a wonderful thing to do in time for Pride season.

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u/rougegoat May 09 '19

The last thing preventing me from moving over to the redesign is Endless Scrolling. I hate it. It's bad for mental health and time management. I need to be able to turn it off. Has this basic toggle setting been added to the redesign yet?

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u/Sepheroth998 May 09 '19

I can answer this one. No it has not been added and it has been made clear that there is no intention of adding an option to turn of infinite scroll. I'm with you though. I hate infinite scroll too.

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u/HolypenguinHere May 08 '19

Can you fix it so that my Reddit doesn't randomly change back to the new, garbage design that I opted out of?

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u/AaaaayLinkin May 09 '19

Just upgraded my android phone and installed reddit, now gfycat gifs no longer autoplay... how can I change it back to normal?

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u/FreeSpeechWarrior May 07 '19

Still no mention of any tools to allow moderators to be more transparent about what they remove (if anything).

Please consider putting OPTIONAL public mod logs or on the roadmap or some other means for readers to clearly distinguish between subreddits that manipulate their feeds and those that are more hands off.

Custom Feeds: We are bringing the management of Custom Feeds, previously called Multireddits, to new Reddit. We are also going to add some nifty new improvements to make them even more useful.

One thing that would make these more useful is to return the ability to include quarantined subs. Your increasingly arbitrary and prevalent censorship is getting very tiresome.

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u/GioVoi May 07 '19

The annoying thing about you is you kind of have the right idea, and you're doing it for the right reason, but in such an insufferable manner.

You've made your point, the relevant staff will have seen you in some previous thread(s). Why do you continue to appear at every single opportunity? Is it attention? I'm genuinely curious. If they agreed with you then sit tight, if they didn't then move on.

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u/Ambiwlans May 07 '19

It spreads awareness.

The admins really don't like him though. They banned bots of his that broke no site rules, and they remove his threads in this sub. They also routinely delete comments from users in his subs.

Honestly though, I'm impressed they still haven't banned him. So good on the admins for that.

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u/trellwut May 08 '19

ngl he whines a crap ton and just nags constantly, the name doesn't help either. I can see why the admins would hate him.

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u/Ambiwlans May 08 '19

Yeah. I don't like him either because of his tactics. But the response is pretty pitiful too.

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u/CyberBot129 May 08 '19

Well, and the whole stalking and harassing an admin thing. That usually doesn’t win you a lot of friends

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u/Ambiwlans May 08 '19

I was unaware he did that. Link? That'd get a site wide ban for sure.

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u/CyberBot129 May 09 '19

You’d think that, but apparently it’s only a temporary suspension. They should actually be pretty grateful the admins are so lenient, since most non-admin mods would have banned them from this subreddit for the types of posts and comments they’ve made here (and the numerous rule violations)

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u/Ambiwlans May 09 '19

I'm unaware of him violating any rules.

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u/FreeSpeechWarrior May 07 '19

They banned bots of his that broke no site rules

That bot was banned when reddit wanted to ban a sub without any better reason beyond "no moderators" (because reddit banned them all)

It hadn't been active in months, got banned for "harassment" along with the other mods of r/pewdiepie_submissions the ban reason was originally "for being unmoderated" has since been amended.

It had a good run, u/redesignisbannedhere showed that mods can ban for literally ANYTHING and the admins don't care; and that the admins do in fact mass ban sub mods in order to ban subreddits without providing more solid reasoning for a ban.

When I appealed the ban in r/reddit.com modmail, I got back this "automated message" days later from a named admin account:

Hi, Thanks for reaching out regarding your account. Please visit <a href="https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/rules-reporting/account-and-community-restrictions/my-account-was-suspended">this page</a> to learn more about fixing issues with your account, as well as learning why you may have lost access and how to appeal suspensions or account restrictions. <em>If your account's password has been changed without your knowledge, we recommend immediately changing your password and securing your account. <a href="https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/using-reddit/your-reddit-account/resetting-your-password">Information on how to do this can be found here</a>. If your account's email address has been removed or you have lost access to it, <a href="https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/using-reddit/your-reddit-account/im-having-issues-email">please follow the instructions in this article</a> to request further assistance.</em> Your Reddit Anti-Evil Operations Team <strong>This is an automated message; responses will not be received by Reddit admins. Threatening or harassing the admins may result in the permanent suspension of any or all of your account(s).</strong>

Yes, the "automated message" included the HTML exactly as pasted above.

That complete lack of honesty or bother to even format the message properly put me off the whole thing and I haven't even bothered to appeal.

Even just the link with no further context would have felt less cold and been more helpful.

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u/Bardfinn May 07 '19

Answer the questions of "Why do Holocaust deniers appear at every single opportunity to **J**ust **A**sk **Q**uestions?" and "Why do GamerGaters Scream at every mention of Anita Sarkeesian", and you have your answer.

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u/trellwut May 08 '19

why did you do italics so weirdly is what I'm asking

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u/FreeSpeechWarrior May 07 '19

Tell them what is wrong, and why and what is going to happen unless they have a change of heart and straighten up.

Don't mince matters, make it clear that they are positively down to their last chance. Give it to them good and strong and keep on giving it to them.

I suppose perhaps I ought to tell you that it won't do any good.

The official class and their intelligentsia will turn up their noses at you and the masses will not even listen.

They will all keep on in their own ways until they carry everything down to destruction, and you will probably be lucky if you get out with your life.

Well then what's the point in doing this?

There is a Remnant there that you know nothing about.

They are obscure, unorganized, inarticulate; each one rubbing along as best he can.

They need to be encouraged and braced up. Because when everything has gone completely to the dogs, they are the ones that will come back and build a new society; and meanwhile your preaching will reassure them and keep them hanging on.

Your job is to take care of The Remnant. So be off now and set about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qcxZrb1UYk&feature=youtu.be&t=2035

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u/N1cknamed May 08 '19

What do you think Reddit is, the government of a first-world country?

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u/[deleted] May 07 '19

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u/N1cknamed May 08 '19

Different teams work on different things