Comment by marcSuile on 19/01/2021 at 22:15 UTC

171 upvotes, 6 direct replies (showing 6)

View submission: Updates to notifications, avatar enhancements, a better best sort, and more

• The little bubble for 'reddit user is typing...' on mobile is kind of annoying--any chance to have the option to remove that?

• Also, would be nice to permanently turn off recommendations and "is this subreddit about xxx?" while scrolling on mobile app--any chance to have the option to remove that?

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Comment by nemacol at 20/01/2021 at 04:08 UTC

12 upvotes, 1 direct replies

I don’t understand who that “users are typing” is even for. On any given popular post there are hundreds or thousands of comments, right? You can’t click on it or show any detail.. it’s just a weird animated thing the draws my eye away from why I was doing.

Maybe I misunderstand the point but so far it just seems useless at best, distracting at worst.

Comment by ImBusyGoAway at 19/01/2021 at 22:27 UTC

96 upvotes, 8 direct replies

"Is **gaming** about gaming?"

• Facepalm*

Comment by kingxprincess at 19/01/2021 at 23:01 UTC

16 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Yes I want the ability to be able to turn off recommendations!

Comment by sunfacedestroyer at 19/01/2021 at 23:46 UTC

10 upvotes, 0 direct replies

The best way to get them to stop the stupid questions thing is if everyone intentionally answers them wrong.

Comment by BurritoJusticeLeague at 21/01/2021 at 18:45 UTC

2 upvotes, 1 direct replies

• Right now the “little bubble”/typing indicator is just a test, so it may not be permanent and there’s no opt out.
• You can’t remove or opt out of the “Is r/{subreddit} about X,” questions, but we are showing them to fewer people, and showing them less often to those people as the project moves forward. This is part of our subreddit classification effort[1] and won’t last forever. We hear you that it’s showing up too much though, and are looking into frequency capping the questions so that they appear less often to individual redditors.

Comment by [deleted] at 20/01/2021 at 00:59 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

They need to use user input for what subreddits are about so they can better sell ads to everyone