created by umbrae on 20/10/2016 at 19:14 UTC
96 upvotes, 34 top-level comments (showing 25)
As mentioned a few weeks ago[1], we've been making some architectural updates to our mobile website. Thanks to those of you who have reported issues - thankfully there were relatively few.
We're rolling out these updates to everyone over the next couple of days. As I mentioned before, the changes should be mostly unnoticeable, except for the following:
1. Load times should be visibly much more snappy.
2. You should see loading spinners less often once you've loaded the site (for example, if you tap into a page and then hit back, you should see a loading spinner much less often)
3. Your position when browsing into a listing and clicking back should be saved much more reliably.
4. Your collapsed comments should persist when navigating the site, and coming back from an external link.
5. Your list of subscribed subreddits will be alphabetized, and if you subscribe to more than 100 subreddits they will all be listed.
Otherwise things should feel similar, just smoother. :)
If you notice any new issues on the mobile website over the next few days, please report them, as they're likely related. Thanks for testing and thanks to those of you who reported issues!
Comment by [deleted] at 20/10/2016 at 20:39 UTC*
17 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Every time I submit a comment, it takes me back to the home page for the subreddit I'm in.
Edit: it seems to take me back to whatever page I was previously on.
Comment by [deleted] at 20/10/2016 at 21:19 UTC
14 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I do wanna say that I love that I can now edit and delete comments directly from my comments page! What a convenient feature!
Comment by ChicagoOandB at 21/10/2016 at 01:02 UTC
14 upvotes, 2 direct replies
1. Comment replies no longer push notification to the upper right menu button.
2. Pushed out and losing thread position when sending comments.
Comment by yoshi71089 at 20/10/2016 at 19:33 UTC
10 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Was the spacing of the text and font size changed for the mobile website? I feel like a grandmother typing on letters this large, and cannot find a setting to change it back.
Comment by [deleted] at 20/10/2016 at 19:41 UTC
7 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Not sure where else to put this since I can't seem to even access the mobile version of the site, but what's the deal when you get two orange circles, one with the logo head inside of it?
Comment by xiongchiamiov at 20/10/2016 at 23:51 UTC
7 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I'd love a technical overview of what changed, being curious as I am. Maybe a dev blog post, mm?
Comment by m808v at 20/10/2016 at 22:23 UTC
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It's very unresponsive on larger posts, upvotes take time to react.
Comment by MissionaryControl at 21/10/2016 at 04:46 UTC
6 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Is there a way to stop internal links to reddit from opening the mobile version until you provide us some mod tools there?
It's killing the ability for mods to do ANYTHING while mobile - which means less modding. A few irritating redirects and I've had enough.
And opening reddit.app apparently randomly when I'm trying to use the website is infuriating - made me uninstall that for the same reasons.
I thought mods were supposed to be getting *more* support, not less? ಠ_ಠ
C'mon, you're abandoning us to years-old Alien Blue as literally the only way we can mod from our phones - without resorting to reloading the desktop past the every time.
It's getting old.
Comment by [deleted] at 21/10/2016 at 09:50 UTC*
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I was wondering if mobile web was undergoing renovations or something, because as of the 20th I have been completely unable to use reddit on my phone. Doesn't matter what page or subreddit it is, the thing loads unto infinity (orange loading symbol and all) and never, ever gets there (the menu is also totally unresponsive, so I can't even switch to the desktop version). I'm on ios7 and using the built-on Safari app. Never had an issue until yesterday. Can you give me any insight into the problem?
Comment by 14hellraiser at 20/10/2016 at 20:03 UTC
10 upvotes, 1 direct replies
It seems better for comments
Comment by [deleted] at 20/10/2016 at 19:18 UTC
4 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Does this mean that direct messaging and modmail will now not be horribly broken on m.reddit.com and I can stop dealing with angry users on this issue?
Comment by yoshi71089 at 20/10/2016 at 21:38 UTC
4 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Not sure if this is the place for it, but when clicking on topics, occasionally it is only showing the comments and not the original text from the OP. It is happening on both current and old posts, locked and unlocked.
(This is on the mobile browser website)
Comment by AztecGod at 21/10/2016 at 09:52 UTC
4 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Whenever I submit a comment, it immediately takes me back to the previous page I was on.
I'm not getting any push notifications for replies.
It's also confusing that 'm' now means months and not just minutes.
Comment by 14hellraiser at 21/10/2016 at 16:35 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I dont get notificacions when somebody replies to my.comments now
Comment by IIIDevoidIII at 20/10/2016 at 22:44 UTC
5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
By George, it looks like Reddit profiles on mobile actually do something more than check your old comments.
Comment by [deleted] at 21/10/2016 at 16:53 UTC*
3 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I'm getting a bug where voting on a text post removes the text. I have to reload the page to make it readable again.
Also, I don't know if this is a bug or not, but when I posted this comment it didn't close the box where you write a comment and it didn't erase the text in it. Would make it easy to accidentally double post.
If it matters, I'm using chrome on android.
Comment by nonstopflux at 21/10/2016 at 17:52 UTC*
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
In compact mode, the stickiness of an expanded post seems to have changed. Previously, if a post was expanded, it would re-compact on a refresh. Now it seems to stick on refresh (and even across subs).
I would really prefer the old arrangement. I typically would expand posts that I wanted to see, then on revisiting the page, they would be shrunken and I wouldn't click on them again. Now it's essentially highlighting the old posts that I've already seen.
Overall, really like the look and feel of the update, the user pages, in particular!
Edit: this is really annoying. Please go back!
Comment by Webbyx01 at 22/10/2016 at 21:47 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
When searching for keywords within a subreddit, I can no longer filter the results by how recent they are. This makes it more difficult find find a specific post, or something that is still relevant.
Example[1] using r/hardwareswap where having posts from last year don't help me now.
1: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwZQaJnJhgAYV3Z6SnJfaXBTQTQ
Comment by TotesMessenger at 20/10/2016 at 20:08 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:
3: /message/compose?to=/r/TotesMessenger
Comment by tomgabriele at 21/10/2016 at 13:10 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It still seems too slow to load the comments when clicking through to them, but I *really* appreciate the quicker "back" loading and page-position-remembering.
Comment by Pikamander2 at 21/10/2016 at 15:00 UTC
2 upvotes, 2 direct replies
This update broke the ability to use the multi-subreddit CSS for a single comments page.
For example, if I was browsing /r/upvote/ and I wanted to downvote something, I could add +nocss to the subreddit URL and reload the page, like this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/upvote+nocss/comments/58krd3/can_i_get_some_karma/
But today's update now causes that link to redirect back to the normal link.
RES's feature is a lot more convenient anyway, but there needs to be a quick vanilla way to disable a subreddit's CSS.
Comment by Sobsz at 21/10/2016 at 21:14 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Complaints:
Comment by JediGuyB at 21/10/2016 at 22:09 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The top right controls go away when I'm in my inbox. They seem to stay when in the messages tab, but if I go to another tab they are gone.
Comment by chengiz at 21/10/2016 at 22:13 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
m.reddit.com is thoroughly broken for windows phone 8.1 IE 11, apparently since this launch:
Comment by [deleted] at 22/10/2016 at 03:29 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
No longer able to click Context to jump to the area of a thread for comment reply from your profile page.