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View submission: Addressing the new video player
Hand up, that was on us and we will have a better cadence of communication moving forward. We initially wanted to communicate this to you all earlier but… as you see in the post the bugs came and we were super duper embarrassed and decided to hide in our cave of shame rather than face y’all. That was obviously the wrong decision, but we’re here to take our lumps today, and moving forward, we’ll be regularly updating you through every step of the way (embarrassing or not).
Comment by semi-confusticated at 02/08/2021 at 21:19 UTC
48 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I really appreciate the (belated) transparency here, but I don't understand why none of these changes were ever listed in the bi-weekly "new mobile version" announcements you guys post on here. I keep seeing updates like this[1] saying that there are "Just a few small things", which are apparently not worth mentioning, when in fact, there are very significant changes that many redditors are intensely interested in. Even the initial release of the video player was never mentioned here, and the problem goes much further back than that
With the way that these updates are currently presented, it kind of feels like we're being lied to, and left to to figure out the changes ourselves by experimenting and sharing notes. Is there any way you could put real change summaries into these announcements? Or, failing that, could you fix the message to make it clear that we should not expect any kind of change description?
(I accidentally posted this as a reply to the wrong comment a minute ago, so if you get a duplicate notification, that's why. Sorry about that.)
Comment by Dublock at 02/08/2021 at 18:17 UTC
10 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I am glad to hear it and I am looking forward to the increase communication even if it’s bad news.
Comment by uberafc at 02/08/2021 at 23:13 UTC*
10 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Another bad decision is the one proposed here[1] a month ago.
This isn't related to this but I hope you can forward these concerns to the right people on reddit.
That proposed change is still a possibility and it would certainly destroy what many of us value most about reddit. How come it seems like Reddit isn't taking user input into consideration when the overwhelming majority of the site users are giving you negative feedback about a proposed change. How come it seems like site staff aren't redditors themselves, because if you were you would know how badly something like that would effect beloved communities like r/iama, r/askreddit and countless others.
I just found out about that proposed change and while it doesn't seem to be moving forward at least not currently, its another example of a change that was pushed without a heads up or even taking into consideration how this change would impact the users of this site. As much as it might bother Reddit staff to know this but the heart of this site is its userbase and without us the site would collapse over night. It happened to Digg and it can happen to reddit.
Removing and hiding all the content the users of this site contribute just because the OP wants to delete their parent post is incredibly short sighted and its making me genuinely question if this site will survive the next year. Why would someone spend their time crafting the perfect response when the OP can nuke all that work if they decide to delete their post for any small reason. Furthermore, traffic would probably decrease that was coming from Google and other search engines or even other subreddits. I still use google sometimes to search for answers to questions, by appending "reddit" to the search term and I have found amazing answers where the OP had deleted their parent post. This ultimately made me spend more time on reddit. Instead now people would probably be annoyed that their potential perfect answer to a question isn't available. You want people to end up staying on reddit, but that decision would achieve the absolute opposite.
Thank you! I hope reddit will continue to be the amazing site that it is well into the future and that you guys start taking user input into consideration more frequently, especially when that decision will impact those users.
Comment by kckeller at 02/08/2021 at 22:45 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
To be clear, where will that communication happen? Here on r/changelog? Over on r/redditmobile? Somewhere else entirely?
Comment by shabutaru118 at 03/08/2021 at 18:03 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Oh my god some honest and transparency, best admin on the site