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View submission: Accessibility Updates to Mod Tools: Part 2
Thanks for asking - I’ll be back in a few weeks with an update about the work we’re doing on the general app experience. We know these improvements are important, and this is a high priority for Reddit.
Comment by [deleted] at 30/06/2023 at 20:18 UTC
71 upvotes, 2 direct replies
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Comment by rollingrock16 at 30/06/2023 at 19:28 UTC
137 upvotes, 1 direct replies
If it was actually high priority you would not be cutting off 3rd party apps that are already delivering these features.
Comment by redalastor at 30/06/2023 at 21:53 UTC
47 upvotes, 1 direct replies
We know these improvements are important, and this is a high priority for Reddit.
I’ll translate what you said from corporate drone speak to english: “We know we’re kicking blind users off the platform tomorrow but fuck ’em. Now can you please accept our token gesture so we can stop working on this?”
Comment by b2717 at 30/06/2023 at 19:27 UTC
188 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I know it's not your fault or your call, but this is an absolutely astonishing answer.
The cutoff for APIs is tomorrow. This arbitrary choice is unnecessary and has created so much uncertainty for all of us.
It's not fair to you to be the messenger, so thanks for that, but wow. This is bad.
Comment by [deleted] at 30/06/2023 at 21:35 UTC
76 upvotes, 2 direct replies
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Comment by livejamie at 30/06/2023 at 20:06 UTC
103 upvotes, 1 direct replies
A few weeks is the same amount of time reddit gave 3rd party app developers
Comment by adomo at 30/06/2023 at 19:41 UTC
54 upvotes, 0 direct replies
3rd party apps are going dead in the next 12 hours, the end of next month doesn't really help with the shitty experience of the official app
What an absolute clusterfuck of a product backlog ye must have if you can't get done basic experience features out the door after essentially barring any other experience of your platform
Comment by Zavodskoy at 30/06/2023 at 20:45 UTC
40 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I'd love to know your plan for informing disabled Redditors of these changes seeing as they're not going to be able to access Reddit from tomorrow
Comment by ItalianDragon at 30/06/2023 at 22:22 UTC
17 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I'm a translator so I'll translate your corpospeak:"Thanks for asking. We'll conveniently tell you we'll share an update in some distant future, falsely assure you that the issue you raised is extremely important to us, even though in reality we don't give a flying fuck about you and we'll promptly forget about it anyways because we don't care about landed gentry".
Comment by Mathias_Greyjoy at 30/06/2023 at 23:50 UTC
18 upvotes, 1 direct replies
We know these improvements are important, and this is a high priority for Reddit.
I know you're not solely at fault, and possibly not at fault at all (I don't know the history of most Admins), rather it is your out of touch, and greedy bosses who are at fault. But this is a pretty astonishing thing to say.
"We know these improvements are important"? Then why didn't you implement them years ago? or at least *before* you gutted third party apps? A "high priority for Reddit"? Then why will you be back in a few *weeks*? What is a few to you? 2? 6? 12?
Do the Admins not go through any kind of public speaking workshops? Does Reddit trust you to make statements on your own, or do PR people greenlight statements like this first? You have to understand how detached and out of touch this reads...
Comment by RandomPrecision1 at 01/07/2023 at 02:51 UTC
18 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Interesting, I asked for a few weeks to replace our existing mod apps and /u/ModCodeOfConduct insisted that we only needed a couple days. If Reddit thinks that third-party developers can implement these features in a shorter timeline feel free to reach out to discuss compensation!
Comment by Dragon_yum at 01/07/2023 at 00:31 UTC
15 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Holy shit you killed accessibility features for people who needed them and the best you can do is give an update in a few weeks, it even a hard date. This is beyond pathetic and bordering on cruel.
Sincerely reddit can go fuck itself.
Comment by CaptainPedge at 01/07/2023 at 03:50 UTC
11 upvotes, 0 direct replies
So no then. You have no update and users who need assistive technology are still screwed. Nice. Thanks for that
Comment by keddren at 01/07/2023 at 06:49 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
this is a high priority for Reddit.
This is, of course, a lie.
Comment by WaitForItTheMongols at 01/07/2023 at 02:31 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
How can you expect third-party apps to adjust to API pricing in a faster timeframe than you've managed to make changes of your own?
Comment by tobiasvl at 01/07/2023 at 13:07 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
this is a high priority for Reddit.
Ron Howard: "It wasn't"
Comment by [deleted] at 01/07/2023 at 14:12 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
You should quit
Comment by lowkeyterrible at 01/07/2023 at 14:26 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Why was accessibility not prioritised by Reddit *before* these changes that effectively removed most of the accessibility on the site were made? Accessibility isn't a new requirement, so why is it a new priority?
Comment by Thabass at 01/07/2023 at 16:55 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Few weeks? Trash.
Comment by FlopFaceFred at 03/07/2023 at 00:55 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Please delete your account, quit working on that garbage app and never comment on this site again.
Comment by thewindinthewillows at 05/07/2023 at 07:04 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Funny, when I do work that has a "high priority", it doesn't usually take me weeks just to get to the point where I can talk about what I'm doing.
This is bizarre.
Comment by Artillect at 05/07/2023 at 13:03 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I’ll be back in a few weeks
We know these improvements are important, and this is a high priority for Reddit
Doesn't sound that high priority to me