Say goodbye to new.reddit on Dec 11, 2024

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1h7hcun/say_goodbye_to_newreddit_on_dec_11_2024/

created by lift_ticket83 on 05/12/2024 at 19:22 UTC

180 upvotes, 233 top-level comments (showing 25)

Hello, mods!

Big news: December 11, 2024, marks the official end of the road for the new.reddit desktop experience for mods. Over the course of next week, new.reddit moderation pages will redirect to the latest desktop experience. As previously mentioned, there will be no changes to old.reddit.

This transition caps off over a year of work[1] to create a faster, more reliable, and feature-rich moderation experience. Along the way, we’ve collaborated with many of you to refine these tools and ensure they meet the needs of your communities. Your insights have shaped this journey, and we’re incredibly grateful for your contributions.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1bv2r05/announcing_the_desktop_beta_launch_of_reddits_new/

• *Why the latest desktop experience is worth your time**

The latest mod tools offer several advantages that weren’t previously possible on new.reddit:

• **Streamlined Workflow:** Redesigned pages reduce clicks and bring more context directly into the mod queue, helping you make faster, better decisions.
• **Customizable Insights:** Enhanced moderation logs and user stats provide deeper visibility into your community’s health.
• **Performance Boost:** Faster load times and fewer glitches mean you can spend more time moderating and less time troubleshooting.
• **Improved Accessibility:** We’ve made the interface more intuitive and accessible to meet the needs of all mods.

• *What’s next**

While this transition marks a significant step forward, we know there’s more to do. Throughout 2025, we’ll continue improving tools and introducing new features to help you moderate more efficiently and collaboratively.

Here’s a glimpse at some of the items on our roadmap for early 2025:

• **Boosting Efficiency:** * Features like “Hot Posts” will prioritize addressing high-visibility issues by highlighting posts that are experiencing significant traffic and engagement. * Additional mod queue filters by report reason or flair to let you focus on what matters most.
• **Enhancing Collaboration:** * New tools to request second opinions, tag teammates, and resolve issues collaboratively, including a content-level discussion feature. * Improvements to Modmail and mod notes to streamline communication.
• **Actionable Insights:** * Robust data tools to give mods a clearer picture of their community and actionable steps for improvement.
• **Quality of Life Updates:** * Fixing bugs, ensuring parity across platforms, and refining previously launched tools to make moderating easier.

• *What’s changing**

As part of this update:

• new.reddit pages will no longer be accessible after December 11, 2024.
• All mod pages will redirect to the latest desktop experience, except for mods accessing old.reddit directly.
• **Streamlined Features and Updates:** To enhance workflow and organization, we’re consolidating, moving, or redesigning several pages. Key updates include: * **Traffic Stats:** The old traffic stats page will be retired. Moving forward all traffic data will be accessible through the Mod Insights page. * **Wiki Refresh:** While the wiki isn’t moving, it will be getting a visual refresh. Expect a cleaner, updated design to make navigation and editing more intuitive. * **Removal Reasons**: This page has been rebranded as Saved Responses, with expanded functionality for modmail and general saved replies. * **Notifications:** The old notifications page has been moved into “General Settings” * **User Flair, Emojis, and Post Flair:** These tools are now grouped under “Look and Feel,” centralizing customization options.

• *Content Controls:** The content controls page has been merged into the Posts & Comments settings page, streamlining moderation workflows.

This transition has been a team effort, and we couldn’t have done it without your feedback, calls, and patience. We’re excited to keep building with you and look forward to rolling out even better tools in 2025. In the meantime, we encourage you to explore the latest desktop experience if you haven’t already done so. As always, your feedback is critical to our progress—let us know what’s working, what’s not, and where you think we should focus next.

Comments

Comment by lift_ticket83 at 10/12/2024 at 15:07 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Hello again, and thank you to everyone who shared their feedback in the comments! As we mentioned in the post, we’re committed to fine-tuning and expanding the new mod platform throughout next year. Based on the input we’ve received over the weekend, here’s what you can expect in the near future:

• **Removal Reasons on Deleted Posts:** The issue preventing mods from applying removal reasons to comments on deleted posts has been resolved.
• **Flairs:** We’re working on two fronts: displaying mod flairs in the community mod list and enabling post flair text editing, allowing mods to customize flair templates when applying them.
• **Buggy Scheduled Posts:** We’re investigating the reported issues with scheduled posts and aim to roll out a fix soon.
• **Non-Collapsible Left Sidebar:** A collapsible left sidebar is in playtesting, and if all goes well, it’ll be live before year-end.
• **Mobile Banner Inconsistencies:** We’re tackling this complex issue, but the fix likely won’t arrive until later this month.
• **Toolbox Functionality:** Features like Saved Responses and User Profile History have been natively integrated, with full Toolbox integration still in progress.

Beyond these fixes, we’re focused on improving the platform’s speed and stability while advancing the 2025 roadmap we shared. We’ll return in the new year with another update on our progress and a deeper look at what’s ahead for 2025.

Comment by Halaku at 05/12/2024 at 19:27 UTC

876 upvotes, 17 direct replies

As previously mentioned, there will be no changes to old.reddit.

Thank you.

Comment by iKR8 at 05/12/2024 at 19:42 UTC

148 upvotes, 5 direct replies

Toolbox isn't even integrated with sh.reddit, how are mods supposed to use toolbox?

Looks like using old.reddit is the only way.

Comment by thatotherchicka at 05/12/2024 at 19:51 UTC

112 upvotes, 7 direct replies

This makes me sad. Scheduling posts is less user friendly on the updated Reddit interface. Additionally pictures don't carry into posts the way they should. :(

Comment by rachman77 at 05/12/2024 at 19:42 UTC

295 upvotes, 6 direct replies

That fact that you think your new UI is ready for this shows how little you're actually paying attention.

It's not faster, it's not more reliable, it extremely cumbersome to navigate, and some of the features are just nonsensical.

Comment by DeepNavyBlue at 05/12/2024 at 19:43 UTC

55 upvotes, 3 direct replies

They fixed the banners for mobiles?

We only can do that in https://new.reddit.com/r/yoursubreddit/?styling=true

Comment by shhhhh_h at 05/12/2024 at 19:57 UTC

56 upvotes, 2 direct replies

This makes me sad because new new Reddit is NOT optimised for all screens. It’s total shit for modding on my 2020 MacBook Air. I can barely see anything bc it’s crunched between the user history widget in the right and the sidebar on the left, the mod buttons disappear, I’m constantly moving the window off screen and widening it and just moving it back and forth to see things, widget itself is all scrunched up, too. That’s when I get annoyed and go back to new Reddit. That’s only one example of content not fitting on my screen.

Comment by MockDeath at 05/12/2024 at 21:01 UTC

58 upvotes, 1 direct replies

I would say you are mistaken that it is ready. But I suspect you will ignore every moderator who is telling you that..

Comment by anoff at 05/12/2024 at 19:38 UTC

98 upvotes, 1 direct replies

tired: new.reddit.com

wired: old.reddit.com

🤷‍♂️

Comment by SampleOfNone at 05/12/2024 at 19:45 UTC

29 upvotes, 3 direct replies

u/lift_ticket83, I'm a bit afraid to ask, but will this bug https://new.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/1h0fer8/impossible_to_add_removal_reason_to_comment_on/[1] be squashed by the 11th?

1: https://new.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/1h0fer8/impossible_to_add_removal_reason_to_comment_on/

I'm also still seeing inaccessible buttons on iPad in longer threads so I can't always take the actions I need to take

Comment by nommabelle at 05/12/2024 at 20:15 UTC

26 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Shreddit doesn't even fully support things, there are several features i have to go to new or old for.

Comment by TehNolz at 05/12/2024 at 20:30 UTC

30 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Yeah, no. I'll be switching to old reddit, not that awful new UI. That thing feels like you guys looked at all the UIs you've done so far and decided to combine all the worst features in an attempt to create the least usable site imaginable.

Comment by provoko at 05/12/2024 at 19:40 UTC

71 upvotes, 0 direct replies

I **hate** new reddit and only use new.reddit to make changes for users on the newest reddit, so this is an unfortunate change. Perhaps make the newest reddit actually functional rather than a jumped mess of network cables (all of those things you mentioned are a complete exaggeration).

Even updating the newest reddit is several steps compared to old.reddit:

1. click on mod tools

2. ctrl+f and search for "Look"

3. click on look and feel

4. click on community appearance

5. click on item to change in left column (save this step as you will come back to it over and over again)

6. click deep into the item to make desired change to community

vs old.reddit:

1. click subreddit settings, done, no other steps

Comment by namer98 at 05/12/2024 at 19:33 UTC

61 upvotes, 7 direct replies

Can I get rid of the massive left sidebar yet?

Comment by ChimpyChompies at 05/12/2024 at 19:59 UTC*

20 upvotes, 0 direct replies

A little surprising as sh.reddit still has issues. The communities list does not fully populate, mine stops at R. Another is the view all moderators button leading to a page not found, are just two examples.

Comment by Dragonstar914 at 05/12/2024 at 20:14 UTC

19 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Now if only the desktop left sidebar on the present build was collapsible like new.reddit has. I consider the present build a downgrade from this alone.

Comment by TheChrisD at 05/12/2024 at 21:09 UTC

18 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Can you consider fixing the significant problem of sh Reddit not respecting user's default community and comment feed settings ***before*** getting rid of new reddit? Some of us explicitly forced new reddit to keep that behaviour.

Comment by Watchful1 at 05/12/2024 at 19:37 UTC

18 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Just to clarify, is this removing new.reddit moderation pages or all new.reddit views across the whole site?

Comment by StOoPiD_U at 05/12/2024 at 20:04 UTC

18 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Please never take old.reddit

Comment by bwoah07_gp2 at 05/12/2024 at 20:01 UTC

64 upvotes, 6 direct replies

No, you can't do that to us. I use new.reddit to schedule posts and create user flairs, **BECAUSE IT DOESN'T WORK ON YOUR NEW UI**.

Discarding new.reddit like this is a middle finger to the moderators. I am disgusted at this decision.

Comment by tumultuousness at 05/12/2024 at 19:35 UTC

15 upvotes, 1 direct replies

All mod pages will redirect to the latest desktop experience, except for mods accessing old.reddit directly.

As in if I'm opted in to old reddit in my preferences and still on www.reddit, I will still get the old reddit mod pages? Or do you mean I have to be on old.reddit specifically?

I wish there had been more effort to make it so the urls of pages were more consistent between the versions like they had been for new reddit - I basically have to start at sh.reddit on my sub's home page to then be able to get to any of the settings, because if I start on www.reddit on old design and just put in sh. it's 50/50 if I get to the right page or get a "doesn't exist" splash screen. :/

Comment by slouchingtoepiphany at 05/12/2024 at 20:21 UTC

16 upvotes, 0 direct replies

**Quality of Life Updates:**

Surely you jest!

Comment by Kahzgul at 05/12/2024 at 23:30 UTC

16 upvotes, 0 direct replies

It's been fun reddit. I'm probably done though. sh.reddit.com[1] is terrible for long text posts. Having to click a button at the bottom and then scroll to the very top to reformat anything is just painful.

1: http://sh.reddit.com

To say nothing of the wasted real estate in the interface, the vanishing comments when users get banned or blocked, occasional text edits that just remove everything except the edited text... I'm very unhappy about this.

Comment by alleybetwixt at 05/12/2024 at 20:27 UTC*

14 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Might come back to this with more edits later:

• The ‘Approved by moderator username/icon’ is huge and awkward on shreddit. All we need is a green check mark or *maybe* our usernames.

• Some of our users who have updated our wiki pages for years see no ‘Edit’ button or get notified that it’s moderator-only on shreddit, but can still easily edit like always on Old and New. Don’t know if this is a bug or intentional, but it’s a problem.

• The mobile banner still can’t be set on shreddit.

• The ‘disable inbox replies’ checkbox doesn’t exist when scheduling (if I’m missing this and someone knows where it is, holler at me).

• Tables need significantly more visible structure.

Comment by MuskratAtWork at 05/12/2024 at 21:09 UTC

14 upvotes, 1 direct replies

This change seems to come with the removal of usernames on the feed/home page? I no longer see a single poster's username. Come on..