Mobile community settings, appearance options and governance tools roadmap

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/fakcu6/mobile_community_settings_appearance_options_and/

created by 0perspective on 27/02/2020 at 22:37 UTC*

177 upvotes, 14 top-level comments (showing 14)

UPDATE/EDIT:

M1 is rolled out on iOS (3/24) and Android (4/13)
M2 is rolled out on iOS (6/15)

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Hey mods! u/0perspective back at it again with an update on our roadmap. For those of you who don’t know me, I’m a product manager on Reddit for our New Community Activation team, a team that focuses on the very beginnings of a community’s lifecycle. Note: there are other teams that focus on larger and later stages of communities, but we just focus on new or inactive communities.

As I mentioned in this post[1], we’re starting to build our mobile community settings, appearance options and governance tools roadmap for 2020. We want to share a little more about our process, prioritization and the roadmap.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/f7fmhk/mobile_moderation_upcoming_features_for_new/

To start this process, we documented the availability of over 150 different community settings, appearance options and governance tools across web and native apps. We classified each into 3 general buckets: setting, appearance or governance.

Once we had this comprehensive list, we started to prioritize the community settings, appearance options and governance tools that may be the most useful to the majority of new communities just starting out. That doesn't mean more advanced features for larger or more established communities won’t be created on mobile by another team or at a later date.

Here is what Community Activation has planned our milestone roadmap so far:

*Milestone 1: Community creation parity & post requirement validation**

**Timeline****: End of April\* ***UPDATE******: iOS Launched 3/24 and Android (4/13)***

Appearance * Community description (add/edit) * Community avatar & cropping (add/edit)
Setting * Community access type (edit) * NSFW (toggle) * Community topics

Note: Another team that works with larger subreddits will be working on support for Post Requirements submission validation on mobile.*

*Milestone 2**

**Timeline****: Beginning work in Q2\* ***UPDATE: iOS Launched 6/15***

Settings * Posts * Post type * Post Flair * Enable/disable post flair in this community * User Flair * Enable/disable user flair in this community * Discovery * Allow community posts in aggregate feeds like r/all, r/popular, etc. (toggle) * Allow community discovery like in recommendations and on boarding (toggle)
Resource Links * Mod Help Center * Mod Support * Mod Help * Moderator Guidelines * Contact Reddit
Catchall * Can’t find an option? Visit reddit.com on desktop

Note: Another team will be working on mobile support for Rules and Removal Reasons.*

*Milestone 3**

**Timeline****: Later half of the year\*

Appearance * Community color palette picker (NEW) * Custom background, text, highlight colors (edit) * Mobile banner (add/edit) * Community display name (add/edit)

Note: Others will be working on mobile Post Requirements setup and configuration.*

There are also plans for refreshing the ModTools page on mobile (along with ModQueues), adding support for Welcome Message configuration and Community Insights (aka traffic pages) later in the year. Don’t forget last week I also mentioned[2] we’re building some new things like Moderator Notifications and better Moderator invite support on mobile as well.

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/f7fmhk/mobile_moderation_upcoming_features_for_new/

We’re very excited to make these features available on mobile - hopefully these will make your lives a little easier, even if you’re not building a new community. Again, I want to reiterate, this is the roadmap for just one team (with some teasers from some other teams that are focusing on larger and later stages of communities). I’ll stick around for a bit to answer any questions and hear your feedback.

Currently listening to John William's Battle in the Snow,

u/0perspective

Comments

Comment by sonofherobrine at 28/02/2020 at 00:24 UTC

18 upvotes, 1 direct replies

I take it community wikis are not at all a priority? Or is that another group?

They seem a great way to accrete wisdom as discussions revisit the same topics again and again, but editing on mobile is nigh nonexistent.

Comment by ijm8710 at 27/02/2020 at 23:07 UTC*

10 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Hi perspective. As far as smaller community roadmap:

One thing that would really benefit helping to set up new communities is collaborative posts. Especially when setting up some sticky posts with other mods rather than having to communicate back and forth. Would this relate to the last bullet of your post last week?
Would be great to have direct link to the markdown wiki[1] on the help page rather than having to search for it. *Speaking of which, there’s a bug where Wikis seem to not interpret “|” as new columns and instead only show the symbol.*
Please see top of this comment[2] for some constructive feedback on

what you have already rolled out for new communities on mobile

1: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/markdown

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/f7fmhk/mobile_moderation_upcoming_features_for_new/fib0fo2/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

While I understand what you’re trying to accomplish, I would have loved for mobile modtools for existing communities to have been prioritized ahead of some of this stuff rather than later this year.

Most communities already exist and there’s a huge gap that still continues to be felt due to a lack of true mobile support and also the lack of parity between old and new reddit. Many big sports subs still refuse to adopt the redesign which leaves us regular users in a not-fun position to have to bounce back and forth between new and old reddit.

Are the admins still reaching out to the leaders of these communities to mend the gap and try to encourage everyone to more universally embrace the redesign?

Sounds like we’ll be hearing updates for modtool improvements/roadmaps in near future for mobile:

In the meantime, have you guys mapped skeleton references for the modtool functions not built out yet?
When modmail is refactored, would be great to have a red-badge on the modtool button to indicate when unread mail exists. Rather than getting alerts for every message. Also hope it improves upon how hard it is to navigate in the app especially with 2FA. Clicking on a user profile for a sender and you’re stuck in a web portal rather than it flowing through in the app.
Hoping modlog and automod support are also part of the 2020 modtool mobile roadmap as well as being able to upload emojis for community user flairs.

Thanks. #babyoda

Comment by Frenchfrise at 28/02/2020 at 20:01 UTC

4 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Sounds good, my main issue with having a subreddit is the lack of options on mobile

Comment by [deleted] at 28/02/2020 at 17:26 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

There seems to be some things that the app users just flat out aren't aware of sometimes, like the mod log, because they've never looked at things on desktop or even in their phone browser.

For that matter, when you're in the mobile browser view, there are things you don't have direct access to or wouldn't know existed unless you know the URL and type it in directly, or direct the browser to load the desktop version of the page.

Comment by American_Fascist713 at 01/03/2020 at 21:27 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Mods around Reddit are OUT OF CONTROL with the permanent bans! Totally unacceptable.

Comment by Xenc at 28/02/2020 at 16:39 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Thank you for the roadmap. It is great to know what is in store, and really changes the dynamic of communications. Mobile rise up! 🙌

Comment by [deleted] at 29/02/2020 at 06:05 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Can you fix mod mail? It just keeps crashing on my Samsung A50.

Comment by V2Blast at 01/03/2020 at 23:30 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Thanks for the detailed breakdown!

Comment by LDAP at 16/03/2020 at 12:11 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Will features like adding posts to events and collections be making to the Mobile client as part of the initiative?

Comment by SolariaHues at 04/07/2020 at 19:46 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Are there plans for the ability to lock comments in the app please?

Unless I'm missing something, I can't see a way to do this at the moment.

Comment by SolariaHues at 13/08/2020 at 23:18 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Is there any timeline for refreshing the mobile mod tools and modqueue as mentioned please?

I want to write another guide for r/modguide but IDK if I should wait a bit or go for it and edit later

Thanks :)

Comment by TotesMessenger at 27/02/2020 at 23:00 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

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Comment by IRS-Ban-Hammer-2 at 27/02/2020 at 23:54 UTC*

-28 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Hi. Will you be deleting everyone’s accounts for upvoting content in r/The_Donald per new policy announcements for saying things you don’t like this week, or next week? or will you just accuse them of some other rule they didn’t break and deleted the whole community?

Comment by FreeSpeechWarrior at 28/02/2020 at 03:27 UTC

-9 upvotes, 1 direct replies

This is great and all, but why doesn't the u/reddit-policy team ever open themselves up to feedback?