26 upvotes, 2 direct replies (showing 2)
View submission: Following up on Awards Abuse
Hide - Extend the current “Hide Award” feature which is currently available for moderators and the poster/commenter on desktop only, to our Android and iOS apps.
While I appreciate the action thus far, this is not enough. We need an API endpoint for this so that 3rd party apps and/or users of old reddit can hide flair also.
You're gonna have better numbers on this than me, but I think it's fair to say that the statistical likelihood of anyone who moderates a sufficiently large subreddit being on "new" reddit is lower than that of "all of reddit". Hilariously, on "old" reddit, I can't even see WHAT the awards are. There's no alt text or tooltip, even.
If you're not going to give us the ability to hide these on "old" reddit, please give us an API endpoint so that we can add functionality to browser extensions and/or use third party apps when we're on mobile.
For users like me, this is literally zero help at all. It's so cumbersome to have to bounce back and forth between old/new reddit, and I have liked the mobile app I use for years and am not going to change my entire reddit experience just for one mod feature.
I cannot fathom a reasonable business reason, nor "community" reason, why such an API endpoint should not be offered. I get not wanting to add anything to old reddit, even if I disagree with it, but you need this API endpoint for your official apps anyway. Why will you not open it up to others? If there IS a real business reason besides "trying to coax people to our official apps and new reddit", can you please share?
Comment by telchii at 26/05/2020 at 23:59 UTC
10 upvotes, 1 direct replies
If there IS a real business reason besides "trying to coax people to our official apps and new reddit", can you please share?
I'd bet that this is 100% the reason, unfortunately. They've probably invested a lot of time into the awards feature and monetizing new reddit, and the awards do get used on heavier-traffic subs. So they most likely don't want to risk having multiple large subs turn it off, cutting out income.
Comment by cahaseler at 27/05/2020 at 01:32 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Because as soon as an automatable endpoint opens up, mods of most major subreddits will begin automatically hiding all non s/g/p awards.