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View submission: An important update on post requirements
These are all great callouts, and we’ve definitely been more of the tortoise vs the hare when tackling these issues. The good news is we’re actively working on features that will highlight subreddit rules when a user goes to post on mobile.
Comment by MajorParadox at 21/04/2021 at 01:37 UTC
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since on the official app the rules are hidden behind the three dot/burger button thing.
Just wanted to point out it's even worse than that. You can only access the sidebar or community info if you load the main listing page. That means users coming into a post from a feed like r/all or r/popular will likely never find either because they are already past that point.
Also worth mentioning the "community info" on the apps and the "About" tab on mobile web is the old Reddit sidebar text that most new mods don't even know exists, let alone know they need to update.
+ u/MFA_Nay
Comment by ModeHopper at 21/04/2021 at 06:57 UTC*
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I find this statement quite ironic to be honest
tortoise vs the hare
The fact that Reddit went *full hare* on the redesign is exactly the problem. You released the fancy new UI without considering the impact it would have on communities, and now you're slowly releasing patches to fix the problem you created.
The redesign should have come years later, when the features were fully developed. Not released to attract a whole load of new users, whilst dumping moderators in a giant shit pyre of functionality mismatch between old and new Reddit. We still don't have custom CSS for the redesign despite the fact the button has been sitting there greyed out for a while now.
Reddit priorities are completely out of whack. This update for example actually adds 0 new functionality to the redesign, as all of these tasks can already be accomplished easily with automoderator. Meanwhile there's a litany of features that mods have been requesting for months/years that get ignored.
Comment by htmlcoderexe at 21/04/2021 at 18:01 UTC
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Also something to remind users that subreddits are categories and not communities (in lost cases at least) and that things that don't fit the rules but are funny or whatever should be downvoted and not upvoted, and maybe start ignoring votes from r/all like they're ignored from profile pages (in theory at least) because I have noticed a lot of mods just giving up under the flood of shit content new users post and upvote