https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/vt002w/powering_down_powerups/
created by pl00h on 06/07/2022 at 20:41 UTC
257 upvotes, 30 top-level comments (showing 25)
Hi there mods!
We’re coming to you today with some bittersweet news about Powerups[1]. Getting right to it – the TLDR is that we’re un-gating some of the popular features bundled into Powerups, and deprecating the community subscription component of the product.
1: https://reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403386953108-What-are-Powerups-
After over a year of iterating this product in Beta[2], we’re making this call based on a few data points. We’ve gotten great feedback from mods and users alike, while monitoring beta participation, the number of communities unlocking benefits, and Premium usage of free Powerups.
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/iicyi1/testing_a_new_concept_with_select_subreddit/
We’ve come to the conclusion that a few Powerups features are popular and should be made widely available to our communities and users. We’ve also come to the conclusion that bundling these features into a subscription product is not scalable or a good fit for most of our communities. While custom emojis and gifs in comments have been quite popular, the large Powerups widget and 25 powerups threshold have mostly proven to be barriers to otherwise popular features.
3: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/vs5ne7/announcing_inline_gifs_in_comments_available_to/
4: https://www.reddit.com/r/fixthevideoplayer/
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/sphocx/test_post_please_ignore/
We hope this poses minimal disruption for communities and users, but understand this is disappointing for Powerups fans.
We deeply appreciate your willingness to try new things, work with us to improve our products, and share feedback to help us better deliver experiences that are SUPER[6]. In that spirit, we’ll be around for a little to chat about these updates.
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/v3frc1/what_were_working_on_this_year/
Comment by Thane_Mantis at 06/07/2022 at 22:47 UTC
159 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Good riddance to what was tantamount to a shitty clone of Discords server boosts. I sincerely hope you keep trimming more of this worthless bloat from reddit.
Comment by teanailpolish at 06/07/2022 at 20:51 UTC
32 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Mods of communities that have not previously enabled this feature will be able to request access from our team.
Does this include communities that didn't enable powerups or just ones who were powered up but didn't add emojis etc
Comment by [deleted] at 07/07/2022 at 04:44 UTC
62 upvotes, 1 direct replies
So...you just got a bunch of people to pay to beta test your feature?
Comment by Durinthal at 06/07/2022 at 21:20 UTC*
44 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Mildly interested in the custom emoji but with them not working at all on old reddit (example comment on old[1] and new[2]) and instead showing as a number which isn't screen reader friendly either it's just going to confuse a lot of users for us.
Ideally we'd love something like our comment face system[3] that works everywhere without needing CSS but custom emoji are a bit too limited there in both quantity and individual size.
3: https://old.reddit.com/r/anime/wiki/commentfaces
Comment by ryanmercer at 07/07/2022 at 11:06 UTC
16 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Gif in Comments:
RIP Reddit. Reddit - read it - not watcheditloopincessantly.
Comment by ThePantsThief at 07/07/2022 at 01:01 UTC
23 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Good riddance
Comment by TheChrisD at 06/07/2022 at 23:18 UTC
8 upvotes, 0 direct replies
**Custom Emojis**: These will continue to be available to Powerups communities in an ungated form. Mods of communities that have not previously enabled this feature will be able to request access from our team.
Will these still be as limited as they were in the Powerups program? We'd love to use our *numerous* custom flair emoji in posts and comments on r/INDYCAR; but ideally we'd want to be able to use the entire library instead of a limited selection...
Comment by [deleted] at 07/07/2022 at 05:39 UTC
7 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Gifs was a huge benefit from powerups, since it's free for all now, can we be expecting some other benefits from powerups anytime soon in the future?
Comment by kronikal64 at 07/07/2022 at 08:23 UTC
6 upvotes, 1 direct replies
so if i stop powering up the community i keep the trophy?
Comment by x647 at 06/07/2022 at 20:47 UTC*
34 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Well...it was fun.
Happy to have the sidebar list gone though.
Glad we get to keep GiC!
Comment by [deleted] at 06/07/2022 at 23:21 UTC
6 upvotes, 1 direct replies
u/pl00h what about Predictions? Is that next on the chopping block?
Comment by Xenc at 07/07/2022 at 00:13 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Thank you for the honest comms. This is a win for the global Reddit community in the long term.
Comment by BigTexan1492 at 09/07/2022 at 10:22 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I just paid for 4 power ups. Can you refund me?
Comment by garete at 06/07/2022 at 22:06 UTC
5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
It was definitely more enjoyable in /r/omori after it reached the unlock threshold and everyone could join in with custom emoji.
Can you enable them for /r/lifeisstrange2 & /r/lifeisstrange3 please? They had little chance of becoming powered up :(
Comment by OPINION_IS_UNPOPULAR at 06/07/2022 at 21:16 UTC
8 upvotes, 0 direct replies
What a fun (and at times, incredibly chaotic) experience.
Thanks Reddit for continuing to innovate and it's great to see these features being shared more widely across Reddit!
P.S. Increased custom emoji limits? :D
Comment by ReginaBrown3000 at 07/07/2022 at 00:34 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Are custom emojis only for post and user flair, or are they usable in posts and comments?
Comment by Anonim97 at 07/07/2022 at 17:54 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Gif in Comments: This feature has already been made available to any community that would like to use the feature. Mods can toggle this feature on from Mod Tools
Ugh. At least we can disable it.
To learn about Reddit’s work on the video player, visit r/fixthevideoplayer or check out our video player post on r/reddit.
How about you just scrap it all together especially since it's been a failure from the very beginning?
Comment by mmmmmmmmmmmmiss at 07/07/2022 at 01:21 UTC*
7 upvotes, 1 direct replies
**Powerups trophies/awards:** These will no longer be given out.
Noooooooo! I did so much testing on the powerups trophy for nothing! This is a sad day.
Comment by cahaseler at 07/07/2022 at 00:23 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Thank you.
Comment by [deleted] at 15/07/2022 at 18:03 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
When I get my free award again, I'll come back here.
Comment by xanaxarita at 20/07/2022 at 00:05 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I moderate one power up community, r/DelphiDocs and the custom emojis are quite popular.
May I now add an emoji option to r/FloraFour
Thank you!
Comment by j1ggy at 04/08/2022 at 03:42 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I've never allowed it in any of my subs, it ruins the very premise of what Reddit is.
Comment by SOwED at 07/07/2022 at 03:41 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Next, just power down the powermods!
Comment by Milo-the-great at 07/07/2022 at 06:00 UTC*
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Nooooooooooo
I wanted to get my community r/t:2000s[1] to 1,000 members, power it up, and get a power up trophy with a colon (extremely rare for a subreddit to have a semi colon) in it on my profile 😿
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/t:2000s/
Comment by F0REM4N at 07/07/2022 at 02:17 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I really like being able to reclaim the space in our sidebar, and I wonder if any thought has been given to adding the ability to remove the "Predictions" tab from subreddits that opted into hat program. At least when not in use. It just sits up there all year for something we run maybe twice a year.