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View submission: Announcing Consolidated Pinned Posts on Android
Can it be made possible to configure this on a per-community basis? As well as clarify what is meant by collapsing them after "2 visits", and what constitutes "an update"; I assume the latter means an edit?
I could see this being *helpful* in a sense to drawing more attention to *new* announcements; but unless there is a way to configure it, perhaps even turn it off, a *whole lot* of communities will just resort to defeating it altogether by making pointless edits to pinned posts, or even repeatedly deleting and re-pinning them if editing doesn't un-collapse them.
This feature would be more useful to everyone if it were configurable. At the very least, we'd like to be able to configure how many visits or what length of time before these collapse, to ensure users don't pass important announcements by the first or second or third time.
If the advertisers consider it important to run the exact same product ad 80 times a day to ensure users see it, we should be able to do the same for our important announcements.
Also, why are post requirements still not shown to users? A lot of the reason we have such a fatiguing amount of pinned posts in the first place is that we can't present that information **where it is needed**, such as on the compose post screen, or on the reporting dialog, or when commenting. If we could present *action specific instructions* (these can collapse after a user does the action a time or two, if the message is still the same, if you're worried about "engagement"), it would eliminate the need for a lot of these pinned posts.
Comment by glowdirt at 04/10/2022 at 02:44 UTC*
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
If we could present action specific instructions ...., it would eliminate the need for a lot of these pinned posts.
YES YES YES! I wish the Admins could understand how AMAZING this feature would be if they deigned to implement it.
Comment by athleisures at 03/10/2022 at 21:50 UTC
-26 upvotes, 8 direct replies
A user needs to visit a subreddit, leave the subreddit, and revisit it in order to constitute a visit. By an “update,” we mean any time a new post is published or edited. This means any newly posted or edited pinned posts will not be collapsed.
“This feature would be more useful to everyone if it were configurable.”
This is only the first iteration (we’re currently ideating on new ways we better notify users about the information included within sticky posts), and this feedback is appreciated as we continue to tinker on things.