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View submission: Announcing Consolidated Pinned Posts on Android
We understand the importance sticky posts play for hosting event threads within a community. Whenever you use a sticky post to host a new event the post will be expanded since it is a new or updated sticky post.
Down the road we’d like to potentially create some new features that will help highlight sticky posts such as “new” badges, notifications, or other mechanisms to draw users to the important information included within them. We think this opens up better possibilities to help distinguish when your stickied posts have new information that needs to be shared. We’d love to hear any ideas you have around this as well and I’ll make sure the greater team sees them.
Comment by Watchful1 at 03/10/2022 at 21:51 UTC
70 upvotes, 2 direct replies
So I'm curious, did you ask for feedback about this idea before doing it? That's the whole point of having the mod councils.
Comment by FinallyRage at 03/10/2022 at 21:39 UTC
40 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Even when it didn't collapse (or maybe it was and I wasn't paying attention) we got a LOT of complaints about missing the event. You can go to our sub and see people ask "What event?" when winners posted their prizes. This is just plain bad implementation for everyone, not just the mods complaining here
Comment by desdendelle at 03/10/2022 at 22:06 UTC
41 upvotes, 0 direct replies
We understand the importance sticky posts play
You, obviously, glaringly, massively don't.
I can understand wanting to increase measurable engagement or w/e/ but at least don't lie to us about it, alright?
Comment by telchii at 03/10/2022 at 21:51 UTC
31 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Down the road we’d like to potentially create some new features that will help highlight sticky posts
So addressing the issues this change emphasizes isn't even on the horizon?
Comment by Lord_TheJc at 03/10/2022 at 22:22 UTC
24 upvotes, 0 direct replies
We understand the importance
Your colleagues repeated these words so many times on so many topics that I’d be surprised if anyone still believed them.
Comment by ohvalox at 03/10/2022 at 21:57 UTC
22 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Even the expanded version is basically invisible.
What about old posts that still relevant? Or if a user hasn't visited a subreddit in a long time?
At least base it off of the time a user has spent looking at the post or something, and auto-expand if they close it without reading.
Comment by TheChrisD at 03/10/2022 at 22:37 UTC
17 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Down the road we’d like to potentially create some new features that will help highlight sticky posts such as “new” badges, notifications, or other mechanisms to draw users to the important information included within them.
Don't *"potentially"* do this, **ACTUALLY** do it!
And while you're at it, ensure stickies at the top of the posts list regardless of what sorting option people have set.
Comment by bwoah07_gp2 at 03/10/2022 at 22:43 UTC
17 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This is so infuriating to read...
Comment by WolfThawra at 04/10/2022 at 05:48 UTC
14 upvotes, 0 direct replies
We understand the importance sticky posts play for hosting event threads within a community
Clearly, you don't - or you just don't care.
There is absolutely no benefit we get from this, only downsides.
Comment by CaptainPedge at 03/10/2022 at 21:45 UTC
42 upvotes, 1 direct replies
We understand the importance sticky posts play
Clearly you don't
Comment by ReganDryke at 03/10/2022 at 23:17 UTC
13 upvotes, 0 direct replies
We understand the importance sticky posts play for hosting event threads within a community.
You don't even understand their purpose why are you even talking about their importance?
The whole purpose of the feature is to **BE VISIBLE.** And your improvement to that feature is to make it invisible. That is simply counter productive.
Clearly your data suggest that collapsing those posts augment engagement but I suggest you put a lot more thought into why a feature exist before effectively removing it.
Comment by Osiris32 at 04/10/2022 at 01:19 UTC
12 upvotes, 0 direct replies
We understand the importance sticky posts play for hosting event threads within a community.
No, I don't think you do. Or at the very least, I don't think you care. You just want more clicks and views for ad revenue.
This is why we don't like y'all very much.
Comment by CongressmanCoolRick at 04/10/2022 at 06:01 UTC
10 upvotes, 0 direct replies
You clearly do not understand the importance, or you do not care.
Comment by manyamile at 03/10/2022 at 21:38 UTC
32 upvotes, 2 direct replies
We understand the importance of sticky posts
You keep using those words. I don’t think you know what they mean.
Comment by Merari01 at 04/10/2022 at 10:41 UTC
10 upvotes, 0 direct replies
You very clearly do not understand.
I run contests, hosts AMA's and other events that will now get virtually no traffic.
You have taken my ability to have a community out of my communities.
Comment by FaviFake at 03/10/2022 at 21:41 UTC
28 upvotes, 0 direct replies
We’d love to hear any ideas you have around this and I’ll make sure the greater team sees them.
Here's my idea: ***revert this change.***
Comment by Teledildonic at 04/10/2022 at 13:30 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
We understand the importance sticky posts play
(X) doubt
Comment by CedarWolf at 04/10/2022 at 09:55 UTC
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
1-5 seconds: Display pinned post 1.
5-10 seconds: Display pinned post 2.
10-15 seconds: Display pinned post 3.
And so on. That way you get to save on screen space, and the mods get to have as many pinned posts as they need.
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Also, adding a 'Rules' tab for each subreddit would be great. A lot of subs already put the rules of a subreddit in their sidebar, but it would be nice to have them in a consistent, dedicated tab that could be found in the same place on each subreddit, regardless of whether people were using Old Reddit, New Reddit, desktop or mobile, or an app to view the sub.
We have a ton of ways to view reddit; let's start making some of the core functions of each subreddit *consistent*.
Comment by JustNoYesNoYes at 04/10/2022 at 11:09 UTC
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
We understand the importance sticky posts play for hosting event threads within a community.
So why are you making them ***less*** prominent before making them ***more*** prominent?
Down the road we’d like to potentially create some new features that will help highlight sticky posts such as “new” badges, notifications, or other mechanisms
Couldn't you have just realised that Plan A is in conflict with Plan B and just completely avoided Plan A (collapse pinned posts) entirely?
Or, even better, how about making the Mobile Pin feature actually work? I can't be the only Mod that has had to Re-Pin a sticky because Reddit just randomly decides to Un-Pin it because it was pinned using the App.
Comment by IdRatherBeLurking at 04/10/2022 at 18:57 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
You really, really don't seem to understand.
Comment by electric_ranger at 04/10/2022 at 13:09 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Could it be expanded when there's new activity like comments? For example, our sub runs four weekly threads that are each pinned for 48 hours before being replaced. Since these are discussion threads, they get hundreds of comments.
Allowing a post to stay visible while there's activity on it would resolve this issue for us.
Comment by Ozuge at 15/10/2022 at 14:42 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
See but like, when you say "extended" its still collapsed when compared to what it used to be. If the threads still looked the same, but only collapsed I doubt people would dislike this change as much.