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View submission: Announcing Consolidated Pinned Posts on Android
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.
Comment by [deleted] at 03/10/2022 at 23:39 UTC
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This is only the first iteration
Iteration? This shouldn't have ever made it onto your roadmap, it's terrible and makes our jobs harder while simultaneously harming user experience.
Listen to your mods for once, roll this back, it's bad, it's always gonna be bad, take the L and learn something from it.
Comment by ExcitingishUsername at 03/10/2022 at 21:57 UTC
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I added in an edit shortly after commenting, will any consideration be given to those points? We wouldn't need so much info in pinned posts if we could put it in the specific places where users *actually need it*; e.g., users who are just scrolling may never need to read the rules, but we want to give them directions when they actually get to the post or comment or reporting screens.
For literally half of my communities, the default instructions there are literally directing our users to post porn in SFW communities (since they can't post it in the correct place, and the message literally tells them to *"find a community that allows video posts"*), which also seems like a pretty significant problem. We use a pinned post to clarify that point and tell users what the correct way is to post such videos, and yet another one to clarify reporting instructions; **why can't we just put that info on the post and reporting screens?** Literally both our announcements are info that would be better placed elsewhere, but that we can't place there.
Comment by Assassiiinuss at 04/10/2022 at 01:45 UTC
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Mobile users generally tab in and out of apps all the time, those two visits can happen within 10 seconds.
Comment by Titus_Bird at 04/10/2022 at 03:39 UTC
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So does this mean the pinned posts would be collapsed even if the user visits the community twice without ever seeing the community's feed sorted by hot? If, for example, they twice visited posts within a community before they first visited the community's homepage/feed, would that mean the pinned posts would be collapsed the first time they visit the community's homepage?
Comment by Plagiatus at 04/10/2022 at 08:14 UTC
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we’re currently ideating on new ways we better notify users about the information included within sticky posts
...and your solution to this was to HIDE the sticky posts??
Comment by vanessabaxton at 04/10/2022 at 06:10 UTC
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Is there any good reason this option can be toggled on/off by each subreddit, why force this change to all subreddits?
Comment by CaptainPedge at 04/10/2022 at 13:36 UTC
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This is only the first iteration
So why have you rolled this pre-alpha feature out across the board with no consultation!?
Comment by 7hr0wn at 04/10/2022 at 16:49 UTC
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How about we finish tinkering with things *before* we deploy them?