https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/18ibxm5/december_changelog_topics_in_header_live_chat/
created by thrivekindly on 14/12/2023 at 16:06 UTC
0 upvotes, 144 top-level comments (showing 25)
Happy Thursday, everyone!
I’m filling in for u/BrineOfTheTimes today, bringing you this month’s Changelog. Keep reading to learn about the latest changes on Reddit, including new ways to find new-to-you communities and the sunsetting of Live Chat posts.
Have you ever found yourself enjoying a specific community’s content and you wanted to find similar communities with similar topics?
We recently launched an experience where you can now more easily discover and explore communities within the same topic directly from a subreddit’s homepage on the Reddit mobile apps!
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Tap the community topic and ranking to explore similar communities on the Reddit mobile apps.
As shown in the image above, some communities will have a relevant topic and their ranking within that topic (determined by recent user activity volume in the community) displayed on the header of the homepage. By tapping on the topic and ranking, you’ll be directed to a list of communities within that same topic group to explore. In the future, we’ll also expand this to show more posts & content about that topic.
If you're a mod, you have the ability to adjust your discoverability settings based on your visibility preferences to not appear in these lists.
Find your new favorite community today!
In an effort to streamline our chat products on Reddit, we have sunset live chat posts[1] by disabling the live chat post setting for new and existing communities. There will be no changes to your *existing* live chat posts until early 2024. At that time, your existing live chat posts will be converted to standard posts with comments.
1: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/7912394843412-What-is-a-live-chat
Real-time conversations are an important part of the Reddit experience, and we’re continuing to invest in the upgraded chat channels[2] experience.
2: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/15484499643284-What-are-Chat-Channels-
If you're a mod, you can **request** the chat channels beta in your community by filling out this brief form[3].
3: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1h3Su8P43tGRqMLUHoScNirE08hXBpwpfWn07PElXQyI/edit
And that’s a wrap. Have questions about these updates? Share them the comments – we’ll be around for a while to reply. And if you’re missing Brine, worry not – they’ll be back after their holiday break!
Comment by skeddles at 14/12/2023 at 19:24 UTC
144 upvotes, 3 direct replies
great, so glad you're just deleting a feature no one wanted, that we all knew no one would use.
so glad you wasted all that dev time on something so pointless.
so glad the video player still barely works.
Comment by MajorParadox at 14/12/2023 at 17:55 UTC*
36 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Not a fan that the widgets and menu were hidden even further when it was already hard enough to find on mobile. Seems like the next step will be to remove them altogether 😟
Seeing the ranking is cool, but I'd rather have community-specific resource be more visible.
Comment by Hasman1 at 15/12/2023 at 09:04 UTC
31 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Fix your app you imbeciles
Comment by Certain-Landscape at 14/12/2023 at 19:34 UTC
28 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Live chat posts are not good. At least now Reddit can end the year knowing they made one change the user base will appreciate even if that change is just getting rid of something that shouldn’t have been added in the first place.
Comment by KG_Jedi at 19/12/2023 at 08:31 UTC
28 upvotes, 7 direct replies
Can you guys unfuck the desktop reddit UI? It used to be good, now it's some sort of garbage with the main feed getting cramped from the sides by shit i don't need 99% of time.
Comment by [deleted] at 14/12/2023 at 16:18 UTC
145 upvotes, 2 direct replies
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Comment by pattyboywales at 18/12/2023 at 21:31 UTC
21 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Wtf just happened to the Desktop UI, this is so awful
Comment by Nastypilot at 18/12/2023 at 23:23 UTC
20 upvotes, 6 direct replies
What the fuck happened to the desktop UI, this is an atrocity
Comment by JapanStar49 at 14/12/2023 at 17:32 UTC
33 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Live chats are gone? Never thought I'd see Reddit taking away New Reddit exclusive features.
Comment by Rhed0x at 14/12/2023 at 22:41 UTC
71 upvotes, 1 direct replies
FIX THE API PRICING
I DONT WANT TO USE YOUR GARBAGE APP
Comment by CurmudgeonLife at 19/12/2023 at 08:06 UTC
14 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This new layout is complete and utter garbage.
Half my page is now just blank wasted space.
Why do I need to navigate to a new page to check messages or notification? Wtf was wrong with a drop down.
Posts no longer scale up correctl. So fuck all of us who adjust window size?
Reddit showing as per usual; why theyre a joke.
Comment by PsionicBurst at 14/12/2023 at 20:39 UTC
49 upvotes, 1 direct replies
You killed third party apps, you phlegmatic vaudeville.
Comment by ivanoski-007 at 15/12/2023 at 05:17 UTC
29 upvotes, 1 direct replies
reddit is dead to me, can't use the official app, it absolute garbage. but noooooo, reddit prefers to waste dev time on some useless NFT shit. Fuck this site, 13+ years on this site and every year it gets progressively worse
Comment by McFluff_TheAltCat at 17/12/2023 at 00:22 UTC
10 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Why is desktop mode old Reddit disabled in mobile browsers now? I was just using it and always use it. Why was “view in desktop mode” removed or is hidden somewhere?
I do not want to use the new layout or any of the new features. They all sucks. Where’s the setting to change it back?!
Comment by SmokeSerpent at 18/12/2023 at 21:56 UTC*
10 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I don't see anything here about the "compact" desktop redesign, trying to turn this into X or Instagram pushing everything to the middle and increasing the size. My main feed shows me half as many posts pers screen now, and the whole thing feels ridiculously claustrophobic. Even reading an individual post and comments I have to scroll at least half again as much as an hour and a half ago. PUT IT BACK
Comment by Far-Way5908 at 15/12/2023 at 03:15 UTC
9 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I don't seem to be able to opt out of the redesign on mobile anymore?
Comment by lynrayy at 18/12/2023 at 20:59 UTC*
9 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Give me back my UI
What the fuck reddit made with web version?
Old (i want it) https://imgur.com/eLpjdmK[1][2]
New (i dont like it) https://imgur.com/9mdwe1m[3][4]
Reddit breaks ling doing lowercase, just copy and paste them in browser
Comment by [deleted] at 18/12/2023 at 21:12 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
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Comment by SmokeSerpent at 18/12/2023 at 22:05 UTC
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Oh also I see that you have yet again made it even HARDER to tell the difference between a post you've opened and one you haven't. You guys are really making great use of that API money sure are.
Comment by SmokeSerpent at 18/12/2023 at 22:16 UTC
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Oh this is also fun, you guys changed all my group feeds to "hot", even though my setting has always been "Default new" since that option became a thing. Do you just want to announce that you would like everyone who started using reddit before 2019 to politely leave?
Comment by aer0a at 18/12/2023 at 22:37 UTC
8 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Why are there no posts about how you redesigned the site again?
Comment by Osirus1156 at 19/12/2023 at 18:48 UTC
8 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The new web ui is completely broken. I cant even write comments in it. It takes forever to load and constantly makes Firefox think it's just frozen, why do comments take 30 seconds to fully load?
Comment by Sebbern at 18/12/2023 at 21:36 UTC
7 upvotes, 2 direct replies
What happened to the new.reddit UI? Why did you remove the classic layout when using classic and compact. This new UI is a disaster and is only forcing me to go back to old.reddit
Comment by squidsquidsquid at 19/12/2023 at 19:24 UTC
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The site redesign is AWFUL as well as being glitchy. Who asked for this? Who thought this was a good idea? Why does this site have to look like FB or Twitter or whatever other sites look like this? Did it ever occur to anyone that maybe the site NOT looking like every social media site is a FEATURE NOT A BUG??? This is terrible and so is old reddit now, glitchy and showing repeat posts in a row. Just give us the option of using the previous site design, which was FINE. GOOD. FUNCTIONAL.
Comment by [deleted] at 01/01/2024 at 20:04 UTC
8 upvotes, 0 direct replies
You know what, when I block an account it should stay blocked. That includes your shitty advertisers.
There’s a reason I’m not using any Meta products. Shit, there’s a reason on my profile I’ve told you not to show me sex & alcohol ads.
You don’t give one damn iota about the people that use this shitty platform. 🖕🏻
