https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/1c6fqwi/what_were_working_on_in_2024/
created by redditproductteam on 17/04/2024 at 17:26 UTC*
0 upvotes, 249 top-level comments (showing 25)
Here’s what we’re getting up to this year:
Hi, redditors, this is the Reddit Product Team and we’re here to share what we’re building to make Reddit the best place for communities and conversations. Here are some of the big things we’re working on.
We’re rolling out more sophisticated and AI-powered moderation tools to make mobile modding easier. Think superpowered Post Guidance on mobile, keyword highlighting to quickly find content that contains phrases captured by Automod, and saved responses so mods no longer need to leave the app to copy and paste when they need templated responses. Tools to help mods more efficiently manage influxes of community members and conversations are also on their way. More deets on this are posted here[1].
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1bvsapi/mobile_mod_tooling_update_automod_keyword/
Last, but not least, you’ll continue to see new safety tools[2] that expand on features we released in the past few months, like improved automated removal of undesired content, LLM-powered harassment filters, and user details reporting.
New harassment filter, which is highly-customizable to filter out what mods don’t want
Expanded user reporting capabilities
TBH, we’re really trying to amp up the number of times we can comment with FTFY this year. Here’s what’s on the way:
We want to bring you cohesive, intuitive, and speedy experiences across every single screen. And before you ask, we’re going to continue to support old Reddit, which many of you (and us) love! IYKYK. We’ve already incorporated some of the best elements of old.reddit into recent updates.
Compact view of our updated web experience with a collapsible navigation bar coming soon.
Cohesive experience across web surfaces
We also want everyone to be able to make Reddit their own, regardless of where they live or the language(s) they speak. We’re making communities and conversations more accessible across more languages, meaning people can engage with content in their own language, no matter what language that subreddit is originally created in.
Localized content in a user’s preferred language
In terms of improving accessibility, so far this year we’ve introduced closed captioning on videos and font resizing on our native mobile apps. There’s much more on the way, and our goal is to be compliant with the World Wide Web Consortium’s accessibility guidelines (WCAG 2.1) by the end of 2024.
We said goodbye to a few products and features in 2023, some of which we may have parted with too early – specifically Awards. We messed up; we lost some of the whimsy and Reddit-y-ness that Awards brought to the platform. This year we’re working to bring back Awards in a way that combines the fun and expression they originally offered, combined with real money value to redditors participating in the Contributor Program.
AMAs - you know them, you love them, sometimes you didn’t even get the chance to ask Keanu your question because wait, that was today? I thought I set a !remindme…
This year we’re revamping and modernizing the entire AMA experience - from hosting, to the questions, and yes, even event reminders. More to come this AMAy (see what we did there?)
New AMA scheduler and event reminder, coming soon
We’re ramping up our Developer Platform to bring new ways for the community to co-create elements that make Reddit more engaging and fun. While admins are building new tools for the platform all the time, we want to give community developers the same opportunity - because, at the end of the day, it’s redditors who know the best and most exciting ways to move the platform forward.
Already this year we’ve seen new, developer-built apps on Reddit, like the Super Bowl (Taylor's Version) - San Francisco 49ers vs. Kansas City Chiefs custom scoreboard[3] in r/taylorswift, and a new module highlighting what’s trending in r/wallstreetbets[4].
4: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/
Watch this space. You’ll see more live score formats for sports, interactive games, and new post types in the coming months.
These are just a few highlights of what’s coming in 2024. We know we need to build what *you want*, so if you’re interested in providing feedback on Reddit products, you can join our User Feedback Collective[5].
A few of us are sticking around to answer any questions you may have, so fire away!
Comment by jmxd at 17/04/2024 at 20:27 UTC
300 upvotes, 9 direct replies
We said goodbye to a few products and features in 2023, some of which we may have parted with too early – specifically Awards. We messed up; we lost some of the whimsy and Reddit-y-ness that Awards brought to the platform.
Lmao, i'm sure that's the reason and not that the new golden upvotes are a colossal failure resulting in way less revenue
Comment by Benskien at 18/04/2024 at 00:13 UTC
95 upvotes, 2 direct replies
reposting my question i posted to the recent security post;
i keep reporting these accounts and i often see mods at larger subs remove their content within a short time, and often their botted account gets suspended within a day or so
have you guys at reddit detected an increase in such bot behavior/increase in suspended botted accounts, *and are there any plans to deal with em on a larger level*?
Comment by [deleted] at 17/04/2024 at 20:10 UTC
159 upvotes, 13 direct replies
Are you guys working on fixing the trash UI for mobile browser users? This is the most unusable website I frequent to the point I don't even check reddit because it is so slow and most the time it has "server errors".
Comment by fighterace00 at 17/04/2024 at 19:00 UTC
91 upvotes, 2 direct replies
More customization yet we've been force opted in to new new Reddit and I've lost a lot of sub customization that was new Reddit native like custom vote buttons. Is the new new Reddit incomplete or are we just losing customization?
Comment by ashamed-of-yourself at 17/04/2024 at 17:42 UTC
128 upvotes, 4 direct replies
‘new ways to search’
please be way more specific
Comment by Marconius at 18/04/2024 at 06:57 UTC
41 upvotes, 1 direct replies
As a blind user, it's important for me to point out that WCAG 2.1 is the barest minimum you can do for accessibility, especially in terms of native mobile apps. You should aim for that as a foundational baseline of minimum compliance and work on making the app and experience much more usable based on the design guidelines from Apple and Google. The native reddit app is not a website, so don't design it like one and don't expect accessible web patterns to map to the native experience. WCAG will work for some things, but not all the criteria will map to native apps, and you'll have to focus on and be actually aware of how those of us with assistive tech actually experience what you build.
Comment by teovall at 18/04/2024 at 00:41 UTC
108 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Enabling developers to bring new experiences to Reddit
Any developer would be a fool to build anything on or for your platform after what you did last summer to Apollo and other third party apps.
Comment by Indurum at 18/04/2024 at 00:39 UTC
36 upvotes, 4 direct replies
Why does "best" show me posts made 3 minutes ago with zero comments or upvotes?
Comment by xXSilverMasterXx at 17/04/2024 at 17:51 UTC
280 upvotes, 7 direct replies
Hey a good thing you realized that removing awards was a mistake. Now can you please do the same with third party app devs and their apps?
Comment by mashed-potatoes12 at 18/04/2024 at 00:48 UTC
138 upvotes, 7 direct replies
🥱 Bring back third-party apps. Fix the ridiculous API pricing. It would be welcomed more than all of these "updates" put together.
Comment by Mlakuss at 17/04/2024 at 17:43 UTC
83 upvotes, 2 direct replies
So you killed event posts... To put them back?
Comment by fatpat at 18/04/2024 at 01:13 UTC
24 upvotes, 1 direct replies
You had me at ���support old reddit.”
Comment by ExplainLikeImaPotato at 18/04/2024 at 02:38 UTC
21 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Since reddit became a public company, a bunch of teams who have been pushing unhelpful ideas for years really start to sweat a lot. The sudden appearance of various “improvements” and initiatives all over the platform comes from a bunch of parasites who try to justify their paycheques. Their fear is that the day the board and the investors take a hard look at productivity figures and KPIs, they will be shown the door.
Comment by [deleted] at 18/04/2024 at 02:44 UTC*
21 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Improving the user experience.
Yea, that's a lie. Every update makes the experience harder and harder.
Take the most recent update for example.
Scrolling in popular, that I got to because swiping takes you there and it is prioritized over swiping through the gallery I was looking at (after all got nuked), and now if I want to save a post I have to click on it and go to the comments because...... Reasons or something.....before I could just save it, now I can't for no reason other than greed most likely.
The best part? It still works for the ads.
Every update pushes me closer to leaving this website because every update has some sort of change that makes the experience worse and none that makes it better.
Comment by HumpingMantis at 17/04/2024 at 22:16 UTC
85 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Enabling developers to bring new experiences to Reddit.
We don't want new experiences. We want what we already had that you took away. You greedy fucks.
Comment by Rhed0x at 17/04/2024 at 20:48 UTC
115 upvotes, 2 direct replies
FIX THE API PRICING
THE OFFICIAL APP IS GARBAGE
Comment by HaydenB at 18/04/2024 at 11:58 UTC
17 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I'm happy with old reddit thanks... So I'll be staying here.
Comment by reaper527 at 17/04/2024 at 20:37 UTC
35 upvotes, 2 direct replies
so as usual, focusing on the stuff nobody cares about and things that will probably actively make the reddit experience worse?
hell, even just letting us override crowd control and let the "show all comments" option in our user settings actually show all comments would be a much more useful than anything in that post. as it turns out, if a user sets their profile to show all comments, they do in fact not want to have anything auto-collapsed.
that doesn't even touch on how awful and poorly designed the "block" feature is. rolling that back to how it was 4 or 5 years ago would be a huge improvement before you guys felt the need to break what wasn't broken yet.
instead we get a "harassment" filter that will probably have tons of false positives and reporting stuff we can't see the results of.
Comment by SmallRoot at 17/04/2024 at 17:55 UTC
42 upvotes, 1 direct replies
The moderation tools are actually getting more difficult now. Shreddit doesn't seem to understand how browser tabs work and instead opts to make unnecessary popup windows.
Comment by dwitchagi at 18/04/2024 at 15:05 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Removing third party apps and consistently making the Reddit app worse. Great plan!
Comment by FairlyInconsistentRa at 17/04/2024 at 21:13 UTC*
29 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Your latest mobile UX design is terrible. Swiping images on a post now takes you to the next post instead of stopping on the last image of the original post. You can now no longer fully view text captions on images - opening the post the images are minimised and viewing them fully still doesn’t allow you to read the captions. Weirdly, opening a thread now brings up an X button at the top (seriously what was wrong with the back arrow?). On the feed clicking an image or video would bring it full screen, swiping down would close it and you’d be back on your home feed - now swiping down opens the post’s comments (what?).
So many terrible “improvements” in one update. Well done.
Edit. Just an edit to say that trying to open a link using the internal browser no longer works. It stalls. A refresh doesn’t fix it. Seriously who approved this release!
Comment by Tactical-Kitten-117 at 17/04/2024 at 20:49 UTC
10 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Just a note on awards, I hope whatever new system in place allows gifting premium, because I believe that made a lot of sense (perhaps more so than paying users real money)
Take r/NewToReddit for example, often at the end of the year, any user who regularly provided outstanding help to Reddit users would get an award. With premium perks like ad-free browsing, that enables the recipient to continue helping other users. You provide excellent contributions on Reddit, and get awarded not by money, but by the ability to more effectively continue to contribute. It's a nice cycle, I find.
Also, I assume that receiving real money is not an option for users without a bank account, i.e Reddit users that are not adults, and that's in addition to how the current gold was limited to paying USA citizens, at least for a time. I'm sure there's plenty of users without their own bank accounts that deserve the same recognition. Feels a lot more fair that way to at least have the option of gifting premium since that's a gift all Reddit users can use and benefit from, not just adults in certain regions of the world.
I'm sure that might "discourage" people from buying premium themselves if it were gifted, but I believe that anything that'd encourage a user to continue contributing positively to Reddit is something to be sought after, because content also brings in money for Reddit.
Comment by 4x4is16Legs at 18/04/2024 at 07:02 UTC
10 upvotes, 2 direct replies
When I click on a link in old.Reddit it takes me to a very bad version of new Reddit where videos etc are the size of a thumbnail.
Can you just keep old.Reddit users in old.Reddit?
Comment by SLJ7 at 18/04/2024 at 12:30 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
FYI for blind people, the new new Reddit is pretty bad. It's constantly popping open user profiles and sub info for reasons unknown to me, and I can no longer see which level a comment is at in a thread—for instance, I can't tell if a comment is top-level or if its a reply to a reply to a reply, because I just don't have access to that indent information. The j and k keys also don't seem to work for moving between comments the way they did on the previous new Reddit. You guys are doing a really good job demonstrating that you're not equipped to take on the task of making accessible products the way your third-party developers were doing for you. You are now forcing those developers to do their work for free, by not allowing them to make any money from their apps. Apollo was so close to being accessible and I was even in talks with the developer to help him improve the accessibility, and then you just wrecking-balled the shit out of it. I'm really happy about the work being done in the iOS Reddit app, but there are still huge sections that are unusable, like chat. Basically,, what I'm saying is that you have totally left blind users behind, again and again, and it's great that you *want* to make everything accessible but you've just rolled out a far less accessible website and don't seem to be aware you've done so,. You are fully aware that there's a reason all the top comments here are complaints, right? Reddit didn't used to be like this. Look at my account., I was here.
Comment by Halaku at 17/04/2024 at 18:34 UTC
68 upvotes, 2 direct replies
And before you ask, we’re going to continue to support old Reddit, which many of you (and us) love! IYKYK.
We said goodbye to a few products and features in 2023, some of which we may have parted with too early – specifically Awards. We messed up; we lost some of the whimsy and Reddit-y-ness that Awards brought to the platform. This year we’re working to bring back Awards in a way that combines the fun and expression they originally offered, combined with real money value to redditors participating in the Contributor Program.
As a r/Lounge mod, I'm very pleased to hear this.
When will you be able to tell us more?
