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View submission: Say ahoy to the Discover Tab!
Can I assume (I haven't been able to update my Android app just yet) that discoverability by older methods are still available? Like going to r/all or r/popular, getting suggestions of subreddits, etc.
edit: What I meant to ask is about something the product manager said in the interview:
“The corpus of content and communities on Reddit is pretty vast,” said Jason Costa, Reddit’s director of product for community and content. Costa described Reddit as traditionally having a heavy emphasis on text-based expression, yet Costa believes that there was an opportunity to showcase the rich multimedia content within communities as context.
Like, considering what Costa said, should subreddits that are mostly text-based worry about this feature? Would r/books, r/worldnews, etc. be featured in the Discover tab?
Comment by [deleted] at 24/02/2022 at 17:17 UTC
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Comment by singmethesong at 24/02/2022 at 16:36 UTC
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All existing discoverability methods will remain available. The only change is r/all will now be accessible in the new community drawer.
Text-based communities (and text posts) are not currently in Discover Tab. We have seen that across Reddit, images and video tend to see higher engagement. We aren’t moving away from text - we are making it easier for redditors to share in whatever format is better for them. But, definitely hear and appreciate your feedback, and we'll continue to explore what type of content is useful and interesting to people on Reddit and in the Discover Tab.