https://www.reddit.com/r/toolbox/comments/1h94km4/is_toolbox_still_useful/
created by caesium23 on 07/12/2024 at 22:56 UTC
6 upvotes, 7 top-level comments (showing 7)
I apologize if this seems like an inappropriate question, but I didn't see it addressed in the FAQ. I saw Toolbox recommended during Mod world, but after looking over the Getting Started guide, it appears to me that most of the features (removal reasons, mod notes, etc.) of this extension are built into modern versions of Reddit (New and Sh), and have been for quite some time.
Is this extension still useful if you use modern Reddit?
Comment by jeshwesh at 07/12/2024 at 23:50 UTC
13 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It's incredibly usef if you still use old.reddit, which a lot of mods still use. Perhaps not as useful if one uses new reddit.
Comment by nearly_enough_wine at 07/12/2024 at 23:02 UTC
7 upvotes, 1 direct replies
It has limited use in new reddit (yay for a fractured ecosystem!) but is arguably indispensable for modding, which is why many mods force old.reddit in order to use it to its fullest extent.
Comment by r2girls at 08/12/2024 at 20:41 UTC
5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
It still offers more than new reddit does in terms of what it provides. Because of that I use old.reddit to moderate and have toolbox configured well for use.
to me, your statement of "it appears to me that most of the features (removal reasons, mod notes, etc.) of this extension are built into modern versions of Reddit" is the same as saying "new reddit is almost as good as old reddit for moderation". Almost is great in the game of horseshoes. However in real life if there is even 1 feature that I need that I can have configured and available at my fingertips to ease my job of moderation, why would I not use it? thus why would I use "almost as good new.reddit" to "better old.reddit with toolbox"?
Comment by Sephardson at 08/12/2024 at 03:06 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I had recommended Toolbox during the Automation panel on the feature of adding color to your AutoModerator configuration wiki page. That feature is unavailable on new.reddit, and wiki pages cannot be edited on sh.reddit yet.
Comment by FluidPride at 10/12/2024 at 04:01 UTC
4 upvotes, 1 direct replies
The new mod queue is horrible and makes what used to be easy tasks take longer, because things are both slower and it takes more clicks to get things done. Without the toolbox+old, the chore of moderating using the new mod queue is excruciating.
Also, for a while it worked really well with the intermediate queue in between old and the current dumpster fire. Now the useful intermediate queue is being removed so the options are either reverting to old or eating the serious downgrade of the new queue. It sucks.
Comment by adhesiveCheese at 08/12/2024 at 21:04 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Adding to what everyone else has said, it's also worth noting that the toolbox features reddit has integrated tend to be less customizable and less capable than the toolbox features. Like, I would *love* to move to mod notes from toolbox notes just for convenience sake, but between using custom note types that don't and can't map cleanly to the mod notes, and the ability to backdate a note programmatically, native mod-notes are an absolute nonstarter for our use case.
Comment by Kaffohrt at 08/12/2024 at 07:22 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It still provides you tools and functionalities which haven't been (properly) integrated into native Reddit. Reply-macros, 'remove as modteam' (iirc not yet in native), 'H' user history, 'P' profile overlook.
Toolboxes H and P buttons have become indisposable to me. The sheer amount of condensed information you can get about a user is astonishing and allows you to properly consider a users actions in the context of their general behavior.
But if you feel comfortable on new/shreddit and you don't mod too spicy communities old + toolbox might very well not be necessary for you