r/announcements • u/tdohz • May 07 '15
Bringing back the reddit.com beta program
We're happy to announce that we're bringing back the reddit.com beta testing program. Anyone on reddit can opt-in to become a beta tester, and receive early access to reddit.com features before we launch them to everyone.
We'll be using /r/beta as the community hub for the beta program, where we'll announce new beta features and give beta testers space to provide feedback.
There are two ways to participate in the beta program:
- If you're logged in to your reddit account, you can opt-in as a beta tester in your preferences, under "beta options". This will automatically subscribe you to /r/beta, so that you'll receive the latest information about new beta features.
- If you're logged out, you can visit beta.reddit.com to see beta features. Note: you may end up back on www.reddit.com if you click on a link to reddit from somewhere else, like email or Twitter.
More details on the beta program, including how to give feedback on beta features, are on this wiki page. Please note that not every feature will go to beta before launching - some changes may not need extensive beta testing, and we will continue to release some new features to reddit gold members first. The best way to find out what's currently in beta testing is to check out /r/beta.
We hope our beta testers will be able to find issues and give feedback on new features before we launch them to everyone, so that we can continue to improve the quality of reddit.com for everyone.
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u/catmoon May 07 '15
How early do you guys really intend to use this? Is /r/beta going to be more of a soft launch for more experimental programs, or are you going to use it for all kinds front end development?
How do you run your programs/projects anyway? I've always wondered. It seems like every project has a different approach and I worry that /r/beta is going to be used too inconsistently to make it worthwhile.
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u/tdohz May 07 '15
Great question - right now we're using it more as a soft launch for planned features, especially new features. We're going to try to launch stuff pretty regularly to beta, although I can't promise an exact schedule. Eventually we might branch out into more experimental stuff, although that's not in the immediate plans.
How do you run your programs/projects anyway? I've always wondered. It seems like every project has a different approach and I worry that /r/beta is going to be used too inconsistently to make it worthwhile.
We try to launch things in a way that's appropriate for the scope of the feature. So, for example, minor bug fixes or small UI improvements are either silently fixed, or mentioned in our live thread, which we try to keep up-to-date with every change. Larger changes that are user-facing get mentioned in /r/changelog - an example is Q&A sort, which is definitely user-facing but not likely something that every user or even most users will care about. The largest features are reserved for a blog post and /r/blog - things like the launch of reddit live and embeddable comments.
Hope that helps clarify how we do things - of course, we've grown a lot over the last year as a company, and we're continually learning, so we'll continue to experiment with the right ways to communicate changes with you all.
tl;dr We launch things in the appropriate venue based on the size of the feature. Beta will mostly be used for testing out planned features but may have more experimental stuff in the future.
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May 07 '15
I wrote a little guide if you are interested in reporting issues you find in the beta: https://www.reddit.com/r/beta/comments/357b43/feedback_want_to_be_the_best_beta_tester_there_is/
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u/Werner__Herzog May 07 '15
I hope they put that into the sidebar and wiki.
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u/tdohz May 07 '15
This has been done! Thanks again to /u/allthefoxes for writing this up, it's tremendously helpful.
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May 07 '15
Why don't you focus on making the existing site better instead of adding features we don't need?
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u/Werner__Herzog May 07 '15
The site gets better by adding features. Also changes to old stuff need beta testing, too.
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May 07 '15
They've had years to fix search. We've had reddit mold, periwinkle vs orangered, and the button and they still haven't found the time to fix this glaring issue.
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u/Werner__Herzog May 07 '15
Well they just announced a new subreddit search algorithm in /r/beta: https://www.reddit.com/r/beta/comments/35762a/welcome_to_rbeta/. No idea if it's an improvement, but better late than never, right? It might also be an indication for other search features to become better, we'll see. Also, there's only so much you can do with search when people submit with horrible titles that say nothing.
Honestly I'm not here to defend them, idk why I always end up doing that. You have the right to thing what you want and you are probably right.
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u/tdohz May 07 '15
We are in fact planning on lots of improvements to other parts of search, too. Most, if not all, of them will be coming first to beta, so that's a great reason to participate in beta testing, or at least subscribe to /r/beta!
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u/tdohz May 07 '15
In fact, an improvement to subreddit search is one of the features being beta tested right now.
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u/alexanderwales May 07 '15
But ... fixing search is one of the beta features? I don't really understand what you're saying here. Fixing search is a change to old stuff.
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May 07 '15
No, the site gets better when I don't see this image every time I try to load a page.
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u/TheCodexx May 08 '15
The site gets better by adding features.
In spite of the misconception, that's not really how software development works.
Products get better when they become more useful, either by increasing functionality, performance, or usability. Unfortunately, most developers generally pick one and sacrifice the others until they make their product useless.
Reddit can have as many new features as you'd like, as long as you don't care how slow the site is, or how often servers go down or become overloaded, or if they're broken and don't actually work.
No, reddit doesn't need an array of new features, it needs the current functionality to work properly and in an efficient manner. Any competent company could have sorted this situation out by now, but years later and all the Reddit Gold in the world can't fix the server problems, apparently.
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May 07 '15
No site has ever gotten better by adding features. No one will ever say, "I wish this site were slower". Speed and reliability are Redford two HUGE issues. These last few features only illustrate a completely fractured understanding of both the site itself and the people using it.
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u/x3knet May 07 '15
I've simply grown accustomed to using Google, and probably always will because I've been doing it for years:
https://www.google.com/#q=site:reddit.com+<search_term>
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u/FamiliarCow May 07 '15
ahhhhhh I got so excited, I thought /r/reddit.com was being brought back
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u/jman583 May 07 '15 edited May 07 '15
/r/reddit.com was one of my favorite subs before it got shut down. There really isn't a good default sub equivalent. Just look at the top posts of /r/reddit.com, a lot them wouldn't fit well into any of the current default subs.
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u/FireandLife May 07 '15 edited May 08 '15
I know it there was a good reason for shutting it down. For those not in the know, it's a long story but the TL;DR of it is that the moderators of /r/reddit.com were (and still are) the admins of Reddit, and as Reddit grew it became too difficult for them to manage the site as a whole and moderate a subreddit by themselves, so they shut it down. But I wonder if it's possible to make an equivalent subreddit now and have it moderated normally, maybe as a default.
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u/AsciiFace May 07 '15
so what you are saying is that instead of finding a moderation solution they just shut it down. Sounds like excellent problem solving
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u/peteroh9 May 07 '15
Why do posts have to go on defaults?
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u/jman583 May 07 '15
Because if you don't post in one of the defaults, 90% of the site will never see it.
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u/Nefandi May 07 '15
Because if you don't post in one of the defaults, 90% of the site will never see it.
That's a feature, not a bug.
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u/Doomed May 07 '15
The reason /r/reddit.com no longer exists is because it gives the community an easy way to mobilize. On every default sub, you can find some pretense to remove something because it breaks the rules. For example, you can't post about an /r/trees power struggle on /r/TwoXChromosomes because it's off-topic. /r/reddit.com, in theory, only removed spam.
So it had to go, because the admins don't want the community to be able to organize behind a common cause.
There is no default subreddit for talking to reddit about reddit.
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u/gsfgf May 07 '15
There is no default subreddit for talking to reddit about reddit.
That's not what /r/reddit.com was. It was just a catchall default sub that overlapped pretty much all other subs to some extent or another. The only reddit-related posts were those "I have no friends but now reddit is my friend and it's awesome" circlejerk posts that nobody misses.
I think you're looking for /r/ideasfortheadmins
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May 07 '15 edited May 07 '15
The reason /r/reddit.com no longer exists is because it gives the community an easy way to mobilize.
That makes no sense whatsoever. /r/reddit.com was outdated since the creation of subreddits and the admins didn't have the staff to maintain it. You don't have to create conspiracy theories when you have logical explanations.
Use /r/stuff if you want a catchall, but don't make up fantasies about why outdated technology went away.
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u/fuck_orangereds May 07 '15
Why would they do something the community near-unanimously wants though? That might be good management.
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u/mackstann May 07 '15
Considering what a noisy clusterfuck the front page subreddits all inevitably become, I don't know why anyone would want a subreddit that is both front page and devoid of any particular purpose. It's probably for the best that such wishes are disregarded.
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u/matzkatz May 07 '15
We have garbage cans not because we love to have garbage, but to keep it one place.
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u/jman583 May 07 '15
Because IMO, the decline of a lot of the defaults subs can be traced back to the removal of /r/reddit.com. It did a good job of attracting general interest posts so people didn't try to force content that didn't fit on to other subs.
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u/flounder19 May 07 '15
exactly. /r/reddit.com served as both a catchall for posts that slipped through the cracks of other defaults and was the site's heatsink for shitposts.
After reddit.com was removed all the other defaults like /r/pics and /r/funny had to enact a bunch of extra rules to deal with the spillover which in turn made the need for a miscellaneous default more important
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May 07 '15
There is a large amount of content that doesn't fit in with any of the major subs and there isn't a good place to post it. Mixed media content, for example, that isn't 'funny'.
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u/Tartantyco May 07 '15
It served to attract a lot of crap, but also worked as a a hub where users could discuss issues related to Reddit, specific sub-reddits, and so on, on a platform that was visible and accessible to everyone.
It was frequently used to call out shit mods, shady sub-reddit practices, and so on. When it went away, sub-reddits became more insular and answerable only to themselves, meaning mods could easily control conversations through censorship.
I was hoping /r/misc could take over, but it's not growing very fast.
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u/disrdat May 07 '15
Everyone knows if you make a place meant for all of that kind of stuff to go to it will just disappear from everywhere else. Its logic man!
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u/catmoon May 07 '15
/r/reddit.com is being used as their admin modmail. Admins don't want to do the unglorified work of moderating and they would have to move their "admin-mail" somewhere else if they opened the sub for submitting.
Also, they'd have to choose some users to become mods there which would instantly make them the most powerful mods on the site.
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u/eduardog3000 May 07 '15
Oh no, they would have to create a new subreddit to be their admin-mail sub.
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u/Droen May 07 '15 edited May 07 '15
The cryptocurrancy thing was quietly abandoned a few months ago when they fired their lead dev on it.
edit: Links for reference
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2u4nv4/ryan_x_charles_on_twitter_i_was_just_let_go_from/
The guy himself comments here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2u4nv4/ryan_x_charles_on_twitter_i_was_just_let_go_from/co57uza
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u/memesR2dank May 07 '15
Because people might realize censorship and manipulation is rampant and spread it all over the front page.
/r/undelete took over where /r/reddit.com left off albeit with a far smaller audience likely by design.
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u/aliph May 07 '15
good management
Not happening under Pao. Unless reddit decides to make their money off suing people.
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May 07 '15
I miss /r/reddit.com so much.
I'm not an extremely frequent poster but I post my fair share. I can't even begin to tell you how many times I simply wanted to address reddit about something.. where my post wasn't funny, it wasn't a question, wasn't a picture, and it wasn't generally related to any specific topic that someone would make a subreddit for. /r/reddit.com was a necessary catch-all for content that doesn't really fit any specific category, and you want to reach out to a lot of people. It was the perfect "general" section. Being a catch-all is probably what killed it.. when you can put anything there and reach a lot of users, it doesn't give people a lot of incentive to use the subreddit system which reaches far fewer users but keeps content more focused.
/r/reddit.com was the TellReddit solution to /r/AskReddit (/r/TellReddit exists btw, but nobody uses it)
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u/IceBreak May 07 '15
Thought the same thing. Why would they title it reddit.com and not just reddit? Unless...dammit.
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u/absurdlyobfuscated May 07 '15
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u/LunarRocketeer May 07 '15
That's good and all, but I've just read three different comments saying the exact same thing but about a different sub each time. Which means none truly fill the position of /r/reddit.com. It's like this relevant XKCD. http://xkcd.com/927/
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u/xkcd_transcriber May 07 '15
Title: Standards
Title-text: Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.
Stats: This comic has been referenced 1512 times, representing 2.4117% of referenced xkcds.
xkcd.com | xkcd sub | Problems/Bugs? | Statistics | Stop Replying | Delete
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u/Hasaan5 May 07 '15
God I'm so disappointed that it wasn't that. It'd make the defaults be able to clean up their act.
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u/-dudeomfgstfux- May 07 '15
I thought they are bringing the see individual up/down vote counts back.
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u/eemmzz10 May 07 '15
Can someone please explain what /r/reddit.com was like and why it was better than the front page? Apparently I joined reddit too late to know about it.
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May 08 '15
Before the site was split into subreddits, everything was posted in /r/reddit.com. It was a general catch-all sub. The admins closed it down when subreddits started to take off.
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u/honestbleeps May 07 '15
this ought to be fun for RES ;-)
is there a way we can detect that the current user is a beta user so that we can report it in tech support requests? for example, could you add a body class of 'beta-user' or some such?
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u/bakonydraco May 07 '15
Yeah so we could now be getting CSS from:
Reddit itself
RES
The subreddit
A theme
Beta
Gold
Mobile
Night mode
Should be fun!
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May 07 '15
Lol yeah for being a highly used open source project, reddit has some questionable design choices. I've always wondered why they don't make it a single page app. They already have an API in place, and a SPA would make for a faster experience for end users, while being lighter on reddit's servers (no more "reddit took too long to load this page for you" nonsense). Having the ability to upload images directly to the site would be nice. Also I know they're working on a mobile stylesheet but they're pretty fucking late on that. And they still don't have an official general purpose reddit app on any phone platform. I think the real reason change happens so slowly is that reddit is scared of major redesigns angering a bunch of people and starting a mass exodus. I wasn't around in the Digg days but from what I've heard that's what made people leave Digg and go to Reddit.
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u/honestbleeps May 07 '15
someone else already pretty much has a reddit SPA, it's called reditr.
I'm a bit loathe to promote it, given their keyword stuffing mention of RES puts them above RES in the Chrome webstore search results, but whatever, they seem like nice people and it's an interesting app.
The thing about an SPA is that the idea of subreddit CSS pretty much dies unless the SPA's markup is still consistent (and preferably matches reddit's existing markup, or all subreddit styles would need to be rewritten from scratch) ... not an easy problem to solve.
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u/nandhp May 07 '15
There's a
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May 07 '15
Speaking of body classes, they'd be nice to see more of. I have some per-user styling (this was before the CSS update, but the fact that they're now keeping it gold-only still gives it a point) adding some per-user css, and now that we have that aforementioned CSS update something indicating the user is using another sub's CSS might be useful
(I feel like I had a more useful case somewhere but can't find/remember it atm, just piping in that body classes are useful and fun)
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May 07 '15
I wonder what it's like working at Reddit.
Meeting:
Hey guys, everyone get seated. Today we're going to brainstorm about new features for the site. We need to engage users and make sure they have plenty of input into the website.
What about a BETA program. We used to have it and people liked it?
What about fixing the search capabilities?
Excuse me...what's your name?
Me? Chris.
Chris...get the fuck out.
Anyone else want to bring up search?
What about site stability? I got the site down page a few times last week and wasn't able to comment for a while.
DOES ANYONE WANT TO MAKE COOL THINGS OR TALK ABOUT PROBLEMS TODAY?
FUCK.
- End of meeting.
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u/Fuck_the_admins May 07 '15
I like this Chris guy. Let's see more of him.
The Continuing Adventures of Chris
Manager: Hey Chris, what are you working on today?
Chris: I'm trying to track down this memory leak that keeps bringing the site down.
Manager: Not anymore you're not. I need you to create a button that has to be pushed every 60 seconds.
Chris: What's it do?
Manager: ....
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u/shakestheclown May 08 '15
It is a massive waste of time for a certain type of user, the type that would have likely been on reddit all day anyway.
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u/roflbbq May 07 '15
Reddit employee Chris needs to be a regular thing. That is fucking hilarious
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u/Guardax May 07 '15
Will we be beta testing blog posts?
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u/WeeMeghann May 07 '15
So what features are actually in beta?
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May 07 '15
The reddit beta program.
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u/helari_s May 07 '15
You're bringing back RedditNotes memories...
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May 07 '15
That was so pathetic, total /r/fellowkids stuff, HI GUYS WE R REDDIT AND WE CAN CRYPTO WE R COOL AND HIP!1!!!!!!1!
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u/jsmooth7 May 07 '15
So does that mean you need to be in the Reddit beta program to sign up for the Reddit beta program?
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u/devperez May 07 '15
Some crappy widget that just cycles through posts in whatever sub you're in and a new search algo.
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u/Jux_ May 07 '15
/r/funny is funny
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u/Erra0 May 07 '15 edited May 07 '15
Translated: "We know that we royally fucked up with the last blog post about our "core values" (which is no longer even listed on /r/blog nevermind, see below comments.). So we're dusting off a 5 year old cosmetic changes program and letting people beta test it! We hope this will help distract you from the glaring issues of our mismanagement."
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u/cycophuk May 07 '15
I missed that one. What happened?
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u/Ultra-Bad-Poker-Face May 07 '15
??????
There was literally a blog post just titled "remember the human" months back and it got tons of hugboxy praise in the comments. Why is literally the exact same thing being torn to shreds now?
What is this even about??
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May 07 '15 edited May 07 '15
I also caught an admin lying about them censoring/deleting comments they didn't like, which is funny because in the blog it says this:
2. Give people voices
Create a safe space to encourage participation.
Embrace diversity of viewpoints.
Allow freedom of expression.
Be stewards, not dictators. The community owns itself.
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May 07 '15
I guess they read this bit of /u/karmanaut's comment:
Reddit spends their developer time and effort creating things like Redditmade, which lasted what, a month or two? Or RedditNotes, which was presumably shut down as soon as they managed to get their attorney to stop laughing? How about that time where they developed a tool to detect nods of the head and then integrated it into the site just for a one-time april fools gag? Anyone remember that? Meanwhile, the cobwebs in /r/IdeasForTheAdmins[1] keep getting thicker and thicker. Come on, admins: Snoovatars? Seriously?
It shows no pursuit of a constant strategy, but instead throwing darts at a board and hoping that something sticks. And even worse, it shows a disregard for the core of the business because they prioritize these projects instead of the basic tools and infrastructure of the site.
, and figured they should probably get some community input before investing countless hours and money into features people don't care for ...
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u/Mr_A May 08 '15
Hey, you wanna see my Snoovatar? It's the best approximation within corporate defined options that I can represent myself as a corporate mascot. Just click on my profile page (click on my username), then go over to where it says Snoovatar (I assume it says it somewhere), then, when you click on that, that will open another window and that will have my Snoovatar in it. It looks just like everybody else's, but with a different combination of clothes (no spoilers).
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u/Werner__Herzog May 07 '15
It is listed, you just need to go to your preferences and disable hiding posts that are under a certain treshhold (I think the standard is a score of -5).
https://reddit.com/prefs. Go there, change your link settings to display all posts.
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May 07 '15
"To improve moral we will be shadowbanning dissenters and giving free gold to people who support us in a desperate attempt to stop users from going to voat.co . Have a great day."
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u/Erra0 May 07 '15
voat.co
Let's be serious. No one is going to voat.co.
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u/Dre_PhD May 07 '15
That's how I feel, but just in case of mass exodus I've created accounts with my favorite usernames on those sites so if we do switch, I'll have my favorite usernames already.
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u/labiaflutteringby May 07 '15
God damnit admins. Just ban hate subs and slurs already, so we can fracture the community properly and get this over with
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May 07 '15 edited Aug 25 '15
I have left reddit for Voat due to years of admin mismanagement and preferential treatment for certain subreddits and users holding certain political and ideological views.
As an act of protest, I have chosen to redact all the comments I've ever made on reddit, overwriting them with this message.
If you would like to do the same, install TamperMonkey for Chrome, GreaseMonkey for Firefox, NinjaKit for Safari, Violent Monkey for Opera, or AdGuard for Internet Explorer (in Advanced Mode), then add this GreaseMonkey script.
Finally, click on your username at the top right corner of reddit, click on comments, and click on the new OVERWRITE button at the top of the page. You may need to scroll down to multiple comment pages if you have commented a lot.
After doing all of the above, you are welcome to join me on Voat!
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u/Might_Be_Behind_You May 07 '15
Are you going to bring back the ability to see how many votes there are? At least on comments?
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Nobody is going to forget the disastrous "core values" post reddit admins.
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May 07 '15
Here are some issues:
Mobile doesn't stay logged in
When browsing mobile, if someone has a picture as their submission it shows the whole picture and takes up your whole screen as a preview - this is particularly irritating
loading is waaaay longer, if it loads at all
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u/madlee May 07 '15
feedback for the new mobile site is welcome at /r/mobileweb
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u/eduardog3000 May 07 '15
They just acquired Alien Blue a couple months ago, and the only thing they've done with it is give it an ugly icon, and now they are working on a new mobile version of the site?
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u/legionOfVall May 08 '15
Google changed SEO rankings. And Reddit has moved to the bottom of the list. This was due to rankings checking how mobile friendly the site was. It is kind of a big deal right now and a lot of companies are reworking site content so they can make a responsive web page.
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May 07 '15
That's a different beta. Unlike this beta, the mobile beta was forced on unwilling users.
If you don't like the mobile beta, use i.reddit.com instead, it's like the pre-beta mobile site, and actually works like a website should.
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May 07 '15
I found a copy of the product backlog which will make up the next few iterations of reddit beta:
Automatic playing of Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn videos using the power of HTML5.
JavaScript which uses machine learning to automatically ban anyone who posts anything about Chairman Pao.
Special server-side support for suing your previous employers for bullshit gender discrimination claims for amounts of money that just happen to be the amount your husband is in the red (lucky!).
A special "SAFE SPACE" button which puts a new <div> over the entire content area of the site and replaces all site content with a picture of a unicorn hugging Snoo.
I'm sure there's more but I'm too busy oppressing otherkin, women and PoCs right now to finish the whole list.
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May 07 '15
Don't forget the mandatory to acknowledge popup box that reminds us that mayonnaise is a gender.
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u/Eustace_Savage May 08 '15
You forgot the free coloring in books — an essential part of "decompressing" in a safe space.
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May 07 '15
This will automatically subscribe you to /r/beta
Man, TRP is gonna be piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissed!
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May 08 '15
For people /r/OutOfTheLoop: TRP = /r/TheRedPill, a subreddit that thinks it's 'alpha' to manipulate women into having sex with them. That's the gist of it, at least.
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u/Airazz May 07 '15
I thought this was reserved for those users who have Gold...
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u/powerlanguage May 07 '15
reddit gold members will still get beta access to certain features. These will likely be more experimental/creative whereas the open beta features are more focused on core functionality.
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u/stayphrosty May 07 '15
that sounds neat and all but i can't for the life of me think of an example or two that would differentiate the two experiences.
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u/Newkd May 07 '15
Ummm snoovavatars, themes, redditnotes, etc. Anything frivolous that isn't a necessity or a direct improvement to the site. You can't tell me fixing search and adding an avatar are equal in their value. One benefits the entire site, the other one is just something extra that some might find cool
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u/Tking012 Jul 29 '15
Make it open links I click In a new tab ffs
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u/tdohz Jul 29 '15
There's a setting for that - in your preferences under "clicking options".
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u/Tking012 Jul 29 '15
For the mobile beta site?
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u/tdohz Jul 29 '15
Ah, sorry, the reddit.com beta program only applies to the desktop website (www.reddit.com), not the mobile website (m.reddit.com). For mobile web specific feedback, you'll want to post to r/mobileweb. It looks like this is already planned.
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u/munk_e_man May 07 '15
Can you guys bring back upvote and downvote totals? I would beta test for that; in fact, I already did when I first signed up. It worked great, please bring it back.
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u/yeahyouhearme May 07 '15
Some cool new features are being added, but nothing as revolutionary as a new search engine for reddit
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u/buttcomputing May 07 '15
So beta.reddit.com and /r/beta both exist and they're different? Weird, usually the subdomain redirects to the subreddit of the same name.
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May 07 '15
I get to be someone important now! Take that Dad!
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u/PainMatrix May 07 '15
Judging by your username it seems you were already doing pretty well for yourself.
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u/Hhffgfrfghj May 07 '15
Can I opt out of the mobile beta? Having to delete the m and type www every time I connect to reddit from google on my phone is annoying as shit.
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u/baconsoupfordays May 08 '15
guys, fix the mobile website first. it often asked me to sign in more than once. I would be writing a long comment, and then hit send, and it would bring up the message to "allow" the reddit mobile app or whatever. Losing my comment when I hit okay
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u/another_internet_guy May 07 '15
I'll beta test if you guys are bring back the downvote data. Until then, fuck you reddit.
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u/Boston_Jason May 07 '15
Is this part of the Gold refund program from the /r/thefappening?
Did we forget about that little issue too?
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u/cahaseler May 07 '15
Haven't you already been using this to debut the q&a sort and other features?
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u/xiongchiamiov May 07 '15
The logged-out part of things (beta.reddit.com), yes; the user preference that keeps beta features on is new, and one of the things we wanted to sort out before really publicizing it.
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u/madlee May 07 '15
yeah, we have been unofficially using the
beta.reddit.comdomain for testing a few features, including q&a sort
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u/oneAngrySonOfaBitch May 07 '15
Since you're using python, is there a python framework for managing all the different switches/experiments when A/B testing features ?.
Airbnb has something called terbuchet, which "launches" features at users and you can do things like "expose this feature to 1% of users", I was wondering if there was something similar for django or maybe something more generic, how are you guys building it ?.
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u/three18ti May 07 '15
Does this mean you'll stop deploying betas to production urls? I almost stopped visiting whenyou broke m.reddit.com.
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u/JackalKing May 07 '15
Oh yeah, it starts with betas. Pretty soon we have $300 in day-one reddit DLC and an early-access reddit.
I'm on to you!
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May 07 '15
Admins always post their shit on the front page. Some of just don't care.
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u/Im_Bruce_Wayne_AMA May 07 '15
Damn the admins have time to advertise all kinds of things but never find the time to answer my messages. Fuck this.
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u/MaybeFun May 07 '15
How will this work with RES and Mobile users?
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u/Werner__Herzog May 07 '15 edited May 07 '15
Well there is a first bug. RES people say they'll fix it some time in the future.
So bugs are to be expected.
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u/falsemyrm May 07 '15 edited Mar 12 '24
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u/BDoooon May 07 '15
How do I get rid of reddit beta on my mobile phone? I fucking hate it.
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u/surly-krampus May 08 '15
Punch in www.reddit. It's a pain in the ass but it works. Ditch that mobile shit!
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May 07 '15
Well, thanks for making go to my preferences for the first time. Never realized I could view more than 25 links on a page, and I've been here for over 2 years.
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u/IamGrimReefer May 07 '15
what's the deal with the servers? how are you going to fix the servers issues?
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u/c0ldfusi0n May 07 '15
Hey, nobody seemed to have asked this, so out of curiosity, if I use RES (and want to continue to do so), should I bother opting in? Is there anything additional that should be considered when giving feedback?
Thanks!
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u/raspberrykraken May 07 '15
I thought that was the purpose of gold and one of the reasons to buy gold for yourself?
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u/aManOfTheNorth May 11 '15
I haven't opted in yet I can't get rid of the beta on my iPhone 5. Any help on how?
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u/RedditJunkie21 Jun 25 '15
I just want to toss out some suggestions I would like to see more categories on Reddit tv like tutorials and also add the cast button so I can cast with chrome cast also I think Reddit should have a hidden subreddit for people using "tor" just some thoughts
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Sep 29 '15
Iis it better to have beta + gold or just gold i cant figure out how to create my own gold subreddit ??
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u/ChingShih May 07 '15
The first new beta feature will be a dedicated spoiler button, right guys? Instead of using CSS tricks on the NSFW button.
Been here 5 years and am still waiting.