r/reddit

TL;DR Getting to comments on Reddit’s iOS and Android mobile apps just got easier and much faster with instant comment loading, shortcuts to comments, and consistent comment navigation.

Hi! I’m and I lead a number of product teams at Reddit, including one dedicated to building our comment experience. I’m here today to share some updates on this experience on Reddit’s native apps.

Whether you’ve been here for two decades, two years, or two days, you know that conversations are the heart of Reddit (where else can we have convos like or ). Comments are where we find each other, across time zones and topics. This year, the team is focused on making Reddit the best on the internet at conversations.

H/T to Reddit’s — a group of redditors who expressed interest in helping us test early builds and provided feedback which has led to the update you see today. We knew the only way to build a better experience would be to include the community in the process.

Here’s what’s rolling out to everyone on Reddit’s iOS and Android apps today.

Instant comment loading - Comments now load faster than ever. As you’re browsing a post, the conversation is getting ready for you, in a fraction of a second.

Shortcut to comments - Previously, if you tapped on the comments button to read the comments of a post, you would land on the post. Now you’ll go directly to the top of the comments. And if you want to revisit the original post, there’s a stickied context bar at the top of the page. With a single tap, you can return to the post body or dive into the image, GIF, or video.

Consistent comment navigation across post types - Joining a conversation has not been easy with different ways of navigating to comments from image, video, or text posts. To create a more consistent and seamless flow across all post types, we’re introducing a unified media player, immersive transitions, and consistent gestures.

Simply swipe up for comments; swipe left for new content.

(And thanks to the UFC’s feedback, you can get an enlarged view of an image or video from your feed with a single tap)

If you want to continue building this experience with us, come join the Reddit (…no, not that ).

A few of us will stick around in case you have questions - comment away!

What do spiders, basketball, and anime fandoms all have in common? Besides being topics that redditors love geeking out about, this is a list of communities that have tapped into Reddit’s one-of-a-kind to create unique and special moments for their members that bring them closer together.

We launched the with a commitment of $1 million to help take your community passions from URL to IRL. Since then, your distinct ideas and collaborative teamwork have led to some original, impactful, and downright cool user-driven experiences on and off of Reddit. , , and for a lot of us. And that’s just in the past year alone!

To commemorate these past two years, we’re excited to recap all the amazing and creative things that communities have accomplished together with support from the Community Funds program and give a little sneak peek into our plans for the next year.

Community Funds by the numbers (since launch in 2022):

• 94 eligible applications received*

• 30 proposals funded

• $320,000 in funding disbursed

• 33 million+ redditors engage in these funded communities

• 5+ countries represented across these initiatives including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Germany

*151 total applications were received. Applications are deemed eligible based on program guidelines including the country where the applicant is based, established subreddit presence, application completion, and other criteria. Moderators based in the US, UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand are eligible to apply. For more information about the application process and program requirements, please visit .

Recent community highlights:

• kicked off the new year by for members of their community.

• to help members of their community facilitate discussions around addiction recovery.

• continued the with a meetup in Indianapolis for All-Star Weekend, taking 48 people from their community to All-Star Saturday Night and raising $6,200 for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America.

• brought back their annual Anime Awards and !

• showcased their community member’s artistic skills through .

• is .

• relaunched their podcast, , featuring special guests and discussing important topics!

• went to the sidelines for the 2024 Pro Bowl to create a one-of-a-kind Ask Me Anything (AMA) experience with football stars representing the AFC and representing the NFC. And there were snazzy AMA booths!

New in 2024: Reddit Meetup Week x Community Funds:

Every year, you continue to power Community Funds by proposing incredible new ways to collectively bring your passion and interests to life. Our expansion of the program is fully driven by your submissions (last year we launched support for donation matching!) and we’re always impressed by the inspiring ideas you curate.

• We’re thrilled to announce that Community Funds can be a helpful resource when you bring your community together for . For this URL to IRL event, you can submit proposals to take your community to the movies, for supplies to host trash cleanups, or to host a virtual book club – and Community Funds can provide support where it’s needed.

• before May 1st to have your proposal considered for Reddit Meetup Week.

• Visit to ask questions, sign up for office hours to discuss your ideas, or get inspired by what other communities have planned!

Each application has helped to raise the ceiling of what’s possible through Community Funds. No project idea is too big or too small. Whether you want to start a book club or you’d like to write a book together, thank you for sharing your ideas with us. Please keep them coming!

We’re sticking around for a while, if you have questions for us in the comments!

TL;DR

Here’s what we’re getting up to this year:

• Making moderating easier and introducing new safety tools.

• Improving the user experience.

• Enabling developers to bring new experiences to Reddit.

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.

Making moderating easier

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 .

Last, but not least, you’ll continue to see 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.

Improving the user experience

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:

• Faster redditting and improved access to shortcuts and transitions. ICYMI, our new web platform is more than twice as fast, and 2023 saw a more than 10% reduction in app start time.

• New ways to search.

• Simpler experiences for navigating conversations that will be the same regardless of how you use Reddit: in-app, on desktop, logged-out, etc.

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.

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.

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?)

Enabling developers to bring new experiences to Reddit

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 in , and a new module highlighting what’s trending in .

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 .

A few of us are sticking around to answer any questions you may have, so fire away!

We’ve dug up what’s trending lately so you don’t have to: some subs are long-standing groups having a current moment, others are recently growing communities reflecting new internet trends. But they’re all good ways to get curious or nosy or fascinated, or fall into wormholes of stuff you didn’t even know you were into (or needed).

Here’s a list of the latest subs taking up all our time these days. Check ‘em out, and let us know what communities are taking up space in your brains right now:

For nice sticks found in the wild, and for people who want to stare at them. Touch grass, touch sticks?

Where you can freely judge the insides of strangers’ cupboards, pantries, and fridges. Go on, you know you want to.

A collection of the most confusing cutters and the cookies you can make with them. Cookie Monster may or may not be a mod…

The book that’s now FX’s latest miniseries is rising up the Reddit charts. Just keep your eyes peeled for ‘spoiler’ flair.

When you get stabbed in the hand with a pencil I think you legally have to post it here now. Whom amongst us does not have a gray speck somewhere on their body?

I have been visiting this subreddit just to look for my own dad (he’s not in there). I’m not crying, you’re crying. No, literally, you’re crying (if you’re a Dad featured here).

Make those suggestions below!

We know this is normally the place for Reddit product, platform, and Oscar’s updates, so if you want to see Reddit, Inc. investor-related news and content, head on over to . Spoiler alert: as a community, will have regulatory limitations and operate slightly differently ().

Hey redditors! I’m , and while you’re used to seeing product and company updates from , we’re gonna try some new things here to get you better connected across the Reddit universe. In addition to continuing to keep you updated on platform happenings, we also want to be your guardians of the galaxy, guiding you to the best subreddits and places to dive into anything.

Film is huge on Reddit, with more than 500 subreddits dedicated to movies. And what better time to debate and discuss film than during the Oscars, the world’s most-watched awards show? The business of predicting the winners is so booming that it’s genuinely shocking when the evening’s statuettes go to truly surprising winners.

But how would it play out if the Academy Awards happened on Reddit? Since the Oscars nominees were announced, we’ve been tracking keyword volume for the most popular films, actors, and directors on the platform who were nominated this year… the conversation drivers that stuck with you long enough to champion, troll, and shitpost. Below are this year’s big categories, with nominees ranked based on the highest percentage share of mentions in posts and comments against one another.

(data below is Keyword Volume count across all of Reddit, tracked since nominations day. Source: Reddit Internal, Global, 1/23/24–3/5/24)

Best Picture

1. : 44%

2. : 18%

3. : 9%

4. : 8%

5. : 7%

6. : 3%

7. : 3%

8. : 3%

9. : 3%

10. : 2%

Best Director

1. Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer: 53%

2. Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon: 25%

3. Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things: 10%

4. Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall: 6%

5. Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest: 6%

Best Actor

1. Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer: 36%

2. Bradley Cooper, Maestro: 32%

3. Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers: 18%

4. Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction: 8%

5. Colman Domingo, Rustin: 6%

Best Actress

1. Emma Stone, Poor Things: 68%

2. Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon: 14%

3. Carey Mulligan, Maestro: 8%

4. Sandra Huller, Anatomy of a Fall: 6%

5. Annette Bening, Nyad: 4%

Supporting Actor

1. Ryan Gosling, Barbie: 52%

2. Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer: 17%

3. Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon: 15%

4. Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things; 12%

5. Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction: 4%

Supporting Actress

1. Jodie Foster, Nyad: 47%

2. Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer: 29%

3. America Ferrera, Barbie: 17%

4. Da’vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers: 4%

5. Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple: 3%

Either way the trophies go, there’s gonna be lots to discuss all over Reddit, and if you need some places to gossip, gripe and get into all the action, here are some subreddits that will be running megathreads during Oscars night:

- The largest subreddit for the love of film

- Oscars talk from your favorite film podcast

- From red carpet hits and misses to show analysis

- Your new favorite subreddit for celeb gossip

The TL;DR on this year’s show: Jimmy Kimmel is hosting for the fourth time, which, sure! Oppenheimer is probably going to win Best Picture and turn many more of its 13 nominations into wins. Poor Things has 11 nods, Killers of the Flower Moon has 10 and , which ! The equally snubbed Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig will be asked to watch Ryan Gosling perform “I’m Just Ken”, because the Academy and have chosen chaos every year since…

Who do you want to take home Oscars gold? Still want justice for this year’s biggest snubs? Do you think the most popular actors and films on Reddit will be the same the Academy chooses? Let us know in the comments!

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Hi everyone, I’m aka Ben Lee, Reddit’s Chief Legal Officer, and I’m sharing a heads-up on an important Supreme Court case in the United States that could significantly impact freedom of expression online around the world.

TL;DR

In 2021, Texas and Florida passed laws (Texas House Bill 20 and Florida Senate Bill 7072) trying to restrict how platforms – and their users – can moderate content, with the goal of prohibiting “censorship” of other viewpoints. While these laws were written for platforms very different from Reddit, they could have serious consequences for our users and the broader Internet.

We’re standing up for the First Amendment rights of Redditors to define their own content rules in their own spaces in an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief we filed in the Supreme Court in the and cases. You can see our brief . I’m here to answer your questions and encourage you to crosspost in your communities for further discussion.

While these are US state laws, their impact would be felt by all Internet users. They would allow a single, government-defined model for online expression to replace the community-driven content moderation approaches of online spaces like Reddit, making content on Reddit--and the Internet as a whole--less relevant and more open to harassment.

This isn’t hypothetical: in 2022, a Reddit user in Texas sued us under the Texas law (HB 20) after he was banned by the moderators of the community. He had posted a disparaging comment about the Star Trek character Wesley Crusher (calling him a “soy boy”), which earned him a ban under the community’s rule to “be nice.” (It is the height of irony that a comment about Wil Wheaton’s character would violate of “don’t be a dick.”) Instead of taking his content elsewhere, or starting his own community, this user sued Reddit, asking the court to reinstate him in and award him monetary damages. While we were able to stand up for the moderators of and get the case dismissed (on procedural grounds), the Supreme Court is reviewing these laws and will decide whether they comply with the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Our experience with HB 20 demonstrates the potential impact of these laws on shared online communities as well as the sort of frivolous litigation they incentivize.

If these state laws are upheld, our community moderators could be forced to keep up content that is irrelevant, harassing, or even harmful. Imagine if every cat community was forced to accept random dog-lovers’ comments. Or if the subreddit devoted to your local city had to keep up irrelevant content about other cities or topics. What if every comment that violated a subreddit’s specific moderation rules had to be left up? You can check out the for even more examples (they filed their brief independently from us, and it includes examples of the types of content that they remove from their communities–and that these laws would require them to leave up).

Every community on Reddit gets to define what content they embrace and reject through their upvotes and downvotes, and the rules their volunteer moderators set and enforce. It is not surprising that one of the most common community rules is some form of “be civil,” since most communities want conversations that are civil and respectful. And as Reddit the company, we believe our users should always have that right to create and curate online communities without government interference.

Although this case is still ultimately up to the Supreme Court (oral argument will be held on February 26 – you can listen live on the day), your voice matters. If you’re in the US, you can call your or to make your voice heard.

This is a lot of information to unpack, so I’ll stick around for a bit to answer your questions.

We can’t imagine a Reddit IPO without redditors You Rickrolled Rick Astley. You gave us Mr. Splashy Pants. And … (you’re welcome, internet). And now you can become one of our (non-corporate) overlords. Yes, it’s really happening this time, and as we take the next step toward becoming a public company, we’re inviting all eligible redditors to participate in Reddit’s IPO.

“Eligible” you note skeptically? Yes. Unfortunately, there are a ton of imposed legal restrictions defining when, who, and how we do this. So while our goal is to give all redditors the same access to stock as institutional investors (why should they have all the fun?), our lawyercats tell us we must follow specific rules listed below.

Our Directed Share Program (“DSP”) is set up to let eligible users and moderators own a piece of Reddit by purchasing Reddit stock at the same price as institutional investors when we IPO. We will offer this opportunity to as many redditors as we are able to accommodate, and the number of people who can participate is limited.

As much as we’d like to, we are limited from sharing more or answering questions. But if you are interested in learning about how to participate in Reddit’s DSP, please see more information .

Prospectus and Important Disclosures

The offering will be made only by means of a prospectus. Copies of the preliminary prospectus, when available, may be obtained from: Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10014, telephone: 1-866-718-1649, or email: ; Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, New York 10282, telephone: 1-866-471-2526, facsimile: 212-902-9316, or email: ; J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, New York 11717, telephone: 1-866-803-9204, or email: ; and BofA Securities, Inc., NC1-004-03-43, 200 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, North Carolina 28255-0001, Attention: Prospectus Department, telephone: 1-800-294-1322, or email: .

A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This notification shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

No offer to buy the securities can be accepted and no part of the purchase price can be received until the registration statement has become effective, and any such offer may be withdrawn or revoked, without obligation or commitment of any kind, at any time prior to the notice of its acceptance given after the effective date. An indication of interest in response to this notification will involve no obligation or commitment of any kind.

Happy Thursday, everyone!

I’m filling in for 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.

Discover more communities by topic on the Reddit mobile apps

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!

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!

Sunsetting Live Chat Posts

In an effort to streamline our chat products on Reddit, we have sunset 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.

Real-time conversations are an important part of the Reddit experience, and we’re continuing to invest in the upgraded experience.

If you're a mod, you can request the chat channels beta in your community by filling out this brief.

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!

Another year filled with projects has gone by and we’re excited to share a recap. Community Funds is a unique Reddit program that provides funding to bring your ideas and passions to life….and in 2023, communities created some truly one-of-a-kind experiences.

Community Funds in 2023 by the Numbers:

• 77 applications received

• 13 community projects funded (and more being considered!)

• $102K in funding disbursed

• 22 million+ redditors represented in these funded communities

• More than 3 countries represented across these initiatives, including the United States, Canada, and Scotland

Giving Back

2023 was filled with community-led fundraisers that benefited from donation matching with Community Funds.

• raised $25,586 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

• worked with Jamala, winner of the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest, to raise $2,959 for the Disasters Emergency Committee Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal

• celebrated reaching 500k subscribers with a fundraiser for the Vancouver Food Bank, raising over $48,500 CAD

• received matching funds for their 2022 fundraiser for food banks across Canada and raised over $54,000 CAD

• is celebrating their 15th cakeday with a ticket contest for an NBA All Star Saturday night, a meetup during All Star Weekend, and

Game On

Who doesn’t love some fun competition? kicked off a series of game-inspired contests and giveaways with their community. Stay tuned for the next one! recently ran an in-game tournament with over 600 participants. organized a photography contest in their community and winners received tickets to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. worked with puzzle makers from their community to create virtual and IRL puzzle hunts. celebrated the winners of their Queendom tournament by gifting them albums from participating bands.

Coming Together

Communities have also suggested some very creative ways to come together using Community Funds. With new equipment and a fun guest lineup, is getting ready to record a series of insightful and entertaining podcast episodes with special guests. read O Clube dos Jardineiros de Fumaça together and hosted , Carol Bensimon. And connected over their passion for food and other cultures with delicious snack exchanges from across the globe.

Applying for Community Funds

Does your community have a project you’ve been considering, but you could use a bit more support to get it going? Here’s how we can help you get started with Community Funds:

• We host where you can drop in, ask questions, and brainstorm ideas with our team.

• Do you have an idea for a project involving climate change or the environment? We want to hear from you! Share your idea with us or . Fundraiser matching projects involving causes focused on environmental impact are eligible for up to $25,000 in fundraiser matching.

• We recently made the process for receiving funds simpler for approved applicants. Rather than direct deposit, Funds recipients now receive a virtual MasterCard to utilize the funds.

• Please keep in mind that any applications submitted from now until the end of 2023 will be considered for funding starting in 2024.

We hope you’ll find inspiration in these incredible projects and if you’ve got a Community Funds idea on your mind, share it with us in the comments!

Hello and welcome back to our Little (monthly) Shop of Horrors!

The spooky month is now behind us. The Gremlins are wrangled, the door to the Twilight Zone has been firmly sealed, and we’re all Beetlejuiced out. Last month even contained the spookiest of all days– an October Friday the 13th!

Let’s go over all the Black Cauldrons and Dark Crystals that could be found on Reddit in the month of October…just In Case You Missed It.

Old habits Die Hard, and our intro themes are no different! Think you can guess this month’s intro theme? Let us know in the comments!

📈TRENDING COMMUNITIES

A community for over 12 years, is almost old enough to be retro in its own right! This is your go-to space to share in the nostalgia of shows and programming blocks featured on YTV. Are you having an Art Attack? Sit down on your Big Comfy Couch and share your memories of Static Shock over on !

A positively hopping community for sharing pictures of toads, toads, and toads! Found a toad friend on a hike? Have some toady fan art? Someone hop onto your back porch? Want to share adorable behavior of your pet toad? is just the place you’re looking for. Check out this absurdly photogenic courtesy of !

Warriors, Torchbearers, come redeem our dreams! Whether you’re an old fan returning from 2010s Alan Wake, a new fan looking for Alan Wake 2 content, or you just really like the Old Gods of Asgard, is the place to share all your American Nightmares! Is this GOTY material? Shine a light upon this night of otherworldly fiends over at !

If you’re renting or looking to rent, has your back. It’s a community dedicated to helping fellow redditors understand the rights and responsibilities of tenants and for those seeking general advice from renting redditors that have gone through similar situations. Looking for an informative space? This one can live rent free on your feed!

Una comunidad bilingüe! That is to say, this is a bilingual community where you can ask your questions about moving to Spain– from visas to vacations! Does the rain in Spain stay mainly on the plain? And if it doesn’t… What should I see on my honeymoon? What should I know before I move? The answers to all this and more can be found in !

Throw us a bone, then let the crack team of experts (and, uh, everyone else) at identify it! This community is dedicated to having fun attempting to ID bones that other redditors find. Check out sparked when a squirrel brought a bone onto a redditor’s porch!

For the curious (and the lazy), it’s probably from a turkey…but we’ll keep this spoilered just in case you want to go down this rabbit, er, squirrel hole by yourself. Another spooky season mystery solved!

And then I said, “Look at that S car go!” Get it? No? There’s a subreddit for that! If your friend sends you a meme you don’t quite get, you heard a one-liner from a comedian that doesn’t click, the humor has a generational gap, or if everyone’s laughing and at this point, you’re too afraid to ask, is in your corner. Stop by and share in the confusion!

Don’t get it? Maybe they can help me with what all these vertical lines I keep seeing mean…I'm at a loss.

is a community all about discussing gear, trip reports, trail recommendations, and the celebration of hiking and camping as a community. They host weekly “Ask beginner questions” megathreads for redditors new to the outdoors, so don’t be shy!

Stop by and start your backcountry wilderness adventure today!

🗞 REDDIT, INC. HAPPENINGS

We announced even more Search updates in our increasingly inaccurately named “trilogy.” (We’re running out of Star Wars movies.) In Search Episode IX, we launched screen-reader functionality improvements with search results, simplified the search results page, and . A little later with in-app text sizes on iOS, improvements to the Android comments page, and the launch of a new !

Meanwhile, in we sent out ! Are you hosting an environmentally-conscious fundraiser, community clean-up, or other collaborative activity that benefits the environment? Review our program requirements and submit your application for up to $25,000 in fundraiser matching or $50,000 in project funding!

Still not convinced by the power of Community Funds? Schedule some with the Community Funds team and check out , sporting All-Star Saturday ticket contests, a community meet-up, and a fundraiser supporting the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Now that’s a cakeday, and is making waves too! They just reached 500,000 subscribers and are celebrating with for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.

💙 ADMIN’S PICK

And of course, this month’s Admin’s Pick is in a post by . There’s something about fog horns and steam whistles that really punctuates this kind of achievement. I don’t know which is more impressive, the artful throw or the incredible catch. There’s a world where I try to fit a “recip-boat-cation” joke, but that world isn’t this one.

That’s a wrap for today, folks.

What’s a community you recently discovered and want others to know about? Let us know in the comments.

Happy Monday, y’all!

Another month has passed, which means it’s time for Changelog. Keep reading to learn about the latest changes on Reddit, including new chat channels features, an easier way to follow conversations, and improvements to reddit.com on mobile and desktop.

Chat channels updates: pinned messages, threading, and typing indicators!

Speaking of chat channels, we’ve launched some new features and mod tools in the past couple of months that we are excited to share with you.

As a mod, you can now pin your message to the top of a chat channel. Many of our communities are using pinned messages to welcome members, share rules, keep conversations on topic, or highlight something funny/interesting in the chat.

As a user, you can now have threads or side conversations in a chat channel. Simply tap on the message you’d like to respond to and select ‘reply.’ Other people will be able to see the thread and respond to the message as well.

Lastly, we’ve added typing indicators to the experience so that you’ll be able to visually see other redditors typing in the channel.

If you're a mod, you can request the chat channels beta in your community by filling out this brief.

Comment Spotlights on iOS and Android

Conversations on Reddit are now easier to follow, thanks to Comment Spotlights. Comment Spotlights give you additional context when you click on the overflow menu on a comment by highlighting the comment in focus and also providing a preview of a comment’s direct parent if it’s a reply.

Comment Spotlights are also available when clicking on the mod shield to improve the moderation experience on the post and comments page.

Updates to reddit.com

We’ve started to allow a small number of redditors to access the improved logged-in desktop and mobile web experience. This updated web experience loads significantly faster and will be similar to the recently updated logged-out web experience.

We’ll be continuously working on making progress over the next few months and will work to expand these improvements to moderators as well. We plan on sharing mod-specific updates on this in soon.

If you’re a user (non-mod) and interested in getting early access to the improved web experience please let us know . If selected, we’ll reach out via DM.

Screen reader improvements on mobile for better accessibility

In case you missed it, last week we the accessibility updates made on 14 core surfaces to improve the experience of mobile users who engage and navigate content on Reddit with VoiceOver (iOS) and TalkBack (Android).

That’s all for today, folks. Have questions about these updates? Holler in the comments – we’ll stick around for a bit to reply.

Hi all,

We’ve made improvements to focus order and added accessible labels, roles, and states to the following areas on iOS and Android:

User Surfaces

• Community Page

• Create Post

• Home and Popular Feeds

• Navigation (community navigation menu, profile drawer, and bottom tab bar)

• Post Detail Page (NB: Improving the experience for consuming a text post is at the top of our list)

• Profile

• Sign In

• Settings

• Search - Posts and Comments tab

• Video Player

Mod Surfaces

• Inline Moderation

• Mod Mail

• Mod Tools (General, Content & Regulation, and User Management sections)

• Mod Queue

Why is this important?

These updates make Reddit easier to use for people with visual impairments who use screen readers. A screen reader is an assistive technology that allows visually impaired users to access and interact with digital content by converting information displayed on a screen into speech or braille. iOS and Android screen readers are Text-To-Speech engines that allow users to navigate via on-screen gestures and hear content and actions over speakers or through headphones.

How can I stay updated?

Going forward, we’ll share accessibility updates in the recurring product updates we post here in so you can track progress.

How can I submit accessibility-related feature requests or report an issue?

so the Reddit team can review and prioritize. Like with all products, features are constantly evolving, and your submissions help us continue to work toward screen reader compatibility.

How can I get more involved?

to join Reddit’s Accessibility feedback group.

Thank you to the redditors and moderators who continue to generously share feedback – your input has been invaluable in accelerating this work and making Reddit more accessible for everyone. We remain committed to working closely with you and the broader disability community to ensure that these efforts continue to be meaningful.

We'll be around for a bit to answer any questions you have about the updates.

P.S. Looking for previous updates on Reddit’s accessibility improvements? Pop over to (and posts , , and ) for the rundown.

Ahoy there, Reddit!

It’s once again time to recap the monthly happenings on Reddit. This time we’re looking back at the month of September. Let’s dive in!

📈TRENDING COMMUNITIES

A subreddit dedicated to the showcasing, discussion, and appreciation of ship-building in Starfield! Have you made a Scorpion tank from Halo? An A-Wing? R-Wing? Arwing? How about a scale model of XCOM2’s Avenger or a design of your own creation?

We about that Scorpion, either! If you’re an expert amateur shipwright or just want to share your comfy small ship model, we’ll want to see it in . Also, check out their weekly build challenges!

A community for posting pics of cats being purrrfect! Increase your daily dose of cat with this subreddit dedicated to paying the cat tax. Share your purrrfect pics with this growing community, like of Leota the cat making this house a home.

You know what really grinds my gears? When someone uses a decade-old meme reference to start an anecdote. Welcome to , home of all the little annoyances and pesky things that aggravate us. If you have strong opinions about which way the toilet paper roll should fall or the correct order of milk and tea (this author strategically takes no sides), might be the place for you.

A subreddit all about mushroom identification and celebration! is your space for all backyard enthusiasts and amateur photographers of the mushroomy persuasion. Check out all the new fall mushroom pics, like by community member . Stop by and share your own!

A text-based community about the writing craft! Work out your writer’s block, ask questions about your writing, and other such questions about the literary world. Come learn how to “” and . hosts daily discussion threads and weekly critique threads, for those who like to get more hands-on. Come share your thoughts and keep an eye out for any !

functions like an artist cooperative gallery– it’s a space for traditional painters to share their work with fellow artists! Artists are strongly encouraged to interact with their fellow redditors to discuss concept, process, and technique. Share or check out weekly discussion threads for general questions and off-topic discussion.

The space to celebrate your new, used, and restored cast-iron skillet. Come share your cast-iron maintenance tips, restoration projects, or what you’re having for lunch as it cooks in your titular tool of choice. All this and maybe even an answer to the age-old “How do you season a cast-iron skillet?” and more in this iron-cast subreddit!

Our top story tonight: man finds missing glasses on own head. More at 11. Have you ever read a news story like this and thought, “wow, slow slow day today?” is your one-stop shop for all the hot stories that wouldn’t make it to print on any other day. Found a nothingburger of a story? Share it here!

🗞 REDDIT HAPPENINGS

We by launching a whole new look for our . Brand new look, same familiar help. The moderators among us may notice the Mod Help Center now lives side-by-side with the User Help Center– you can access both from the Help Center’s home page.

, we announced native post translation on Android/iOS and logged-out web! This new feature supports eight translation options detailed in our announcement post; we’re also working on expanding this to comments.

September also marked the turning of a new leaf– gold leaves, that is! We the return of an updated Reddit gold experience that couples with an all-new . Eligible users who complete the onboarding process can earn real money for their fake internet points. How dapper!

Speaking of cool things you can do on Reddit, we shared in which , powered by Community Funds, produced a photography zine of their community members’ contributions. Check out the full interview and drop by to submit your own Funds application!

And finally, we wrapped up September with from our Head of Privacy. In that post, we detailed a new setting to opt-out of specific ad categories, changes to ad personalization options, and updates to the descriptions on several ad and privacy-related settings to make them more consistent across platforms. Check out that announcement post for the full details!

💙 ADMIN’S PICK

to fill open seats for the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra! This of course wouldn’t have been possible without the efforts of (categorically one of the best usernames I’ve seen in a while), so special thanks to them for helping bring URL to IRL. And, like any good OP, they continued to deliver the rest of the story with post.

And that’s a wrap for us too, folks!

What’s a community you recently discovered and want others to know about? Let us know in the comments.

Hey y’all, it’s Changelog time. Keep reading for updates on iOS in-app text sizing, Android comments page, and a brand new mobile beta program.

iOS in-app text sizing

Calling all iOS device holders – as of this week your in-app text size will be based on your device settings. Now that your app text size depends on your phone’s settings, you can select your text size from several different options to best fit your reading needs. If you want your text size on Reddit to be different from your OS text size, you can follow these steps:

Open device settings > Tap “Accessibility” > Select “Per-App Settings” > Tap “Add app” and select Reddit > click on Reddit and select “Larger Text”

Voila! You’ve unlocked the ability to change the app text sizes directly from the iOS system settings.

Android comments page updates

Android users, we’ve got an update for you too. The comments page has gotten a bit of a revamp to ensure a consistent experience across pages. Visually, media in posts now have an inset with rounded corners, and the size of the subreddit avatar in the post is smaller to match the size found in post units on the community page. Additionally, the presence information (e.g. # people here, # people typing…) at the bottom of the page now appears in the top navigation bar on scroll, giving you more real estate to read and engage with comments. iOS updates to follow.

Reddit Mobile Beta launch & closing of

We’ve launched a brand new mobile beta program! If you're interested in joining please take a look at and submit the form linked at the bottom of that post to sign up. We’re currently enrolling both Android and iOS users, but we’re capping sign ups to 1,000 users in this initial round. If you aren’t accepted into the program this time around, stay tuned for future opportunities to join.

To make it easier for redditors to more easily find the support they need, we recently archived (which, over time, strayed away from its original purpose). Learn more about the change and info on how to report bugs .

That’s it for today! Have questions about these updates? We’ll stick around in the comments for a bit to reply.

TL;DR: Search results on Reddit’s mobile apps are now simpler to browse with the introduction of a Media tab and upgrades to be more screen-reader friendly. Also, reddit.com’s mobile search experience is now easier and faster.

*NEW* MEDIA SEARCH TAB ON MOBILE APPS

You asked for a better experience searching for media and scanning search results; we listened – and here it is!

The following updates are live on Reddit’s Android and iOS apps:

• New Media search tab - You can now browse media search results — videos, GIFs, and images — all on one page. Hot tip – you can also search media within communities! Just click on the search bar within a community page, and the media content matching the search query in that community will appear*.*

• Simpler search results - You told us the search results page on Reddit’s apps is too cluttered. The updated page design makes it simpler to browse and find the relevant content you’re looking for.

• Accessible post & comments search - Posts and Comments search tabs are now screen- reader compatible. Labels, roles/traits, values and states have been added to all elements so more people can discover content and take action. When using a screen reader, you can hear the actions available and the results returned on these tabs. Note: these screen reader updates will also reflect on the Communities, People and Media search tabs soon.

EASIER & FASTER SEARCH ON MOBILE WEB

You may have heard of the for logged-out visitors to Reddit. Features have been added to the logged-out search experience on mobile web, making it more consistent with that of reddit.com on desktop and mobile apps.

This includes;

1. distinct tabs for community and comment search results

2. sorting options for comment search results, along with time filters on post search results

3. an updated, more intuitive page design.

Searching reddit.com on mobile is also much faster — like 85% faster – than before. You can now find what you’re looking for, fast.

Finally, on both mobile apps and web, improved spam filters are now in place to ensure high-quality and relevant post results.

Have any feedback on what you want to see next on Reddit search? Let us know in the comments below. And if you have any other search-related questions, check out our .

P.S. With episode IX comes the end of the Star Wars Skywalker-themed storyline movies. (See recaps of previous episodes and ). Although we’re out of puns, we will continue to keep you posted on the updates made to Search.

Hey redditors,

I’m , head of Privacy at Reddit, and I’m here to share several changes to Reddit’s privacy, ads, and location settings. We’re updating preference descriptions for clarity, adding the ability to limit ads from specific categories, and consolidating ad preferences. The aim is to simplify our privacy descriptions, improve ad performance, and offer new controls for the types of ads you prefer not to see.

Clearer descriptions of privacy settingsWe’ve updated the descriptions to be more clear and consistent across platforms. Here’s is preview of the new settings:

These changes will roll out over the next few weeks and we’ll follow up here once they are available for everyone. We recommend visiting your to check out the updated settings and make sure you’re still happy with what you’ve set up. If you’d like more guidance on how to manage your account security and data privacy, you can also visit our recently updated section of our Redditor Help Center.

Over the next few weeks, we’re also rolling out several changes to Reddit’s ad preferences and personalization that include removing, adding, and consolidating ad personalization settings:

Consolidating ad partner activity and information preferencesRight now, there are two different ad settings about personalizing ads based on information and activity from Reddit’s partners—“Personalize ads based on activity with our partners” and “Personalize ads based on information from our partners”. We are cleaning this up and combining into one: “Improve ads based on your online activity and information from our partners”.

Adding the ability to opt-out of specific ad categories

We are adding the ability to see fewer ads from specific categories—Alcohol, Dating, Gambling, Pregnancy & Parenting, and Weight Loss—which will live in the Safety & Privacy section of your User Settings. “Fewer” because we’re utilizing a combination of manual tagging and machine learning to classify the ads, which won’t be 100% successful to start. But, we expect our accuracy to improve over time.

Removing the ability to opt-out of ad personalization based on your Reddit activity, except in select countries.

Reddit requires very little personal information, and we like it that way. Our advertisers instead rely on on-platform activity—what communities you join, leave, upvotes, downvotes, and other signals—to get an idea of what you might be interested in.

The vast majority of redditors will see no change to their ads on Reddit. For users who previously opted out of personalization based on Reddit activity, this change will not result in seeing more ads or sharing on-platform activity with advertisers. It does enable our models to better predict which ad may be most relevant to you.

Consolidated location customization settings

Previously, people could set their preferred location in several ways, depending on where they were on the platform and what they were doing. This has been simplified, so now there’s one place to update your location preferences to help customize your feed and recommendations—from .

Reddit’s commitment to and to transparency are reasons I’m proud to work here. Any time we change the way you control your experience and data on Reddit, we want to be clear on what’s changed.

All of these changes will be rolled out gradually over the next few weeks. If you have questions, you can also learn more by checking out the help article on how to .

Edit to add translations:

1. Dutch:

2. French - France:

3. French - Canada:

4. German:

5. Italian:

6. Portuguese - Brazil:

7. Portuguese - Portugal:

8. Spanish - Spain:

9. Spanish - Mexico:

10. Swedish: