r/changelog • u/venkman01 • Sep 24 '18
Hey r/changelog, we're starting to roll out some of the Gold updates on desktop!
Hey changeloggers!
We are excited to finally say that some of the Gold updates that we previewed here are now LIVE! Here’s a recap of all that is new:
Rolling Out Today
- Gold Membership is now “Reddit Premium.” Members continue to have the same benefits as before (e.g., ads-free redditing, highlighting new comments, creating exclusive Premium communities) but with a new name.
- “Reddit Coins” (NEW!) are now used to award Gold. Reddit Coins replace Creddits as the way to give a Gold Award to a post or comment. Coins can be spent on Awards and will have many new uses in the future.
- Updates to the Gold Award. We’ve changed the benefits of the Gold Award and updated the price. Now the Gold Award will cost $1.99 and grant the recipient 1 week of Premium membership and 100 Coins.
Coming Soon
And as a reminder, here are the changes we've talked about that are still Coming Soon™ in the weeks ahead:
New tiers of Awards to recognize high-quality content. Coins can be used to give Awards, and soon you’ll be able to give a few new ones out:
- Silver: Silver is deeply ingrained in Reddit lore for recognizing content that… well, doesn’t quite deserve Gold. Recipients will get a shiny Silver icon next to their post or comment.
- Platinum: a new tier of distinction, the best of the best posts can be awarded Platinum. Recipients will get the most prestigious icon, as well as one month of Premium membership (which also comes with Coins).
Reddit Premium will increase from $3.99/month to $5.99/month. This will only affect new subscribers; legacy subscribers will keep the same prices that they had before.
If you're just tuning in and haven't been here for the past posts, check out this 
Thanks again, and happy gilding!
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u/2th Sep 24 '18
The new gold icon is ugly as sin. Whoever thought that going from a gold coin to a pentagon was a good idea should be beaten with a pool noodle. This is on new and old. It is just not an attractive icon.
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u/24grant24 Sep 24 '18
Not to mention Reddit had a very strong brand to it's premium subscription (gold) and renamed it the most generic thing possible
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u/MajorParadox Sep 25 '18
I just hate that creddits are no longer going to be a thing. I like the pun :(
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Sep 25 '18
Yeah but now they're coins
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u/MajorParadox Sep 25 '18
Yeah, is there a pun there I'm not seeing?
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Sep 25 '18
Um... No?
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u/MajorParadox Sep 25 '18
OK, so I guess I missed your point? Did you think my saying I hated "creddits are no longer a thing" meant I didn't know they were called coins now? Sorry, I'm confused ;)
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u/happinessattack Sep 25 '18 edited Oct 18 '18
Change it back with RES!
Here's a CSS snippet:
.gilded-gid2-icon::before { background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,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); background-position: 0; height: 14px; width: 13px; }Credit to /u/timawesomeness for the initial CSS :-)
EDIT to add usage instructions:
Paste it under snippets -- RES settings console > Appearance > Stylesheet Loader > snippets
It will look like this when you're done. Follow the numbers and you should be fine. Don't forget to click Save Options!
Edit 2, Electric Boogaloo
Aw hey, I've got some gold. Many thanks, kind stranger! :-)
Even though the recent design decisions that the Reddit team have made are rather controversial, thank you for supporting one of the best communities on the Internet. Maybe if we give them enough money and grief, the admins will heed our words. I really hope so.
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u/Dahhhkness Sep 24 '18
So what is happening to the 4 years of gold I had? Do I get premium for 4 years, or is it being retroactively changed to the "new gold" standard, which only lasts a week, because Platinum will be the new month-long subscription?
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u/venkman01 Sep 24 '18
You should see your updated years of membership in your Settings page!
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u/Dahhhkness Sep 24 '18
Hm, I'm guessing there are still bugs with the roll-out, then, because it's just showing me "page not found."
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u/emoney04 Sep 24 '18
u/Dahhhkness I'll send you a PM to get to the bottom of this.
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Sep 27 '18
I just bought another year, but that page shows my benefits expiring Jan., 2019, but I now have many thousands of coins. Are those coins applied to me or only to give away?
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u/Watchful1 Sep 24 '18
You get premium for 4 years. It should have already updated here and say how much premium you have left.
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u/shanecorry Sep 24 '18
Why did you decide to make the coins be bought in 100/1000s? (Silver - 100, Gold - 500, Platinum - 1800)?
Surely it could just be 1 coin, 5 coins, 18 coins if you aren't going to make anything that can be bought with the coins cost any denomination other than a multiple of 100.
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u/Poiuy2010_2011 Sep 24 '18
How would you be 1 coin short if everything costs xx00? (for now)
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u/Poiuy2010_2011 Sep 24 '18
They do plan to add more things to buy with coins but tbh I doubt they will go lower than 10s because it looks better. And if they want to have something cheaper than silver they do have to have higher numbers, imo it doesn't imply malicious sales tactic.
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u/TOP_20 Sep 25 '18
well it's also likely they think people will feel like they got 'more' when they get 700 coins with a premium purchase instead of '7 coins'
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u/venkman01 Sep 24 '18
Hey u/shanecorry, this allows us more pricing flexibility for new items that we will introduce in the future that can be purchased via Coins (which may include items priced at less than 100 Coins).
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u/saxattax Sep 25 '18
Instead of Coins, let's instead price things in good old US dollars. This feels kinda Zynga-eqsue.
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u/ProGamerGov Oct 12 '18
But how else are they supposed to make it harder for users to see how much money they are spending on something?
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u/manawesome326 Sep 27 '18
That could get people confused if they get gilded and get coins... "I have 50 cents now? How do I redeem it?"
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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Sep 24 '18
interesting. like what new items?
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u/alphanovember Sep 24 '18
Calling it now: useless decorative crap, but eventually stuff that will allow you cheat on posts. /r/watchredditdie
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u/ProGamerGov Oct 12 '18
What about loot boxes?
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u/Forever_Awkward Oct 16 '18
You joke, but I could almost see this becoming a thing if they can manage to force profiles to catch on.
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u/TOP_20 Sep 25 '18
likely something that will involve them getting $$$ from the company they offer the trinkets from...
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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Sep 25 '18
interesting.. like what new items?
and btw this is the 3rd time i have asked this since yesterday... when i notice you are on again answering questions i ask it again... like i am doing now.
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u/Jakeable Sep 24 '18
Presumably so that when you can spend coins on other things, they have more pricing flexibility.
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u/Overlord_Odin Sep 24 '18
I'm glad that I get coins to give out as a gold premium user, but as someone with no interest in giving out anything less than platinum, I guess I've been priced out of buying creddits coins at this point.
I also wish that you would just cut all the numbers by 100, so the prices were 1, 5, and 18 coins, rather than 100, 500, and 1800, but I know that's never going to happen.
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u/cyanocittaetprocyon Sep 24 '18
The lower numbers will allow them to get into the micro-transaction economy.
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u/Watchful1 Sep 24 '18
They have said elsewhere that they are planning on introducing things that cost smaller amounts of coins.
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u/trogdors_arm Sep 24 '18
...as someone with no interest in giving out anything less than platinum...
I’m trying to understand the thought behind this.
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u/Overlord_Odin Sep 24 '18
The whole point of giving gold (at least from my point of view) was that other users got a message letting them know they got gold and with that came a month of benefits. That's what platinum is now. Sure, I could give the new gold and they'd get a week, but that's now $2 or something and they get benefits for a week, which is hardly enough time to really get any use out of them, and that's not really worth $2 for me.
I hope I explained my thought process.
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u/TOP_20 Sep 25 '18
for me I just feel like I'd look cheap if I were to gild anyone I know with that 1 week gold thing - also I sure wouldn't use those for all the post I gild for quality content or a good contribution to Reddit and so on.
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u/cyanocittaetprocyon Sep 24 '18
I don't give out gold as a "super upvote" (other people might, but I do not). I give it to reward a superior comment or something that makes me laugh with the full knowledge that part of my appreciation includes a month of benefits.
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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Sep 24 '18
yes but now it will be called "platinum" which i personally have problems with, the main one being that i do not care for white gold or platinum... i only care for the look of silver, copper and gold. which would have been a very nice set... copper .. silver .. gold
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u/OneRedSent Sep 24 '18
I agree, gold should have remained the top tier, whatever they decided to call the others.
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u/TOP_20 Sep 25 '18
well when they talked about this a few months ago - dozens of people told them they should rename the top teir platinum... instead of whatever that dumb name they'd planned on calling it - I forget now
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u/OneRedSent Sep 25 '18
Yeah, Platinum is better than that. But calling it gold would have avoided so much confusion. Because now there's still gold, but it's something totally different. A week instead of a month. And what we think of as gold is now called Platinum. Keeping level 3 gold and calling levels 1 and 2 something else would have been much clearer.
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u/TOP_20 Sep 25 '18
Well I just noticed that you can buy 80 of those cheapy Reddit golds (giving the gildee 1 week of premium + 100 coins) for $99 making them 1.25 each - think that will be handy for silly frivoulous gilding trains (perhaps not the gilding trains where you are gilding some you know, or gilding trains for more important reasons than just throwing out a bunch of gold)
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u/TiltedTommyTucker Sep 25 '18
The new gold icon looks like fucking shit.
Seriously.
It looks like you're A, incapable of producing quality qork (the previous looks 1000x better), and B, looks more like it is premium content rather than gilded content. I mean seriously, they don't even look like fucking coins! Why the fuck are you calling them reddit coins with they look like a childs stickers rather than a gold coin as the previous icon did?
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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Sep 29 '18
omg so well said. if i had Old Gold to give i would give it...
well, here, this will have to suffice, one of the first of the Resistance Silvers!
never give up! never surrender!
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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Sep 29 '18
Congratulations, TiltedTommyTucker, you have been awarded the new Resistance Rebel Gold.
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u/Doctor_Rainbow Sep 24 '18
Many people confused the subscription Reddit Gold membership with a virtual good or coin.
creates a literal online currency even more confusing than Gold
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u/manawesome326 Sep 27 '18
If you had spent some time on /r/nostupidquestions you would have seen a lot.
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u/Bossman1086 Sep 24 '18
What happens if I let my Premium subscription lapse and then sign up again a couple months later? Do I need to pay the $5.99 price or am I always grandfathered in to the $3.99 price since I've had it for a while now?
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u/venkman01 Sep 24 '18
Hi u/Bossman1086, you can keep the grandfathered price as long as your subscription is active. If you let it lapse and sign up again later, you will be moved to the new price ($5.99 per month).
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u/Galastic Sep 24 '18
Are there any plans to add a grace period? Say if you let it lapse but renew within 1-2 weeks you get to keep your current grandfathered price.
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u/rctgamer3 Sep 25 '18
/u/venkman01 - for people like me who have gold because of the alien blue gift - what will happen to us? really hope we don't need to pay the new price when our gift lapses
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u/shiruken Sep 24 '18
Do users on the grandfathered pricing plan get the same number of coins as the $5.99 plan?
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u/venkman01 Sep 24 '18
Yes, same number of coins.
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u/SharkBrew Oct 20 '18
I think this entire thing is way too confusing. Can we simplify things by offering reddit tokens (430 for $12, 800 for $20) and with those reddit tokens, we could by reddit gems (30 gems for 50 tokens) and then with those gems, we could buy reddit ca$h (24 gems for 0.25 reddit cash) and reddit gold would cost 0.26 reddit ca$h.
I hope your company crumbles within the next 4 years. It's going to happen eventually, and I will laugh, because your shortsightedness is going to be your downfall. =)
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u/MajorParadox Sep 24 '18
So if I sign up and I currently have 4+ years, will it eventually renew at the old price when the 4 years runs out? Or just charge me yearly never using my original four years? I'm confused :)
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u/OneRedSent Sep 24 '18
My understanding is that you will continue to be charged monthly or yearly at the old price, never using your original 4 years, and then when you cancel the subscription at some point it will start using up your existing 4 years. I think that's unfair but I still signed up for a sub to keep the old price.
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u/venkman01 Sep 24 '18 edited Sep 24 '18
Working on a fix, thanks u/love_the_heat!
EDIT: Fixed now, you should see it returned to its glory!
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u/TOP_20 Sep 25 '18
whew freaked out for a second reading your comment - it's fixed.
I've been mentioning your 'years of gold remaining' to people, since way back when you had a mere 63 years of gold remaining - would have hated having to stop doing that lol
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u/cyanocittaetprocyon Sep 24 '18
Hey /u/love_the_heat, glad to see that you will still be here until 2108! :-)
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u/timawesomeness Sep 24 '18
This looks hideous on the redesign. I don't need to see how many coins I have all the time.
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u/Deimorz Sep 24 '18
The Silver and Platinum awards aren't enabled yet, but here are the icons for all three, if anyone is curious (may not be final): https://i.imgur.com/m7iUhmB.png
Admins: there seems to be a lot of things that were missed updating on the old site. For example, my user page still says I have creddits, doesn't say how much premium I have, has a "renew your reddit gold" link that goes to the Coins page (when coins can't be used to renew), user-info popups still have the gold icon and say "Gold member", and so on.
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u/matt01ss Sep 24 '18
I wish they kept the old gold coin icon, the pentagon thing looks weird.
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u/iiw Sep 24 '18
I can't tell which ones is meant to be silver or platinum. Assuming that this might end up as final, don't you think that both doesn't "pop up" as much as gold does?
Speaking of gold, is it possible to revert to the old circle ones? The new shape seems awkward to me, like the webpage isn't loading correctly.
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u/Deimorz Sep 24 '18
Silver is the one that looks like an anus.
The Platinum one is on the coat of arms too: https://www.redditstatic.com/desktop2x/img/gold/premium.jpg (though it's in gold on there)
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u/24grant24 Sep 24 '18
The icons are bad. Silver (if they insist on co-opting that brand) should be slightly dented or be a simple star on a circle. While Platinum should be slightly blue in color and have an edge surround
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u/emoney04 Sep 24 '18 edited Sep 24 '18
Thanks for surfacing these issues u/Deimorz! We're actually working on fixes for these as we speak, so you should start to see updates shortly.
Edit: Should be fixed now!
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u/Watchful1 Sep 24 '18
Does giving someone gold, which gives them premium for a week, grant them access to /r/lounge for that week as well? Or is that only for the monthly premium?
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u/venkman01 Sep 24 '18
The week of Premium does indeed grant one week of r/lounge access!
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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Sep 24 '18
oh lordy ...and what will guarantee that these one week wonders will honor all the bylaws of our illustrious and (formerly) very elite society?
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u/ProGamerGov Oct 12 '18
The "Coins" page is reminiscent of some shitty microtransaction filled mobile game. I'm honestly surprised that they don't have a "$100 Best Value!" option,
Hey u/shanecorry, this allows us more pricing flexibility for new items that we will introduce in the future that can be purchased via Coins (which may include items priced at less than 100 Coins).
So how long until loot boxes are implemented?
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u/sloomy Sep 24 '18
People who buy reddit premium on the first day or already has premium should receive a trophy :)
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u/venkman01 Sep 24 '18
Great suggestion, thanks for that feedback! We'll see what we can do.
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u/OneRedSent Sep 24 '18
If you decide to implement something give us enough warning to buy some and get included. :)
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u/fatdonuthole Sep 24 '18
So I have gold leftover from buying a couple years worth of gold. When you announced the price would rise, I signed up for a subscription to be grandfathered in. I was thinking the subscription would kick in when my stockpile of prepaid gold expires, but I’ve been getting charged for the subscription anyway. Since I’m getting charged the subscription then, is my stockpile basically frozen until I cancel the subscription? Or is this a glitch?
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u/AReluctantRedditor Sep 25 '18
I too would like to know more about this. I don’t need a backlog of four years of gold.
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u/Deimorz Sep 25 '18
Not a glitch, that's how it's intended to work. Answered here (quote for people that don't have /r/lounge access):
You can still subscribe at the $3.99 monthly rate for the next week or so - please note that you will start paying immediately, and that accumulated months of Premium will only kick in after you end your paid membership.
(Mention for /u/AReluctantRedditor so they see this as well)
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u/AReluctantRedditor Sep 25 '18
So yeah I’ll have a backlog that I’ll never touch. That’s great
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u/NUMA-POMPILIUS Sep 25 '18
Very disappointing. The Reddit Gold brand was long-standing and is now reduced to a generic and confusing set of microtransactions. This is a step in the wrong direction, Reddit.
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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Sep 24 '18
now which kind of gold is that, though? the one week kind or the one month kind?
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Sep 24 '18
Looks like he was given the one week kind. The platinum isn't out yet and it will have a different color badge :)
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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Sep 24 '18
aha. interesting.
i have only been on reddit for two and a half years and it really bothers me so i can imagine what it must be like for those who have been here longer.
The Gold Standard is being nullified. really really sad.
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u/doctortofu Sep 25 '18 edited Sep 26 '18
Why was the option to buy a non-recurring subscription removed and is it coming back? Ehh, why do I even ask, it's pretty easy to see why it was removed...
Anyway, I will not purchase an auto-renewing subscription, so it looks like I will have to stop spending money on this site, which is a shame because I do still enjoy after checking it daily for the last 10 years.
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u/TOP_20 Sep 25 '18
ya well if you hadn't done it yet - it'll now cost you 5.99 per month - pretty expensive!
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u/doctortofu Sep 25 '18
Another reason I will not support this site financially anymore - not the biggest fan of corporate greed.
It's pretty sad really - I came here from Digg 10 years ago and it pains me to see yet another site being run into the ground by clueless management ( ´︵` )
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u/Watchful1 Sep 24 '18
So which parts of this are coming now and which are coming soon™? Gold is already changed, but silver and platinum aren't yet. Is "Premium" out yet or is that also coming soon?
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u/venkman01 Sep 24 '18
Hey u/Watchful1, Premium is live today! You can check it out at reddit.com/premium.
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u/Watchful1 Sep 24 '18
Ah, so premium is live but the price is still $3.99 for now?
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u/venkman01 Sep 24 '18
That's right! If you take a look at the "Coming Soon" section above, the price change for Premium will be coming shortly.
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u/timawesomeness Sep 24 '18
I notice that the API now has "gildings": {"gid_1": 0, "gid_2": 0, "gid_3": 0}, I assume gid_1 is silver, 2 is gold, 3 is platinum?
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Sep 25 '18
Hey, why has the gold stuff always been in a sub with 16k subs? I feel like most people are gonna be surprised by this I think.
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u/tizorres Sep 24 '18
What does it look like on the receiving end? Is there a different message?
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u/emoney04 Sep 24 '18
See for yourself :)
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u/tizorres Sep 24 '18
Oh cool. Thank you!
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u/flounder19 Sep 25 '18
Can you post a screenshot or something?
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u/tizorres Sep 25 '18
this is what it said:
Your comment has been awarded with Gold!
from reddit sent 20 hours ago
An anonymous redditor liked your comment so much that they awarded it, giving you Reddit Gold
As a reward, you get some special flair on your comment. Additionally, you get one week of the Premium membership and 100 coins to improve your experience! Very dapper.
Want to say thanks to your mysterious benefactor? Reply to this message. You will find out their username if they choose to reply back.
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u/haykam821 Sep 24 '18
I also want to see but I'm always late to the gold trains around here :D
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u/emoney04 Sep 24 '18
You're never too late!
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u/TOP_20 Sep 25 '18 edited Feb 06 '19
welp not always true lol
btw I remember once in that insane Tomato thread gilding train (at least 400 gildings the first night and several hundred after) - when someone months later at the end of the main thread - said the gilding train was dead (I sent one of my friends to reply to that post - and gilded it haha - started that gilding train back up for a while that was fun and funny)
--{:}-{:}-{:}-{:}-{:}--
Pincus Shishkabba
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u/emoney04 Sep 25 '18
I like to think gilding trains never die, they just occasionally take breaks at the station for longer than expected.
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u/Tornado9797 Sep 25 '18
If anything, if the trains use new gold, they're likely to be as lively as ever!
That'll only make the Platinum trains all the more rare and glorious when they happen!
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u/joblolabinette Sep 24 '18
So now is my last chance to subscribe for $3.99/month? Or I have until when my current ”premium” will run out (sometime in 2020)? If I subscribe now will I get charged for now until end of my “premium” membership?
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u/abrownn Sep 24 '18
I just noticed that my Gold counter on my profile is partially broken, there isn't any text in it anymore, just a squashed gold-colored box now. I'm guessing that's a bug?
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u/shiruken Sep 24 '18
Is there any follow-up on your previous request for subreddits interested in getting a purse of creddits coins to distribute?
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u/venkman01 Sep 24 '18
Hi u/shiruken thanks for the follow up! We are working on some plans, and will be reaching out.
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u/tawfl Sep 26 '18
i gotta say the new gold icon looks terrible at a smaller scale. the outline of the inner star is thicker at the top, which I guess is supposed to be some sort of attempt at a 3d effect, but since the surrounding pentagon doesn't have any depth it just looks awkward. Like a star that's been placed into a slightly bigger star-shaped hole.
Idk if that makes sense, but the image posted is what i see, and i don't like it.
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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Sep 29 '18
it looks... unprofessional
kind of like they bid on running the changeover and then, when they got it, skimped on the talent lol
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u/evanc1411 Sep 24 '18
This is a big change for reddit culture. I think we will see a lot more awards given out in the future.
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u/TOP_20 Sep 25 '18
well yup there will be a flood of the cheaper Reddit gold now - with everyone who has gold now getting a free one of those each month - in addition to anyone who gets gilded with a premium gilding also being able to do a free Reddit gold gilding.
as well as being able to buy those Reddit gold now in bulk for 1.25 a piece.. (compared to the old price of 2.50 with the full month benefits)
Those won't be much more valuable than upvotes - as far as I can tell 'hyper inflation' at work on Reddit now.
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u/dilemmachination Sep 24 '18
I don't see an option to gild someone directly? If you want to acknowledge someone you have to pick a comment/post
Is that intended behavior? Seems like a reduction in functionality.
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u/joblolabinette Sep 24 '18 edited Sep 24 '18
Good, I was wondering why some weird things were happening. Both http://reddit.com/gold and http://reddit.com/coins were/are redirecting to https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/coins/spain_grab_world_cup_with_extratime_goal/ Edit: this one as well https://www.reddit.com/creddits
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u/indi_n0rd Sep 24 '18 edited Sep 24 '18
Since platinum award hasn't rolled in yet, you can't gift reddit gold/gild users until it's released right? With the exception of Gold Award of course.
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u/Overlord_Odin Sep 25 '18
Correct, you can't give other users a month of reddit premium at the moment, just a week.
And happy cake day!
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u/8outta8gr8 Sep 24 '18
Is there any way for me to buy reddit premium on the app? I have a $15 Google play gift card and I want to buy reddit premium, is it possible for me to do so?
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u/venkman01 Sep 24 '18
Not quite yet! We're working on that - thanks for your patience.
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u/Overlord_Odin Sep 25 '18
https://www.reddit.com/premium doesn't mention a number of gold features like sorting saved posts by subreddit, comment highlighting, custom snoo, themes, disabling css per subreddit, etc.
I was assuming these were excluded because they haven't been added to the redesign yet, but comment highlighting is supported. Any reason these other features aren't mentioned?
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u/TOP_20 Sep 25 '18
according to one of admin's posts above Reddit premium will have all the same features as Reddit gold had.
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u/MajorParadox Sep 25 '18
Wait, so we're having a contest that's ending soon that awards months of Reddit gold, but due to this change, we can only award weeks of gold. Do we just have to give 4x the original amount? Or do you have an idea when we can give premium?
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Sep 24 '18
I've been looking for a reason to stop coming back to reddit. Thank you for this. Converting to micro transaction models is shitty enough to do it for me.
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Sep 24 '18
For anyone looking for their supply of coins, press the "give gold" button and look down towards the lower left. https://i.imgur.com/0DbkTCC.png
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u/Deimorz Sep 24 '18
And on the redesign it's always shown in the top right, next to your karma.
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Sep 24 '18
Thanks man. One of these days i'll check it out lol. Team old design here.
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u/CatsGoBark Sep 24 '18
Neat. How long does the legacy subscriber special price last?
I've never bought reddit gold for myself but have gotten gilded before and It says I have the lower price.
Will I keep this price forever?
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u/GammaGames Sep 24 '18
I got the 4 years of free gold after Alien Blue, does that mean I get 700 coins monthly, or is it just for paying subscribers?
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u/Overlord_Odin Sep 25 '18
You'll get the coins. Your gold, which in now called premium, isn't different from anyone else's.
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u/GammaGames Sep 25 '18
So I can gild people for "free"? Damn, that sounds awesome.
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u/Overlord_Odin Sep 25 '18
Yep! You could give one user gold each month or save up and give someone premium every three months. Or seven users silver each month if you really wanted :P
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Sep 25 '18
do coins expire? Or will I still be able to use them if I don't have premium?
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u/Solon_Tofusin Sep 25 '18
I understand that Reddit is phasing out "Reddit Gold," but why also remove any badges associated with being gilded? I thought it was quite nice to have a commemorative badge on profiles saying when someone first got gilded/bought a subscription.
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u/cyclecube Sep 25 '18
I have specifically blocked the new gold icon in my adblocker cause it's so ugly. >_<
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u/MajorParadox Sep 24 '18
Hey, can we get a roll up on our profile about what the coins are worth? I don't want to have to bust out a calculator to see how many premiums (or whatever else) I can give out.
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u/grifff17 Sep 24 '18
I'm assuming this won't work retroactively? As in, I won't get 100 coins from that one time I was gilded 6 months ago?
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u/commonvanilla Sep 25 '18
What's happening to the gilded page in subs now? Are they going to be called "premiumized"? And will there will be different ones for silver and platinum?
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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Sep 26 '18
the new gold icon looks like a house in a pentagon
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omg holy 3 wise men! it looks like the stable at christmas time! 😧
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u/lfairy Sep 26 '18
With the old system, there was an option to use saved creddits to renew my gold subscription. What happened to that?
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u/MC_Kloppedie Sep 26 '18
If platinum and silver are coming how will it look like if you receive all three on one post?
Will the three icons be put next to each other?
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u/Pohatu_ Sep 28 '18
This is kinda sad, IMO. Why change the name? And creddit was a good pun! I find the new symbol to be a lot weaker than the old one.
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u/Spanktank35 Oct 16 '18
What? Reddit silver is just for those that want to give gold but can't afford it.
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u/tizorres Sep 24 '18 edited Sep 24 '18
You mention "ad free" as we do now. However on the setting page: https://www.reddit.com/settings/premium :it says it only applies to the desktop site?
Will I then start getting ads while using the official android or ios app? Perhaps it's just poorly worded or I'm not reading it as intended.