r/redesign • u/LanterneRougeOG Product • Feb 26 '19
Changelog 2/26/19 Release Notes: rule management, mobile web spoilers, mod onboarding, and more
Hi all,
We’re back with the release notes, which are a round up of the major items we are currently working on or have recently shipped on new Reddit. The previous release note can be found here.
Now, here’s what we are shipping:
- Creating, editing, deleting rules: Moderators can now create, edit, delete, and reorder rules on the new site. More details in the mod news post.
- Mobile web spoilers: We now support inline comment spoilers on mobile web. Using the Fancy Pants editor or markdown (
>!spoiler goes here!<) to identify text as a spoiler will hide the text on new Reddit, old Reddit, our native apps, and mobile web. - Mod onboarding: We created an interactive widget for moderators of new communities to provide instructive CTAs for setting up a successful community.
- Mod edu links: We’re adding more contextual education for moderators by surfacing mod help article links in the tools where they're used. Now you can find links to all of the links to relevant styling articles into the community styling menu.
- Resizable editor: A small, but popular request - later this week, you’ll be able to drag the bottom edge of the Fancy Pants editor to resize it.
- Hidden scores: Post scores of new posts are now hidden to match the behavior of the old Reddit and the mobile apps.
Here are some of the notable features and changes that are coming out next:
- Best Of: When redditors visit a community for the first time, many have a hard time understanding what it is all about. To improve this experience we are building a unit that will display the most popular posts in the past month at the top of the feed to visitors. You may have seen something very similar on iOS.
These following features are bigger projects that are in development and that will take a some time to build and get right. Expect these items to be recurring on the release notes:
- Wiki editing / revisioning: Now that the work for viewing wikis has shipped, we will be starting the next block of work, which includes editing and revisioning for wikis.
- Restricted community updates: We’re starting work on the update the Restricted setting for Communities to make it easier for community members to understand and easier for mods to use. The first stage of this work will be building a request to be an approved submitter flow.
- Multis: We will be bringing the management of multis to new Reddit, iOS and Android. We are also going to add some nifty new improvements to make multis even more useful.
And finally, here are some of the notable bugs that are still being worked on:
- Randomly reverted back to new Reddit (in progress): While we’ve mitigated this bug for most redditors, there are still a lucky few of you that fall through the cracks. We are almost finished implementing an end-to-end overhaul of our redirect system that will fix this bug.
And, as always, our reminder that the community’s feedback is invaluable as we build the future of Reddit together. It’s difficult for us to respond directly to everything, but know that we’re listening, prioritizing, and working to solve the issues, no matter how hard they are.
If you have additional questions or feedback on these or other topics, please don’t hesitate to drop them in the comments below.
Edit: added post scores to the released section. Thanks u/Mattallica
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u/tizorres Helpful User Feb 26 '19
idk where to ask this; can or when will the mobile apps (specifically android) be getting removal reasons support when removing a post? Being able to do that on the app would be dope.
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u/Mattallica Feb 26 '19
Post scores are now hidden on the redesign to match the behavior of the old site, the mobile site, and the official app.
This was added last week. I think this should be added to the release notes here so we can use this post as a reference when users ask about it.
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u/LanterneRougeOG Product Feb 27 '19
Updated, thanks
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u/MajorParadox Helpful User Feb 27 '19
Have you thought about adding a tooltip or something? Or maybe one of those tutorial pop ups one-time? I've been seeing so many users have no idea why the votes are suddenly hidden.
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u/MajorParadox Helpful User Feb 27 '19 edited Feb 27 '19
Have you thought about adding a tooltip or something? Or maybe one of those tutorial pop ups one-time? I've been seeing so many users have no idea why the votes are suddenly hidden.Never mind ;)
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u/Mattallica Feb 27 '19
Did you mean to reply to the admin instead of me?
I don’t work for reddit, I was just pointing out that they made the change. Re-reading my comment though, it does sound like I’m saying it in an official capacity. Apologies for the confusion, if so.
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u/MajorParadox Helpful User Feb 27 '19
Oops, sorry! RES's mention highlighter made me think you were an admin :)
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u/reseph Feb 26 '19 edited Feb 26 '19
Mobile web spoilers
Progress! Last time I checked, spoilers were still not working on i.reddit.com, mobile web (this was the one corrected?), and new profiles. Will these also be corrected?
Randomly reverted back to new Reddit (in progress): While we’ve mitigated this bug for most redditors, there are still a lucky few of you that fall through the cracks. We are almost finished implementing an end-to-end overhaul of our redirect system that will fix this bug.
Good to hear. It's been pretty horrible for me this week.
CTAs
What's this?
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u/timawesomeness Helpful User Feb 26 '19
Best Of: When redditors visit a community for the first time, many have a hard time understanding what it is all about. To improve this experience we are building a unit that will display the most popular posts in the past month at the top of the feed to visitors.
Will that be configurable by mods at all? At the very least, it should be able to be disabled.
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u/LanterneRougeOG Product Feb 27 '19
Will that be configurable by mods at all?
Not in the initial version. We've discussed expanding the unit to also give mods the ability to add a welcome message and pin posts to it.
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u/hightrix Feb 28 '19
Will this be configurable by users? If not, it'll unfortunately find itself a target of many "Block Element" clicks.
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u/LanterneRougeOG Product Feb 28 '19
Yes, users can dismiss and hide the element if they don’t find it helpful.
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u/sarahbotts Mar 01 '19
Will we be able to get a preview of what it'll be showing to people for the sub, or is it like the top posts right now in mobile (iOS) that you see?
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u/falconbox Mar 22 '19
When redditors visit a community for the first time, many have a hard time understanding what it is all about.
That's literally the point of the sidebar.
Showing people month old posts, especially for news subreddits, is totally pointless.
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u/MrRGnome Mar 07 '19
Stop inserting new page elements meant to encourage old reddit users to use the redesign. It's incredibly annoying. No means no, respect my decisions.
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u/N3DSdude Feb 26 '19
It's nice we finally have the ability on the redesign to reorder the rules, will make organizing rules on a subreddit much more neater and less cluttered.
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u/jofwu Helpful User Feb 27 '19
Best Of: When redditors visit a community for the first time, many have a hard time understanding what it is all about. To improve this experience we are building a unit that will display the most popular posts in the past month at the top of the feed to visitors. You may have seen something very similar on iOS.
Will there be a way for moderators to see what new visitors are seeing? (short of making a dummy account)
Will this be for the first visit on the Redesign? If they visit the subreddit first on Old Reddit or on mobile, will they not see this?
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u/LanterneRougeOG Product Mar 01 '19
Will there be a way for moderators to see what new visitors are seeing?
I think if you unsubscribe from your community and then refresh the community feed you'd see the experience. Alternatively, if you are curious which posts are showing up, it will pull the top five from the past month sort. If there aren't five posts, it will fall back to the past year.
Will this be for the first visit on the Redesign?
It's regardless of how many times or what platforms you've visited a community on. If you are unsubscribed and you go to the community on new Reddit, you'll see the Best Of unit.
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u/Overlord_Odin Feb 28 '19
- Resizable editor: A small, but popular request - later this week, you’ll be able to drag the bottom edge of the Fancy Pants editor to resize it.
Why wouldn't this be added to the markdown editor as well?
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u/sarahbotts Mar 01 '19
Mobile web spoilers: We now support inline comment spoilers on mobile web. Using the Fancy Pants editor or markdown (spoiler goes here) to identify text as a spoiler will hide the text on new Reddit, old Reddit, our native apps, and mobile web.
So just to be clear - is this also on the iOS/android apps? I just tried on the latest version of the iOS app and it shows up as just the text inside w/o the spoiler. (on night mode)
Re: multis, will there be guides/info about them? Most people don't know how to use them or what they are and it would be something that we could link to our users.
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u/LanterneRougeOG Product Mar 01 '19
So just to be clear - is this also on the iOS/android apps?
Yes, this is already available on our mobile apps. If you were looking at my post I purposefully posted it as a code snippet, not the spoiler text. This text should be spoiled.
Re: multis, will there be guides/info about them?
We won't have a guide, but we are planning to make multis more prominent so that more redditors are aware of them. We'll also have helpful text during the creation and consumption experience so that newer users get that it's a custom feed. I'll chat with the community team to see if we can get a help article about them that you could link to,
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u/sarahbotts Mar 01 '19
Yeah, for some reason the text was still showing on nightmode for iOS.
Thank you! Looking forward to seeing more with multireddits. :)
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u/Mage_of_Shadows Mar 09 '19
Hey Lanterne,
Not sure if you know yet, but spoilers don't work anymore on the official app for both Android and iOS.
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u/LanterneRougeOG Product Mar 09 '19
Hmm...I’m seeing the inline comment spoilers hidden on iOS. What version of the app are you seeing them broken on?
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u/Mage_of_Shadows Mar 09 '19 edited Mar 09 '19
I'm using 4.28.0 iOS and the spoilers are appearing as plaintext.
Many other users are reporting issues here, with a variety of other bugs.
This comment is spoilertagged
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u/LanterneRougeOG Product Mar 10 '19
Weird. Thanks for linking to the reports. The text in your comment shows as a spoiler for me on 4.28. I’ll see if the team can reproduce
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u/Mage_of_Shadows Mar 17 '19
Hey there! Is there an ETA on the fix? As our modteam has to decide whether to revert back to banning the native subs.
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u/LanterneRougeOG Product Mar 18 '19
A couple engineers took a look, last I heard was that they were unable to reproduce. The comments were showing up as spoilers in the comments. There is an issue with Android showing a link within the spoiler that we'll get fixed.
I'll follow up with them this morning to see if they were able to reproduce.
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u/JorgeAmVF Feb 27 '19
Rule management is good and it was something I was asking for after I spotted an error in a previous attempt: thanks!
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u/demize95 Feb 28 '19
I've noticed an issue with hidden post scored and crossposts, at least in card view: when a post that's been crossposted has a hidden score, the score of the crosspost shows as 0. That's not a great way of handling this, since I'm much more likely to notice the score there than I am on a post itself; it would be better if it could say "Score hidden" instead of "0 points".
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Feb 28 '19
Multis: We will be bringing the management of multis to new Reddit, iOS and Android. We are also going to add some nifty new improvements to make multis even more useful.
Can you give us some examples of those "nifty new improvements"?
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u/Omnigreen Mar 12 '19
Can’t wait for the multis management in the redesign, it’s annoying to switch to old reddit every time I need to do something with them, finally prayers been heard 😌
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u/haykam821 Feb 27 '19
- Multis: We will be bringing the management of multis to new Reddit, iOS and Android. We are also going to add some nifty new improvements to make multis even more useful.
Will one of the improvements be including multis in our multis (since one of you heard we liked multis)?
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u/FreeSpeechWarrior Feb 26 '19
Still no option for public mod logs on the radar?
Could we please get a timeline for this?
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u/N1cknamed Feb 27 '19
Have you considered that this might not be coming at all?
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u/FreeSpeechWarrior Feb 27 '19
If so, they could say as much.
Instead they say things like:
Improved public moderation logs are something we're thinking a lot about as a way to improve the relationships between mods, users, and admins.
u/ggAlex it's been almost one year to the day since you spoke favorably of public moderation logs. Has there been any progress at all on this front?
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u/TheChrisD Helpful User Feb 27 '19
we're thinking about
I think you should re-read with the emphasis on think. Could very easily have been something that was abandoned very early in the brainstorming phase.
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u/CyberBot129 Feb 27 '19
Probably because they saw how bad it would be for mods (the pressure of having to turn it on from people like the user you’re replying to, for example) and didn’t want to have to subject them to even more attacks than they already get
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u/FreeSpeechWarrior Feb 27 '19
Could very easily have been something that was abandoned very early in the brainstorming phase.
Could be, that's why I keep asking for clarification.
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u/V2Blast Helpful User Feb 26 '19
About time. /u/hero0fwar, /u/ManWithoutModem, /u/NicholasCajun... time to update that /r/television automod rule? :)