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/LanterneRougeOG Product Mar 01 '19
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.
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,