It's what day? That's right! Thursday! In addition to the various shapes and sizes of seasonal Reese's that I've been consuming, the neighborhoods around me are going hard with the Halloween decorations this year! There's at least three of those giant skeletons in various costumes within a two block radius of Casa Opus. I'm here for it, though! I'm also here for the Recap! Shall we?
NEWS AND ISSUES
Wanted to start off with a thank you to everyone who has used the Help Navigator and left feedback! It's been super helpful and we are working on improving some of the answers based on your ratings! If you haven't seen it yet, you can check it out here! We've also added that link to Post Guidance in this sub!
Mod World is this Saturday! If you're a mod, this is a great event that we've been doing annually for a while now! Sign up and show up! It's a good time with great information! And you never know who might show up. ;) There's more over in r/ModEvents!
Desktop Reddit had a moment yesterday where it just wasn't Redditing. Old Reddit and the apps worked, though! This was fixed up really fast, so major props to the teams that dove into this and got it worked out.
Little change to the ongoing For You and Following tab experiment. The "For You" tab may be called "Discover". Everything else is the same, including selecting which view you want and having that selection remembered.
There is an ongoing experiment which turns select text posts and some of their comment threads into an audio and video format.
There is another ongoing experiment where comments on a post may be sorted in live time in select communities.
Some users may see the "Popular" tab along with the For You and Following tabs.
There's still the experiment with the X on recommended posts that you can click/tap to hide the post. If you don't have an X on a post in your feed, you can go into the post and hide it from there.
And there's an experiment where you may see Related Posts at the bottom of a post. There isn't a way to remove those.
Rather than commenting that you'd like to be removed from an experiment, please provide constructive feedback about the feature. I can't remove folks from experiments, but I can (and do!) pass along your thoughts!
Reddit does not provide support outside of Reddit. There is no "Reddit support on Discord". Reddit will never ask another user to contact you on our behalf. That is someone trying to scam you. If you're having an actual issue with your account that is not solved by posting in r/help or by the articles in the Help Center, you can use this form for the real thing. Please note that 95% of issues can be solved much, much quicker by posting in r/help (or our cousin subs, r/reddithelp and r/newtoreddit).
The most recent version of the app is 2026.42.0. If you're not using the most recent version of the app, it might not work properly.
CURRENT EXPERIMENTS
Reddit sometimes runs experiments. These experiments tend to last between 4-6 weeks, though they can go longer or end sooner. While there isn't a way to opt out of experiments, feel free to leave constructive and specific feedback in this post and as I've mentioned often, I'll be happy to pass it along to the team in charge.
Ongoing current experiments can be found here.
COMMON ACCOUNT ISSUES
Common account issues can be found here. These are things like hacked accounts, NSFW accounts, suspended accounts, etc. I'm also including "Changes to Reddit" in this section as well.
BUGS ROUNDUP - COURTESY OF CORRECT SCALE!
WEEKLY STATISTICS (BASED ON THE PAST SEVEN DAYS)
1,193 posts. That's down 139 posts from the 1,332 that we had last week.
3,770 comments. That's down 656 comments from the 4,436 we had last week.
731k views. That's down about 45k-ish views from the 776k -ish views we had last week.
HELP THAT HELPS HELP R/HELP - DELETING ACCOUNTS
Let's talk deleting accounts this week!
There are times when a user may want to delete their account. You can do this from the desktop site or from the app. If it fails on the app, try the desktop site and that should work better. To delete your account from the app, log into the account, tap your profile avatar, tap Settings at the bottom, tap Account Settings at the top, tap Delete Account at the bottom. From there, you'll see a message that says "Once you delete your account, your profile and username are permanently removed from Reddit and your posts, comments and messages are dissociated (not deleted) from your account." If you'd like to know more about that, you can click "Learn more" and it will take you to this Help Center article.
To delete your account on the desktop site, you can click your profile avatar, then Settings, and then scroll down to where you can click "Delete account". You'll get a pop up which will require you to enter your username and password, as well as a checkbox to click in order to delete the account. Reddit is unable to delete an account on your behalf.
Once your account is deleted, that's it for the username! Reddit does not allow for the recycling or reuse of usernames, so no one else (including you) will be able to claim that username or use that account after it has been deleted.
To summarize that Help Center article, when you delete your account, your content is NOT DELETED. If there is content on your account when your account is deleted, the content will remain, but the username will appear as [deleted]. The content will only be accessible with a direct link and will not appear in Reddit search. Deleting your content does not delete other users' content! If there are comments on your post from other users, that content will remain. You are unable to delete other users' content.
If you want your content to be deleted, you will need to delete your content individually BEFORE YOU DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT. There is not a way to do this all at once. There may be some third party apps out there that will do this for you, but Reddit does not endorse or support any of them. Reddit is unable to delete content that was on your account after your account is deleted.
While content from deleted accounts will not appear in Reddit search, that content may continue to show up in cached search engine results for some time after deletion. This is due to the way search engines work and is not something Reddit can control or force to update for you. The deleted information will eventually fall out of the results but we have no way of predicting how long that may take. However, Google has made it easier to request the removal of personally identifiable information and you can read about that in their help center.
HELPINGEST HELPERS HELPING HELP R/HELP
u/IKIR115 - Oh, good! You're back! Thanks so much for helping out around here! Really appreciate yout!
u/westcoastcdn19 - Hey! Thank you for your help this week! (And all weeks! lol)
u/rhelpbot - Hello! You must be new here! Well, you're doing a great job! You're already Helper Level Three and have some new trophies on your profile! Good bot!
u/formerqwest - Per usual, good morning! Thank you so much for keeping an eye out for those nsfw accounts that need fixing up!
u/maiyannah - Right back at it! Thanks so much for your help!
u/ChimpyChompies - Always here, and always helping! Thank you so much!
u/Terminator7786 - Hi! Thank you for helping out!
u/xwOBA_Fett - Love seeing you around these parts! Thank you so much!
u/nicoleauroux - Hi! It's lovely when you're here! Thanks for the help!
u/SnooDonuts6494 - Woo hooo! You have leveled up to Helper Level Five and have a fancy new trophy to show for it! Congratulations! Thank you so much for helping out!
And I can't leave out the helpers and mods in r/newtoreddit and r/reddithelp! I appreciate all y'all do over there and over there! lol
And that's another week on Reddit! I really appreciate everyone who has taken the time to help out someone who needed it! Y'all make this sub sing! Thank you so much for being here, for reading, and for helping! I will see you next week and around Reddit! Until next time!
