r/reddit • u/singmethesong • Dec 15 '22
Updates The Feed Read Chapter Two: Take control of your feed
Welcome, redditors, to a new chapter of The Feed Read. As you may recall, this is an ongoing series about the changes, improvements, and updates coming to your Reddit feed. In this round, we’ll be talking about new features that will help you take control of your feed to give you the content you want, the way you want.
Simpler feed options
We made two changes on our mobile apps earlier this year to make feeds easier and simpler to use for both new redditors and those who have been here for a while:
- Added a drop-down menu of feeds, including Home, Popular and, News (iOS)
- Moved home feed sorting options into settings, since many redditors (especially new ones) didn’t use these options
Both these changes significantly increased how many posts redditors see in their home feeds. And we’re now announcing two more changes to further simplify feeds that will roll out starting today on iOS and early 2023 on Android.
- Adding a “Latest” feed to the drop-down menu of feeds, which will allow you to view your content sorted by “new” and quickly stay up to date with what’s new in the communities you follow
- Removing Home feed sort controls and defaulting Home to the “Best” sort
After looking at the numbers, our research showed that more than 99% of redditors use two sorts on their Home Feed: “Best” and “New.” This change will make it easier for you to get to sort options used the most—Home feed (sorted by best) and Latest feed (your home feed sorted by new).
The Latest Feed is the first of a few new feeds we plan to release in the upcoming year. People use Reddit in lots of different ways based on intent at time of use — some prefer in-depth reading, and others want a passive, relaxed watching experience. To cater to these moods, we’re working to make it possible to access feeds based on your browsing mode preference and to prioritize your preferred feeds for an easier feed switching experience. Stay tuned for updates!
Customizable and cleaner feed
The home feed is used today as an entry point to discover conversations, communities, and creators relevant to you. To make it better, we’re updating and building features that will give you a simpler, more customized in-feed browsing experience. Last month, the community muting feature was rolled out on iOS and Android mobile apps, which allows you to mute and unmute content from communities on your Home, Popular, and now Latest feeds. This will allow you to control what you do and don’t want to see on your feed. (Note: Muting a community doesn’t restrict you from visiting or taking part in it.) We are working on adding the option to mute communities on desktop, so stay tuned for more info there soon.
To help us improve the recommendations on your feed, remember that you can tap on the three-dot menu on the top right corner of the recommended post and let us know if you want us to “show more posts like this” or “show less posts like this” on your iOS or Android app or on reddit.com.
We’re also exploring ways to make content on Reddit easier to read. To achieve that, we’re changing the way posts display on select feeds on Android and iOS. We’re trying out a style that focuses more on the post content and less on elements that aren’t used by most redditors. Starting today, posts displayed in Home, Popular, and Latest feeds will not include awards, and the awards action will be in the three-dot menu.
These changes will only affect those three feeds, and the posts will look the same on the post detail and community pages.
That’s all we’ve got for now! Stay tuned for more in the coming months, as we keep working to improve and refine your Reddit feeds.
We’ll be keeping an eye on this post for a while, if you have questions and feedback about these changes. Got an idea for a specific feed you’d like to see us build next? Let us know in the comments below!
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Dec 15 '22
Lol this new update is trash. I open a image on a post and it instantly goes to another post. What in the world
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u/awkwadman Dec 15 '22
I also love going to the next post and the previous video's audio plays over it. Oh, and the video player still only works most of the time, and if i click on a post that takes several seconds to open (usually after the video wont play because it plays every time in the post), I have to hit the back button the same amount of times... yet let's change the feed.
I really hope they're not changing over to the simplified feed I saw on my alt recently where the user name disappeared until you open the post.
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u/singmethesong Dec 15 '22
We’re sorry you’re experiencing this! This is a media player bug on iOS we’re fixing right now and should be resolved soon.
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u/jamiec514 Dec 16 '22
I'm sure you'll manage to fuck that up too just like you've completely fucked up the whole app for tons of people all because you're skewing the data and then trying to say it's what the majority of people use when that's bullshit. I used to love Reddit but taking away the ability to sort my feed the way I WANT TO and not the way you want to tell me to is super fucking off-putting.
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u/DustyLustre Dec 16 '22
How about you resolve the issue of not being able to sort the home feed at all now.
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u/shhalahr Dec 16 '22
How's Relay compared to RIF, which is what I currently use?
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u/TheSealedWolf Dec 15 '22
Why would you default to best instead of hot???
Also how am I supposed to sort by controversial now?
Why do you keep making the home feed worse?
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u/singmethesong Dec 15 '22
The default to Best isn’t new; that’s been the case for over a year now. “Best” is somewhat inspired by the “Hot” sort, but with some changes - we started removing posts you’ve already seen, and boosting content from communities where you have spent time.
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u/orbitalfreak Dec 15 '22
we started removing posts you’ve already seen
"Hey, there's this post I saw earlier today. You'd like it. Let me scroll down to find it... Hmm, where did it go?"
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u/cir49c29 Dec 16 '22
boosting content from communities where you have spent time.
I hate that it does this. It means that your feed becomes repeats of the same subreddits over and over again instead of showing varied content from every sub you've joined.
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u/TheSealedWolf Dec 15 '22
It wouldn’t be a problem if hot was still accessible (same with controversial)
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u/Desperate-Strategy10 Dec 15 '22
Wait, so is controversial gone..?
I don't have any issues with the update overall, but sometimes controversial is the only way to find the drama, and I'm not ready to give that up lol
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Dec 16 '22
Did fucking Elon buy Reddit too? What are you guys trying to do? Whatever it is it isn’t good.
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u/CaduceusClaymation Dec 17 '22
Removing posts we’ve already seen is bad. I don’t need Reddit to have such a heavy hand in my feed, I can handle that fine on my own.
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u/CappinPeanut Dec 17 '22
Rising is better than all of them. That’s where you get interaction with people. This is likely going to nuke my Reddit interaction and therefore my usage.
New is just spam of the same boring thing over and over again and best is so crowded you can’t get a word in edge wise.
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u/mattsuda Dec 15 '22 edited Dec 15 '22
So what are we supposed to do if we use the "hot" or "top" or any of the other sorting options for the home feed?
Why not just include these options in the dropdown? This change is awful
Does this also affect third party apps or the desktop website?
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u/YesOrNah Dec 17 '22
Seriously. Those are pretty much the only two I use and now my feed is fucking terrible.
Despise this new change so fucking much lol.
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u/singmethesong Dec 15 '22
Our goal is to provide a simpler experience for the majority of our users, I’m sorry if this change doesn’t work for you. What we’ve found is that many people are confused by all the different sorts and primarily used the “best” and “new” sorts which are now reflected in the Home and Latest feeds. That said, this change currently doesn’t affect desktop or 3rd party apps.
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u/mattsuda Dec 15 '22
Thank you for the reply!
I'll continue using the desktop website and third party mobile apps then.
The "hot" sorting option is the best way to sort the home feed in my opinion.
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u/PowerlinxJetfire Dec 15 '22
Rather than simply throwing features out because they're confusing, did you consider trying to help users understand them better? Vague, one-word labels that rely on knowledge of the karma system are obviously going to be a little confusing.
Did you consider that a confused user might be biased toward "best" because the name is an implicit endorsement, not necessarily because they would actually choose that if they did understand their options? And it makes sense "new" is the other popular one, since it's the only one that a user could probably understand with zero knowledge about Reddit.
Personally I use "hot." In my experience, "best" tends to surface a lot more low quality posts, so I'm really not looking forward to this change.
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u/treZissou Dec 15 '22
These changes are shit. Why would I want less ability to control the content I see? Honestly the last straw on this mobile app. Time to start exploring 3rd party choices. I refresh my home feed and the top posts change every single time, so dumb and inconvenient, then to top it off I am forced to use this home feed.
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Dec 15 '22
What we’ve found is that many people are confused by all the different sorts and primarily used the “best”
Apparently if you force everyone to use the same default setting, and hide the option to change it, most people end up using that setting!
Who could have guessed?
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u/ExCalvinist Dec 15 '22
Please stop suggesting reddit posts from subs I'm not subscribed to until you have the feature to mute communities on every platform. You are suggesting awful posts to me that make me incredibly angry. This isn't Twitter; downvotes mean negative emotions don't drive engagement. The entire point of having a reddit account is filtering down to only the content I want to see. If my feed is full of stuff I don't want to see and certainly don't want to comment on, then why on earth would I have an account?
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u/violetgrumble Dec 15 '22
Old Reddit: Preferences > link options > Untick show trending subreddits in home feed
New Reddit: Feed Settings > Turn off Enable home feed recommendations
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u/summ190 Dec 15 '22
Fucking this 10 times over. It’s the entire reason I use Reddit over other social media, I don’t feel like I’m being actively pushed to do stuff here. Just the subs I wanna see and a few actual ads. I hate this move to be more like FB. Ugh.
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u/PlaybolCarti69 Dec 15 '22
Exactly lmao im tired of seeing the same milennial r/meirl posts in my home feed when im not even subscribed there
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u/singmethesong Dec 15 '22
Hey there! Thanks for mentioning this; we definitely don’t want you getting recommendations you don’t want. The Community Muting feature will be available on desktop in the coming few months. If you want to switch off home feed recommendations on every platform, you can do that within your settings, as u/violetgrumble already mentioned. Per u/summ190’s question: yes – changing that setting will affect iOS as well.
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u/readingrachelx Dec 15 '22
How do you set “latest” as your default home feed view?
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u/singmethesong Dec 15 '22
You cannot right now but we are exploring ways to further personalize your feed switching experience, which may include changing the order of feeds!
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Dec 15 '22
Maybe you should finish the job before you throw the lever and force us all to put up with it?
Or stop touching shit that doesn't need to be changed?
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u/designerhoe Dec 17 '22
You took away the option to do something and you’re now “exploring ways” to bring functionality back that NO ONE asked you to take away?
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u/RollingThunder_CO Dec 16 '22
Is there a way to get rid of “latest” … I don’t need or want to see my feed in order of newest
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u/VitaminTea Dec 17 '22
Hey if you’re looking for ideas, you should check out the old version of the app. It had great options for changing the order of feeds.
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u/MajorParadox Dec 15 '22
Cool! So Latest is exactly the same as sorting the home feed by new? (Note: I think that would be a great place to help bring visibility to stickied posts).
Please put r/all and custom feeds in that drop down too, though! (Each one, not a link that opens a list of them). That would make my browsing so much easier.
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u/Sandy-Anne Dec 15 '22
Hey, so would you mind explaining how to get to r/all? I can only get there by clicking on links like yours. It doesn’t come up on my search feature. Such a newb question for someone who has been here for forever but I just manage without it, even though I don’t want to. I wish it was in the drop-down. I feel like I used to see it? I don’t know.
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u/MajorParadox Dec 15 '22
If you go to the left drawer, where all your subs are located, and scroll all the way down (collapsing the folders makes it easier), you can find it there. It doesn’t let you favorite it either, which is a bummer
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u/singmethesong Dec 15 '22
That’s right - Latest feed is exactly the same as sorting the home feed by new. We’re still exploring putting your custom feeds and r/all in that drop down - stay tuned!
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u/lilbro93 Dec 15 '22
This is code for it's never going to happen.
old.reddit.com
Bookmark it. Use it. Download a 3rd party Reddit app.
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u/capskinfan Dec 20 '22
In that case, let us create a 'top' or 'rising' custom feed... To replace the functionality that you seem to be whittling away from the app.
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u/agaperion Dec 15 '22
Any ballpark estimate on a timeframe for desktop's community muting option?
A month? 3 months? 6? More?
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u/singmethesong Dec 15 '22
It’s coming in the next few months! We will keep you updated closer to the date.
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u/MajorParadox Dec 15 '22
Removing Home feed sort controls and defaulting Home to the “Best” sort
Wait, so the home controls are being removed from settings too? It's one thing to make it harder if you think most users don't need it, but it's another to remove functionality entirely.
After looking at the numbers, our research showed that more than 99% of redditors use two sorts on their Home Feed: “Best” and “New.”
Google says Reddit had 450 million monthly users in 2019 and it's probably way more since. 1% of that many users would be 4.5 million people. That's hardly negligible.
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u/Sirhc978 Dec 15 '22
Guess I am in the 1% because I exclusively sort my home feed by Rising.
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u/Mjb06 Dec 15 '22
Me too!
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u/SoDakZak Dec 15 '22
Me three, Top Now was my go to for 5 years before all of these feed changes began happening and stuff has been hidden further and further in settings. Feel like at this rate I’ll begin reducing my Reddit usage in the coming years if I can’t view the content in a way that I like or can customize.
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u/havocLSD Dec 16 '22 edited Dec 16 '22
I’m just going to start using Apollo for iOS from here on once again until they put it back. I exclusively only sort by rising and it’s been frankly pissing me off with how frustrating they are being with hiding these selections. Like why remove them at all? They were hidden away already and it allowed us to use the app the way we wanted with the extra options.
Now they decided having extra options is too much and has chosen to make the app function the way they want it to be for us. Such bs.
Also, Apollo’s video player is far better than whatever excuse Reddit mobile been running with. They could’ve started there with their “improvements”, not something so small like the sorting feature.
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u/scfortune Dec 18 '22
Same here. Did they delete top now? Super irritating they keeping hiding these in different places but if it’s removed, it’s a whole another story.
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u/recorkESC Dec 16 '22
Me as well. I want rising back. New is boring. Best is boring. Rising is much more interesting. Latest = New = 600 AskReddit posts for one interesting post. This change is awful.
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u/GoSuckYaMother Dec 16 '22
Exactly. Rising was quality posts before everybody knew they were quality. You can get your questions in early, etc. I can’t scroll by popular or new.. it’s not entertaining for me. I’ll come back after the next update. Hopefully they read these comments and see that people don’t approve of this method.
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u/Kingcobra64 Dec 15 '22 edited Dec 15 '22
Everybody I know uses hot. It’s the best way to find the things that got popular in the 8 hours you were asleep or at work.
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u/CappinPeanut Dec 17 '22
Same here! Rising is the best for interaction with people. The post has traction and people are active on it while not being so active that your comments get drowned in a sea of 1,000 comments. I don’t even comment on threads that have over 100 comments (except this one), mine will never be seen unless people are sorting by new.
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u/DonMegaPopeKenny Dec 19 '22
I’m actually pissed about this update. It’s stupid. I don’t want to see the posts with 10k likes already and I don’t want to sort through all of the new crap people are posting every second
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u/haltingpoint Dec 16 '22
This is a naive POV. Unless there's significant business impact, their product team wouldn't be doing their jobs if they optimized for the 1% minority on a feature of this nature. That's just bad product management.
But if you have a compelling business case I'd love to hear it. Please don't mistake this for it sucking that you were negatively impacted. I'm just trying to highlight the realities of managing a software product like this.
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u/DustyLustre Dec 16 '22
PUT IT BACK. Keep it in the settings. Why remove it??? What does that accomplish.
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u/TurnedEvilAfterBan Dec 16 '22
I also suspect contributors tend to be in the 1%
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u/shhalahr Dec 16 '22
Right. It’s the pro users that tend to make the most use out of rarely-used features.
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u/TavisNamara Dec 15 '22
"We moved the shift key to the underside of the keyboard, and now nobody uses caps! Guess we can remove the shift key entirely!"
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u/lolosity_ Dec 16 '22
I always used to use hot but Reddit just changed it one day and I’ve just never really been bothered to change it.
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u/paleoterrra Dec 28 '22
I never sorted by best and I fucking hate it. Let us have control over our feeds, like how simple is it to just leave features instead of taking them away for no reason? Best is one of the worst ways to sort in my opinion and so being forced to do so makes my Reddit experience much more terrible.
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u/Tommyouknow Dec 28 '22
Next update they remove every subreddit with less than 4.5 million people because Nobody uses them anyway
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u/DellR610 Apr 29 '23
I much prefer using top in the past 24 hours. I don't understand removing features.
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u/Roach55 Jun 12 '23
What a horrible decision. I would like the sort feature back. Do we know when this might happen?
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u/MajorParadox Jun 12 '23
As far as I know, they have no plans to add it back. unfortunately.
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u/curiosity-12 Jan 03 '23
I sort by “Top Today” to do a daily check-in on the top posts from my favorite reddits. Now the algorithm decides what I see. Huge miss from the Reddit team here.
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u/TableAvailable Dec 15 '22
I was wondering why I had lost my "new" sort on my feed.
I'm glad you've told me where to find it, but hiding it in the settings menu is really inconvenient.
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u/PartyPhotograph9593 Dec 15 '22
Do you mind sharing where you switched default method to “new”? Hopefully you are on iOS app as well. Thanks!
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u/TableAvailable Dec 15 '22
No, I'm Android.
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u/Baithin Dec 17 '22 edited Dec 17 '22
Is there a way to change that back to the default? Because I need to change it to “Latest” every time I open the app. I preferred New too.
Edit: never mind. Apparently it’s gone. Dammit, I hate that setting.
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u/shhalahr Dec 16 '22
Especially when you do occasionally want to briefly switch for whatever reason.
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Apr 07 '23
can you share where you found it? i remember i saw in Settings before how to change my home feed, but i can’t find it now.
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u/TableAvailable Apr 07 '23
Click on your Avatar, then click on "Settings", look for "Feed Options" and then click the drop down to change how it is sorted.
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u/P1_Synvictus Dec 15 '22
Why on Earth would you title this “Take control of your feed” when you know that this is the exact opposite of that?
I see the reasons you’ve listed. Confusion about sorting style differences, low usage of the feed sort controls, and simplification.
It really doesn’t take much to figure out the difference between Hot, Best, and Top. A simple Google search. If that wasn’t easy enough, then it should have been on Reddit to have easily accessible explanations of each sorting option within the app itself. A little info button next to each sorting option would have suffice.
Hiding the sorting controls in settings wasn’t the WORST thing, but it was definitely a bit of a pain. It was nice to still have the ability to do so.
I know that for myself, I enjoyed the more static nature of Hot. Post re-engagement is probably what I do most on here. I’m not always looking for the next hottest thing that I haven’t engaged with yet. I just want to know what’s the hottest thing among my subscribed subreddits for a solid 24 hours or so.
If I wanted the “Best” sort, I could change it. I’ve never wanted it though.
Removing “Top” also feels so counterproductive. It was another fun way to sort things every once in a while just to see where posts stood historically.
I hope you all seriously reconsider bringing back the ability to sort our home feeds as we see fit, not leaving us without option.
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Dec 21 '22 edited Dec 21 '22
more like "we're taking control of your feed", reddit going the same direction as facebook and twitter
say goodbye to the content that you asked for by joining subs, and hello to algorithm driven "engagement" (addiction) style presentation of unsolicited content
the hour of the decentralized protocol with full user control is nigh, my eye is on nostr implementations, specifically astral.ninja at this point in time
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u/Roxanne-Annabelle642 Dec 27 '22
It’s not very effective in being addictive tho, because I’m seeing the same content over and over and it makes me want to throw up.
I am in a lot of mental health and political subs that I visit frequently, but when I’m on my front page I DONT WANT TO SEE MORE OF THIS. I want to see nature and art and cool pictures!!! My main feed used to be full of amazing things to look at and now I just get a shitload of “I’m traumatized” and “the US government is crumbling slowly around us”. I’m tired bro. I just wanna see a baby otter swim around.
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Dec 15 '22 edited Dec 15 '22
I hate this update. I like sorting through my feed in rising, not new. Is there a way I can downgrade?
“Most recent” is just my feed on ‘new’.
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Dec 16 '22
“new” is pretty horrible. Rising was the best was to search for things that were trending. This new update is crap.
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u/NedRed77 Dec 16 '22
People are suggesting Apollo, but when I tried it, it is shit for sorting by rising. It only seems to drag through content from a few subs and bottoms out after a few minutes of scrolling. So can’t even use that instead.
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u/intothelight_ Jan 13 '23
Same. I came here after searching why my Reddit home page is so messed up. This new update is trash it makes me not want to use the app at all. Especially the drop down to switch from home page to popular and news and now to be unable to change the way you sort your feed… it seems like Reddit is pandering to a different crowd and clearly isn’t listening to the people who’ve been using the app.
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u/BainbridgeBorn Dec 15 '22
“Take Control of your feed”
Me who uses rising and sometimes controversial Well, apparently I’m not allowed to control my feed, my feed is controlling me. Great 🙃
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u/Chrimunn Dec 15 '22 edited Dec 15 '22
Do any of you actually casually use Reddit yourselves?
Where are you getting data that 'best' and 'new' are the most common sorts?
Isn't 'best' a default option, wouldn't that skew the data if everyone is just there by default?
I don't even know where to start with 'new'. It is NOT a good sort at all. No matter what subs you're in, new has the shittiest, worst posts ever on repeat. I would place massive bets on 'new' being used only to see different posts once a user is bored of their other feeds. Nothing more than that.
Children posting terrible fanart. People asking myriads of google-able questions. Bots posting ads or irrelevant crap. Just generally unappealing content that is simply waiting to be downvoted away. I can last about five minutes before I start scrolling more than I'm reading while my eyes roll into the back of my skull. It's just awful.
'Hot' imo is still king. Relevant, somewhat recent posts with established popularity that are usually guaranteed a certain level of quality perfect for keeping casual users engaged. It's the first and best feed I browse daily and the hour or two I spend there translates to more than enough time for casual users to engage with the site daily and walk away feeling like they actually experienced content of substance.
I really think y'all need to look past the internal 'data' on this one.
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u/shhalahr Dec 16 '22
I would place massive bets on 'new' being used only to see different posts once a user is bored of their other feeds. Nothing more than that.
Pretty much. Or trying to be a good community member and find troll posts to report as early as possible.
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u/lilibat Dec 29 '22
I almost always stay on new because I care about seeing posts others may not appreciate, I guess I am weird and don’t always find the popular posts to be the best or most engaging for me personally.
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u/CaptainPedge Dec 15 '22
What on EARTH made you think this was a good idea? Seriously, how does this help me "take control" of anything?
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u/doctortofu Dec 16 '22
In the same way a restaurant can help you take control of your diet by reducing their menu to only two items, neither of which you like. Poof, you're now in control! Don't worry though, they'll keep working to give you even less options down the road so that your tinny widdle bwain doesn't get confused wit too much choice!
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u/CaptinDerpII Dec 15 '22
Am I still able to sort my home feed by hot? Because I hate the way it is now
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u/treZissou Dec 15 '22
You are not, you are supposed to love how easy they made it to browse your home feed with the option they decided was most user friendly and popular.
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u/PlaybolCarti69 Dec 15 '22
They basically manipulated the results too lmfao. They hid the sorting options in settings, and most users decided not to bother using them if they had to go through the trouble.
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u/shockinglyunoriginal Jan 08 '23
Same, I can’t stand it. My feel is full of just tiny insignificant whiny posts on almost all subreddits. At least when it was sorted to “hot” I’d see the good ones that I’d actually care about - I take 10 minutes now and scroll and just leave the app bored
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u/darioblaze Dec 15 '22 edited Dec 15 '22
I can’t lie, every update makes things worse. If I wanted Facebook, Snap, or IG, I’d go there, and I wish Reddit would stop trying to deliver those experiences and try to find its own identity and trying to be “new”. No one wants to tap through pictures or manually sort through their feeds, that’s why people are leaving Snapchat and Facebook.
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u/BrownScreen Dec 15 '22
I loved sort by top: today. At least it’s not new
Stop removing features for fucks sake
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u/TheNotoriousHAM Dec 15 '22 edited Dec 16 '22
Going to cancel my reddit premium. If I can’t choose how I see the feed, no point in paying for it. Hope the change is reversed.
Edit: Looks like on the Apollo app I can still choose, so I’ll keep it for now. Really hoping this is reversed though. Bad decision and a phony cover for it.
Edit 2: cancelled it.
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u/Yay295 Dec 15 '22
Both these changes significantly increased how many posts redditors see in their home feeds.
This sounds like a business decision rather than something the users want.
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u/notjordansime Dec 16 '22
Yeah, sounds like it reduces enganement. If you're seeing less posts, you're probably spending more time on individual posts. Chewing the food for thought, reading comments, etc... If you're seeing a "significantly increased" number of posts, you're probably mindlessly scrolling past several without thinking about them. Overall, that is an indicator of the increase in low quality content.
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u/goto-reddit Dec 15 '22
Reddit is a business.
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u/shhalahr Dec 16 '22
And shouldn't a business want to keep the customer satisfied?
I mean, sure, it's the advertisers that are the customers. But the advertisers still need users to be satisfied. Therefore the users also need to be satisfied, even if not to the same extent as the advertisers. If the user base dries up, who's gonna spend money on ads or premium subscriptions?
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u/capskinfan Dec 15 '22
You're giving users more control by taking away options? Bye. Going third party.
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u/beat-sweats Dec 16 '22
Why the hell do y’all keep removing sorting options?! It was so much better having control of our feeds, sorting by new on the home page was the only way to see good content after they removed the options from the popular page. Bring back our sort options what the hell.
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Dec 15 '22
No home sort controls?? Really? I'm just not gonna update at this point
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u/OptimalCynic Dec 16 '22
"We're helping you take control of your feed by removing feed controls" really? You don't see the incongruity there?
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u/Phantom_ramen Dec 16 '22
Just downloaded Apollo! Thanks for the push almighty and great admins! What a joke
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u/randloadable19 Dec 16 '22
This is such a fucking joke. I won’t be using Reddit nearly as much until you change it back!
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u/blatheringasphalt Dec 16 '22
How is it "Take Control" when you prevent all your users from choosing their default sort?
This is an idiotic change and your attempt to talk it up as something giving users more "control" is a bunch of doublespeak.
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u/RedEmpressOB Dec 16 '22
What about people who want to see things in order of when they were posted? Or top today/week/etc? Sometimes I like to sort by top for a period of time and now I can’t do that anymore? Best is ironically the worst sort order
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u/HoodiesAndHeels Dec 17 '22
So you’re not going to mention in the post, just a comment, that “Best” is officially algorithmic to show more of what you look at most?
That’s fucking important. I have a home feed in order to curate what I see, and I want to see posts from all of the communities, including the ones that post less often, which will now be essentially banished from my home feed. If a community has fewer posts, I’ll obviously visit it less; ergo, I won’t look as “interested” in the content according to the algorithm. Now I’m just going to see all the popular subs and have to dig for other content.
Fuck this change. It’ll destroy smaller subs, increase the echo chambers even more, and you’ll actually be giving less visibility to more communities that you so badly want us to join.
This is a trash decision all around. Stop pretending we’ll have more control via fewer options.
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u/SmurfRockRune Dec 15 '22
Exactly. Old Reddit is incredibly readable, that's a big part of what makes it so good. Just go back to that and you'll have fixed a problem you already had the solution for all along.
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u/sandwichman7896 Dec 15 '22
Are we supposed to be hyped to have less control of our feed? If I wanted to be spoon fed low effort content I’d go to fucking FB or IG.