Curate Your Reddit Profile Content with New Controls

[u/redditproductteam]

TL;DR: Starting today, you’ll have the option to curate which posts and comments are visible to others on your Reddit profile. Rollout begins today on iOS, Android, and web, and will continue to ramp up over the next few weeks.

Reddit is a place where you find community and connect with others based on what you’re passionate about. And let’s face it – what we’re passionate about can often have…range. But just because your Reddit activity reflects the diverse range of interests and aspects of your life, it doesn’t mean you always want everyone to be able to see everything you share on Reddit. 

Today we’re announcing updated profile settings that give you more control over which posts and comments are visible on your profile – and which ones aren’t. Whether you're a regular contributor in r/confessions who wants to keep those posts within that subreddit, a proud fan theorist in r/SeveranceAppleTVPlus eager to share your thoughts on what's happening to Mark S., or a premium lurker finally ready to comment but not ready to show those comments to the world – you decide what others see when they visit your profile.

What’s Changing

Updated Profile Setting

Previously, every post and comment made in a public subreddit was visible on your profile page. Moving forward, you’ll have more options to curate what others do and don’t see.

Under the “Content and activity” settings, you'll now see options to:

• Keep all posts and comments public (today’s default)
• Curate selectively: Choose which contributions appear on your profile (e.g., you can highlight your r/beekeeping posts while keeping your r/needadvice posts private)
• Hide everything: Make all your posts and comments invisible on your profile

In addition to these new curation tools, the rest of your profile settings are now consolidated under Curate your profile, making it easier to manage everything in one place:

• NSFW toggle: Show or hide all posts and comments made in NSFW communities [NEW]
• Followers toggle: Show or hide your follower count

A Better Experience for Profile Visitors

We’re also updating how your profile appears to others. The refreshed profile experience includes:

• A redesigned activity summary with karma, post counts, and subreddit engagement all in one view
• A smarter Active In section that updates dynamically based on your Content and activity settings

Mod Visibility Permissions

Moderators often review user profiles before taking action in their communities. To support moderation needs, mods will retain some access regardless of your visibility settings. Here's how it works:

• If you post, comment, send modmail, request to be an approved poster, or request to join a private subreddit, that mod team will have access to your full profile content history for 28 days after the interaction – regardless of your settings.
• After 28 days, access reverts to your chosen visibility settings unless you interact with that subreddit again, in which case the 28-day timer resets.
• The same rule applies when you comment on another user’s profile – that user will have 28 days of access to your full profile content.

Why? This gives mods and profile owners the context they need when you engage in their subreddit or profile, while still respecting your choices elsewhere. You can read more about mod visibility permissions here.

The Fine Print

• Changes to content visibility will only reflect on your profile. The content will still be viewable within the subreddits where you made the post or comment, as well as via search results, both on and off Reddit.
• The Content and activity setting applies at the subreddit level, not for individual posts or comments.
• The settings will be reflected across all platforms (including old Reddit), and can only be updated on reddit.com and the mobile app. 
• As a moderator, you'll always see a redditor’s contributions to your subreddit, even after 28 days of inactivity.

What’s next?

This is just the beginning of evolving user profiles on Reddit. We’re continuing to invest in features that help you manage your identity and presence across the platform.

As always, we’ll be here today to answer any questions in the comments! Here’s your reward for making it to the end of the post.

[u/redditproductteam]

FAQs:

Q: What is defined as "interacted"? Does it include joining chatrooms, viewing posts, viewing the subreddit, viewing/editing wiki pages, clicking links in the menu/sidebar/wiki pages, editing posts/comments, voting, reports, modmail, and messaging users via our subreddit?

Interactions include posting, commenting, sending a modmail (a user receiving a modmail does NOT open up their profile), requesting to be an approved user of a restricted sub, and requesting to join a private sub, as that sends a modmail to the mod team. Joining or posting in a subreddit chat channel does not count as a subreddit interaction.

Q: How long can mods see a user’s profile after the user has tried to interact with their subreddit? 

A: Mods can see a user’s profile for 28 days from the date a user tries to post or comment in their subreddit. If a user interacts again, the 28 day timer restarts.

Q: If a user has the NSFW toggle set to ‘hide all posts and comments,’ will mods be able to see all their NSFW content if a user tries to engage in their subreddit?

A: Yes, mods will have full profile access for 28 days from the point of interaction in a subreddit, including the ability to see the user’s NSFW posts and comments. 

Q: How does this play with other mod tools? 

A: The new profile visibility settings are integrated with Profile Cards/User History. Please let us know if there is another integration you’re interested in seeing if you are a moderator.

[u/Baruch_S]

This seems like it's going to lead to bad actors being able to more easily hide their behavior from the average user. Unless you're a mod, you won't be able to see that they're posting inflammatory misinformation across a dozen different subs, for instance. Less transparency isn't good.

[u/MajorParadox]

I’d rather see better spotlight capabilities. There’s the old pin to profile feature, but that seems to have been removed from new Desktop and mobile. And they don’t get displayed well.

I think profiles need a redesign where content creators (especially) have an easily accessible section for curated content they want people to find.

[u/emily_in_boots]

While I think this does adequately address the concerns of mods, I'd also like for you guys to consider letting redditors require disclosure of their profile in order to DM. i.e. Let us have a toggle that says we don't accept DM's from anyone who won't show their profile.

One thing that really worries me about this is that we have a lot of hair fetishists who lurk in hair subs I mod. With this change, they can hide their fetish comments and still message our posters pretending to be stylists and our posters cannot see that this is happening and can easily be lulled into a false sense of security.

EDIT: For that matter, since commenting on a redditor's profile gives 28d visibility, shouldn't sending a DM do this too?

[u/michaelquinlan]

Old reddit? New reddit?

[u/Drunken_Economist]

If you post, comment, send modmail, request to be an approved poster or request to join a private subreddit

I'm not clear on this wording, does this only apply to private subreddits?

[u/enzor00]

From web where is the “content and activity” setting?

[u/fishbiscuit13]

Another nail in the coffin for marketplace subreddits. Nobody wants this and it just makes it harder to judge someone’s trustworthiness based on what they choose to share. If you do this on top of killing private messages, that will destroy the ability to safely conduct transactions.

Please stop replying edit: For everyone commenting on this months later to disagree with me for reasons related to social or political disputes or avoiding them, consider what your support for this policy means for Reddit’s responsibility as stewards of this platform. You would rather willingly admit that you have to hide parts of yourself to avoid attacks rather than demand they be responsible for once in twenty fucking years and actually take action against those people. No other website has to afford these features. They failed you long ago, why do you roll over so hard to stay here?

[u/Old-Information3311]

Reddit is already completely overrun by bots. now it tries to make things easier for them.

[u/PhilDunphy23]

Please remove viewing an image as a webpage of reddit, it's really bad UX not being able to actually view the image and zoom in on desktop.

[u/anonymous122]

This is a mistake and fundamentally changes reddit while removing any accountability.

[u/howardkinsd]

This is the dumbest idea ever. You do realize that spammers and karma farmers are going to use this feature don't you?!

[u/abrownn]

You responded to basically zero of our followup concerns about how this enables/facilitates abuse, trolling, and spam. This is patently ridiculous and heralds a new age for abuse on reddit.

I bet you're going to trot out "never before seen" low abuse numbers at your next transparency report because of this, huh? Can't report hate and abuse we can't see. 🙄

[u/Halaku]

This is a mistake.

Userhistory being public-facing is a feature, not a bug.

[u/Not_Steve]

No. User history gives context of who I’m talking to. Spammers can now hide their posts, so can bad actors, and creeps trying to chat me up.

Horrible decision. Why not do something everybody wants like… accessibility tools? Other sites can take text from images and transcribe it in alt text, why can’t Reddit? You guys have been promising this for years.

[u/blacksoxing]

The onus now will be on the mods to officially detect trolls....assuming the mods care to care that they're being trolled.

HRM.

[u/a_v_o_r]

So, not only you're not banning users and subs infringing daily your last harassment rule update, now you're allowing them to hide their activity? Quite the shot in the foot there. Are you ever gonna take this issue seriously?

[u/BeyondRedline]

This makes interacting with other users more difficult. If I can't see your post history, I don't know if you're trolling or if you are genuinely expressing an honest opinion in a poor way. I generally look at a user's post history before reporting them.

This is bad for the community overall, in my opinion.

[u/Joezev98]

Great for well-meaning redditors who want more privacy.
Disastrous for anyone trying to combat malicious actors.

This feature is going to get abused so heavily by karma farmers, spammers, trolls and foreign agents trying to influence elections.

[u/Kisrah]

Fully agree with what others are saying about how this will make it easier for bots and bad actors to slip through. Reddit has enough of a bot issue without giving them more tools to hide behind.

[u/uppercasemad]

Blah. For the 350k+ member community I moderate where we have activity requirements this is going to be a pain in the ass. Transparency is so important and if folks can just hide their activity in drug subs etc nobody is going to feel comfortable donating.

[u/YOGI_ADITYANATH69]

Update nobody asked for

[u/3DBeerGoggles]

One of the few good things left about Reddit was being able to see whether a user had obvious signs of posting in bad faith. Congratulations for fucking that up too.

[u/Thr0w-a-wayy]

I still don’t see this in the USA

[u/sf-keto]

I think it’s fair to worry about abuse with this change. I’m unsure the team has thought deeply enough about safety & spam.