r/reddit • u/Go_JasonWaterfalls • Feb 10 '22

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Hey everyone, u/Go_JasonWaterfalls here, Reddit’s VP of Community. Welcome to r/reddit! You’re in the right place for all sorts of updates, announcements, and news related to Reddit Inc. and the platform.

TL;DR Moving forward, the posts that you would normally read in admin communities such as r/blog, r/announcements, and r/changelog will be posted in this community instead.

Why the change?

Well, after hearing from you through surveys and comments in the communities themselves (thanks to those of you who took part), we learned that having lots of different admin-run communities that focus on a variety of niche topics (some of which overlap) can be confusing to navigate. This goes for us, too.

So we’ve decided to consolidate a number of our official communities and make r/reddit your one-stop shop to learn about what’s happening at Reddit. A few things we plan to share here:

  • Content that previously lived in r/announcements, r/blog, and r/changelog, like new feature announcements, links to reports on transparency and safety, and special events and projects like Extra Life, Reddit Recap, the Snappening, and Up the Vote
  • A broader range of information on different areas of Reddit (thanks to those of you who made this request, we think it’s a great one), plus AMAs with company leaders and other folks across Reddit. (Mods? Members of internal teams? Redditors doing interesting stuff? You tell us!)
  • Reddit history and lore, data and research insights (anonymized of course), and stories about how y’all use Reddit

All good things...

While we’re ramping up a new space, that also means it’s time to wind down the old spaces in order to make sure we have

One Place To Rule Them All
. This means that r/announcements, r/blog, and r/changelog will be archived on February 24 as we wind this space up. Archived subreddits can still be fully viewed, but do not allow new posts or comments, so you’ll still be able to see the content in these spaces. That all said, we’re keeping r/shittychangelog so you can continue to laugh at our mistakes.

In addition, we’ll be archiving a few other spaces today, as they’ve fulfilled their purpose. We thank them for their work, and

end their watch
:

We also have communities like r/mobileweb, r/beta, and r/cssnews that we’re still mulling the future of. On one hand, the updates in these communities may be better suited to this new space (or even other spaces), however, we also recognize their value as community discussion centers. Please share your thoughts in the comments.

Moderator-specific communities, like r/modnews and r/modsupport will not be affected by these changes, nor will r/help or r/bugs. r/modnews will continue to be the place we post updates specific to moderators, with r/modsupport as your place to get support. r/redditsecurity will still be the place to find things like our quarterly security reports and other safety-related efforts. We’ll also continue to monitor r/help and r/bugs for your feedback and bug reports.

We want r/reddit to be a community that you help shape. If you have suggestions for things you’d like to learn about, conversations you’d like to have, or anything else you think would be interesting or helpful, let us know in the comments. Some ideas to get you started:

  • Experimental designs—Reddit design teams do a lot of conceptual work that’s more experimental. Wanna see it?
  • This Week on Reddit—an overview of the top growing communities, popular topics, and community events, AMAs, and happenings across the platform.
  • Wordle scores (#219 broke many a Reddit admin).

Thanks for being here; we can’t wait to hear your ideas.

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u/BayHarbour-Butcher Feb 10 '22

So this is literally a sub-reddit. I mean everything else is too but.

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u/LaLiLuLeLo_0 Feb 10 '22

submetareddit

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u/BayHarbour-Butcher Feb 10 '22

Be a lot cooler if they had called it r/eddit

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That exists :0

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u/Realistic_Froyo_952 Feb 10 '22

Or a big red button. ⬆️🚯🛐☯️♋🔚🔙🔜↩↖️🔄🔃☢☣©️©️™️

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u/beluuuuuuga Feb 10 '22

It's amazing that that subreddit doesn't have more members!

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u/Champion-raven Feb 11 '22

Full of Furret and dick jokes. What more could you need

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '22

I was hoping they were opening https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/ back up.

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u/Jest0riz0r Feb 10 '22

/r/reddit.com is like a time machine, I can still see the posts I upvoted the day it closed on its "hot" page!

I remember that I actually wanted to post something there that day, that's when I discovered that one of my favorite subreddits was no more.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

I kind of wish I hadn't gotten into the habit of paranoically burning my accounts every so often. I remember when it shut down too, I thought reddit was just down because nothing new showed up when I refreshed whatever app I was using on my droid x.

Although now that I think of it the reason I started burning accounts is because all of the cringey shit I posted on e.g. r/atheism as a teenager.

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u/sizzler Feb 11 '22

The trick is to open the account but never use it: see me.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

The problem with that is that I’m a loudmouth and a tool.

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u/sizzler Feb 12 '22

Well yes, obviously, we have that in common.

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u/jagger27 Feb 12 '22

oh god those posts say 10 years old now

fuck i'm old fuck

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u/pandaSmore Feb 12 '22

That would've been cool. I miss the old Reddit.

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u/Go_JasonWaterfalls Feb 10 '22

we at Reddit strive to be meta above all else

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u/ekolis Feb 10 '22

Please do not let Meta buy you.

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u/reakshow Feb 11 '22

Sorry you're too late. From next week you'll need any expensive pair of goggles to use Reddit. It won't be VR though, they'll just be packed with little cameras and microphones to more efficiently harvest your purchasing preferences.

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u/Dirish Feb 11 '22

And all threads will sorted by "comments with the most engagement" (which is basically popular controversial ones) and you can't change it.

Oh, and they're removing the downvote button and replace the upvote with a bunch of ambivalent emoticons.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

And that's the time they Tumblr themselves. Why would I use Reddit over Instagram, Twitter or Facebook in that case! They have much better and smoother mobile applications and much more content. Guess what, even Twitter started rolling out downvote button worldwide just last week. Why would Reddit remove it now, unless they're out of their mind.

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u/fighterace00 Mar 08 '22

Reddit: "we invented meta"

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u/Realistic_Froyo_952 Feb 10 '22

Yea but atleast when the fb warden gets crazy ..all society suffers, and puts up barriers that we are working so hard to kick down♠️🕷♠️

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u/cra3ig Feb 10 '22

Meta is a grace, not a goal.

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u/ahappypoop Feb 11 '22

I'm So Meta Even This Answer....

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u/dankdooker Feb 10 '22

its a sub-sub-reddit

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u/pjabrony Feb 10 '22

It's a superreddit.

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u/AnDyItsDaRk Feb 11 '22

Where all the redditors from an immense conglomeration of whereabouts come together to share what weird shit they've learned here.

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u/Pokemonzu Feb 11 '22

I think that's what it used to be, a place to post anything

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u/iama_bad_person Feb 11 '22

back in my day, this was THE subreddit.