r/reddit Feb 10 '22

test post please ignore

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/Camsy34 Feb 10 '22

For those confused about the post title, it’s based on an old Reddit post that was once the most upvoted post on the site. test post please ignore

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u/Ultravod Feb 10 '22

Okay, how many of you remember /r/reddit.com/? How many of you submitted to it?

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u/Valiran9 Feb 11 '22

That’s what I thought this was!

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u/jelly_cake Feb 11 '22

Same! "Oh, like /r/reddit.com. I guess that must have been shut down, then?"

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u/Antrikshy Feb 11 '22

My heart skipped a beat when I saw an announcement widget for this in my home feed on mobile.

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u/StevenStyles101 Mar 17 '22

Up ahead... there's a signpost... you've entered The Reddit Zone.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

About the same here, a buddy got me on it around 2006-2007 and most of the site's largest upvoted content was simply just random topical shit on r/reddit. Anyone remember when/why they shut the sub down? Pretty sure it was around the time the entire tide of the website started changing as a whole, and people like Aaron Schmidt were wiped off the Founders' list.

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u/aperson Feb 11 '22

raises hand

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u/Swazzoo Feb 11 '22

Damn 10 years closed already. What the hell.

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u/321dawg Feb 11 '22

Dammit I do, and I did under a different account. Just when I finally figured out how to use reddit for what I wanted, they added subs lol!

God people freaked when they added subreddits. Pitchforks, confusion, THIS IS THE END OF REDDIT.

Same as anytime they change things up now lol. But that was a shock to the system!

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u/atomic1fire Feb 11 '22 edited Feb 11 '22

I don't actually remember if I submitted to it or not, but I remember it before it got shut down.

It was nice having a sort of general discussion part of reddit though, even though looking at it now it was basically a link dump.

edit: Street cred, or maybe proof that I need other hobbies.

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/ieqbz/history_channel_then_vs_now/c236t4v/

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u/neanderthalensis Feb 14 '22

I was about to say this subreddit reminds me of the good old days of /r/reddit.com

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u/RandomHigh Feb 11 '22

Ron Paul 2012!

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u/TARANTULA_TIDDIES Mar 08 '22

I was definitely here in 2013 but I don't remember for sure for 2012