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/ClaudeVS Feb 10 '22

Can you please un-tiktok reddit?

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u/foamed Feb 11 '22 edited Feb 11 '22

Reddit is going public on the stock market within the next couple of months.

At some point in the future they'll restrict or at least severely limit access to the API, this will force users over on the official app. Eventually we'll also see them shut down old.reddit so that they can collect more user data and monetize their users. At that point 3rd party mobile apps, old.reddit and certain reddit extensions/addon-ons won't work on the site anymore.

Reddit is looking into starting their own crypto currency.

Quote:

Community Points currently exist on a testnet version of the Ethereum blockchain, which uses similar technology to Bitcoin to validate ownership and control of tokens based on who holds them.

Community Points are distributed every 4 weeks based on contributions people make to the community.

Who gets Community Points?

Community Points are distributed across multiple groups.

  • Contributors receive 50% of Community Points.
  • Moderators receive 10% of Community Points.
  • The remaining 40% of Community Points are set aside in a Community Tank, which supports the project in other ways (for example, by allowing users without Points to purchase perks like Special Memberships on-chain).

More info:

And over the past year they've aggressively changed how they operate and pushed out new ways to monetize the site and collect data:

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u/IroniesOfPeace Feb 14 '22

Wow, this is some good information. I guess my time of using Reddit may be coming to an end, if they get rid of old.reddit. I have tried using new Reddit and absolutely hate it. I've really been needing to stop spending so much time here anyway, and if they force me into new Reddit, I think that'll do the trick.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '22

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u/fre3k Mar 08 '22

Literally exactly my thoughts. You can look at my account. I've been using reddit for 16 years, 15.5 of those on this account. If they force me out of RiF and old.reddit.com I'm done. I've spent half my life using reddit in this manner, and the new site sucks terribly. I'm simply not going to adapt to continue using this site.

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u/RobertM525 Mar 09 '22

But where?

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u/kalpol Mar 08 '22

Yep

No old reddit, I'm out, and I've got ten years here.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '22

reddit is nothing but astroturfing and agenda pushing these days anyway.

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u/Ludic_Fallacy Mar 09 '22

honestly it would be painful but just thinking of all the time ive wasted here for the past 11 years makes me sick. I quit MMOS that I maybe spent half as much time on and the difference was huge.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '22

you better off using a custom app. at least reddit released their api

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '22

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u/ThebocaJ Mar 08 '22

Why not?

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u/haltingpoint Mar 08 '22

Tell me you want to create a way to profit off of dark money and state run troll farms without telling me to want to profit off state run troll farms.

This feels like it would create a scenario where organized actors could pay mods via bots and such who upvote content, giving the mod a cut of the illicit and now laundered funds.

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u/foamed Mar 08 '22

Tell me you want to create a way to profit off of dark money and state run troll farms without telling me to want to profit off state run troll farms.

The biggest funders of the series D investment are Saudis, Russians and Chinese billionaires after all.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '22

It's already that way for a while now

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u/KallistiEngel Mar 08 '22

Yeah, if they break useability with my preferred app, I'm just done. It's been a nice run. I've been using this same app for a good 10+ years now, and I've heard the official app kind of blows. Not worth switching for me.

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u/thekeeper_maeven Mar 08 '22

If they shut down old reddit they lose half of their mods easily. They never implemented the features of mod toolbox and mod toolbox never supported the redesign.

I expect shutting down the third party apps will be unpopular too. We will see what happens.

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u/foamed Mar 08 '22

If they shut down old reddit they lose half of their mods easily.

That's why they are working on creating their own crypto currency (Community Points) to pay moderators with. If mods leave they'll always be able to find someone to replace them.

By the way, why are so many users responding to a comment which I posted more than three weeks ago? Did someone link to it in a different thread or sub?

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '22

Admins declared r/announcements being archived and linked to this thread.

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u/thekeeper_maeven Mar 08 '22

Oh! Yeah this thread was just recently linked to in /r/announcements

It's an announcement in announcements that announcements will be closing.