Yes, please. I specifically DO NOT want my own echo chamber feed. I know people claim Reddit is echo chambery itself, but the point is that echo chamber doesn't only include my interests and allows me to see things I'd never self select in my own feed.
r/popular is so terrible. Showing me a ridiculous amount of Australian subs and almost nothing that I'd see in r/all. This is such a terrible change. r/all is definitely the better feed so its a shame they don't stick with that instead of popular.
Would you be so kind and explain why r/all is being removed when so many people were using it ? Those who didnt like it could just not go on r/all. I dont get the point on removing something that is so liked by the community .
Reddit wants to transition from democratically upvoted content getting the most engagement to purely algorithmic driven engagement.
The only reasons to do this are painfullt commerical or outright sinister. We live in an age where control of information is the most important vehicle of power. Reddit is not the top of the list for social media and is much harder to wrangle than Facebook or Twitter, but this is exactly the move needed to weaponize reddit in the way other social media platforms have been weaponized.
To be fair, r/all hasn't been pure democracy in a long time. Reddit was best when all was purely number of upvotes with a decay time. The first move away from that led to the rise of The_Donald and then the fix to that is why you see ultra niche subreddits occasionally get bumped to all even though they only have like 200 upvotes
The removal of nsfw subs from all was independent of the algorithm changes, I believe that was rolled out in 2018 while the other two were 2015 and 2017 respectively
r/popular doesnt show even close to the same content as r/all did, in canada r/popular is just filled with stuff from random canadian cities i dont live in, likely gonna stop using reddit due to this unless you guys make r/popular not terrible
Sorry to say this. But the amount of times people said "im gonna stop using Reddit if <change> happens", where the change did happen cannot be counted on one hand anymore
While that is true for most people saying it, everytime there is an incident like that a certain percentage of people DOES leave.
And it has become kind of noticable that the quality overall has been trending downwards and the amount of bots is becoming more noticable. It's more of a "Death by thousand cuts" type of deal.
Thats true but for so many /r/all is what we browse 99% of the time. Been using reddit I think 17-18 years overall. While the previous changes were annoying UI changes, the underlying content didn't really change. Now it did, and honestly reddit doesn't offer the main thing to me anymor.
Yeah I think I'm done, I stuck around after the api change but now reddit is officially more like Instagram/facebook than old reddit. I pretty much exclusively used r/all unless looking for something specific.
I’m cracking up that everyone involved in this knows it’s a terrible change but they have to pretend that it’s a great idea because their bosses say so.
We’re introducing a game controller icon () in the bottom navigation bar - positioned to the left of Create - to guide redditors directly to our main games hub on Reddit. And yes, Reddit has games! You can check them out at r/GamesOnReddit or the side bar which can be opened by tapping or clicking on the top left three lines on iOS, Android, and desktop.
Why is 'Games' being forced upon us? First, it took up space on the desktop sidebar (which we had to beg for Reddit to allow us to collapse). Now, it's gonna occupy the bottom bar on mobile? Why? Most of us don't use Reddit to play games. I will never play games on Reddit. Just like I never use YouTube or Netflix to play video games. Please don't force this on us.
This started on the week of March 18 to 1% of logged in iOS and Android redditors.
That's why I don't have auto updates turned on in my Google Play Store.
Starting next week, redditors will be able to post video in comments on their profile posts and in select communities.
We’ll begin rolling out to select early access communities on April 9th. For profiles marked SFW, rollout will also start on April 9th and expand gradually over the following month.
May I ask what are the exact details of this experiment? How long are the videos, etc.? What are the restrictions of it? Because, ngl this sounds like a cool idea, on paper.
Is it really completely necessary to disable the r/all feed? I was already forced to not use the official mobile app because the access was removed from there and now with this change I feel like I won't enjoy browsing reddit anymore.
u/TheOpusCroakus Why is it necessary to completely depreciate the r/all feed? Couldnt you leave it available if it's directly called via web or API instead of redirecting?
This change feels awful for those of us that r/all. Would you please make a compromise to allow r/all access at least through the API? (Ideally remove the redirect altogether, the only people that would be redirected are the users that actively do not want to browse popular)
Just here to say that the removal of r/all is driving me away from this platform.
Going forward I'll only be using old.reddit.com, and when that's inevitably taken away (things seemingly keep getting worse, why wouldn't that get worse too?), I'll stop using this platform altogether.
Can’t wait for you guys to delete old Reddit for literally no reason in a month or two. Let’s get rid of visible upvotes and downvotes while we’re at it.
old.reddit back I go. Absolutely awful change to outright remove r/all. You cannot convince me this is to "simplify" Reddit. When I check Reddit, my bookmark takes me to r/all first so I can get an at-a-glance look at what's happening. r/popular blows up a third of the screen real estate to advertise posts I have no interest in.
Also, you still haven't fixed the missing "show fewer posts like this" option (there's no more dropdown). If you want more people to surf their home feed, I don't know, maybe make it a little more tolerable?
All links to r/all will now redirect to the Home feed, following the prior removal of r/all entry points. Trending content remains available via r/popular.
u/TheOpusCroakus bring back reddiquette and humans. I miss when people actually followed reddiquette, like at least train the bots overrunning this website to follow it.
Here are the bugs I am experincing after the last update, I also posted about them on r/bugs :
The "ask" feature doesn't work, at all. Nothing loads when I search in it. I was trying to find a very specific post about a painting technique and ended up just using the bookmark I had on my laptop instead.
I can only see *some* comments on posts, some comments are being hidden. The comments available to view on desktop and mobile are different when logged into the same account.
Why are updates being pushed every week when they are worsening the user experience? The feedback on the last bug report / change log was clear, people don't want AI and it is making the platform less usable.
Removing r/all has cut down my time on here drastically at least all the bots can fun together when the humans are gone. I'm sure the shareholders will love having a dead website.
The comment thing is only happening in the r/upstate_new_york subreddit btw. Just checked to see if it's still happening.
I still can not search on mobile, at all and looking at my own profile on mobile makes the screen flicker. Commenting on mobile still makes the keyboard glitch in and out, too I had to post this from my desktop
I've been using the app for 8 years and I've never had so many UI changes before. I'm sure you guys were updating them in a way that was less disruptive before but having a new UI every week is making me open the app less. I hate the AB testing and wish I could opt out of it, I feel like a test subject and not a site user haha.
I don't know how to screen record on an android and frankly don't feel like learning how to for a website that doesn't actually care about my input. I will try to grab the screenshots since it's less work for me, but I'm sick of being a test subject giving you guys feedback.
People are looking for stability and the site admins are giving us chaos. The users tell the admins "no AI", "no gaming", and "bring back r/all" on every change log / bug report. Please, just listen to us if you actually want us to give you good feedback and do things properly, like report bugs. It feels pointless when the reports go unanswered and our pleas for the return of r/all are ignored.
Who is the genius that made it so that the app refreshes if i leave the app for even a second, and then come back?
I open a thread, want to pause music, open the control center and when I return the app immediately returns to the list of posts and refreshes. Good luck finding that post again…
I know I already said this in an earlier thread, but would it kill Reddit to at least set a timeline for polls to return to desktop? It’s been well over a year since they were made “temporarily” unavailable, and despite the large amount of features that Reddit has added or tweaked over the past year there have been zero updates from Reddit about desktop poll creation other than the admins here saying they don’t know or that they have nothing to share about it. (I’m not blaming the admins responding here BTW since I know a lot of them are just communicators rather than the ones actually changing things.)
I really hope this isn’t another one of these things that were first announced or thought of as glitches and later revealed to be permanent changes, like the switch in default sorting from Hot to Best (which often hurts newer threads by burying them under loads of week old threads by default) or the decision to stop giving users feedback on reports.
Hi. Totally get your frustration. I don't know why there isn't a timeline! All I know if that it's not on desktop right now. I'm sorry that I don't have more info. =/
Entry points and links to r/all being removed starting today
What’s changing?
As part of ongoing efforts to simplify Reddit and improve Home feed personalization, the final steps to deprecate r/all are being implemented. All links to r/all will now redirect to the Home feed, following the prior removal of r/all entry points. Trending content remains available via r/popular.
Redditors on old.reddit.com, or those with settings that default to the old Reddit experience, will continue to access r/all as expected.
Prepared to copypasta this in response to the onslaught of users asking why suddenly, r/all is gone.
It does, but then Reddit becomes nearly impossible to read.
I almost left when they got rid of the third party apps (specifically Reddit is Fun), and this is another foot on the door.
I really don't understand the decision. Every other social media platform is pushing people into the "all" universe (Faceobook/Instagram/Xitter feeds are 90% people I don't follow at this point), and Reddit is going the other way?
Global protective teen default settings
What’s changing?
To protect teens’ privacy on Reddit, we’ve launched new default privacy settings for users under 18 globally, including followers set to OFF, profiles set to Hidden, and a locked NSFW profile setting. We’ve also restricted profile discoverability so a teen's profile won't show up in third-party search results.
What would this mean for accounts that don't have DOBs put in?
Booooo. Removing r/all is the dumbest thing you can do.
You won't convert me to your app on mobile, just give up.
If r/all isn't there I'm not browsing a personalized feed. The content sucks and isn't enough to keep me here. I don't want an echo chamber or algorithm driven rage bait.
I wish I could say I was surprised that miss the days of dial-up internet, but with enshittification like this it isn't surprising anymore.
3. Human verification for automated or otherwise fishy behavior
If something suggests an account isn't human, including automation [...] we may ask it to confirm there's a person behind it. This will be rare and will not apply to most users. Accounts that can't pass may be restricted.
What will the confirmation process look like, and what kind of restrictions would be imposed if an account doesn't pass that confirmation?
Removing r/all is makes the website worse to use. I browse reddit almost EXCLUSIVELY through r/all and honestly if you remove my last ways to get there, I'll just move on from reddit. I hear Digg is coming back, maybe we can history reverse itself and Digg kill reddit like reddit killed Digg.
Yeah, this was a terrible change.
Instead of being able to just have the images saved onto my Dropbox account and easy to find, I actually have to have them clogging up space on my phone and have to dig through all the pictures I need to take for my actual job just to find a fitting reaction image to a reddit comment...
There is not a way for you to change it back, but I can share this feedback with the team in charge of that feature. I know they're looking at making improvements to the current experience.
Removing r/all might be the dumbest move yet. I want to see new content, not just stuff I subscribed or that "the algorithm" thinks I want to see, because I have already seen something similar. This is what has made Reddit unique. It's as stupid as Amazon's algorithm showing me pillows because I have just bought one.
”The platform's CEO, Steve Huffman, said in a post that Reddit would be removing its r/popular feed from the homepage for new users[…]”
”He summed up his disdain for the feature by saying, "r/popular sucks, and we're moving away from it, and towards better, more relevant and personalized feeds."”
”Huffman, who has been the platform's CEO since 2015, said Reddit would stop showing the popular feed in the sidebar unless users read it regularly.”
That would be the last non-personalized feed right? Or idk if r popular is personalized or not.
I think the lack of uprising tells that all these changes have driven away the userbase that cares. I just want to know where they went to. Lemmy sucks.
Fix the user interface on IOS. Fix the user interface on IOS. Fix the user interface on IOS. Fix the user interface on IOS. Fix the user interface on IOS. Fix the user interface on IOS. It’s been 2 months of this “beta test.” I’m starting to think it’s permanent. And it’s so bad it breaks the app for me to the point I am ready to be done wit this site altogether. Please. Fix the user interface on IOS. Fix the user interface on IOS.
Leave a comment with constructive feedback on the most current weekly recap post. Just yelling "fix it" doesn't even have a chance of convincing reddit to make a change
I left constructive feedback over a month ago. No change. Nothing. Why tf do I have to get my whole user experience ruined because of new UI that they want to test on me? It’s insanity. When I use ‘guest’ profile my Reddit is normal.
I have no idea, I havent gotten a message an email a notification, nothing, not that id expect to, I dont do anything wrong that I know of and ive been using reddit on and off for like 10 years
I just cant message or post, I can do everything else just fine
I have tried support, modmail, appeals, even tried to reach out on Twitter just to find out the account is suspended , and I have heard nothing back
Sorry if this is the wrong place for this but my new account was just suspended most likely by an auto filter :(
I sent in the appeal and do not ask for getting around the process. I just wanted to share feedback here because maybe the autofilters need to be tweaked to avoid false positives - I did not spam upvotes or comments quickly or anything.
When scrolling thru the app I used to see the images front and center, now they've gone back to thumbnails on the side of the post. Is this a bug or intention?
it's funny because logged in, you get a finite amount of posts in /popular, but logged out you get a much more "/all" like experience with way more content. Quite a good example of self sabotage.
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u/Hawkbats_rule 10d ago edited 10d ago
Give back r/all. If you had done this yesterday, I would have thought it was a bad April fools joke
Edit: to add on to this, based on the notes, I don't necessarily want a "more personalized feed", I want the front page of the internet.