Reddit has introduced a slight tweak in its UI, which can see the elimination of separate feed tabs alongside the highest of the primary show in favor of a brand new drop-down menu to entry your ‘Residence’, ‘Fashionable’ and ‘Information’ feeds.
As you’ll be able to see on this instance, you’ll now have a separate menu to change to every feed sort.
For context, that is the present Reddit tab show:
As defined by Reddit:
“On the Reddit app, the Residence, Fashionable, and Information (iOS solely) feeds will transfer from the highest of your app display right into a drop-down menu. To change feeds you’ll be able to both swipe between them (which is the first manner most redditors change between feeds at the moment) or just faucet on the drop-down menu and choose your required feed.”
So, given that almost all Redditors already swipe throughout to change feeds, which continues to be out there as an possibility, this, functionally, gained’t change a lot, nevertheless it does make the app a bit cleaner, with fewer choices competing for consideration on the primary display.
The change is a part of a broader re-think at Reddit as to the way it can simplify and enhance the person expertise, which may also see it exploring updates in these areas:
- Feed Structure – Enhancing the way in which that you simply work together with and change between numerous feeds on Reddit
- Feed Enlargement – Offering extra particular feeds to interact with (assume Gaming, Sports activities, Politics, Magnificence, and so forth.)
- Feed Efficiency – Gotta go quick. And in addition seamlessly. And in addition with high-quality that’s easy like buttah
Truthfully, I don’t know why platforms really feel the necessity to use cool lingo of their bulletins, however sure, ‘easy like buttah’ in all probability greatest sums up the goal of this new growth push on the app.
Subject-based feeds is also attention-grabbing, and will additionally assist Reddit refine its advert focusing on to particular audiences, if customers align with that strategy. However proper now, it’s all theoretical, with the one change being a minor tweak in the primary UI.
However it looks like a superb one? Once more, it appears cleaner, and the main focus right here appears to be proper.
Hopefully, these extra modifications will additional refine Reddit’s imaginative and prescient.
You’ll be able to learn extra about Reddit’s newest UI replace right here.
