Reddit continues to tinker with its feed in an effort to make the platform simpler to navigate for novices and veterans alike.
In September, Reddit added a drop-down menu of feeds to its iOS utility, together with House, Information and Fashionable, in addition to shifting its house feed sorting choices into the settings menu, and the corporate mentioned Thursday that these two modifications considerably elevated what number of posts Redditors see of their house feeds.
Trying to proceed the momentum, Reddit revealed two extra modifications that can start rolling out on iOS Thursday and on Android early subsequent 12 months.
A brand new Newest feed was added to the drop-down menu, enabling Redditors to view content material sorted in chronological order and keep updated with communities they comply with.
Reddit defined in a weblog submit Thursday, “The Newest feed is the primary of some new feeds we plan to launch within the upcoming 12 months. Folks use Reddit in numerous other ways primarily based on intent at time of use—some want in-depth studying, and others desire a passive, relaxed watching expertise. To cater to those moods, we’re working to make it potential to entry feeds primarily based in your searching mode choice and to prioritize your most popular feeds for a neater feed switching expertise.”
The platform can be eradicating type controls from its House feed and defaulting that feed to the Greatest type, saying that its analysis discovered that greater than 99% of Redditors use two types on their House feed, Greatest and New.
Reddit wrote, “The House feed is used at present as an entry level to find conversations, communities and creators related to you. To make it higher, we’re updating and constructing options that provides you with a less complicated, extra personalized in-feed searching expertise.”
The corporate reminded customers that they’ve the choice of tapping the three-dot menu within the top-right nook of really useful posts to inform Reddit to “present extra posts like this” or “present much less posts like this,” and this feature is out there on Android, iOS and the net.
Lastly, Reddit is experimenting with altering the way in which sure posts show on the House, Newest and Fashionable feeds on Android and IOS, focusing extra on the submit content material and fewer on parts that the majority Redditors don’t use.
The platform defined, “Beginning at present, posts displayed in House, Fashionable and Newest feeds won’t embrace awards, and the awards motion shall be within the three-dot menu. These modifications will solely have an effect on these three feeds, and the posts will look the identical on the submit element and group pages.”
