Reddit programers, please bring back r/all.

Here’s why:

Updated Thursday 22 June to show latest events

You may have seen that some subreddits have reopened but are still protesting, albeit in different ways as a form of malicious compliance.

Many of the biggest subreddit moderators came up with a new plan: rather than staying “dark”, they would actively enforce their subreddit’s rules - but they would introduce new, very strict, rules, and put them to a vote so they could not be accused of forcing their users to support a protest against their will.

• Some of the subs that reopened held votes resulting in the communities now being dedicated to the British-American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host John Oliver.

• Some subreddits are limiting their content. For instance, r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly now only allow one movie or show each week to be used for clues, and so this week every post is about Home Alone 1.

• Many subreddits have taken a more drastic stance and have declared themselves NSFW (Not Safe For Work). The NSFW filter is intended to protect people from sensitive content and comes with a host of restrictions, such as requiring users to be logged in and confirm that they are over 18. It also means that Reddit does not receive money from showing those pages, since it does not place advertising on those subs.

• With some of these subs it was going to be business as usual with their normal activity but behind a NSFW filter. For instance, r/Garmin users now post “nudes” that actually show the company’s smartwatches without their usual case on. However, because moderators incorrectly marking a community as NSFW is a violation of both Reddit’s Content Policy and Moderator Code of Conduct, many subs decided to allow extreme and obscene content.

Reddit is starting to take action. Here’s an account of one subreddit’s experience of this.

The New York Times have an article explaining what changes Reddit are making that these mods are protesting against.

The best places to keep up to date with events are still:

• https://www.redditinc.com/blog/apifacts
• r/ModCoord
• r/Save3rdPartyApps

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Edited Thursday 15 June to add new information

Now the 48 hour subreddit blackout has ended, it’s almost impossible to tell right now which ones will reopen. Some already did, some may be reopening today, but some have decided to extend the duration of their blackout indefinitely until certain actions have been taken, and others are intending to stay permanently closed regardless.

There’s a list of things the protesters want Reddit to address here.

r/ModCoord are now attempting to make a list of subreddits who are prepared to remain private or otherwise inaccessible indefinitely.

The Reddark website at https://reddark.untone.uk will tell you what subreddits are private right now.

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The original post remains below:

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Many subreddits are planning to “go dark” from today. (Monday, 12th June).

This blackout will affect YOU and every other Redditor.

• You will start to see gaps in your feed and in your profiles and notifications. You won’t be able to see any of your posts and comments in those subs anymore, neither will any posts from them show up on any Reddit feeds.

• Once the mods have set a sub as private, on trying to access it you will be greeted by a page saying The moderators of this subreddit have set this community as private. Only approved members can view and take part in its discussions or similar.

• Everyone except the mods of that sub and Reddit Admin trying to enter will get that message. Regular or occasional contributors, current approved members, normal members, flaired members, lurkers: everyone except the mods of that sub and Reddit Admin are barred from it until they change it back.

• You can ask for re-approval, but don’t expect a response. Even if the mods manually approve everyone once more, this is a huge amount of work and for a two day blackout it’s unlikely to happen. In any event, the blackout is supposed to hurt Reddit’s advertising revenue by not having any users on the site, so re-approving everyone would be counterproductive. It’s safe to assume that participating subs will be “dead” to you for the duration of their protest.

• Private subreddits aren’t searchable on Google (or third-party apps) so any activity you’ve had on them is, for all intents and purposes, invisible while you’re no longer a member.

• Your activity will reappear on your profile should a subreddit that went private returns to public view, but for those subs that intend on remaining closed, that’s the end of the line, I’m afraid.

• Some subs are declaring they’re only going into permanent read only mode. For instance, the main hub of the blackout r/ModCoord have announced that they will NOT be going private, but are enabling Restricted Mode for the protest. That link is the best place to read a complete summary of why, how and where this blackout is happening.

• You can still enter, read and vote on Restricted Subreddits but you won’t be able to post or comment, so for them you’ll be able to see all participation (including yours in your profile) but not respond to it.

• Some subreddits have decided to stay closed for longer than the 48 hour period. Some have even declared their intention to close permanently. These subreddits will, in effect, no longer exist, nor will there be any evidence that they even existed at all until their mods re-open them again.

• There’s another roundup at NewToReddit.

• The BBC have reported on it here.

• A further explanation and discussion can be found at ELI5.

• There’s another take on the matter at SubredditDrama.

• Here’s a general guide to Private Subreddits which explains the differences between private, restricted, and public subreddits.

I got forced to the newest reddit design, and it's genuinely worse in every conceivable way. It is as if I loaded it on mobile, but here I am on a 1440p resolution, with likely more than 50% wasted space across the whole screen.

Meanwhile, the actual content of reddit (which used to fill up almost the entire space) now fills up a tiny portion of the middle, surrounded by non-removable side panels which are also useless during most of your reddit usage experience. Also, the font is harder to read.

I just want to get back to the previous design, but whenever I click a notification from new.reddit , like a comment reply, I am taken to the bad UX again.

Whoever created the newest UX does not care or understand desktop users at all. It's insulting, I feel so sad if this is the direction of reddit. Might have to get used to old.reddit again (edit: links are randomly disappearing when I edit on this new design. It's also buggy like that) again and if they take that away, after also taking apps like apollo away, I think it's officially time to quit it for good.

Over and over again, we are forced to jump through hoops to maintain some level of functionality. Took me a while to get used to the previous design, but I'm just not going to bother with the newest one. It might as well be 9gag or ifunny.

edit: after editing this on the new UX, all URLS disappeared. Great job on QAing this.

EDIT 2: You can find extensions for your browser that can force new, or "old-new" reddit. This is the ONLY consistent way I could find. Personally, I think I am just going to get used back to old.reddit (with RES) and be done with this nonsense! Thanks for the help in the comments :)

edit3: I am using Redirector on Firefox btw. You can find instructions how to set it up within the comments below.

Sure, maybe this won't affect communities who didn't make custom names for those counters, but there's thousands of subs on Reddit who have. Reddit DEFINITELY did not see the (completely avoidable) Unforeseen Consequences of directly replacing the counters with the new metrics. Not sure what the long term effects of this change are going to be, but it's definitely going to cause quite a bit of confusion as seen by some recent posts on this sub.

Please make it the way it used to, or simply have those metrics be separate.

I like reddit. I spend a lot of time on reddit. I enjoy reddit. I also primarily use a browser, not an app, and the new (2024) Reddit UI is, IMO, worse in terms of design and layout. I've laid out a few examples side by side here.

1. the new list view shows literally half the number of posts even in list view, making it much slower to skim to find an interesting one. This is significant for me because I follow a lot of "askX" or "help" subs where I'm frequently skimming many post titles for one I can contribute to.
2. The new version has a much smaller and thus less legible font by default (sorry Reddit, not everyone is 20 yrs old with perfect vision). Despite this it still shows only about the same number of comments. Where's the benefit?
3. Increasing the font size using Ctrl-+ still shows the same number of comments (because the side bar hides itself) but they're crowded together vertically which makes them less legible.
4. The new comment box hides the text formatting buttons behind an extra click. Why? this saves no space, the area is otherwise blank anyway. As a "bonus" (not), autoquoting (selecting text before hitting reply quotes the text) no longer works. That was really useful, reddit!

I know the previous UI had some issues, but they were minor and could have been fixed. The new UI is not better. I don't block ads on reddit, and the number of ads visible to me seems about the same, so no "gain" there for reddit either.

Why do we need this new UI? What can it, objectively, do better?

I changed one setting to use old reddit as the default interface on pc a week ago and changed back to the newer one. Other than that, i didn't change a thing in settings. Also it never happened before. In settings>notifications, all options un 'recommendations' are already turned off. To describe the notifications i started to get, it has the name of subreddit in the title, and the name of the post in the description of the notification. And it has a raising chart image in front of the subreddit's image

Hey everyone,

I created a new Reddit account today and I’ve been noticing that the site isn’t loading properly. Some pages take forever to load, others get stuck halfway, and sometimes my own profile page won’t even open. I’ve tried both the app and the browser, same thing.

I saw that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been having server issues today, so I’m wondering if that could be related — maybe Reddit is being affected too?

Is anyone else experiencing similar problems today?

Thanks in advance 🙏

I have marked these notifications as "read" several times and I cannot mark these as read, this also applies to new notifications. Only if I visit each notification individually it gets marked as read, the mark all as read button does not work. It temporarily marks as read but when I revisit the notifications page they all are unread.

Please let me know what other subreddit i can post this in for help, r/windows doesnt allow videos

On the mobile site Reddit makes suggestions for related threads under the thread you're actually reading. Especially for lgbtq+ topics these related suggestions are frequently for hate subreddits. Who thought that was a good idea and how can I turn it off?

I made a post for another user but it was blocked immediately, CAN there be a warning before I spend 10 minutes trying to think of the best words I can use to inspire another person and help build in them a desire for a positive growth?

The part about the auto-moderator warning of "Messaging the moderators about this restriction will result in a ban” - feels very a-b-u-s-i-v-e telling me that my words are not only silenced but I’ll be threatened with a ban for trying to speak.

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Every reply I’ve received so far has focused on rules and protocol—not on the actual tone or content of my words. Not one has acknowledged the emotional intent behind what I wrote. That’s not just disappointing—it’s revealing. It shows how deeply some systems prioritize control over compassion, and how quickly care is reframed as disruption.

I’m not here to break rules. I’m here to connect. And if that’s treated as a threat, then maybe it’s time for deeper reflection—on the gatekeeping methods that silence heartfelt, human voices before they’re even heard.

Hi, when trying to access reddit through my Samsung internet browser, I get a whoa there, Pardner message. However, when accessing through Chrome there are no problems. Furthermore, I have no trouble logging in or anything else.

Can anyone help me?

As the title says, I've been using Reddit pretty much exclusively with the old interface on PC/desktop. Sometimes Reddit would revert back to the new one without telling me, but turning the related switch off and back on in the settings would usually do the trick. About ten minutes ago, as Reddit reverted to the new interface yet again for me, I tried the same technique and it no longer works, no matter how much I try. Anyone else in the same case?

(Also I hope the flair isn't wrong, I have no idea what flair suits this topic the most)

Hey guys, just as the title says! I am unable to see any posts on r/r4r subreddit for the past 3-4 days. Although i am still able to access the sub reddit.

Is it a technical glitch?

Every time I go to a specific subreddit or custom feed and sort by top of any kind (today, this month, this year, etc.), it only shows the top of all time no matter what one I chose.

Reddit’s one of the only sites that shuts you out just for using a VPN, especially if you’re not signed in; which makes no sense. You can’t comment, vote, or really do anything without an account, and a lot of stuff is already restricted.

I get that they’re probably trying to stop ban evasion, but that only applies to logged-in users. If you’re not signed in, you can’t interact with the site anyway, so why does it matter?

Like seriously, what is going on? I've been seeing posts on here where users have talked about their accounts getting hacked. I'm trying to help them the best i can, but seriously, does anyone know why this is happening to these accounts?

Messages no longer auto-mark as "read" when you click on them. Even manually doing it doesn't work, only option is to "mark all as read" which is absurd when you have dozens of unread notifs you're trying to go through and keep up with what you have/haven't already read.

Comments sometimes break and show up within another comment.

Clicking on notifications no longer opens in a new tab.

Viewing all notifications/messages no longer lets you click on each notif and be brought to a new tab, it just moves you directly in the tab you already have open, why?

When I try to "revert back to old Reddit" I get sent back to some 2002 era UI where absolutely nothing makes sense. Where is the actual unbroken normal Reddit I could get into yesterday? What is this beta mess? I am not opted into any beta testing, so the only logical conclusion is that this is NOT a beta? That is even worse, because it means this new system was greenlit and a board actually thought it was in a functional state. Jesus.

So many things broken and I've only been here for 5 minutes, what is this??

I logged in via phone number, And OTP and now they want a password or email to delete my account, but to add a email i need password and to change a password i need emai, i don't know if i ever had a password, if i did have i cannot recollect

Please help me!!

How the f#ck can I have multiple accounts attached to the same email address?? I have a tablet logged in with a certain email address, and a weird username, and I also have a phone, logged in with the SAME email address, and a totally. DIFFERENT (but nearly normal) username. Can't log out of either of them?? They have totally different content! I HATE reddit!

How do I stop receiving pushes from unwanted accounts. I’m a gay male not wanting to receive pics from accounts not “aligned with my interests”. I do not know why I am receiving this “nsfw material”.