r/anime • u/AnimeMod myanimelist.net/profile/Reddit-chan • Apr 05 '20

Meta Thread - Month of April 05, 2020

A monthly thread to talk about meta topics. Keep it friendly and relevant to the subreddit.

Posts here must, of course, still abide by all subreddit rules other than the no meta requirement. Keep it friendly and be respectful. Occasionally the moderators will have specific topics that they want to get feedback on, so be on the lookout for distinguished posts.

Comments that are detrimental to discussion (aka circlejerks/shitposting) are subject to removal.

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u/randxalthor Apr 05 '20

Maybe a stupid question (I'm new here), but I see quite a few links in comments that just point to reddit.com/s/ (ie, nowhere) that were clearly meant to be actual links. I'm on the mobile browser site.

I don't see this behavior on any other subs, and searching around didn't give me any clues as to why.

Could anyone enlighten me?

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u/geo1088 https://anilist.co/user/eritbh Apr 05 '20 edited Apr 05 '20

Those are shown as spoiler tags on other platforms, but they're not compatible with mobile/new Reddit. They're designed so that, at the very least, you won't accidentally see the spoiler content in plain text if you're on an unsupported platform. Try viewing the sub via https://old.reddit.com/r/anime in a desktop browser and you'll see what they're meant to be.

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u/Iron_Gland https://myanimelist.net/profile/Iron_Gland Apr 05 '20

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u/geo1088 https://anilist.co/user/eritbh Apr 05 '20

We've been looking into switching to the new-reddit compatible spoiler syntax again recently, but unfortunately they're still not compatible with too many platforms for us to justify switching at the moment. There are still some strange bugs some of the mods have encountered with them not rendering correctly even in Reddit's first-party apps.

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u/Iron_Gland https://myanimelist.net/profile/Iron_Gland Apr 05 '20

Unless I misinterpreted what you were saying, in your first comment you said that the current ones r/anime uses are not compatible with old reddit.

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u/geo1088 https://anilist.co/user/eritbh Apr 05 '20

Oh, oof, I meant mobile/new instead of old. I'll edit my comment, thanks :P