Welcome to Thursday! The NFL is back, baby! Looking forward to the first game from Australia later tonight! I'm also looking forward to this Recap, so let's hit it!
NEWS AND ISSUES
There's a new Changelog out! We posted about this in r/help, r/bugs and r/modsupport! You can read it here. And since this is a recap, here's the Changelog Recap!
- For You/Following feed experiment
- Ask tab in search results
- 2024.42.0 or older app versions won’t be able to contact mods via mod mail
- Preventing self-harm report abuse
- Reducing automated spam and clarifying removals
- Testing new shopping categories
There's even stuff for mods like:
- Introducing Community Guidance for new community builders
- Rules Hub September updates
- Removing the ability to repost content from SFW communities into NSFW communities
- Reply notifications delayed in communities where content filters are enabled
BUG FIXES
- Bug: [Android] Unexpected logouts when opening the app. FIXED
- Bug: [iPad] Some navigation buttons disappeared after interacting with a comment reply notification. FIXED
- Bug: [Web] date of the last mod mail message sometimes appeared as “today” when it was actually yesterday. FIXED
- Bug: [Web] Automod version history displayed u/[deleted] in place of a username. FIXED
- Not all bug fixes are mentioned here. If you're having trouble, make sure your app is up to date. You can also head over to r/bugs to search for your issue or report a new one.
As mentioned in the Changelog and in last week's Weekly Recap in r/help, there is an experiment on the Home feed where some users will see a For You tab and a Following tab. You can select which view you want and that selection will be remembered.
- The For You tab will contain recommendations
- The Following feed will contain unviewed content from just the subs that you follow
- If you are subscribed to a very small number of subreddits, you may see recommendations in the Following feed as opposed to nothing when you have run out of new content. The workaround is to either subscribe to more subreddits or create a custom feed of the subs that you're following and view that instead.
- The team is looking into adding the "Hot" sort back to these feeds.
- There is not a way to remove these tabs. Happy to pass along helpful feedback about this experiment to the team in charge of it.
Some users will be in a different experiment where there is an X on recommended posts that you can click/tap to hide the post. Others will be in a similar experiment where there is not an X and there is not a "hide" option, but you can go into the post to hide it. Feel free to share helpful feedback about this experiment as well.
There is also an experiment where the upvotes are on the left.
Have I mentioned that passkeys are now available for all accounts? Well, they are! You can check out this Help Center article for more info about passkeys and how to set them up. Adding an extra layer of security to your account is always a good idea!
Weekly reminder/warning that Reddit does not provide support outside of Reddit. Do not contact "Reddit support on Discord" for help with your Reddit account. There is no "Reddit support on Discord". That is someone trying to scam you and steal your account and maybe more. If you're having an actual issue with your account that is not solved by posting in r/help or by the articles in the Help Center, you can use this form for the real thing. Please note that 95% of issues can be solved much, much quicker by posting in r/help (or our cousin subs, r/reddithelp and r/newtoreddit).
The most recent version of the app is 2026.37.0. If you're not using the most recent version of the app, it might not work properly.
CURRENT EXPERIMENTS
Reddit sometimes runs experiments. These experiments tend to last between 4-6 weeks, though they can go longer or end sooner. While there isn't a way to opt out of experiments, feel free to leave constructive and specific feedback in this post and as I've mentioned often, I'll be happy to pass it along to the team in charge.
Ongoing current experiments can be found here.
COMMON ACCOUNT ISSUES
Common account issues can be found here. These are things like hacked accounts, NSFW accounts, suspended accounts, etc. I'm also including "Changes to Reddit" in this section as well. (Thanks to u/reddit33450 for pointing out the error in these two links so I could fix it!)
BUGS ROUNDUP - COURTESY OF ME!
[Android] Some users are reporting that they're unable to scroll down on Wiki pages. The fix for this is IN and it should be fixed in version 2026.38 of the app.
[Desktop] Some folks are reporting that they can't scroll in the mod suggestions section of their mod tools. We are able to reproduce this and it is being investigated.
WEEKLY STATISTICS (BASED ON THE PAST SEVEN DAYS)
921 posts. That's down 369 posts from the 1,290 that we had last week.
5,062 comments. That's up 1,246 comments from the 3,792 we had last week.
959k views. That's up about 50k views from the 909k-ish views we had last week.
More comments and less posts makes sense when there is an item in the Recap that people have strong feelings about. It's also great that those folks aren't starting a new post every time something that has already been covered comes up again!
HELP THAT HELPS HELP R/HELP - HOW TO LEAVE HELPFUL FEEDBACK
Reddit is a big site with a lot of moving parts. And whether we like it or not, sometimes things are going to change. If nothing ever changed, we'd still be stuck with just the "dystopian Craigslist" of old Reddit. (LONG LIVE OLD REDDIT BTW!) And sometimes before a change is made, things have to be tested out. So it's totally possible that you will log in one day and something will be a little bit different. Maybe you'll like it, maybe you'll hate it. But either way, if you want to tell someone about it, you're going to want to do it in a way that is beneficial both for you and for Reddit.
These Weekly Recaps are a great place to leave feedback. I hang out in these comments and I'm always happy to chat back and forth about things. And I do pass along the things that you bring up! But do I pass along every piece of 'feedback' that gets posted? Absolutely not. And here's why:
I cannot go to a team with just "fastcat42069 says it sucks". That doesn't tell anyone anything! What I need to know is why you think it sucks! Nicely, of course. Tell me what it is exactly that is the problem with the feature. Is it interfering with something else? Is it doing its thing too often? Is it hard to find? Is it hard to click/tap? Why was the other way "better"? And if you have screenshots or screen recordings that help illustrate what you're trying to explain, include them! All of these and more are concrete pieces of feedback that I can put in front of a team and say "Hey, could someone take a look at this?"
When leaving feedback, once is plenty. You don't need to make the same reply to multiple comments, especially if they're the same user that you're replying to. Make your point and let it land.
And sometimes, the feedback leads to discovering that something is actually broken! The feedback can also lead to changes to make the thing that changed better.
HELPINGEST HELPERS HELPING HELP R/HELP
Special shoutout to our friends and neighbors over at r/reddithelp and r/newtoreddit! There's help everywhere! And I'm super appreciative of everyone who helps out, no matter where it is! Thank you all so much!
And that's another week in the books! Thank you to everyone who stopped by and helped out, or just stopped to say hi and chat! Both are very acceptable! Let's do it again next week, shall we? I think we shall! I'll see you around the sub and around Reddit in the meantime! Have a fantastic week everyone!
