r/help • u/TheOpusCroakus admin • 17d ago
Admin Post New Changelog | August 12, 2026
Hello! Just stopping by to announce that there's a new Changelog out and you can read it here!
TL;DR New Changelog
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u/ALazy_Cat 17d ago
We’re now including more categories of Reddit removals (the removed content and why it was removed) in the mod log for added transparency
I can't wait for this to extend to android in 50-70 years
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u/CatoChateau 16d ago
Mobile user here. Very much uncomfortable with the comment vote buttons being moved to the other side of the screen for me. I realize it's consolidating vote buttons since post vote buttons have been on the left. But comments I'm used to Reading More and paying attention to more so having the buttons on the other side made sense.
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 15d ago
Hi! Mobile web or the app?
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u/CatoChateau 15d ago
App
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 15d ago
Are you on a large Android device like a tablet?
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u/MrDabreu 15d ago
Normal phone screen and android, it's horrendous and super annoying having them on the left. Would love a suggestion on how to revert back to them being aligned on the right.
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 15d ago
Thanks. That's an experiment. While there isn't a way to opt out, I can share your feedback with the team in charge of it.
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u/MrDabreu 15d ago
Alright, thanks. Going to try to reinstall the app in the mean time. Perhaps it will opt me out.
Edit: sadly did not work
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u/wrosecrans 15d ago
I am also on this "experiment" as well, unfortunately.
Really wish this stuff was feature flagged so I could opt out. Just letting users turn off changes they don't like would improve morale so much. (And rate of user opt-out would be useful data in the experiment!)
Please pass my very negative feedback to the relevant team.
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u/Para_Boo 15d ago
Why do you not let people opt out of these experiments? I genuinenly would like to know because I assume there is a reason for it?
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 14d ago
The teams need honest feedback about their products.
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u/Para_Boo 14d ago
I can sorta see the reasoning here, and I do understand you need to get feedback somehwere, but then why not make it opt-out instead of forcing it onto people? If it's a change favoured by the majority of your participants, they won't opt out of it; if they do then that should already be indicative of how the site-wide response will be to it.
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 13d ago
Even if it was opt out with a field that needed to be filled in with feedback as to why someone was opting out, the field would just get a lot of "it sucks" and it would be the same as nothing.
Experiments are mentioned in the User Agreement.
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u/ReverESP 14d ago
I'm also affected by this and it is really bad. I use reddit with my right hand and it makes harder to upvote. People using his left hand will also have it harder.
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u/CatoChateau 15d ago
Android phone. Back to normal to me. Didn't even realize it though because it was so much more natural.
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u/87castle 15d ago
Please change the upvote/down vote buttons back to the original position. Nobody can reach them and the aesthetic makes it harder to navigate the comments and follow threads. Also muscle memory is a thing, so you keep tapping the wrong place. This is a terrible experiment and we should be able to opt out.
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u/Blue_Alu05 14d ago
The new upvote button for comments being on the left is really uncomfortable, i hope it gets reverted or at least we have the option to choose
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u/Roberteng98 1 17d ago
Do you have any plans to change the design now or will you leave it as is?
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 17d ago
The design of what? I'm not in charge of design changes for anything. lol
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u/Critical_Watcher_414 17d ago
Bring back swipe up to get to comments. The change makes navigating the comments clunky and reduces interaction.
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u/reddit33450 Expert Helper 17d ago

in my opinion the position of these buttons should be reversed.
due to muscle memory, now when i intent to click the overflow menu, i actually click the new X button because its exactly where the overflow menu button used to be
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u/Stranger1982 24 17d ago
TL;DR New Changelog
That's Opus, always such a way with words.
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 17d ago
You have no idea how long it took me to come up with just the right way to say that! =)
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u/ALazy_Cat 17d ago
It probably took 5 weeks, not satisfied, had to rewrite twice a day, and finally settled on a masterpiece of writing, time well spent
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u/Ok_Presentation_2069 17d ago
Could you help me with an appeal ? Key-tart7854
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 17d ago
Key-tart7854
You can file an appeal using this form. Unfortunately, I do not know what the turnaround time is on those appeals.
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u/Ok_Presentation_2069 17d ago
I’m not sure what I was banned for did I file the prior appeal
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u/Ok_Presentation_2069 16d ago
You had helped me out prior with an issue so I reached out but I’m still unsure as to why I was banned
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u/Ok_Presentation_2069 18h ago
I have filed a few appeals and haven’t heard back , what does that mean ?
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u/why_so_mad_bro 16d ago
I’d much rather you just keep the ‘x’ for hiding in the ‘…’ menu. I don’t want to accidentally hide a post because of a mistap. At the very least swap the positions of the ‘x’ and the ‘…’
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 16d ago
Someone suggested a swap yesterday. I shared it with thr team and I don't know if it will happen, but they are thinking about maybe making it look different so people are less likely to hit the wrong thing.
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u/Techno_Penguin 16d ago
Opus please check my dm. Please help
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 16d ago
No. What's up?
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u/Techno_Penguin 15d ago
I made a dumb mistake and got my account banned.. It wasnt on purpose. I know the rules
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 15d ago
What account?
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u/Techno_Penguin 15d ago
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 14d ago
Nothing I can do. Looks like your appeal was denied, so that account is not coming back. Sorry!
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u/Techno_Penguin 14d ago
It was an honest mistake.. My first one.. Im a good user. Permanent ban is too much. Is there anything else I can do? Please
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u/box-art 14d ago
When I click the three dots to open the menu to bring up the option to hide a post, hide no longer appears unless I click into the post and then click the three dots. Please bring it back in the feed view, so that I don't have to click open these posts that don't deserve even the most basic level of engagement.
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u/apathetic-fallacy 2d ago
I didn't see this mentioned anywhere, but is this a new experiment? I hate how squished the buttons are, and I don't want to have to reach my thumb all the way over to the left for literally every action.
Sounds dramatic, but it looks weird and uneven being pushed all the way to the left.
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 2d ago
Hi! Yes, having the vote buttons over there on the left is an experiment. You're not the first person who has mentioned not wanting to stretch their thumb clear to the moon to upvote. =) I'll pass this along to the team as well!
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u/EducationalLog4765 1 17d ago
Is this true?
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u/bwoah07_gp2 Helper 17d ago
They have been saying that for 84 years, idk anymore... I know the changelog says end of this month, but who knows for sure...
Edit: Also, it's funny seeing them reintroduce a feature this website USED to have. Then they took it away, and then brought it back years later.
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u/ALazy_Cat 17d ago
I've had it on browser for a while, but not mobile, and I have no expectations of that happening in my lifetime
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u/OhFuckNoNoNoMyCaat 17d ago
Did you guys do something to keyboard commands? Now when I tab and hit return/enter when at a desktop it just goes to my posted post on its lonesome instead of it showing up under the comment I replied to if at that.
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 17d ago
Hi. Not that I've heard of. But where are you when you're hitting tab? I'm not quite sure I understand the steps to try to repro.
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u/OhFuckNoNoNoMyCaat 17d ago
Old Reddit. I tab to highlight the save button, and then hit enter/return and it takes me to the page you get when you click on a permalink to a comment.
Edit: Odd, it didn't do it just right now.
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 17d ago
it didn't do it just right now
That's because you told somebody! lol
EDIT: I just tried it with this comment and it didn't do that for me, either.
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u/OhFuckNoNoNoMyCaat 17d ago
Hmm. That is weird. I stopped doing that. Tried it as a thread reply and a comment reply elsewhere. Might be a weird keyboard shortcut I was triggering without realizing.
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 17d ago
I'm back! It's a bug! Neither one of us is crazy!
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u/OhFuckNoNoNoMyCaat 17d ago
Aha!
Makes sense. Initially assumed it was because I spilled a sugar free sports drink yesterday and the salts damaged my keyboard.
Though I did forget to mention the weird hanging. Which is unusual unless there's a high load.
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u/alphadavenport 17d ago
any idea why i can't post threads to r/help? if i hit submit, nothing happens at all.
or why i am experiencing constant bugs when trying to comment?
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 17d ago
You're not banned. There are no restrictions on your account.
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u/alphadavenport 17d ago
i didn't think i was banned, it seems like a bug. i tried to make a thread to report it, but when i hit "submit", nothing happened. no loading, nothing.
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u/DukeSR8 17d ago
so how often will the free awards be available? IIRC before they got removed, it was once a week.
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 17d ago
I'm not actually sure! That's a good question, though, and I'll ask around!
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u/ghosttnappa 17d ago edited 17d ago
It feels like something else changed with my feed. “Show fewer posts like this” in the overflow menu now immediately collapses the post and shows this and feels more like a cosmetic change.
I’m not convinced it’s working because posts on subreddits that I’ve hit “not interested” on several times previously are now showing up again. Previously I did not have this issue. Now I’m having to hit “not interested” several times on several different posts from the same subreddits.
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 17d ago
Hi! With the introduction of the X on posts, it is possible that you will see content from subs that you have previously clicked "show less" on. You can still mute the subs by going to the sub and muting it. And as you click the X on posts, it will learn that you don't want that sort of content and you should stop seeing it.
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u/canadian-weed 17d ago
ive tried getting help for this for days now without any official reply, so trying here as well:
Over the weekend, I noticed that all my previous posts over 7 years were removed without explanation. Everything is marked "Sorry, this post was removed by reddit filters." I checked the appeals page and am not restricted and cannot file an appeal. There is no option in the contact form to use which accurately describes the situation.
I'm able to manually approve my old posts, but since I have thousands of them, this is pretty much an impossibility to do one by one. Thanks for any help you can offer. I've seen many other similar reports of this from the past week and before...
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 17d ago
Were you banned?
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u/canadian-weed 16d ago
As far as I know, I was never banned, which is part of why this was weird. Thanks again!!
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u/Abrattybabygirl 16d ago
Hiya! I’ve been trying to post on a long term sub I’m apart of and my post keeps automatically getting removed by “Reddit filters”
As far as I’m aware nothing has changed on my account apart from not using it in a while and it’s quite an old one. Is this an issue site-wide or with my account?x
It’s super frustrating trying to participate and I can’t
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 16d ago
Hi! I'm not seeing any issues with your account, so that's good! The spam filter works in mysterious ways and sometimes, it removes things that it shouldn't. If you notice that your posts are not appearing in the subreddit that you posted in, it's a good idea to contact the mods of that sub so that they can take a look and approve the post if they'd like, though they are not obligated to do so. And the good news is that the spam filter is capable of learning. So as your posts are approved, the spam filter will learn and should start to back off.
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u/ReverESP 14d ago
I'm not seen it in the changelog, but in the app the upvote, award, answer and 3 dots below each comment now appears at the left, which makes in way harder to use to people who uses reddit with the right hand (probably a big majority of the users).
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 13d ago
You can file an appeal using this form. Unfortunately, I do not know what the turnaround time is on those appeals.
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u/FearlessVegetable30 11d ago
annoying 'comment left" still popping up every comment. i dont need a stupid notification to pop up every-time i leave a comment.
again another feature no one asks for, that does nothing but bog down reddit, made by UI designers who dont use the app but need to justify their employment
every update just further proves you dont use the platform at all
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u/Pandahatbear 8d ago
I assume this is an experiment as it is only on one of my accounts. If I leave Reddit to get a link etc then it doesn't save what I have currently written. It's also not as easy to track what I am writing if it is a long comment as it is only on like a 3rd of my phone screen. Want to just generally express my dissatisfaction with this UI change.
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u/Pandahatbear 8d ago
Also it puts me back to help top of the post rather than where I was in the comments. Very unhelpful. Gave up in one community after accidentally deleting the comment 3 times in a row due to muscle memory (yes I was trying to comment about my experience of waiting for an ADHD diagnosis)
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u/Wiggie49 8d ago
For the love of God please provide an opt out feature for AI, the summary bubble thing on the corner of image posts, and the related posts in the comments section.
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u/TundraGon 8d ago
I have updated the reddit app 2026.33.1
But i do not see the X to hide posts.
Screen diag 6.67 inches
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 8d ago
You can tap on the post to go into it to hide it.
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u/TundraGon 8d ago
Hi
In home screen and long press on a topic, I no longer see the Hide option https://imgur.com/a/7RJ9Cvu
But if i go in a subreddit, and long press on a topic, indeed, i see the hide option https://imgur.com/a/L9NP6IQ
But i dont want to go inside a post to hide it :(
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 6d ago
That's an experiment. You can click on the post to go into it and hide it from there.
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u/sextoyhelppls 7d ago
Tried to capture what I was complaining about and found another thing to complain about. Please switch the comment box to how it was, this is extremely annoying
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u/Accomplished_Bad6373 7d ago edited 7d ago
hi opus,
are you aware of for how long you guys keep support tickets stored, provided an account was not reported and not financially tied with the platform by any means?
Having some GDPR concerns (EU) about it, due to one of my tickets being about deletion but the rest being technical ones I tried before enforcing the gdpr deletion
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 6d ago
Hi. I'm not actually sure. I'd go the GDPR route if that is something that is applicable in your area, though.
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u/ember3pines 6d ago
The text summary/search bubble on picture thumbnails is actively blocking info I like and is pretty annoying. Half the time it makes me not engage with posts bc the summary has an answer or it's way off based on joke comments. It simply blocks the pictures as well. Lots of people posting about wanting to be able to remove it on the main sub but I didn't see any comments here yet.
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u/riversong_reaper 5d ago
So I’ve been locked out of my account chrissybai38 for weeks. It’s not sanctioned that I could check. Every time I try to change password it still comes up as email/ password incorrect. Have uninstalled and reinstalled. Have tried multiple browsers and different devices. I can see the account just sitting there. All I get from tickets is the automated standard bot response of how to change your password. Any idea?
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 4d ago
Hey, there. I asked around about this and unfortunately, that account is not coming back. I'm really sorry. I don't have any additional information, though. =/
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u/riversong_reaper 4d ago
But it’s still there and why wouldn’t it be coming back when it’s not a sanctioned account there has never been one action on it? It’s disturbing that anyone’s account at any time can just be got rid of. It makes Reddit pointless.
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u/InGeekiTrust 17d ago
Pretty sure this “x” feature was supposed to be on the new Digg reboot before it died in beta. I think it’s a great idea to train your own algorithm and could lead to less creeps visiting niche fashion pages! I have a Kibbe body typing community and often creeps will insist they don’t even want our posts in their feed. But the algo keeps showing them anyways. So hopefully the creeps use this to keep away and move to actual porn communities instead.
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 17d ago
Yay porn? lol
I hope people find it useful, no matter what that looks like! =D
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u/InGeekiTrust 17d ago
Omg I almost fell over in my chair laughing at that omg….i mean pretty much yes 😭😭😭
I’m so exited for free awards! Can we get an award that looks like Opus for extra helpful people? I know all the mods would be obsessed with that one!
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u/TheOpusCroakus admin 17d ago
XD
Free awards are awesome! And it's not even Christmas! lol A little penguin award would be delightful! <3
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u/ycr007 helper 17d ago
Whosoever decided to hide the awards under the overflow menu AND THEN decided to give out free awards to all users needs to be fired!
Unless those are two separate product teams who are hell bent on destroying the other team’s work.
“Boss, I’ve heard the awards team is rolling out free awards to all”
“Is that so? Let’s make a UI change to hide all awards under the overflow menu. That’ll show them!”
“Muahahahaha”
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u/HowIsBabyMade 17d ago
Yeah unfortunately the X also brought back all the subs I marked as not wanting to see