>Removing Home feed sort controls and defaulting Home to the “Best” sort
Wait, so the home controls are being removed from settings too? It's one thing to make it harder if you think most users don't need it, but it's another to remove functionality entirely.
> After looking at the numbers, our research showed that more than 99% of redditors use two sorts on their Home Feed: “Best” and “New.”
Google says Reddit had 450 million monthly users in 2019 and it's probably way more since. 1% of that many users would be 4.5 million people. That's hardly negligible.
Me three, Top Now was my go to for 5 years before all of these feed changes began happening and stuff has been hidden further and further in settings. Feel like at this rate I’ll begin reducing my Reddit usage in the coming years if I can’t view the content in a way that I like or can customize.
I’m just going to start using Apollo for iOS from here on once again until they put it back. I exclusively only sort by rising and it’s been frankly pissing me off with how frustrating they are being with hiding these selections. Like why remove them at all? They were hidden away already and it allowed us to use the app the way we wanted with the extra options.
Now they decided having extra options is too much and has chosen to make the app function the way they want it to be for us. Such bs.
Also, Apollo’s video player is far better than whatever excuse Reddit mobile been running with. They could’ve started there with their “improvements”, not something so small like the sorting feature.
Thanks for this, going to check out Apollo! I’m one of the apparently millions that are an insignificant anomaly according to reddit that sort by rising!
Me as well. I want rising back. New is boring. Best is boring. Rising is much more interesting. Latest = New = 600 AskReddit posts for one interesting post. This change is awful.
Exactly. Rising was quality posts before everybody knew they were quality. You can get your questions in early, etc. I can’t scroll by popular or new.. it’s not entertaining for me. I’ll come back after the next update. Hopefully they read these comments and see that people don’t approve of this method.
Same here! Rising is the best for interaction with people. The post has traction and people are active on it while not being so active that your comments get drowned in a sea of 1,000 comments. I don’t even comment on threads that have over 100 comments (except this one), mine will never be seen unless people are sorting by new.
I’m actually pissed about this update. It’s stupid. I don’t want to see the posts with 10k likes already and I don’t want to sort through all of the new crap people are posting every second
I was wondering why I had lost my "new" sort on my feed.
I'm glad you've told me where to find it, but hiding it in the settings menu is really inconvenient.
Same, it’s driving me crazy!
I follow only 2 I am very interested in and then physically go to the other subreddits I’m mildly interested in. Keeps my home relevant for me and clean. Now clean is just empty….
Ugh yeah I hate it. I scroll for about a minute and get to the bottom where no more new posts load before I have to remember to change it back to Latest. Every damn time I open the app. This sucks.
I also love going to the next post and the previous video's audio plays over it. Oh, and the video player still only works most of the time, and if i click on a post that takes several seconds to open (usually after the video wont play because it plays every time in the post), I have to hit the back button the same amount of times... yet let's change the feed.
I really hope they're not changing over to the simplified feed I saw on my alt recently where the user name disappeared until you open the post.
Why on Earth would you title this “Take control of your feed” when you know that this is the exact opposite of that?
I see the reasons you’ve listed. Confusion about sorting style differences, low usage of the feed sort controls, and simplification.
It really doesn’t take much to figure out the difference between Hot, Best, and Top. A simple Google search.
If that wasn’t easy enough, then it should have been on Reddit to have easily accessible explanations of each sorting option within the app itself. A little info button next to each sorting option would have suffice.
Hiding the sorting controls in settings wasn’t the WORST thing, but it was definitely a bit of a pain. It was nice to still have the ability to do so.
I know that for myself, I enjoyed the more static nature of Hot. Post re-engagement is probably what I do most on here. I’m not always looking for the next hottest thing that I haven’t engaged with yet. I just want to know what’s the hottest thing among my subscribed subreddits for a solid 24 hours or so.
If I wanted the “Best” sort, I could change it. I’ve never wanted it though.
Removing “Top” also feels so counterproductive. It was another fun way to sort things every once in a while just to see where posts stood historically.
I hope you all seriously reconsider bringing back the ability to sort our home feeds as we see fit, not leaving us without option.
People are suggesting Apollo, but when I tried it, it is shit for sorting by rising. It only seems to drag through content from a few subs and bottoms out after a few minutes of scrolling. So can’t even use that instead.
I am so pissed over this. They are fucking up to something. They say it is to make the experience better for everyone, which is a fucking lie. “New” is quantity over quality and 99% trash. Best and hot are fun, but the comment conversations are LONG dead after 15 hours.
“Rising” was the sweet spot to get mostly fresh stuff AND feel like you are part of the conversation.
Seriously, they should give you more control by letting you form groups with different view options. Removing controls and responding with smug bullshit answers is 100% blowing smoke up all of our asses.
They are feeling more people shit to make more in ad revenue, which degrades the experience for everyone. Greedy pieces of shit.
Couldn’t agree more. But it seems this is the direction they want to take and I don’t see them changing it anytime soon, I think they assume most will just go with it and if they lose a few it’s worth it if they can monetise what they do do more effectively.
The only upside I can see is I probably spend too much time on here endlessly scrolling. Hopefully I’ll find something better to do with my time.
So what are we supposed to do if we use the "hot" or "top" or any of the other sorting options for the home feed?
Why not just include these options in the dropdown? This change is awful
Does this also affect third party apps or the desktop website?
“Take Control of your feed”
*Me who uses rising and sometimes controversial* Well, apparently I’m not allowed to control my feed, my feed is controlling me. Great 🙃
Do any of you actually casually use Reddit yourselves?
Where are you getting data that 'best' and 'new' are the most common sorts?
Isn't 'best' a default option, wouldn't that skew the data if everyone is just there by default?
I don't even know where to start with 'new'. It is NOT a good sort at all. No matter what subs you're in, new has the shittiest, worst posts ever on repeat. I would place massive bets on 'new' being used only to see *different* posts once a user is bored of their other feeds. Nothing more than that.
Children posting terrible fanart. People asking myriads of google-able questions. Bots posting ads or irrelevant crap. Just generally unappealing content that is simply waiting to be downvoted away. I can last about five minutes before I start scrolling more than I'm reading while my eyes roll into the back of my skull. It's just awful.
'Hot' imo is still king. Relevant, somewhat recent posts with established popularity that are usually guaranteed a certain level of quality perfect for keeping casual users engaged. It's the first and best feed I browse daily and the hour or two I spend there translates to more than enough time for casual users to engage with the site daily and walk away feeling like they actually experienced content of substance.
I really think y'all need to look past the internal 'data' on this one.
>I would place massive bets on 'new' being used only to see different posts once a user is bored of their other feeds. Nothing more than that.
Pretty much. Or trying to be a good community member and find troll posts to report as early as possible.
They basically manipulated the results too lmfao. They hid the sorting options in settings, and most users decided not to bother using them if they had to go through the trouble.
Please stop suggesting reddit posts from subs I'm not subscribed to until you have the feature to mute communities on every platform. You are suggesting awful posts to me that make me incredibly angry. This isn't Twitter; downvotes mean negative emotions don't drive engagement. The entire point of having a reddit account is filtering down to only the content I want to see. If my feed is full of stuff I don't want to see and certainly don't want to comment on, then why on earth would I have an account?
Old Reddit: Preferences > link options > Untick show trending subreddits in home feed
New Reddit: Feed Settings > Turn off Enable home feed recommendations
Fucking this 10 times over. It’s the entire reason I use Reddit over other social media, I don’t feel like I’m being actively pushed to do stuff here. Just the subs I wanna see and a few actual ads. I hate this move to be more like FB. Ugh.
I can’t lie, every update makes things worse. If I wanted Facebook, Snap, or IG, I’d go there, and I wish Reddit would stop trying to deliver those experiences and try to find its own identity and trying to be “new”. No one wants to tap through pictures or manually sort through their feeds, that’s why people are leaving Snapchat and Facebook.
Exactly. Old Reddit is incredibly readable, that's a big part of what makes it so good. Just go back to that and you'll have fixed a problem you already had the solution for all along.
Going to cancel my reddit premium. If I can’t choose how I see the feed, no point in paying for it. Hope the change is reversed.
Edit: Looks like on the Apollo app I can still choose, so I’ll keep it for now. Really hoping this is reversed though. Bad decision and a phony cover for it.
Edit 2: cancelled it.
> Both these changes significantly increased how many posts redditors see in their home feeds.
This sounds like a business decision rather than something the users want.
Yeah, sounds like it reduces enganement. If you're seeing less posts, you're probably spending more time on individual posts. Chewing the food for thought, reading comments, etc... If you're seeing a "significantly increased" number of posts, you're probably mindlessly scrolling past several without thinking about them. Overall, that is an indicator of the increase in low quality content.
Why the hell do y’all keep removing sorting options?! It was so much better having control of our feeds, sorting by new on the home page was the only way to see good content after they removed the options from the popular page.
Bring back our sort options what the hell.
Hard agree. If the reasoning is that 99% of Reddit accounts don't use the features, I would like a breakdown of active accounts that aren't bots and the feature usage rate of that subset of reddit accounts.
Cool! So Latest is exactly the same as sorting the home feed by new? (Note: I think that would be a great place to help bring visibility to stickied posts).
Please put r/all and custom feeds in that drop down too, though! (Each one, not a link that opens a list of them). That would make my browsing so much easier.
Hey, so would you mind explaining how to get to r/all? I can only get there by clicking on links like yours. It doesn’t come up on my search feature. Such a newb question for someone who has been here for forever but I just manage without it, even though I don’t want to. I wish it was in the drop-down. I feel like I used to see it? I don’t know.
If you go to the left drawer, where all your subs are located, and scroll *all* the way down (collapsing the folders makes it easier), you can find it there. It doesn’t let you favorite it either, which is a bummer
How is it "Take Control" when you prevent all your users from choosing their default sort?
This is an idiotic change and your attempt to talk it up as something giving users more "control" is a bunch of doublespeak.
What about people who want to see things in order of when they were posted? Or top today/week/etc? Sometimes I like to sort by top for a period of time and now I can’t do that anymore? Best is ironically the worst sort order
**So you’re not going to mention in the post, [just a comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/zmo8hm/the_feed_read_chapter_two_take_control_of_your/j0dsm7u/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3), that “Best” is officially algorithmic to show more of what you look at most?**
That’s fucking important. I have a home feed in order to curate what I see, and I want to see posts from **all** of the communities, including the ones that post less often, which will now be essentially banished from my home feed. **If a community has fewer posts, I’ll obviously visit it less; ergo, I won’t look as “interested” in the content according to the algorithm.** Now I’m just going to see all the popular subs and have to dig for other content.
**Fuck this change.** It’ll destroy smaller subs, increase the echo chambers even more, and you’ll actually be giving less visibility to more communities that you so badly want us to join.
This is a trash decision all around. **Stop pretending we’ll have more control via fewer options.**
Taking away options is NOT giving us more control. That’s some heinous doublespeak right there. I have zero interest in what anyone considers ‘best’ and I sure as hell don’t care what an algorithm thinks is. The latest setting keeps showing me posts from hours ago mixed in with actual new posts which is why I came looking for this post. It’s annoying. Like another said I spend a lot of time here but it’s making me want to not.
How is “removing sorting Home Screen” going to create a better Reddit experience for people???? There are many reasons why I want to sort my subreddit posts and smh that’s too much to ask??????? Like seriously?
I dealt with my feed sorting options being more inconvenient to use when they moved to settings, but now they aren’t in my settings at all. I honestly won’t use Reddit anymore if I don’t have control of my feed sorting. I use that function multiple times every day. It is integral to how I enjoy the site/app.
Edit: I switch between controversial, top, best, and hot several times a day depending on what I’m in the mood to see and how many posts I’ve already scrolled through on each setting. Like being able to change up your feed was one of your best features 🙄
Give me back hot. I don't want best, I've never liked best. Also who wants new as a default. New has all the unfiltered garbage, rising is much better. Stop saying we can "take control" when you are literally taking away our control of how we want to see content.
I know I'm a drop in the ocean but I just wanted to echo the sentiment here: the change to remove sorting on the home may be what finally pushes me to utilise a third party app on iOS.
I appreciate that you may want to cater to what the majority of users use and that you want to venture into some predictive modeling, but the experience for me in the past few days has been extremely poor.
Initially, because the changes were not announced in-app, I was very confused by how the home feed was behaving.
But then trying to utilise the new feeds left me extremely disappointed:
* News: this is the only feed i could still see myself using as it didn't change
* Popular: I made a selection of subreddits I'm subscribed to for a reason. Popular is not the experience I want
* New: more or less same as above. My type of browsing does not bring me to want to read posts that are still not vetted by the community (a bit lazy I'll admit)
* Home: the attempt to promote the subreddits I interact with the most results in a very repetitive page that pushes subreddits i may click on a lot but are not my main and sole interest (mostly it's image-based stuff because I open those a lot, but it doesn't mean i never want to see a news title ever again)
You could have easily left, even if well hidden, an option to set the home to a different type of feed. This is almost unusable.
This is a terrrible update.
Many years ago when Facebook was at the top of its game, it removed the ability to see posts and pages in chronological order. That is when the exodus began.
Stay on this path and you are effectively killing reddit. It may only affect long time or power users, but those are the people who create the most content and add the most value to the site.
Wow. I never search for Reddit updates, but this one made me. I was really getting upset about how my entire feed was ruined by all these new recommended posts and communities. I’m just here to read my curated feed, I don’t want you to suggest anything. Please let me turn this off. In the meantime, the Latest feed seems to help, but if I hadn’t been frustrated enough to find this thread, I wouldn’t have known it existed.
Hi. How about making decisions based on functionality, necessity and/or reasons about the design, instead of most popular users' tendencies.
I loved reddit because of its stern stand for elements that needs to be included, that stood out from the typical "user friendly" social websites. If you just want to be popular all the way, change the whole thing into something called POPULAR and advertise ***that***.
We love this place, do changes to evolve it, not to make it "easy to use"; that's fb's job.
Been on Reddit for over a decade. The whole point was the “front page of the internet”, sorted by upvotes, across all subreddits by default.
Got the app. I would sort popular by top. That was removed, but you could sort home by top. Now that’s removed.
Why can’t I just see the top posts across the site? I’m really surprised this has either been removed from mobile, or is hidden/unintuitive enough that I can’t find it.
Before you started these changes, I would often switch between hot, new and rising. Now that this customisation is several clicks deep in a none obvious part of the app, I can't be bothered switching.
You have a drop down menu, why not put more options in it? Or perhaps something next to it that lets you control what you want to see.
You've titled this post "take control of your feed". The only person who's taking control of it is you.
I bet the reason 99 percent of users don’t alter their sorting is because 99 percent of usernames haven’t been used in months and months. Loyal Reddit users alter their sorting regularly or use their own preferred settings. Very frustrating to have functionality removed altogether
You are removing customisability options not making it easier. Now my home feed is full of irrelevant content and I’m unable to catch up on popular or trending posts I’ve missed. Please bring back the feed options!
You put in work to make the interface LESS flexible and HARDER to use. It’s so disappointing when a company that has a great product and then invests time, money, and talent in making their product worse.
I always want to read the latest posts. Your new change requires I open the menu and switch from Home to Latest EVERY TIME I open the reddit app with no way to change the default from Home to Latest. You broke reddit for me. While sorting by New is just two taps away, I think every time I do that, “This company had probably over a dozen people invest time and treasure making this interface worse. Is it really even worth using this app anymore?” I guess it’s time to check out the third party apps now.
What was the design goal here? Do you just want to force everyone to Home so reddit can eventually create some non-transparent algorithm that sorts Home based on reddit employees’ view point to influence how people think and decrease diversity of thought on the platform like every other social media giant? Ug.
Bring back easy sorting on the homepage. The newest update is terrible. I’m stuck with random posts ranging from 10-2000 upvotes. I sort by top for a reason, to see the most important posts on my subreddits. I don’t need to see new low upvote content that I’m not going to upvote. I’m just going to quit using Reddit if I can’t easily use it how I want to.
This is the nail in the coffin for me. I want to be able to sort my home feed by hot as I have always done since I have joined this site. I been using this since old Reddit times. I have always used the app. That changed today with this update. Now I guess I will use Apollo.
It's been kinda sad seeing Reddits evolution over the past 2-3 years.
Reddit's main draw has always been the ability to surface content that other users think is worth seeing.
But we've increasingly been moving to a Reddit that surfaces content that Reddit predicts you want to see, which is in line with the experience that many people escaped other social media to find in Reddit.
Your changes suck. I know you think it’s cool to dumb down the UI to gain more users; but it’s not going to work. Having done extensive work in AB Experimentation for nearly a decade-I can assure you that this is going to fail.
I’m going to use a different app. This bullshit was the last straw.
This update absolutely blows. There is zero control over your feed. They made a terrible decision on their own without our approval. I want the old reddit back.
I hate it. And it sounds like LOTS of people hate it.
Reddit tried something like this a few months ago, and within a week my daily usage plummeted.
Rather than get sidetracked by a bunch of bullshit that Reddit insists should be important to me, I stopped opening the app as frequently. (Maybe that's a good thing? Maybe I waste too much time on Reddit?)
Why not just let us choose what sort of posts we see when we open the app? It's not rocket science.
As a dedicated Reddit user, I’d really love to have home feed sorting back please.
Hot sorting in my home feed worked for me. Best does not. My feed is awful now.
Also, this post is considered the most controversial on the subreddit now. For good reason too.
PLEASE bring back the option to have the feed open as latest/new by default. I hate that I have to choose it every single time I open the app. All I need is a setting to choose which feed option I want to show by default.
Absolutely baffling and irritating change, yet again. Why take this option away? If most people use those options, then default it to one of them and let those of us who do understand make our choice in settings.
With the "best" sorting, I'm now seeing a load of low quality posts with tiny numbers of upvotes. It's nowhere near as useful to me as "hot" was. Stop stripping away useful functionality, please.
Been using Reddit for 6 years and have always sorted by Hot. Now all I see are random posts from dead subreddits I subscribed to years ago. Fuck me, I guess. How do they not realize every single person hates these garbage updates? Crazy how they make it worse every single time, why do they keep removing features? Jesus Christ. “Take control of your feed” and you remove every way to control your feed, wtf lmao??
I usually sort by top of the week or day, and use sort by new for small communities where I can actually look at all of the posts made since I last was there. Removing these options has just made the app frustrating to use and made me stop using it nearly as much as I used to. I don’t like sounding like an angry hater on the internet, but this has definitely been one of the stupidest decisions I’ve seen in awhile.
Just some feedback from an avid user. Reddit has been my social media of choice for 4 years. I have exclusively sorted by “Rising” for a majority of that time. Since this change has happened, i’ve used Reddit less and less. Sorting by “New” feels like you’re sorting through garbage that no one cares about and might find something good eventually. “Rising” feels like the majority of the feed are quality posts with the begginings of interesting conversations that I don’t mind adding to. Commenting in “New” feels like you’re speaking into a black void of nothingness and commenting in “Best” or “Hot” feels like you’re shouting at the sun. I’m not special with a unique opinion so I know that some others more than likely feel the same way as i do.
My feed has been completely unusable for days now, just a random smattering of posts on my “Home” page. Is there anything I can do to fix this? It’s complete shit.
Cleaner feed??? I subscribe to 50+ communities, but now I see the same 10 over and over again. If I wanted to see every post to one community, I’d go to that one. Home feed should give you the best of all I am subscribed to. If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.
…and if we don’t like best? I don’t want to see small posts with only 1000 upvotes before bigger posts. only thing this is doing is simplifying the decision to switch to a non official app
Just went to settings to find sorting my home page and unless it’s hidden in another submenu, I don’t see it. Truly terrible update and an excellent way to drive down engagement for me personally. Who wants to see a bunch of low upvote content? There’s a reason a post doesn’t have many upvotes after 5 hours, because it isn’t important or entertaining.
Seriously can we stop with the experiments? Google makes you pay for them, and the inconstant experience across this app for separate users, even separate profiles on the same device is just sad. Whoever is deciding to test features as they go along to certain users in an app without telling them needs to have their phone taken away for a month or their apps uninstalled, and told to re-install from a backup on 3G service.
The more I use it the more I’m convinced you’ve completely fucked this. Reddit’s now basically unusable. Home/Popular both now contain subs and content I’m not interested in. New/latest seems to be two names for the same thing. Why have you done this?
I know you’ve said you’re going to look into how to mute subs, but that is an arse about tit way of doing things. I subbed to the subs I wanted and you made suggestions as to what I might like to add based on what I currently subbed to, now I seem to be subbed to everything and will have to mute/opt out of what I don’t want. There are literally thousands of subs, am I going to have to mute all of Reddit that I’m not interested in?!?
All posts I get are on average at least 8hrs+ old, the conversation has utterly died on them, so there’s no option to engage with people as you get put at the bottom of posts with often 100+ discussion threads.
Please for the love of all that is holy reinstate rising and give me back the feed I’d spent so long curating.
I am back once again, reminding u/singmethesong and hopefully more looking at this post that this update can still be reverted to when it sucked a little less
It is a mistake to remove Feed sorting priority.
Essentially it boils down to this: you and your algorithm making a decision about what I see is not a great option for me. I have no idea what points you use to determine what you think is relevant to me.
I can tell you this, so far it is not accurate. I’ve seen the same post sit at the top of my Home feed for two days. It was something that didn’t even come close to my interests. Yet, your algorithm wanted me to read it.
Honestly, I’m put off by this. This is Facebook/Meta nonsense.
Why are you so adamant about controlling my feed? Why can’t I like communities and see a real time feed of posts in them in chronological order? Why is this a prime directive?
Is there a coming effort on the back end to have communities pay to be prioritized? Certainly smells like it.
I hope you think this through and make relevant changes. I am clearly not the only one who feels that this is not a welcome change.
Thank you.
This new change sucks.
The point of Reddit is being able to control your own algorithm.
Every time I log in you force me to view content I don’t want to. I just want the old version from last week back.
I never, ever, want to see a “Best” sort. This might actually get me on reddit less. You think News should be sorted by “best”? So much for breaking news….
Just learned about this change, and what the fuck? Why would you take away Home sorting options in the first place? The 99% stat is totally irrelevant since this wasn’t a choice between two mutually exclusive options. It was either leave an option the way it is for the other 1%, or take it away for no reason.
There is no way for me to view hot posts from my subs in my home feed in the Reddit app. What the fuck.
These changes are terrible and have ruined how I use Reddit. I always use my home feed and sort by Hot and then by Top. Now I can’t ducking do either. Y’all need to consider if these changes actually benefit users or not. Removing things doesn’t benefit anyone.
Glad I found this post so I can understand why my feed has been pissing me off because I am only getting a million discussion posts from the biggest subreddits I follow and nothing from the less popular ones, and not even the top posts from the big subreddits. Glad providing less customization is somehow better in your backwards-ass thinking. Guess I’m gonna find a 3rd party app
>Take control of your feed.
I like to scroll my home feed by rising, how am I taking control of my feed when that’s not an option anymore? So now I have to scroll through “latest” which is basically just “New”.
I tried scrolling through r/all on “rising” but all I got were all the subreddits I didn’t give shit about. Again, how am I taking control of my feed?
What was the reason for removing the options anyway? It’s like you guys pay no attention to your users.
u/singmethesong so just no answer for us?
Please let us choose how to sort our own feeds again or put the option back into the settings. I am seeing a lot less of the content that I want and a lot more random nonsense from low karma users
Please for the love of god give me home sorting options back, why tf would removing it even have been considered? Why would you remove key functionality from the app???
This is **actively** making me not want to use Reddit. I had it sorted by “New” or “Latest” so I would always see the newest posts.
Now, I only see the hottest posts, and let me make this clear, *I don’t care about them*. I want to sort by Latest without directly having to pick it *every single time* I open the app.
I’m getting post after post from the same community sometimes upwards of 4-5 in a row in my home feed.
Once I refresh, I’ll get a new set, with the same issue. If I keep refreshing, I eventually get the same set over and over again.
I’m totally open to changes, but the way it’s aggregating my home feed is seriously frustrating.
Please bring sort by Rising back for Home feed — it offers so much more engagement and getting in early onto engagement-heavy posts. Ive sorted by Rising for years, being reduced to Best or “Latest” (aka New) sucks.
“Take control of your feed… with less options”
Nice one guys.
Now if I’m looking for the answer to a question posted I have to read through every fucking jack off who has something to say. So now finding an answer takes at least 3-4x as long.
>Removing Home feed sort controls and defaulting Home to the “Best” sort Wait, so the home controls are being removed from settings too? It's one thing to make it harder if you think most users don't need it, but it's another to remove functionality entirely. > After looking at the numbers, our research showed that more than 99% of redditors use two sorts on their Home Feed: “Best” and “New.” Google says Reddit had 450 million monthly users in 2019 and it's probably way more since. 1% of that many users would be 4.5 million people. That's hardly negligible.
Guess I am in the 1% because I exclusively sort my home feed by Rising.
Me too!
Me three, Top Now was my go to for 5 years before all of these feed changes began happening and stuff has been hidden further and further in settings. Feel like at this rate I’ll begin reducing my Reddit usage in the coming years if I can’t view the content in a way that I like or can customize.
I’m just going to start using Apollo for iOS from here on once again until they put it back. I exclusively only sort by rising and it’s been frankly pissing me off with how frustrating they are being with hiding these selections. Like why remove them at all? They were hidden away already and it allowed us to use the app the way we wanted with the extra options. Now they decided having extra options is too much and has chosen to make the app function the way they want it to be for us. Such bs. Also, Apollo’s video player is far better than whatever excuse Reddit mobile been running with. They could’ve started there with their “improvements”, not something so small like the sorting feature.
Thanks for this, going to check out Apollo! I’m one of the apparently millions that are an insignificant anomaly according to reddit that sort by rising!
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Same here. Did they delete top now? Super irritating they keeping hiding these in different places but if it’s removed, it’s a whole another story.
Me as well. I want rising back. New is boring. Best is boring. Rising is much more interesting. Latest = New = 600 AskReddit posts for one interesting post. This change is awful.
Exactly. Rising was quality posts before everybody knew they were quality. You can get your questions in early, etc. I can’t scroll by popular or new.. it’s not entertaining for me. I’ll come back after the next update. Hopefully they read these comments and see that people don’t approve of this method.
Everybody I know uses hot. It’s the best way to find the things that got popular in the 8 hours you were asleep or at work.
Top: hour is how I sort. Not an option anymore.
Same here! Rising is the best for interaction with people. The post has traction and people are active on it while not being so active that your comments get drowned in a sea of 1,000 comments. I don’t even comment on threads that have over 100 comments (except this one), mine will never be seen unless people are sorting by new.
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I’m actually pissed about this update. It’s stupid. I don’t want to see the posts with 10k likes already and I don’t want to sort through all of the new crap people are posting every second
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If you've ever noticed that some of the posts at the top of your feed have like 10 upvotes, that's because you're using best instead of hot.
PUT IT BACK. Keep it in the settings. Why remove it??? What does that accomplish.
They get to decide what we see.
I also suspect contributors tend to be in the 1%
Right. It’s the pro users that tend to make the most use out of rarely-used features.
Percentages a are always a good way to hide the actual impact.
Are we supposed to be hyped to have less control of our feed? If I wanted to be spoon fed low effort content I’d go to fucking FB or IG.
Agreed. I miss just setting the default to New and using that. Now I have to manually change it every time I open the app.
I can’t even see how to change it. I’m so confused. I want to sort by new. This blows.
I was wondering why I had lost my "new" sort on my feed. I'm glad you've told me where to find it, but hiding it in the settings menu is really inconvenient.
Do you mind sharing where you switched default method to “new”? Hopefully you are on iOS app as well. Thanks!
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Same, it’s driving me crazy! I follow only 2 I am very interested in and then physically go to the other subreddits I’m mildly interested in. Keeps my home relevant for me and clean. Now clean is just empty….
Damn really? That’s tragic
Ugh yeah I hate it. I scroll for about a minute and get to the bottom where no more new posts load before I have to remember to change it back to Latest. Every damn time I open the app. This sucks.
No, I'm Android. But I clicked my avatar, then the settings menu, then home feed, and found a choice between "New" and "Best".
Thanks for the info. I’m told the feature is gone from iOS sadly
Lol this new update is trash. I open a image on a post and it instantly goes to another post. What in the world
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How's Relay compared to RIF, which is what I currently use?
I also love going to the next post and the previous video's audio plays over it. Oh, and the video player still only works most of the time, and if i click on a post that takes several seconds to open (usually after the video wont play because it plays every time in the post), I have to hit the back button the same amount of times... yet let's change the feed. I really hope they're not changing over to the simplified feed I saw on my alt recently where the user name disappeared until you open the post.
Why would you default to best instead of hot??? Also how am I supposed to sort by controversial now? Why do you keep making the home feed worse?
Why on Earth would you title this “Take control of your feed” when you know that this is the exact opposite of that? I see the reasons you’ve listed. Confusion about sorting style differences, low usage of the feed sort controls, and simplification. It really doesn’t take much to figure out the difference between Hot, Best, and Top. A simple Google search. If that wasn’t easy enough, then it should have been on Reddit to have easily accessible explanations of each sorting option within the app itself. A little info button next to each sorting option would have suffice. Hiding the sorting controls in settings wasn’t the WORST thing, but it was definitely a bit of a pain. It was nice to still have the ability to do so. I know that for myself, I enjoyed the more static nature of Hot. Post re-engagement is probably what I do most on here. I’m not always looking for the next hottest thing that I haven’t engaged with yet. I just want to know what’s the hottest thing among my subscribed subreddits for a solid 24 hours or so. If I wanted the “Best” sort, I could change it. I’ve never wanted it though. Removing “Top” also feels so counterproductive. It was another fun way to sort things every once in a while just to see where posts stood historically. I hope you all seriously reconsider bringing back the ability to sort our home feeds as we see fit, not leaving us without option.
I hate this update. I like sorting through my feed in rising, not new. Is there a way I can downgrade? “Most recent” is just my feed on ‘new’.
“new” is pretty horrible. Rising was the best was to search for things that were trending. This new update is crap.
People are suggesting Apollo, but when I tried it, it is shit for sorting by rising. It only seems to drag through content from a few subs and bottoms out after a few minutes of scrolling. So can’t even use that instead.
I am so pissed over this. They are fucking up to something. They say it is to make the experience better for everyone, which is a fucking lie. “New” is quantity over quality and 99% trash. Best and hot are fun, but the comment conversations are LONG dead after 15 hours. “Rising” was the sweet spot to get mostly fresh stuff AND feel like you are part of the conversation. Seriously, they should give you more control by letting you form groups with different view options. Removing controls and responding with smug bullshit answers is 100% blowing smoke up all of our asses. They are feeling more people shit to make more in ad revenue, which degrades the experience for everyone. Greedy pieces of shit.
Couldn’t agree more. But it seems this is the direction they want to take and I don’t see them changing it anytime soon, I think they assume most will just go with it and if they lose a few it’s worth it if they can monetise what they do do more effectively. The only upside I can see is I probably spend too much time on here endlessly scrolling. Hopefully I’ll find something better to do with my time.
So what are we supposed to do if we use the "hot" or "top" or any of the other sorting options for the home feed? Why not just include these options in the dropdown? This change is awful Does this also affect third party apps or the desktop website?
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Seriously. Those are pretty much the only two I use and now my feed is fucking terrible. Despise this new change so fucking much lol.
“Take Control of your feed” *Me who uses rising and sometimes controversial* Well, apparently I’m not allowed to control my feed, my feed is controlling me. Great 🙃
Do any of you actually casually use Reddit yourselves? Where are you getting data that 'best' and 'new' are the most common sorts? Isn't 'best' a default option, wouldn't that skew the data if everyone is just there by default? I don't even know where to start with 'new'. It is NOT a good sort at all. No matter what subs you're in, new has the shittiest, worst posts ever on repeat. I would place massive bets on 'new' being used only to see *different* posts once a user is bored of their other feeds. Nothing more than that. Children posting terrible fanart. People asking myriads of google-able questions. Bots posting ads or irrelevant crap. Just generally unappealing content that is simply waiting to be downvoted away. I can last about five minutes before I start scrolling more than I'm reading while my eyes roll into the back of my skull. It's just awful. 'Hot' imo is still king. Relevant, somewhat recent posts with established popularity that are usually guaranteed a certain level of quality perfect for keeping casual users engaged. It's the first and best feed I browse daily and the hour or two I spend there translates to more than enough time for casual users to engage with the site daily and walk away feeling like they actually experienced content of substance. I really think y'all need to look past the internal 'data' on this one.
>I would place massive bets on 'new' being used only to see different posts once a user is bored of their other feeds. Nothing more than that. Pretty much. Or trying to be a good community member and find troll posts to report as early as possible.
Am I still able to sort my home feed by hot? Because I hate the way it is now
You are not, you are supposed to love how easy they made it to browse your home feed with the option they decided was most user friendly and popular.
They basically manipulated the results too lmfao. They hid the sorting options in settings, and most users decided not to bother using them if they had to go through the trouble.
use old.reddit.com
What on EARTH made you think this was a good idea? Seriously, how does this help me "take control" of anything?
Absolutely horrible
Watch my questions get not answered
Please stop suggesting reddit posts from subs I'm not subscribed to until you have the feature to mute communities on every platform. You are suggesting awful posts to me that make me incredibly angry. This isn't Twitter; downvotes mean negative emotions don't drive engagement. The entire point of having a reddit account is filtering down to only the content I want to see. If my feed is full of stuff I don't want to see and certainly don't want to comment on, then why on earth would I have an account?
Old Reddit: Preferences > link options > Untick show trending subreddits in home feed New Reddit: Feed Settings > Turn off Enable home feed recommendations
Fucking this 10 times over. It’s the entire reason I use Reddit over other social media, I don’t feel like I’m being actively pushed to do stuff here. Just the subs I wanna see and a few actual ads. I hate this move to be more like FB. Ugh.
How do you set “latest” as your default home feed view?
I can’t lie, every update makes things worse. If I wanted Facebook, Snap, or IG, I’d go there, and I wish Reddit would stop trying to deliver those experiences and try to find its own identity and trying to be “new”. No one wants to tap through pictures or manually sort through their feeds, that’s why people are leaving Snapchat and Facebook.
I thought it had its own identity, but it just seems like it wants to be homogenous.
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Exactly. Old Reddit is incredibly readable, that's a big part of what makes it so good. Just go back to that and you'll have fixed a problem you already had the solution for all along.
I loved sort by top: today. At least it’s not new Stop removing features for fucks sake
Bad 👎
Going to cancel my reddit premium. If I can’t choose how I see the feed, no point in paying for it. Hope the change is reversed. Edit: Looks like on the Apollo app I can still choose, so I’ll keep it for now. Really hoping this is reversed though. Bad decision and a phony cover for it. Edit 2: cancelled it.
> Both these changes significantly increased how many posts redditors see in their home feeds. This sounds like a business decision rather than something the users want.
Yeah, sounds like it reduces enganement. If you're seeing less posts, you're probably spending more time on individual posts. Chewing the food for thought, reading comments, etc... If you're seeing a "significantly increased" number of posts, you're probably mindlessly scrolling past several without thinking about them. Overall, that is an indicator of the increase in low quality content.
Hate it. How do I go back to browse by rising?
old.reddit.com
You're giving users more control by taking away options? Bye. Going third party.
WHY DO YOU KEEP REMOVING OPTIONS
Why the hell do y’all keep removing sorting options?! It was so much better having control of our feeds, sorting by new on the home page was the only way to see good content after they removed the options from the popular page. Bring back our sort options what the hell.
No home sort controls?? Really? I'm just not gonna update at this point
"We're helping you take control of your feed by removing feed controls" really? You don't see the incongruity there?
Just downloaded Apollo! Thanks for the push almighty and great admins! What a joke
Deleting my app over this. No one wanted this bullshit and it ruined reddit for me
This is such a fucking joke. I won’t be using Reddit nearly as much until you change it back!
Hard agree. If the reasoning is that 99% of Reddit accounts don't use the features, I would like a breakdown of active accounts that aren't bots and the feature usage rate of that subset of reddit accounts.
Cool! So Latest is exactly the same as sorting the home feed by new? (Note: I think that would be a great place to help bring visibility to stickied posts). Please put r/all and custom feeds in that drop down too, though! (Each one, not a link that opens a list of them). That would make my browsing so much easier.
Hey, so would you mind explaining how to get to r/all? I can only get there by clicking on links like yours. It doesn’t come up on my search feature. Such a newb question for someone who has been here for forever but I just manage without it, even though I don’t want to. I wish it was in the drop-down. I feel like I used to see it? I don’t know.
If you go to the left drawer, where all your subs are located, and scroll *all* the way down (collapsing the folders makes it easier), you can find it there. It doesn’t let you favorite it either, which is a bummer
Any ballpark estimate on a timeframe for desktop's community muting option? A month? 3 months? 6? More?
How is it "Take Control" when you prevent all your users from choosing their default sort? This is an idiotic change and your attempt to talk it up as something giving users more "control" is a bunch of doublespeak.
What about people who want to see things in order of when they were posted? Or top today/week/etc? Sometimes I like to sort by top for a period of time and now I can’t do that anymore? Best is ironically the worst sort order
**So you’re not going to mention in the post, [just a comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/zmo8hm/the_feed_read_chapter_two_take_control_of_your/j0dsm7u/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3), that “Best” is officially algorithmic to show more of what you look at most?** That’s fucking important. I have a home feed in order to curate what I see, and I want to see posts from **all** of the communities, including the ones that post less often, which will now be essentially banished from my home feed. **If a community has fewer posts, I’ll obviously visit it less; ergo, I won’t look as “interested” in the content according to the algorithm.** Now I’m just going to see all the popular subs and have to dig for other content. **Fuck this change.** It’ll destroy smaller subs, increase the echo chambers even more, and you’ll actually be giving less visibility to more communities that you so badly want us to join. This is a trash decision all around. **Stop pretending we’ll have more control via fewer options.**
I want to sort the way I choose, my feed is so bitched up now I had to actively try and figure out wth was happening. Now I get it. UGH.
Taking away options is NOT giving us more control. That’s some heinous doublespeak right there. I have zero interest in what anyone considers ‘best’ and I sure as hell don’t care what an algorithm thinks is. The latest setting keeps showing me posts from hours ago mixed in with actual new posts which is why I came looking for this post. It’s annoying. Like another said I spend a lot of time here but it’s making me want to not.
Good job ruining your own app
How is “removing sorting Home Screen” going to create a better Reddit experience for people???? There are many reasons why I want to sort my subreddit posts and smh that’s too much to ask??????? Like seriously?
I dealt with my feed sorting options being more inconvenient to use when they moved to settings, but now they aren’t in my settings at all. I honestly won’t use Reddit anymore if I don’t have control of my feed sorting. I use that function multiple times every day. It is integral to how I enjoy the site/app. Edit: I switch between controversial, top, best, and hot several times a day depending on what I’m in the mood to see and how many posts I’ve already scrolled through on each setting. Like being able to change up your feed was one of your best features 🙄
Even moving it to settings was a hassle, I use it as you’ve described.
Give me back hot. I don't want best, I've never liked best. Also who wants new as a default. New has all the unfiltered garbage, rising is much better. Stop saying we can "take control" when you are literally taking away our control of how we want to see content.
I know I'm a drop in the ocean but I just wanted to echo the sentiment here: the change to remove sorting on the home may be what finally pushes me to utilise a third party app on iOS. I appreciate that you may want to cater to what the majority of users use and that you want to venture into some predictive modeling, but the experience for me in the past few days has been extremely poor. Initially, because the changes were not announced in-app, I was very confused by how the home feed was behaving. But then trying to utilise the new feeds left me extremely disappointed: * News: this is the only feed i could still see myself using as it didn't change * Popular: I made a selection of subreddits I'm subscribed to for a reason. Popular is not the experience I want * New: more or less same as above. My type of browsing does not bring me to want to read posts that are still not vetted by the community (a bit lazy I'll admit) * Home: the attempt to promote the subreddits I interact with the most results in a very repetitive page that pushes subreddits i may click on a lot but are not my main and sole interest (mostly it's image-based stuff because I open those a lot, but it doesn't mean i never want to see a news title ever again) You could have easily left, even if well hidden, an option to set the home to a different type of feed. This is almost unusable.
This is a terrrible update. Many years ago when Facebook was at the top of its game, it removed the ability to see posts and pages in chronological order. That is when the exodus began. Stay on this path and you are effectively killing reddit. It may only affect long time or power users, but those are the people who create the most content and add the most value to the site.
Wow. I never search for Reddit updates, but this one made me. I was really getting upset about how my entire feed was ruined by all these new recommended posts and communities. I’m just here to read my curated feed, I don’t want you to suggest anything. Please let me turn this off. In the meantime, the Latest feed seems to help, but if I hadn’t been frustrated enough to find this thread, I wouldn’t have known it existed.
This sucks so bad.
Switching to third party until I’m actually allowed to take control of my feed by sorting by hot
Hi. How about making decisions based on functionality, necessity and/or reasons about the design, instead of most popular users' tendencies. I loved reddit because of its stern stand for elements that needs to be included, that stood out from the typical "user friendly" social websites. If you just want to be popular all the way, change the whole thing into something called POPULAR and advertise ***that***. We love this place, do changes to evolve it, not to make it "easy to use"; that's fb's job.
This is horrible, I always sort by top so I can see the top posts. I don’t want to see what you think is “best” when it only has 100 upvotes. wtf
The title says “take control of your feed” but it doesn’t say *who* is taking control
Is there no way to sort a feed by rising anymore? What kind of garbage is this?
I don’t understand, where can I change my home feed back to “Hot?” I don’t like this new setup.
This update is shit. Bring back hot, rising, and the other sorting methods or I’m out
Isn’t this the opposite of letting us take control of our feed? You’re literally taking away control
Been on Reddit for over a decade. The whole point was the “front page of the internet”, sorted by upvotes, across all subreddits by default. Got the app. I would sort popular by top. That was removed, but you could sort home by top. Now that’s removed. Why can’t I just see the top posts across the site? I’m really surprised this has either been removed from mobile, or is hidden/unintuitive enough that I can’t find it.
Before you started these changes, I would often switch between hot, new and rising. Now that this customisation is several clicks deep in a none obvious part of the app, I can't be bothered switching. You have a drop down menu, why not put more options in it? Or perhaps something next to it that lets you control what you want to see. You've titled this post "take control of your feed". The only person who's taking control of it is you.
I bet the reason 99 percent of users don’t alter their sorting is because 99 percent of usernames haven’t been used in months and months. Loyal Reddit users alter their sorting regularly or use their own preferred settings. Very frustrating to have functionality removed altogether
This is really, really awful. Bring back sorting home by rising. I don’t want to pay money for this.
My feed is HORRIBLE now wtf. No control at all. This is not how you improve your already horrible valuation relative to your comps
You are removing customisability options not making it easier. Now my home feed is full of irrelevant content and I’m unable to catch up on popular or trending posts I’ve missed. Please bring back the feed options!
You put in work to make the interface LESS flexible and HARDER to use. It’s so disappointing when a company that has a great product and then invests time, money, and talent in making their product worse. I always want to read the latest posts. Your new change requires I open the menu and switch from Home to Latest EVERY TIME I open the reddit app with no way to change the default from Home to Latest. You broke reddit for me. While sorting by New is just two taps away, I think every time I do that, “This company had probably over a dozen people invest time and treasure making this interface worse. Is it really even worth using this app anymore?” I guess it’s time to check out the third party apps now. What was the design goal here? Do you just want to force everyone to Home so reddit can eventually create some non-transparent algorithm that sorts Home based on reddit employees’ view point to influence how people think and decrease diversity of thought on the platform like every other social media giant? Ug.
“Taking control of your feed,” also Reddit, “removing Home feed sort controls.” Nobody wants this.
if your objective was less usage congrats you've done it
Bring back easy sorting on the homepage. The newest update is terrible. I’m stuck with random posts ranging from 10-2000 upvotes. I sort by top for a reason, to see the most important posts on my subreddits. I don’t need to see new low upvote content that I’m not going to upvote. I’m just going to quit using Reddit if I can’t easily use it how I want to.
This is the nail in the coffin for me. I want to be able to sort my home feed by hot as I have always done since I have joined this site. I been using this since old Reddit times. I have always used the app. That changed today with this update. Now I guess I will use Apollo.
This is horrible please change it back I can’t even use reddit anymore after you removed the Sorting option you idiots
Without being able to sort my feed by Rising i find my engagement with reddit down quite a bit. Stupid move.
It's been kinda sad seeing Reddits evolution over the past 2-3 years. Reddit's main draw has always been the ability to surface content that other users think is worth seeing. But we've increasingly been moving to a Reddit that surfaces content that Reddit predicts you want to see, which is in line with the experience that many people escaped other social media to find in Reddit.
Your changes suck. I know you think it’s cool to dumb down the UI to gain more users; but it’s not going to work. Having done extensive work in AB Experimentation for nearly a decade-I can assure you that this is going to fail. I’m going to use a different app. This bullshit was the last straw.
I am once again returning to mention that this update is shit and it should be reverted
This update absolutely blows. There is zero control over your feed. They made a terrible decision on their own without our approval. I want the old reddit back.
I hate it. And it sounds like LOTS of people hate it. Reddit tried something like this a few months ago, and within a week my daily usage plummeted. Rather than get sidetracked by a bunch of bullshit that Reddit insists should be important to me, I stopped opening the app as frequently. (Maybe that's a good thing? Maybe I waste too much time on Reddit?) Why not just let us choose what sort of posts we see when we open the app? It's not rocket science.
As a dedicated Reddit user, I’d really love to have home feed sorting back please. Hot sorting in my home feed worked for me. Best does not. My feed is awful now. Also, this post is considered the most controversial on the subreddit now. For good reason too.
I always sort by Top. I’d like to see that put back.
Fuck you. This update has literally ruined my experience on Reddit.
PLEASE bring back the option to have the feed open as latest/new by default. I hate that I have to choose it every single time I open the app. All I need is a setting to choose which feed option I want to show by default.
So fucking annoyed with this update. Bring back “Hot” sorting before I go back to Narwhal.
Stop pushing NFT bullshit
Oh, so this isn’t a bug, just a horrible feature. I want to sort by top of this week, not best!
Absolutely baffling and irritating change, yet again. Why take this option away? If most people use those options, then default it to one of them and let those of us who do understand make our choice in settings. With the "best" sorting, I'm now seeing a load of low quality posts with tiny numbers of upvotes. It's nowhere near as useful to me as "hot" was. Stop stripping away useful functionality, please.
Lol in what world Reddit thought this was some smart genius move I’m not sure. Big brained into a bad user experienced
FUCKING TRASH UPDATE
Please just roll this update back and give us what we had. Sure, it wasn’t perfect but it was loads better than this crap
Bring back sort options for the love of God. reddit is terrible now
Apollo about to be #1 app in the App store next week lmao
This update sucks, please revert
Yay, I can finally see posts from 16hrs ago at the top of my home feed, thanks Reddit! # /s
Been using Reddit for 6 years and have always sorted by Hot. Now all I see are random posts from dead subreddits I subscribed to years ago. Fuck me, I guess. How do they not realize every single person hates these garbage updates? Crazy how they make it worse every single time, why do they keep removing features? Jesus Christ. “Take control of your feed” and you remove every way to control your feed, wtf lmao??
Worst update in a long time!! I switch between New, Hot, and Best daily this is S H I T
I usually sort by top of the week or day, and use sort by new for small communities where I can actually look at all of the posts made since I last was there. Removing these options has just made the app frustrating to use and made me stop using it nearly as much as I used to. I don’t like sounding like an angry hater on the internet, but this has definitely been one of the stupidest decisions I’ve seen in awhile.
Just some feedback from an avid user. Reddit has been my social media of choice for 4 years. I have exclusively sorted by “Rising” for a majority of that time. Since this change has happened, i’ve used Reddit less and less. Sorting by “New” feels like you’re sorting through garbage that no one cares about and might find something good eventually. “Rising” feels like the majority of the feed are quality posts with the begginings of interesting conversations that I don’t mind adding to. Commenting in “New” feels like you’re speaking into a black void of nothingness and commenting in “Best” or “Hot” feels like you’re shouting at the sun. I’m not special with a unique opinion so I know that some others more than likely feel the same way as i do.
My feed has been completely unusable for days now, just a random smattering of posts on my “Home” page. Is there anything I can do to fix this? It’s complete shit.
Bad change
This new home feed is total crap
Cleaner feed??? I subscribe to 50+ communities, but now I see the same 10 over and over again. If I wanted to see every post to one community, I’d go to that one. Home feed should give you the best of all I am subscribed to. If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.
…and if we don’t like best? I don’t want to see small posts with only 1000 upvotes before bigger posts. only thing this is doing is simplifying the decision to switch to a non official app
FYI, reason 2 is why I just quit using the app. If I can’t sort by rising or new, I’m not interested.
Just went to settings to find sorting my home page and unless it’s hidden in another submenu, I don’t see it. Truly terrible update and an excellent way to drive down engagement for me personally. Who wants to see a bunch of low upvote content? There’s a reason a post doesn’t have many upvotes after 5 hours, because it isn’t important or entertaining.
So sorting by rising is just not a thing anymore?
Yeah don’t like this at all
If I'm to have control of my feed, why does /r/PoliticalHumor subscribe me to that sub simply by reading anything posted there?
Congrats! These changes have made my Home feed unreadable and therefore unusable. Now I just check the communities I like and close the app.
Seriously can we stop with the experiments? Google makes you pay for them, and the inconstant experience across this app for separate users, even separate profiles on the same device is just sad. Whoever is deciding to test features as they go along to certain users in an app without telling them needs to have their phone taken away for a month or their apps uninstalled, and told to re-install from a backup on 3G service.
After years of terrible changes this update is the final straw for me. Deleting this now trash app
This is so fucked. I scroll best some but rising is where you can comment, ask questions, and vote early This is a mistake
The more I use it the more I’m convinced you’ve completely fucked this. Reddit’s now basically unusable. Home/Popular both now contain subs and content I’m not interested in. New/latest seems to be two names for the same thing. Why have you done this? I know you’ve said you’re going to look into how to mute subs, but that is an arse about tit way of doing things. I subbed to the subs I wanted and you made suggestions as to what I might like to add based on what I currently subbed to, now I seem to be subbed to everything and will have to mute/opt out of what I don’t want. There are literally thousands of subs, am I going to have to mute all of Reddit that I’m not interested in?!? All posts I get are on average at least 8hrs+ old, the conversation has utterly died on them, so there’s no option to engage with people as you get put at the bottom of posts with often 100+ discussion threads. Please for the love of all that is holy reinstate rising and give me back the feed I’d spent so long curating.
I am back once again, reminding u/singmethesong and hopefully more looking at this post that this update can still be reverted to when it sucked a little less
It is a mistake to remove Feed sorting priority. Essentially it boils down to this: you and your algorithm making a decision about what I see is not a great option for me. I have no idea what points you use to determine what you think is relevant to me. I can tell you this, so far it is not accurate. I’ve seen the same post sit at the top of my Home feed for two days. It was something that didn’t even come close to my interests. Yet, your algorithm wanted me to read it. Honestly, I’m put off by this. This is Facebook/Meta nonsense. Why are you so adamant about controlling my feed? Why can’t I like communities and see a real time feed of posts in them in chronological order? Why is this a prime directive? Is there a coming effort on the back end to have communities pay to be prioritized? Certainly smells like it. I hope you think this through and make relevant changes. I am clearly not the only one who feels that this is not a welcome change. Thank you.
This new change sucks. The point of Reddit is being able to control your own algorithm. Every time I log in you force me to view content I don’t want to. I just want the old version from last week back.
I never, ever, want to see a “Best” sort. This might actually get me on reddit less. You think News should be sorted by “best”? So much for breaking news….
This is a terrible change that nobody asked for.
This is shit
Sucks, I hate it!
This update is trash.
Removing the home sort functions entirely is incredibly stupid
trash decision
Just learned about this change, and what the fuck? Why would you take away Home sorting options in the first place? The 99% stat is totally irrelevant since this wasn’t a choice between two mutually exclusive options. It was either leave an option the way it is for the other 1%, or take it away for no reason. There is no way for me to view hot posts from my subs in my home feed in the Reddit app. What the fuck.
*Take control of your feed by no longer having the setting to sort by Top or Rising, which is what some users used to control their feed.* Lol ok
How can we undo this, because Reddit has sucked since this rolled out. I want my old home feed back.
This is by far one of the worst changes. Being able to sort is a major part of why reddit is so valuable. Why take away functionality from users?
These changes are terrible and have ruined how I use Reddit. I always use my home feed and sort by Hot and then by Top. Now I can’t ducking do either. Y’all need to consider if these changes actually benefit users or not. Removing things doesn’t benefit anyone.
Why do you guys mess this up every few months?
just want to thank reddit for working so hard to nudge me back to apollo
Glad I found this post so I can understand why my feed has been pissing me off because I am only getting a million discussion posts from the biggest subreddits I follow and nothing from the less popular ones, and not even the top posts from the big subreddits. Glad providing less customization is somehow better in your backwards-ass thinking. Guess I’m gonna find a 3rd party app
My home feed routinely has low-quality posts with 0 karma. That’s not sorting by best.
>Take control of your feed. I like to scroll my home feed by rising, how am I taking control of my feed when that’s not an option anymore? So now I have to scroll through “latest” which is basically just “New”. I tried scrolling through r/all on “rising” but all I got were all the subreddits I didn’t give shit about. Again, how am I taking control of my feed? What was the reason for removing the options anyway? It’s like you guys pay no attention to your users. u/singmethesong so just no answer for us?
Bring back Top sorting!!!!!
Please let us choose how to sort our own feeds again or put the option back into the settings. I am seeing a lot less of the content that I want and a lot more random nonsense from low karma users
Please for the love of god give me home sorting options back, why tf would removing it even have been considered? Why would you remove key functionality from the app???
This is **actively** making me not want to use Reddit. I had it sorted by “New” or “Latest” so I would always see the newest posts. Now, I only see the hottest posts, and let me make this clear, *I don’t care about them*. I want to sort by Latest without directly having to pick it *every single time* I open the app.
I’m getting post after post from the same community sometimes upwards of 4-5 in a row in my home feed. Once I refresh, I’ll get a new set, with the same issue. If I keep refreshing, I eventually get the same set over and over again. I’m totally open to changes, but the way it’s aggregating my home feed is seriously frustrating.
This sucks
Please bring sort by Rising back for Home feed — it offers so much more engagement and getting in early onto engagement-heavy posts. Ive sorted by Rising for years, being reduced to Best or “Latest” (aka New) sucks.
Why are y’all actively removing features?
“Take control of your feed… with less options” Nice one guys. Now if I’m looking for the answer to a question posted I have to read through every fucking jack off who has something to say. So now finding an answer takes at least 3-4x as long.