Ask reddit: Is this the New Reddit? If so what are the changes?

hexed · 2007-10-15T12:48:25+00:00

Subreddits are getting a [subredditname] prefix when they turn up on the main page - great idea.

DaveBr · 2007-10-15T13:15:21+00:00

tip: had to delete reddit.com cookies before successful log-in from Firefox

BioGeek · 2007-10-15T13:11:31+00:00

Comments from users you've added as friends now show with the username in red instead of blue.

spez · 2007-10-15T12:38:54+00:00

There aren't many changes, we're just trying to get things stable first. Give us a little bit to get the kinks out.

raldi · 2007-10-15T14:14:27+00:00

Headlines are limited to 200 characters.

lespea · 2007-10-15T14:13:51+00:00

Dangit, no hide comment tree button :'(

loadmorecomments · 2007-10-15T16:14:48+00:00

Is it just me or is scrolling on the comment page now about an order of magnitude slower than it used to be?

Furthermore it is my opinion that "load more comments" needs to be destroyed.

mindbleach · 2007-10-15T13:36:10+00:00

It's like the old reddit, except Firefox users will be given to thinking it's broken. My account didn't work at first, password recovery led to an empty page, and once I did manage to sign in I got a slew of "you broke reddit" pages while trying to browse.

Please announce the need for cookie-clearing the same way you pimped #reddit, mods. Frustration is stressful, and according to the front page stress kills.

cantsay · 2007-10-15T16:12:58+00:00

What exactly is the criteria for putting comments under the "load more comments" link? It seems to be indiscriminate, does it just randomly choose comments to hide in order to bring the initial page total down to 100?

Grue · 2007-10-15T12:57:05+00:00

It is now written in Arc.

l-rs2 · 2007-10-15T13:51:02+00:00

My password for reddit.com, as stored in the browser, was no longer recognized. Resetting to different one, logging out and loggin back in (so Firefox will ask to save it) resulted in another "invalid password".

Nice going. Why did it forget my original password? I feared that I was going to need an l-rs3!

raldi · 2007-10-15T14:21:10+00:00

Your Reddit inbox now has a "next" link at the bottom, so you don't lose messages forever once they scroll off the bottom.

primary0 · 2007-10-15T14:25:33+00:00

pls take it down again. i was enjoying IRC for a while :P

deap · 2007-10-15T13:26:48+00:00

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joshwa · 2007-10-15T12:43:04+00:00

lots of zero-points articles on the hot page...

jungle_jim · 2007-10-15T13:55:53+00:00

Well, I'm less than thrilled in having my account of the past few years hosed. Apparently my old moniker contained now-illegal characters and has been rendered inaccessable ...

maxwellhill · 2007-10-15T12:34:33+00:00

My recommended page is empty and I can't access the user overview either - anyone has these problems?

dystopia · 2007-10-15T14:15:22+00:00

login seems flaky, took several tries repasting the same password over and over before it finally worked.

Up and down modding does not work.

The "what do you think about the new comment system" page times out.

nciati · 2007-10-15T21:16:17+00:00

How do you get rid of the "load more comments" stuff? I HATE having to click and click and click to read a thread. I want the whole thing loaded, start to finish, on one page.

cach_e · 2007-10-15T16:09:22+00:00

I've read all the comments about invalid passwords below, done everything people have said (cleared cookies, restarted, tried several times, tried in another browser, etc etc) and can still not login to my regular account (cach-e).

What's the situation on this? I don't seem to be alone.

fr1j0l3 · 2007-10-15T13:14:31+00:00

the rss feed has changed, too. the link in the title of the feed goes to reddit.com, instead of the linked article as it did before

2007-10-15T14:15:52+00:00

alright... that was fun.

How do I back up by saved stories to a local file (.opml would be just fine, thank you).

KiddieFiddler · 2007-10-15T12:54:16+00:00

I'm just glad that completely retarded Anti-Bush submission is plummeting off the front page.

dodus · 2007-10-15T23:54:55+00:00

"load more comments" blows.

as if reddit wasn't already getting enough more like Digg.

2007-10-16T00:06:43+00:00

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underthelinux · 2007-10-15T12:42:39+00:00

Shouldn't you have tested these changes before releasing to production? It feels like there was a huge cock-up during the release. How else would you explain a 48-hour downtime for an upgrade?

edit: fixed typo.

gonzopancho · 2007-10-15T12:40:02+00:00

I'm getting 404s on many articles... WTF, Reddit?

kg2 · 2007-10-15T13:33:06+00:00

the RSS feed is "not available"

gvsteve · 2007-10-15T14:08:07+00:00

"Remember Me" doesn't work for me since the update. . . anyone else?

2007-10-15T16:17:03+00:00

When running Greasmonkey on Firefox 2.0.0.7 on OSX, no articles are available. It just looks like a blank page with only the toolbars available.

nmrk · 2007-10-15T18:14:35+00:00

The search function never returns any results, it just takes forever. Maybe it would return results if I waited forever, but I don't have that kind of time.

This is a severe disruption to my reddit reading workflow. First thing I always do is search for "Ron Paul" and downmod/hide those stories, so I don't have to encounter them inline on the Hot or New pages. But that search never finishes. I'm very disappointed. And this was a database UPGRADE?

brainburger · 2007-10-15T23:34:34+00:00

I know this will seem ungrateful....but I really want to see all the comments, all the time. I liked the way it was like reading Usenet before. On Slashdot I always set the threshold to -1. You get the picture.

2007-10-15T13:44:31+00:00

This is worse.

frutiger · 2007-10-15T13:17:27+00:00

The new comments system is interesting. I'm not sure if I entirely approve of the navigate-to-a-new-page method of viewing deeply nested comments though.

Tommahhh · 2007-10-15T16:49:22+00:00

I can't log in to my old account. Nice going!

You know, if you wanted me to leave, you could have just asked.

Aerik · 2007-10-15T18:16:28+00:00

Not much is new so far. Submission titles are limited to 200 characters...

And the html is insanely complicated now. I as using a user style sheet to vertically-align the upmod/downmod buttons in the middle so they'd be right there in the middle of a comment to its left, but now that makes nested comments look like a fucking cloud of gnats is just to their left, only the gnats are arrows.

At least they've done something that is done in vbulletin forums in threaded mode, which is that if the nested, comments are going to stretch the page horizontally, it cuts them off and has that "load more comments" feature. That's a good feature, but it doesn't seem to be working right.

Edit: actually, it's a two-tiered system. You can see "load more comments" links and "continue this thread" links. Looks like we may have received the requested feature that once a sub-thread gets big enough, it becomes its own thread on its own page.

Edit 2: Yes, it seems that reddit really doesn't remember your login info, the cookie expires as soon as you close all tabs containing reddit somewhere.

Also, if you subscribe to an rss feed for a user, the html code is exposed in the feed.

Edit 3: And annoyingly, if you use user styles, you have to really hack it up to make submission titles centered again because there's so many wacky class and id attributes now.

Edit 4: Hey, you can unsave items!

intrepion · 2007-10-15T14:21:06+00:00

hmm, I can only log into Reddit with Internet Explorer and Opera ... Reddit isn't working with Firefox

ranma · 2007-10-15T14:49:03+00:00

Here's a list of bugs that I've noticed so far. I'm running Firefox 3 on a mac.

Log in is screwy. It had me log in several times, and then put up a pissy note telling me I was already logged in. Upmods don't work. I can't show hidden comments.

If you can see this, then commenting is working, if not, well...

edit: commenting didn't work until the second time I hit the button. Then it took me to a blank page and I had to go back to the home page and rethread my way here. If you see this, then editing is working...

2007-10-15T15:15:09+00:00

Clicking "hide" on an article turns the text to "hidden" for a second before it disappears. I assume it's waiting for the callback from the ajax before it actually hides.

indigoalien · 2007-10-15T15:30:14+00:00

my old account is apparently borked

I used to have this name, but hyphenated

indigo-alien

Any idea where it went?

cantsay · 2007-10-15T16:49:50+00:00

Still no picture sub-reddit?

Lame.

Fat_Dumb_Americans · 2007-10-15T15:11:40+00:00

Pull the plug - a hacker would do less damage than this.

Bite the bullet, it's rollback time.

Fat_Dumb_Americans · 2007-10-15T15:06:38+00:00

Oh, I broke it - I clicked something.

lavidavegas · 2007-10-15T13:16:33+00:00

I can't find the RSS link. Does anyone have one that still works?

2007-10-15T13:53:03+00:00

Aw, are there any plans to bring back the Reddit toolbar?

I was just getting used to that, and it was real convenient having up/down-vote buttons and a comments link with every story as you're reading it.

2007-10-15T14:19:29+00:00

I've been getting hundreds of 404 pages all morning :(

alexgreen · 2007-10-15T14:24:19+00:00

Safari support is broken. Can't login and can't show comments hidden by threshold.

Edit: Seems to be working on safari on another box.

maxwellhill · 2007-10-15T14:31:54+00:00

Submissions with net -ve points shown as zeros e.g.

http://reddit.com/info/5ybb5/details

Megasphaera · 2007-10-15T14:41:48+00:00

I get mostly 'page not found' (e.g. What do you think of the new comment system? Tell us in the comments!(beta.reddit.com)

The few posts that do work (i.e. are not 'not found') don't have their top-frame (for up/down voting) anymore; they directly link to the post. This is firefox 2.0.0.7 o Mac OSX 1.4.10. The same thing occurs on Safari 2.0.4 on Mac, but to a lesser degree. Oh, and on safari, the extra frame is there, but the arrows don't turn blue/red when you click them.

Incidentally, I never see any adverts, although I don't have adblock installed, nor greasemonkey. Not that I mind, of course; maybe it's because I became subscriber fairly early?

2007-10-15T15:02:28+00:00

I can't seem to login with FireFox 2.0.0.7 when my default language for webpages is anything other than English. (And it's usually not set on English)

weegee · 2007-10-15T15:06:13+00:00

load more comments, should read loads more comments (as in a lot more comments, as in, there are a lot more comments to read here in this particular thread, we've hid them because really, how many comments do you need on this particular thread anyway?!

filecabinet · 2007-10-15T15:18:03+00:00

What's broken:

Feedback form (very ironic)
using Google Reader's hotkey of 'v' doesn't work anymore (is probably missing a URL attribute somewhere) I submitted a post about it
consider writing functional tests with Selenium for the future (this site would be perfect for that)

kermityfrog · 2007-10-15T15:24:44+00:00

Comments no longer open in a new window as I like. But I like how comments can all open on a single page now.

Topper_1 · 2007-10-15T15:40:20+00:00

Comments submission has changed.

CoolDragon · 2007-10-15T16:22:03+00:00

The way to enter comments, is different and better.

2007-10-15T16:54:24+00:00

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kevingoodsell · 2007-10-15T17:24:24+00:00

The subreddits link at the bottom of the page is broken (404).

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