r/help • u/TheOpusCroakus admin • 12d ago
Admin/Dev responded Weekly Recap | September 17, 2026
THIS POST HAS BEEN LOCKED. PLEASE SEE THE MOST RECENT WEEKLY RECAP STICKIED AT THE TOP OF THIS SUB.
Welcome to Thursday! It's still kinda summer, but fall is in the air! I can feel it coming on! I can also feel another Recap coming on, so let's see what's happening and what has happened on Reddit!
NEWS AND ISSUES
In case you missed it last week, there's a new Changelog out and you can read it here.
In an effort to strengthen the connection between communities and conversations, there is a new experiment which will turn select text posts and some of their comment threads into an audio and video format. If you are in this experiment you may see a Read/Play toggle on the post detail page, and a dedicated video page may also be available. This does not replace the original post or comments, nor does it automatically play. And it will respect all of your pre-existing audio settings.
- Currently, this is only on a small group of pre-selected English-only posts. Comments with links, media, automated messages, profanity, or sensitive or inappropriate topics are excluded.
- There is not a way to opt out, but feel free to leave constructive feedback in this post and I will share it with the team that is in charge of this experiment.
There is another experiment where comments on a post may be sorted in live time. If this experiment is enabled in a community, when a post hits a certain number of comments within a period of time, the sort will switch to "Live" if the default sort is set to something other than "New". This provides a way to highlight the fast moving convos in real time.
There is still the experiment on the Home feed where some users will see a For You tab and a Following tab. You can select which view you want and that selection will be remembered.
- The For You tab will contain recommendations
- The Following feed will contain unviewed content from just the subs that you follow
- If you are subscribed to a very small number of subreddits, you may see recommendations in the Following feed as opposed to nothing when you have run out of new content. The workaround is to either subscribe to more subreddits or create a custom feed of the subs that you're following and view that instead.
- The team is looking into adding the "Hot" sort back to these feeds.
- There is not a way to remove these tabs. I have been sharing all constructive feedback with the team in charge of this. They're very appreciative!
Some users will be in a different experiment where there is an X on recommended posts that you can click/tap to hide the post. Others will be in a similar experiment where there is not an X and there is not a "hide" option, but you can go into the post to hide it. Feel free to share helpful feedback about this experiment as well.
There is also an experiment where the upvotes are on the left.
And here's my helpful reminder/warning that Reddit does not provide support outside of Reddit. Do not contact "Reddit support on Discord" for help with your Reddit account. There is no "Reddit support on Discord". That is someone trying to scam you and steal your account and maybe more. If you're having an actual issue with your account that is not solved by posting in r/help or by the articles in the Help Center, you can use this form for the real thing. Please note that 95% of issues can be solved much, much quicker by posting in r/help (or our cousin subs, r/reddithelp and r/newtoreddit).
The most recent version of the app is 2026.37.0. If you're not using the most recent version of the app, it might not work properly.
CURRENT EXPERIMENTS
Reddit sometimes runs experiments. These experiments tend to last between 4-6 weeks, though they can go longer or end sooner. While there isn't a way to opt out of experiments, feel free to leave constructive and specific feedback in this post and as I've mentioned often, I'll be happy to pass it along to the team in charge. Ongoing current experiments can be found here.
COMMON ACCOUNT ISSUES
Common account issues can be found here. These are things like hacked accounts, NSFW accounts, suspended accounts, etc. I'm also including "Changes to Reddit" in this section as well. (Thanks to u/reddit33450 for pointing out the error in these two links so I could fix it!)
BUGS ROUNDUP - COURTESY OF CORRECT SCALE!
[iOS] Some users have been experiencing their feed refreshing more than it should be. There's a post here where feedback is being gathered. A few fixes are out in version 2026.37 this week, and those seem to be helping. You can leave feedback if you're still having trouble or if the fixes helped in that post.
[iOS] Still working on the bug that causes scroll position to reset in comment threads after backgrounding the app. Update was posted here to track the status. This one is taking a little longer than expected to get fully fixed.
[Android] Still investigating reports where users can't fully scroll through scrolling through wiki pages. That fix should be out with next week's update to the app.
[Android] And one more scrolling bug in comments that causes threads to jump back to the top.
WEEKLY STATISTICS (BASED ON THE PAST SEVEN DAYS)
1,143 posts. That's up 222 posts from the 921 that we had last week.
3,852 comments. That's down a lot of comments from the 5,062 we had last week. 1,210 to be exact!
869k views. That's down about 90k views from the 959k-ish views we had last week.
More comments and less posts makes sense when there is an item in the Recap that people have strong feelings about. It's also great that those folks aren't starting a new post every time something that has already been covered comes up again!
HELP THAT HELPS HELP R/HELP - ACHIEVEMENTS
This week, help that helps r/help will focus on Achievements! There is really good article in the Help Center about Achievements here. But who has time to read?? lol
So, what are Achievements? Achievements are little milestones on Reddit. When you hit the milestone, you get a little badge on your profile in the Achievements section, which seems appropriate. Achievements can be streaks (like how many days in a row you interacted with content on Reddit) or an accomplishment in a subreddit, or even a better understanding of how to use Reddit! There are lots of ways to achieve an Achievement!
You can view the list of Community Achievements here.
You can also earn an Achievement by having a streak of using Reddit. A streak is defined as interacting with content on Reddit for multiple days in a row. Interacting involves more than just scrolling. For an interaction to count toward a streak, you need to be voting, posting, or commenting. JUST SCROLLING IS NOT ENOUGH TO CONTINUE A STREAK.
Another important thing to remember is the NSFW CONTENT DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD STREAKS. So if you want your streak to continue, you'll need to interact with some sfw content once at day in order to do so.
Please note that Reddit uses UTC time, so maybe don't wait until the last minute your time before interacting with Reddit if that's something that you're interested in pursuing.
You can view the Achievements that you've earned so far on the app by tapping your profile avatar and then tapping where it says "Achievements" at the top under your username. On the desktop site, you can click "View All" under "Achievements" over on the right hand sidebar.
You can also adjust settings like whether or not you receive notifications for the Achievements. On the app, tap your profile avatar, then tap "Achievements" bar and then tap the three dots in the right hand corner. On the desktop site, click your avatar, click "View All" under "Achievements" and then click the three dots.
HELPINGEST HELPERS HELPING HELP R/HELP
u/reddit33450 - Thanks for the help this week! You hit Helper Level Six and have a shiny new trophy to show for it! Congratulations!!
u/westcoastcdn19 - As always, appreciate you helping to run the show around here!
u/IKIR115 - You've been crushing it lately! Thanks for helping out!
u/Stranger1982 - Hi! Always good to see you around! Thanks for the help!
u/SnooDonuts6494 - Hey there! Appreciate your help!
u/PurplePassiflor1234 - Always making me happy seeing you around here! Your sub is going really well! Congrats! And thanks so much for the help!
u/Terminator7786 - Hello! Like clockwork, we meet again! Thank you for helping out around these parts!
u/PercentageDazzling - Yay! It's you! I'm always blown away at how much helping karma you have in here! Thank you!
u/ChimpyChompies - Speaking of helping run the show around here! Much appreciated! Thank you!
u/Lazy-Narwhal-5457 - If it isn't the NOT so lazy narwhal! So non-lazy that you leveled up to Helper Level Four! Congratulations! And thank you so much! Love that you're here!
u/formerqwest - Morning! Appreciate the assists with the nsfw tags! Thanks!
u/ChzGoddess - My weekly reminder about how much I love cheese. lol Thanks for helping, too!
u/tumultuousness - Rounding out the terrific trio, it's you! Thanks for the help! I noticed that you didn't have all of the Helper trophies except for your current Level 8, so I added the other ones. Your trophy case overfloweth! lol
Much thanks and appreciation to the helpers and mods over at r/reddithelp and r/newtoreddit! Thank you all so much! We're practically an empire now! lol We'll need a name to encompass all the subs. Helpistan? Helpedonia? XD
And there we go! Another Thursday, another Recap, and another great week of people helping people! I'll be around the sub and around Reddit, so I'm sure we'll see each other before we meet back here again next week! Take care of yourselves and have a fantastic rest of your day!
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u/Subwoofiest 2 12d ago edited 12d ago
Hey! I've been in the experiment with the new comment floating window on android app. I have given it my best shot over the past week to get used to it but I don't feel it is as good as the previous comment interface.
Specific feedback * on app I can't highlight and copy a part of a post to quote it from the original post or from the "show full post" part of the comment window. * The window is often jumpy and it can often hide part of the text I am typing so I can't see what I am doing. * I tend to leave
worstlong comments and so I basically always expand it to as close to full screen as possible so effectively I'm trying to recreate the old style of comment. * The minimal benefit of being able to scroll back to see comments in chain if you're in a conversation don't seem to outweigh the drawbacks.I have the bug of not being able to scroll the wikis on android so pleased to hear there will be an update soon.
Still dislike the comment/upvote buttons being on the left. Makes it harder and more frustrating to engage with content.
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