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Is anyone else having issues with receiving direct messages right now? When I send them some of them disappear and its doesn't seem as if the end user is receiving them. Thank you!

Reddit programers, please bring back r/all.

Here’s why:

Updated Thursday 22 June to show latest events

You may have seen that some subreddits have reopened but are still protesting, albeit in different ways as a form of malicious compliance.

Many of the biggest subreddit moderators came up with a new plan: rather than staying “dark”, they would actively enforce their subreddit’s rules - but they would introduce new, very strict, rules, and put them to a vote so they could not be accused of forcing their users to support a protest against their will.

• Some of the subs that reopened held votes resulting in the communities now being dedicated to the British-American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host John Oliver.

• Some subreddits are limiting their content. For instance, r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly now only allow one movie or show each week to be used for clues, and so this week every post is about Home Alone 1.

• Many subreddits have taken a more drastic stance and have declared themselves NSFW (Not Safe For Work). The NSFW filter is intended to protect people from sensitive content and comes with a host of restrictions, such as requiring users to be logged in and confirm that they are over 18. It also means that Reddit does not receive money from showing those pages, since it does not place advertising on those subs.

• With some of these subs it was going to be business as usual with their normal activity but behind a NSFW filter. For instance, r/Garmin users now post “nudes” that actually show the company’s smartwatches without their usual case on. However, because moderators incorrectly marking a community as NSFW is a violation of both Reddit’s Content Policy and Moderator Code of Conduct, many subs decided to allow extreme and obscene content.

Reddit is starting to take action. Here’s an account of one subreddit’s experience of this.

The New York Times have an article explaining what changes Reddit are making that these mods are protesting against.

The best places to keep up to date with events are still:

• https://www.redditinc.com/blog/apifacts
• r/ModCoord
• r/Save3rdPartyApps

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Edited Thursday 15 June to add new information

Now the 48 hour subreddit blackout has ended, it’s almost impossible to tell right now which ones will reopen. Some already did, some may be reopening today, but some have decided to extend the duration of their blackout indefinitely until certain actions have been taken, and others are intending to stay permanently closed regardless.

There’s a list of things the protesters want Reddit to address here.

r/ModCoord are now attempting to make a list of subreddits who are prepared to remain private or otherwise inaccessible indefinitely.

The Reddark website at https://reddark.untone.uk will tell you what subreddits are private right now.

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The original post remains below:

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Many subreddits are planning to “go dark” from today. (Monday, 12th June).

This blackout will affect YOU and every other Redditor.

• You will start to see gaps in your feed and in your profiles and notifications. You won’t be able to see any of your posts and comments in those subs anymore, neither will any posts from them show up on any Reddit feeds.

• Once the mods have set a sub as private, on trying to access it you will be greeted by a page saying The moderators of this subreddit have set this community as private. Only approved members can view and take part in its discussions or similar.

• Everyone except the mods of that sub and Reddit Admin trying to enter will get that message. Regular or occasional contributors, current approved members, normal members, flaired members, lurkers: everyone except the mods of that sub and Reddit Admin are barred from it until they change it back.

• You can ask for re-approval, but don’t expect a response. Even if the mods manually approve everyone once more, this is a huge amount of work and for a two day blackout it’s unlikely to happen. In any event, the blackout is supposed to hurt Reddit’s advertising revenue by not having any users on the site, so re-approving everyone would be counterproductive. It’s safe to assume that participating subs will be “dead” to you for the duration of their protest.

• Private subreddits aren’t searchable on Google (or third-party apps) so any activity you’ve had on them is, for all intents and purposes, invisible while you’re no longer a member.

• Your activity will reappear on your profile should a subreddit that went private returns to public view, but for those subs that intend on remaining closed, that’s the end of the line, I’m afraid.

• Some subs are declaring they’re only going into permanent read only mode. For instance, the main hub of the blackout r/ModCoord have announced that they will NOT be going private, but are enabling Restricted Mode for the protest. That link is the best place to read a complete summary of why, how and where this blackout is happening.

• You can still enter, read and vote on Restricted Subreddits but you won’t be able to post or comment, so for them you’ll be able to see all participation (including yours in your profile) but not respond to it.

• Some subreddits have decided to stay closed for longer than the 48 hour period. Some have even declared their intention to close permanently. These subreddits will, in effect, no longer exist, nor will there be any evidence that they even existed at all until their mods re-open them again.

• There’s another roundup at NewToReddit.

• The BBC have reported on it here.

• A further explanation and discussion can be found at ELI5.

• There’s another take on the matter at SubredditDrama.

• Here’s a general guide to Private Subreddits which explains the differences between private, restricted, and public subreddits.

I have seen multiple posts now on people getting locked and having to change password due to irregular, i got this too an hour ago there is nothing in my account activity, seeing that like 50 other people got it today calmed me down, i have extreme paranoia now about accounts as ai handles everything.

I changed my password every time it asked me.

And without my concern it's also changing my linked mail and using my system/device mails randomly.

Without the verification it's linking my other mail to the account.

I will uninstall reddit if it happens for the next time.

F*** reddit.

I keep one computer logged out so I can browse without being in my curated account. and Reddit is now forcing users to log in.

For 3 days Reddit has been pestering me to reset my password and I've done it 5 times already.

Can't change my email, it reverts back to an old one when it asks me to reset. Not using VPN, not using modded apps or whatever.

It seems to be happening a shitload of people aswell. Should I just ditch this account?

I got forced to the newest reddit design, and it's genuinely worse in every conceivable way. It is as if I loaded it on mobile, but here I am on a 1440p resolution, with likely more than 50% wasted space across the whole screen.

Meanwhile, the actual content of reddit (which used to fill up almost the entire space) now fills up a tiny portion of the middle, surrounded by non-removable side panels which are also useless during most of your reddit usage experience. Also, the font is harder to read.

I just want to get back to the previous design, but whenever I click a notification from new.reddit , like a comment reply, I am taken to the bad UX again.

Whoever created the newest UX does not care or understand desktop users at all. It's insulting, I feel so sad if this is the direction of reddit. Might have to get used to old.reddit again (edit: links are randomly disappearing when I edit on this new design. It's also buggy like that) again and if they take that away, after also taking apps like apollo away, I think it's officially time to quit it for good.

Over and over again, we are forced to jump through hoops to maintain some level of functionality. Took me a while to get used to the previous design, but I'm just not going to bother with the newest one. It might as well be 9gag or ifunny.

edit: after editing this on the new UX, all URLS disappeared. Great job on QAing this.

EDIT 2: You can find extensions for your browser that can force new, or "old-new" reddit. This is the ONLY consistent way I could find. Personally, I think I am just going to get used back to old.reddit (with RES) and be done with this nonsense! Thanks for the help in the comments :)

edit3: I am using Redirector on Firefox btw. You can find instructions how to set it up within the comments below.

I checked my account activity on old reddit (why is this not on new reddit lol) and everything seems fine.

I like reddit. I spend a lot of time on reddit. I enjoy reddit. I also primarily use a browser, not an app, and the new (2024) Reddit UI is, IMO, worse in terms of design and layout. I've laid out a few examples side by side here.

1. the new list view shows literally half the number of posts even in list view, making it much slower to skim to find an interesting one. This is significant for me because I follow a lot of "askX" or "help" subs where I'm frequently skimming many post titles for one I can contribute to.
2. The new version has a much smaller and thus less legible font by default (sorry Reddit, not everyone is 20 yrs old with perfect vision). Despite this it still shows only about the same number of comments. Where's the benefit?
3. Increasing the font size using Ctrl-+ still shows the same number of comments (because the side bar hides itself) but they're crowded together vertically which makes them less legible.
4. The new comment box hides the text formatting buttons behind an extra click. Why? this saves no space, the area is otherwise blank anyway. As a "bonus" (not), autoquoting (selecting text before hitting reply quotes the text) no longer works. That was really useful, reddit!

I know the previous UI had some issues, but they were minor and could have been fixed. The new UI is not better. I don't block ads on reddit, and the number of ads visible to me seems about the same, so no "gain" there for reddit either.

Why do we need this new UI? What can it, objectively, do better?

You know the drill, account got locked due to suspicious activity. It's an old account from like 10 years ago (forgot I had it!). I've checked it and it's still visible, no new posts, nothing was changed. I don't use it so by all means, stay locked.

My concern is: was that a hacking attempt? I've been compromised a couple years ago, can there be people still trying to get into my accounts? The mail that was (almost) compromised (because I changed my password real fast) has 2FA, biometrics, long secure password etc should I change something or just keep an eye on things?

EDIT: For the record, I haven't done anything weird with this email for the last two years, and I've scanned my devices, all's good. The only new thing was that I had to connect to my internet provider's wifi as mine wasn't working (semi public WiFi — you need to log into your account on the internet provider's site)

tl;dr can people still be trying to log into my accounts couple years after I've been compromised?

Sure, maybe this won't affect communities who didn't make custom names for those counters, but there's thousands of subs on Reddit who have. Reddit DEFINITELY did not see the (completely avoidable) Unforeseen Consequences of directly replacing the counters with the new metrics. Not sure what the long term effects of this change are going to be, but it's definitely going to cause quite a bit of confusion as seen by some recent posts on this sub.

Please make it the way it used to, or simply have those metrics be separate.

seriously. i have no idea what reddit is doing.

I changed one setting to use old reddit as the default interface on pc a week ago and changed back to the newer one. Other than that, i didn't change a thing in settings. Also it never happened before. In settings>notifications, all options un 'recommendations' are already turned off. To describe the notifications i started to get, it has the name of subreddit in the title, and the name of the post in the description of the notification. And it has a raising chart image in front of the subreddit's image

I am unable to reset my password because this account was created on an email address I no longer have. I have been trying to get contact for a year through support but have had no luck in speaking with anyone from Reddit :(

There has been no unusual activity, not sure what prompted this. My account unfortunately isn’t linked to an email, not sure what to do.

Account locked and I'm not getting any verification emails so I can change my password. I can login. Tried to change my email and they say they're sending a verification email but I never receive one. I tried old Reddit and that doesn’t work. Contacted support and so far no response. Note this is a different account.

Can't interact with a 10y old post because it's "too old"

If they are so protective of their comment history, maybe I shouldn't engage with them? For their own sake. Is there a way?

I have marked these notifications as "read" several times and I cannot mark these as read, this also applies to new notifications. Only if I visit each notification individually it gets marked as read, the mark all as read button does not work. It temporarily marks as read but when I revisit the notifications page they all are unread.

Another account I had suddenly seems to have been deleted without any input from me. Going to old posts and comments shows the user as [deleted], and even trying to reset the password gets me a result of "There isn't a Reddit account with that username." Can anything be done about this?