r/help • u/TheOpusCroakus admin • Aug 29 '24
Admin Post Weekly Recap - August 29, 2024
Hello! It's another Thursday, so it's time for another weekly recap! Let's recap the week!
ISSUES/EVENTS
There is an issue where deleted content is reappearing. This is actively being looked into.
Reddit was down for a little bit yesterday. Redditstatusbot posted about this here and updated when the incident was resolved.
TOP POSTS
About a month ago, we made a post here about new.reddit.com no longer being supported and access to that platform eventually going away. Many users have experienced this recently and made posts about this issue.
We stickied the announcement post in this sub and encourage you to leave constructive feedback in that post so that it can be passed along to the correct team. You can also comment here as well.
Some users are reporting that their saved posts are not accessible. The team is aware of this and is working on a solution. We're using this post over in r/bugs to track the issue. If you're still experiencing this and could comment over there, that would be great!
Earlier this week, some users were reporting that videos were not playing on the desktop site when logged in. This was fixed up pretty quickly and we commented on this post in r/bugs when it was resolved. Thanks to everyone who left comments and information which helped the team get that worked out.
Top helpers helping help r/help with help
jgoja
Dhanish04
PurplePassiflor1234
Quipsar
Old_One_I
formerqwest
tadashi4
apathetic_screaming
BetterThruChemistry
ChimpyChompies
You've all been absolute champs this past week! Thank you so much for helping out your fellow Redditors.
That's it for this week! Next week, it's new month and the monthly helper trophies will be distributed. Thanks!
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u/Lack-of-Luck Aug 29 '24
There are a number of posts pointing it out from other users, but one of the things is just how much is on screen at a given time. There's no way to hide the sidebars, so it results in a very cluttered screen that quickly results in information/sensory overload (which if you've never experienced, imagine literally every sensation you are able to experience being cranked to the max and your brain is trying to focus on literally every little individual thing as if it's the most important thing to focus on, I've likened it to a fight/flight response in the past with how suddenly things go from manageable to "I want to rip my own bloody throat out because at least then I'd only be focused on that" bad). The "compact" view actually just makes it worse because it crams even more stuff into the same space without getting rid of the sidebars, so it ends up making it even worse. The color scheme is just...off. I can't place my finger on exactly why, but even that is enough to set me on edge. I honestly don't really think there's any way to actually fix the new new reddit in this regard, it's aspects about it's very design that just don't work. All you have to do is leave new.reddit alone, let the people who want to use it still use it. Like, I seriously won't be able to keep using reddit (at all, mobile or desktop) if I can't keep using the new.reddit UI, it legitimately hurts to access the website, and the admins have acted in a way that, like I said, just screams that they honestly just don't care about the users, or that they're assuming every single person that access the website is the exact same.
It's absolutely infuriating to be told "Hey, we changed this site you use all the time and made it worse in just about every way, it's actually painful for you to use it (and just so you know, that sensory overload means I can't do anything for an hour or two because the overload doesn't just "go away" when I look away from the website), oh and we don't want to hear any criticism or anything like that. Oh, and you love it, even if you're actively telling us you hate it." It's incredibly dismissive and insensitive to anyone with issues (Autism, ADHD, OCD, vision problems, etc).