Happy December, y’all!

The year might be winding down, but we’ve been moving full-steam ahead on new product changes and updates. Our last Changelog of the year has everything*: navigation improvements, bananas, chat updates, and mod tooling. Let’s get into it, shall we?

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Simplifying post page reading and navigation on iOS

Reading and navigating comments on posts has historically been confusing on Reddit, especially for new redditors. In a continued effort to simplify the post page, some actions will now be grouped within the three-dot menu, creating a consistent way to collapse comments across Reddit’s mobile apps—and simple gestures for upvoting, so you can easily join a conversation. Earlier this year, these changes were rolled out on Android, and we’re excited to share that last month they were introduced on iOS! The changes include:

• Comment three-dot menu options are the same on both Android and iOS
• Crossposting to a community is folded into the Share option in the top-level post three-dot menu
• Comment award action is moved to the comment three-dot menu from the top-level comment action bar
• Single tap gesture on the header or the text of the comment collapses the comment and its nested comments
• Double tap gesture on the header or the text of the comment upvotes the comment

With these changes, we hope your conversation experience on Reddit continues to improve.

Bananas for Scale

Have you recently come into possession of a new iPhone? Are you a fan of bananas and r/Recap? Download the Reddit app with the latest iOS system update for a shiny new Banana Counter—turn it on in your Settings (under Feed Options) to collect bananas while you scroll (iOS 16.1 only). This will start rolling out today, and will be available to all (on iOS 16.1) on December 8.

Left: Banana Counter notification 🍌. Right: Where to turn on Banana Counter in Settings. Center: So much battery.

Pardon the interruption: preparing for chat improvements

We’re making some one-to-one and group chat updates in 2023. To prepare for those updates, we’re temporarily rolling back a few features within the chat module in the coming week. Bubble themes, slash commands, and link sharing for one-on-one chats will be temporarily unavailable in the chat module on desktop web and the native apps.

Web-only chat settings like “Mark all as read” and privacy settings will also be temporarily unavailable in the chat module. In the meantime, you’ll still be able to access the “Mark all as read” and “Who can invite you to chat” on the user settings page. You’ll also still have access to all of your active chats. Stay tuned!

Mod updates

A few weeks ago, some of our mods saw changes to the New Reddit mod queue action bar’s Approve and Remove buttons as well as some updates to the mod action menu. As of a couple weeks ago, these updates have been rolled out to all mods!

With these changes, the hope is that mod tooling will be easier to understand and use, and the mod queue will be more efficient in meeting the needs of Reddit’s most active mods.

Are you a mod interested in learning more about these updates? Get more info in the announcement post here.

For more mod-related news, head over to r/ModNews.

That’s a wrap! Thanks for sticking around. We’ll see you in January with the next Changelog.

Have questions about anything you just read? As always, we’ll be checking in on the comments throughout the day.