Reddit Launches Updated Feed Switching Process as Part of Broader UI Reassessment

Reddit has announced a slight tweak in its UI, which can see the removing of separate feed tabs alongside the highest of the primary show in favor of a brand new drop-down menu to entry your ‘Dwelling’, ‘Well-liked’ and ‘Information’ feeds.

As you’ll be able to see on this instance, you’ll now have a separate menu to modify to every feed kind.

For context, that is the present Reddit tab show:

As defined by Reddit:

“On the Reddit app, the Dwelling, Well-liked, and Information (iOS solely) feeds will transfer from the highest of your app display right into a drop-down menu. To modify feeds you’ll be able to both swipe between them (which is the first means most redditors change between feeds at present) or just faucet on the drop-down menu and choose your required feed.”

So, given that almost all Redditors already swipe throughout to modify feeds, which continues to be out there as an choice, this, functionally, received’t change a lot, however it does make the app just a little cleaner, with fewer choices competing for consideration on the primary display.

The change is a component of a broader re-think at Reddit as to the way it can simplify and enhance the consumer expertise, which can even see it exploring updates in these areas:

• Feed Structure – Bettering the best way that you just work together with and change between numerous feeds on Reddit
• Feed Growth – Offering extra particular feeds to interact with (assume Gaming, Sports activities, Politics, Magnificence, and so on.)
• Feed Efficiency – Gotta go quick. And likewise seamlessly. And likewise with high-quality that’s clean like buttah

Truthfully, I don’t know why platforms really feel the necessity to use cool lingo of their bulletins, however sure, ‘clean like buttah’ in all probability finest sums up the intention of this new growth push on the app.

Matter-based feeds is also attention-grabbing, and will additionally assist Reddit refine its advert concentrating on to particular audiences, if customers align with that strategy. However proper now, it’s all theoretical, with the one change being a minor tweak in the primary UI.

However it looks like a superb one? Once more, it seems cleaner, and the main target right here appears to be proper.

Hopefully, these further modifications will additional refine Reddit’s imaginative and prescient.  

You’ll be able to learn extra about Reddit’s newest UI replace here.