Reddit Begins Translation Process With 5 Languages

Reddit kicked off the first phase last week of translating its platform on Android, desktop and iOS into French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The company wrote in a blog post, “We are taking an iterative approach toward supporting more languages, which means future phases will include more product coverage, more language coverage and further refinement of our translations.” Reddit also detailed updates to its Android and iOS home feed, specifically related to sort, writing in a separate blog post, “After 15-plus years and millions of feedback comments, survey responses, customer interviews and Mod Council conversations, we know that whether you’ve been here since the great Digg migration or because you heard about a little community called r/wallstreetbets, we want to help you find communities that you will love on Reddit. With that in mind, one of our biggest priorities is ensuring that you have a great experience on the platform and that it’s easy (and simple) for you to find the content you enjoy and communities where you belong.” Current sort options on Reddit are: Hot: Ranks using votes and post age.New: Displays the most recently published posts.Top: Shows the highest vote count posts from a specified time range.Controversial: Shows posts with both high count upvotes and downvotes.Rising: Populates posts with lots of recent votes and comments.Best: Considers upvotes, downvotes, age of post and how much a user spent on a subreddit. Starting Monday (June 28), the Best sort will use new machine learning algorithms to rank posts via the following process: Creating an initial list of content Redditors might enjoy.Removing content they should not have to deal with, such as spam.Using machine learning to predict what Redditors may or may not like.Sorting content according to those predictions and ensuring a level of diversity of content.Giving users ways to let Reddit know what’s working and what’s not, and to adjust their experience based on what you want to see more or less of. Rather than trying to help Redditors find relevant communities that they may be interested in subscribing to, or “Discovery Units,” new recommendations on Reddit will be posts and look similar to any post from a community that a user has already joined, and explanation and context will be provided for every recommendation. Reddit wrote, “We’re going to continue to improve the home feed experience for users, and this is just the first version that we are launching. We will be constantly updating and iterating on it to make it a more enjoyable experience for you, and we need your feedback to do it.” The platform also began the process of removing dormant communities and making their names available for future community creators, saying that there will be two phases to this initiative, and there are certain requirements and thresholds a community must meet in order to be considered dormant and eligible for removal. A new Discover tab is being tested on iOS, combining familiar features, such as communities followed by Redditors, with new elements including a way to browse posts by topic and a scrollable feed with a mix of content. Reddit wrote in a blog post, “Discover is a great place to go when you’re bored or looking to burst your bubble and find new things you may have never seen or interacted with before. This will be going out to 10% of Redditors on iOS later this month, and will roll out to other platforms as we learn more and get feedback.” Finally, the r/trendingsubreddits community is being retired, as are any widgets that used its curated trends. Reddit explained that with a trending communities leaderboard, personalized recommendations, improved onboarding for new Redditors and new ways to discover communities, the community has outlived its purpose. Further minor tweaks and bug fixes were detailed in a blog post summarizing changes to the platform between June 8 and 22.

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