{"id":3546,"date":"2017-02-16T02:41:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T02:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/reddit-tweaks-and-renames-public-front-page.html"},"modified":"2017-02-16T02:41:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T02:41:48","slug":"reddit-tweaks-and-renames-public-front-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/reddit-tweaks-and-renames-public-front-page.html","title":{"rendered":"Reddit tweaks and renames public front page"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The front page of reddit is a good place to catch up on the latest internets, or so an increasing number of users think. To broaden the appeal of the site to lurkers and first-time visitors, the company is making some small but significant changes to the front page that gets presented to anyone who isn\u2019t logged in.<\/p>\n

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Usually what a visitor would see is r\/all, dominated by a set of 50 default high-traffic subreddits that the team selected a while back. Now they\u2019ll be sent to r\/popular, which will supposedly come from more sources, with a few restrictions: no NSFW content, no subreddits that have opted out of appearing on the front page and no \u201csubreddits that users consistently filter out of their r\/all page,\u201d as administrator simbawulf wrote in the announcement.<\/p>\n

What does that last one mean? Users were quick to ask, and quick to cry censorship when it was found that in addition to game-specific subreddits like r\/overwatch, \u201cnarrowly focused politically related subreddits\u201d like r\/The_Donald \u2014 and plenty of other political subreddits on both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n

Some commenters saw it as a way for the redditorial team to block speech they don\u2019t approve of under the guise of user friendliness, while others saw it as just a way to kick content off the front page that isn\u2019t a good match for casual visitors. Which is it? You be the judge.<\/p>\n

Nothing should change for logged-in users who have their own subscribed subreddits, but randoms who drop by the site will supposedly see both a more diverse and less NSFW front page. It\u2019s a work in progress, of course, so expect more changes as admins figure stuff out and users revolt.<\/p>\n

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