The first major change to the mobile app in over two years is today's launch with the addition of a new Discover Tab, which offers personalized recommendations, as well as a reworked navigation system that includes new Community and Profile menus.
The Discover Tab was introduced because the company heard from users that they wanted a better way to explore their interests.
There are over 100,000 active communities on the site, but many of them are not well-known.
It can be hard to find subreddits and communities that you want to develop a deep connection to. It isn't always the easiest thing to do. He said that they wanted to create a new surface area to make it easier to discover lesser-known communities.
The new Discover Tab will be on the right of the home button on the mobile app. In this section, you will be presented with a visually engaging, vertical feed of community recommendations, either based on popularity, or based on your engagement patterns.
It will take into account things like which subscriptions you already have and where you spend the most time to make its recommendations. The app may recommend other sports communities if you subscribe to a lot of baseball subreddits. If you are a new user, you will be given suggestions of popular communities until it learns more about your interests.
The only thing that will make it work is using any sort of understanding of user demographic like age, location, or gender for its recommendations.
When you scroll down the Discover Tab, you will see photos, videos, and images in small rectangular or square boxes with the name of the community they represent. Costa says that the choice to use rich multimedia is meant to bring more to the app. The new feature will allow you to refine your suggestions as you go by long pressing on a tile, then selecting options such as show me more of this content, show me less of that content, and hide that content.
Technology, Animals, Sports, History, Hobbies, and many more are high-level categories across the top of the new section.
We understand that not all communities will be featured on the Discover page.
The company won't recommend a community based on its community content tags rating system, according to Costa. It won't suggest any community that's been banned or quark at any point, as that may not be appropriate for such broad recommendation.
The decision would prevent the more controversial communities from gaining further traction, even if they don't reach the point of requiring a ban.
The image was taken on the website Reddit.
The new Discover Tab will help users find more communities to subscribe to, which will lead to the launch of the Reddit app more often and engage with more content. This could help boost the bottom line. One in five people joined at least one new community after using the Discover Tab, according to tests conducted on a small subset of users.
The new tab isn't available on the web at the moment, but it will be available on the mobile app and web in the future.
The tab is replacing the subscription tab that was found on the bottom navigation bar. The Community menu on the left has subscriptions tucked into it. Moderating entry points, followed by users you follow, and following your communities will be included in the Community Drawer.
A new Profile Drawer will allow users to access and personalize their profile.
The new features are being rolled out to the 54 million daily active users of the site.
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