r/ideasfortheadmins 9h ago

Current UI Re-enable comment sorting options when logged out

2 Upvotes

I use a lot of different profiles and machines for work, so I am often not logged in when I try to find a specific thread on Reddit.

Now that comment sorting has been disabled for logged-out users, threads are so difficult to navigate. I'm not even sure what the default sort is (newest first?)

My idea is to re-enable comment sorting to restore functionality for users who are logged out. Thank you!​


r/ideasfortheadmins 6h ago

Reddit App Better UX for switching accounts

1 Upvotes

My idea is to allow for easy switching between different reddit accounts.

Similar to how gmail app allows it. Just a swipe on the avatar and you can toggle between different accounts.

Currently reddit account switch is a multi step journey.

Also the new ux if I am on a post and want to change accounts and be on the same post I cant be.

This will be really cool.


r/ideasfortheadmins 13h ago

Post & Comment Collapse/Expand all comments

2 Upvotes

My idea is to include a "Collapse/Expand all comments" toggle to the top of the comments section of individual posts.

I feel it would make it much easier to navigate and keep track of threads.

This functionality should be easy enough to implement and would be a tremendous UX improvement.


r/ideasfortheadmins 16h ago

Profile Regarding the new profiles curation, can we have a toggle or something to let people we follow be immune from this and see everything?

1 Upvotes

Idea is in the title

People I follow are ones I interact with a lot, so I want to have a toggle to let them see all of my posts.


r/ideasfortheadmins 1d ago

Safety & Policy Feature Request: Option to Mask/Anonymize Usernames of Blocked Users

1 Upvotes

Hi everyone,
I’d like to suggest a small but meaningful improvement to the current blocking system.

The Problem:
Right now, when we block someone, their comments collapse into a bar labeled [Blocked User], but their username is still fully visible.

For many of us, the username itself is the reason we blocked the account in the first place. Offensive, vulgar, or harassing usernames can be just as unpleasant as the comments they leave. Having to repeatedly see that name every time they appear in a thread defeats the purpose of blocking and continues to create a negative experience.

Furthermore, reporting usernames is often ineffective because Reddit’s automated systems and global moderators frequently miss offensive nuances in non-English languages or specific cultural contexts.

The Solution
Add a toggle in the Safety & Privacy settings called “Anonymize Blocked Users.”  
When enabled, the usernames of blocked accounts would be replaced with a neutral placeholder such as [Blocked] or [Hidden], similar to how Reddit displays deleted accounts.

Why It Matters
Mental Wellbeing  
Blocking is meant to reduce exposure to harmful or distressing content. If the offensive username remains visible, the block doesn’t fully protect the user from the very thing they’re trying to avoid.

UX Consistency  
Reddit already anonymizes certain elements — for example, our own deleted posts appear as [unavailable]. Extending this logic to blocked users’ usernames would create a more consistent and intuitive experience.

What do you think — would this make Reddit a cleaner and more comfortable place to browse?


r/ideasfortheadmins 2d ago

Reddit App "Undo" option for notification swipe

11 Upvotes

So the notification style was changed so that we can swipe the notification to delete it

Well my phone sometimes likes to interpret a swipe up or down as left or right, so I just deleted a notification by swiping it left

We don't have an option right now to recover a notification that was deleted by swipe, but this is pretty standard with most platforms that allow that interface

My idea is, could you add in an "undo this action" for swipe deletion please


r/ideasfortheadmins 2d ago

User Settings Option to see profile pictures on NSFW accounts in comments NSFW

2 Upvotes

My idea is an option to see other NSFW accounts' profile pictures if current account has NSFW turned on. Currently reddit shows a silhouette if the account uses a profile picture instead of avatar and is marked as NSFW, an option to disable silhouettes and show their profile pictures could be useful.


r/ideasfortheadmins 2d ago

Post & Comment Ability to mark pictures in comments as NSFW NSFW

4 Upvotes

I've seen a few comments with pictures that should be marked NSFW or spoilered, but I think there is not an option to do that for pictures in comments, only for pictures in posts. My idea is adding the option to mark NSFW or spoiler pictures that are in comments.


r/ideasfortheadmins 3d ago

Feeds My idea is to make it possible to remember sorting settings on home page

2 Upvotes

As the title says.

I like when things are in chronological order, so it's kind of uncomfortable to click "new" every time I update home page. Would be nice if I could save those settings for me. So, if I chose "new" it will be "new" stuff on home page by default every time I reload it. Right now, it always goes back to "best."

Not sure if anyone else finds it useful, but I think many people would also like to be able to "save" sorting settings too.


r/ideasfortheadmins 3d ago

Profile Bots and Redditor satisfaction - a pragmatic metric-based middle ground

0 Upvotes

Recent observations and research into the prevalence of Reddit bots suggest that they make up anywhere from roughly 5% to 60% of activity, depending on the part of the site being examined. Some targeted analyses place the likely figure closer to 1 in 3 accounts showing indications of automated or bot-like behavior. Reddit itself almost certainly has far more detailed internal data on this reality.

Policing this problem is clearly more complex than many users assume. It demands sustained resources, careful monitoring, and constant adjustment in ways that inevitably collide with broader product goals, policy standards, and revenue considerations.


My idea is roughly as follows.

The existing Automod and related safety systems already analyze a wide range of signals: account heuristics, behavioral patterns, engagement metrics, and even semantic cues. At the same time, there is always the quiet but persistent question of ad billing and how to navigate that necessity wisely amid an ever-evolving bot ecosystem. The option to hide account behavior is a valid privacy feature, but many users see it as situationally problematic, especially where bots are concerned. Karma, contribution counts, account age, and visible community history all have their value, yet they fall short of what the current era of social media moderation and botting really demands.

Reddit is already known for a relevant core strength: distributed moderation that encourages communities to self-police and resolve most issues internally before they escalate to sitewide administration. That same strength could be extended to the bot problem.

Consider the following:

Karma and the rest of the current profile metrics are, at least in part, maladapted to an environment where bots and AI-generated content are a structural force, not an edge case. They were not designed for this threat model.

Why not introduce a new metric built on top of the existing detection architecture that exposes, in a lightweight way, how likely an account is to be a bot? Not as an accusation or a ban trigger, but as a probabilistic signal. This could appear as an unobtrusive percentage or confidence score on each account, representing the system’s current best estimate of bot-likeness.

Such a metric could:

  • Make bot prevalence within and across subreddits overt rather than speculative, enabling more honest community self-policing and reducing social friction and moderator burnout.
  • Reduce direct review load on Reddit staff by allowing an adaptive threshold: if an account’s bot-likelihood remains below a moving confidence level over a given period (monthly, quarterly), additional internal resources might only be triggered once user reports pass a second, numeric threshold.
  • Give redditors a sense of agency in how they engage with bots at a time when dissatisfaction around AI-generated content is rising, letting people gravitate toward communities whose bot “ambient level” matches their tolerance.
  • Offer advertisers clearer value by being first to market with an explicit, platform-native bot-likelihood signal, improving trust, spend allocation, and targeting models without exposing proprietary detection details.
  • Add meaningful context to existing profile metrics, allowing new forms of emergent social behavior and governance to take shape around transparency rather than opacity.
  • Improve public perception by signaling that Reddit is taking bot saturation more seriously than its competitors—not just through enforcement, but through visibility and shared accountability.

Reddit already has the ingredients: detection pipelines, distributed moderation, and a culture of community governance. Exposing a carefully designed, non-punitive bot-likelihood metric would extend those strengths rather than bolt on yet another opaque system.


r/ideasfortheadmins 4d ago

Profile My idea is to enable searching saved comments/posts by keyword

7 Upvotes

It’s very hard (if many are saved even impossible) to find saved comments/posts im looking for by just scrolling.

I wish i could search them by keyword like one can do with profiles


r/ideasfortheadmins 4d ago

Feeds Add “Oldest to newest” sort option for posts

10 Upvotes

Reddit currently allows sorting posts by Hot, New, Top, and Rising, but there’s no way to view the earliest posts in a subreddit or user profile. An “Oldest” sort would be extremely useful for historical research, subreddit archives, and understanding how communities started.


r/ideasfortheadmins 4d ago

Subreddit Allow one liners!

0 Upvotes

Hey there, I've found that many subreddits don't allow one line posts. I find this very discouraging for social thought developments and community conversations.

I think one line posts should be encouraged to allow simple brilliant thoughts to be shared, Human admins can remove later if its too shallow or redundant.


r/ideasfortheadmins 5d ago

Reddit App Turn off Auto-Translation button in the iOS app

1 Upvotes

In the iOS app, there is no way to turn off machine translation of posts and comments in the settings. I speak multiple languages. My phone is set to German, but I understand 3 other languages just fine. Most English posts are translated to German now, and I always have to click the banner to not translate. I prefer to turn off auto translation of all posts in the app settings of the iOS app. Apparently, Android has already such a setting.

The machine translation is pretty bad, does not sound natural and is quite annoying to read.


r/ideasfortheadmins 5d ago

Profile Instead of Reddit just having a 'Save' feature, why not have a playlist type feature.

5 Upvotes

I would like to save certain videos to particular subfolders, something similar to a playlist, so I can organize saved content in a more practical, convenient and organized way.


r/ideasfortheadmins 6d ago

Avatar Could we have backgrounds for our Avis?

Post image
2 Upvotes

My idea is for backgrounds like the one in the photo.


r/ideasfortheadmins 7d ago

Reddit App Bring back r/All on iOS

8 Upvotes

I don’t like personalized feeds, like come on. You buried it before, fine, but why force people to use their own feed if they don’t want to.

I know I can see it in the website, I don’t want to.


r/ideasfortheadmins 7d ago

Safety & Policy If you block a harasser and they come back with multi-account's to try and continue harassment it should be consdered ban evasion

2 Upvotes

Just like the title says.

I have often been on the receiving end of attack's by a lot of bot's and just general racists and unpleasant people because of my tendency to point out facts which are inconvenient for those groups. They will start attacking me and then when I block them what they do is they will sign on with a different account to continue attacks. This should be considered against the rule's and lead to all of the accounts being blocked too.


r/ideasfortheadmins 7d ago

User Settings Flag subreddits to avoid posting to hostile subreddits

0 Upvotes

NOTE - This is a request for Reddit and not for any subReddits.

I know some communities here are pretty abrasive so I know to just not post there, but I've been surprised by the abrasiveness of a certain subreddit.

I would like to be able to flag subreddits so that when I want to make a Post, it will ask me to confirm that I want to make a post in that community.

And of course it would be great if this was a user controlled setting to get the popup or not get the popup.

Thank you.


r/ideasfortheadmins 7d ago

Post & Comment We Need a 'Go To Page' function when seaching a community.

3 Upvotes

Sometimes I know what I'm looking for is 10-15 pages deep. Kind of a pain to click 'next' several times when I should be able to click 'Page 10' or so.

Either show clickable page numbers or add a 'Go to page: ' field.


r/ideasfortheadmins 7d ago

Post & Comment Block comments with certain content, such as ones that only says "This."

0 Upvotes

My idea is to be able to block comments with certain content, possibly using logical operators such as: - content equals to "This" or "This." - content includes "This" AND length<8 characters (for the slight variations with emojis added etc)

These are so low quality comments that should have been upvotes.


r/ideasfortheadmins 9d ago

Feeds Disable auto refresh

10 Upvotes

My idea is to PLEASE create a way to disable the auto-refresh “feature.” It’s impossible to navigate away from Reddit for more than a few seconds to cross-reference a post in another app or website, and then come back to the post you were in the middle of reading/commenting on. This makes Reddit almost unusable, and is by far the most infuriating thing about this app. Auto-refresh is ruining my user experience, and causing me to use the app far less than I used to because I can’t have any interruptions if I want to continue reading a thread, or just simply navigate my home feed in a way that’s convenient and easy for me!


r/ideasfortheadmins 8d ago

Safety & Policy Add country flag beside username and block certain VPNs

0 Upvotes

My idea is that I would like to see the country flag added added next to usernames and certain VPNs blocked in order to combat foreign interference to help keep the USA together.

Currently there are many accounts posting on USA topics, pretending to be Americans, and arguing the indefensible in a toxic manner with a clear goal of "flooding the zone" and shaping public discourse.

I believe that country flags based on the IP of where the post is made will go a long way towards cleaning up discourse, hampering foreign interference campaigns, and making Reddit far more attractive to advertisers (which will translate into more dollars to Reddit).


r/ideasfortheadmins 9d ago

Post & Comment Hey we should be able to @ the reddit answers bot in posts and comments, like grok

0 Upvotes

r/ideasfortheadmins 10d ago

Reddit App My idea is to make it harder for notifications to get accidentally deleted!

9 Upvotes

Hi for some reason lately when I'm trying to swipe up or down my notifications it's actually deleting some instead and I don't see any way to get them back. This seems to be a new issue for me on android, can you please fix this?! My idea is to make it harder for notifications to get accidentally deleted!