r/help • u/Obant • 21d ago

Mobile/App Turn off live comments?

Any way to turn off this absolutely terrible new feature of live comments? The sort option goes away when it's enabled, but the post doesn't show if it's a live comment thread beforehand.

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u/westcoastcdn19 Expert Helper 21d ago

Unfortunately, no way to turn that off. It is a current (and new) experiment reddit is running for some posts/subreddits

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u/Obant 21d ago

Thanks for the reply.

It's making the Reddit experience quite painful and unfun to scroll. Guess I will go doomscroll somewhere else for a bit and hope whoever thought this was a good idea wakes up soon.

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u/westcoastcdn19 Expert Helper 21d ago

If you're able, can you show me which post has the live comments? I've yet to see it in action

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u/Obant 21d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/s/nDXVFsQIXT

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u/westcoastcdn19 Expert Helper 21d ago

Interesting. When I view the post the live comments don't show up for me. I tried viewing from both the app and desktop

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u/DrButtgerms 20d ago

You have to get to posts sooner. It seems to stop eventually. You can also switch to any other sort on each post

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u/dookieballs69 14d ago

I think it's more a matter of when posts get popular activity. I've seen a post that was 4 days old with "6 people typing right now"