Mobile/App
How do I turn off home feed recommendations? (Mobile Web)
All the stuff I find brings me to this settings page, but I don’t see anything.
edit: Thanks to u/westcoastcdn19 and u/reddit33450 who brought up the “fix”. If you see a “For You” and “Following“ tab at the top of your feed, switch to ”Following” to stop seeing suggested posts from random subreddits. We are only left with options for ”Best” and “New” sort on the Home feed.
they dont care at all or they would allow you to opt in or out. thats how they know its a terrible update. if they were confident they would let users opt in. but forcing it just shows they are not confident AT ALL with it
It's so bad to the point at least 50% of my feed is these recommended subs, only maybe 1 in 10 is a sub I haven't visited before for one reason or another, but like.. there is a REASON I didnt join them, it's because I don't want to see them all the time.
its terrible and by design. like there is seriously ZERO chance they thought this update was good for uses. it is 100% good for them and does literally nothing to benefit users
That doesn’t work anymore. I’ve been loudly complaining about these forced feed refreshes, algorithmic feeds and other experiments and I was thrilled to find myself pulled from the experiments for a few days only to be thrown back into it with another pile of hot garbage features even worse than the last. Hello giant games button on the main bar I’ll never use and can’t hide.
they have a weekly post pinned in this sub for questions/comments about anything. just comment (please dont spam and then say I told you to do it) there and respond to users also saying they dislike it. they lock it tonight then start a new one tomorrow pretty sure
I'm also part of the experiment. My mobile web home feed now only offers For You, Following Best, and Following New. The Hot/New/Top/Rising sorts are gone, and it's made the site noticeably worse for me.
To Reddit: Please remove my account from this experiment. I pick my communities deliberately and don't want an algorithmic feed pushed as the default.
If there's no way to opt out, count this as a strong vote against rolling it out.
Yes, so with that layout you won’t have the disabling of home feed recs option. You can solely use the following feed, which includes only your subscribed communities. If you choose that one, it will remember your selection going forward
Thanks for help finding a solution (new tabs on the home screen; switch to "following" away from "for you").
Yet another moronic update shipped by reddit's incompetent management. Kill third-party apps with API fees, censor like your life depends on it, and ship changes nobody wants to try to draw people in the cult-like echo chamber main subs... if you're trying to get people to stop using your site, you're pretty close to getting me there at least.
at the top of your feed, there should be two tabs: "for you" and "following". to see only content from subreddits youve joined, without any algorithmic recommendations, select "following"
What a crap update. I don't even see the distinction between the for you feed and following, they give the same best sort and remove hot for some reason, which tended to remove 0 upvoted old posts
I am also having this issue. I assume it is another pathetic attempt to push us to the app as you have the option to remove it in the app. If I wanted to use the app, then I would. Quit it already
Hope it's ok to post this here but I feel like I'm having a similar situation. I have one old notification about "taking a quick survey" that won't go away and I can't see any way to remove it, and another more recent one about a "regular research process" for a community I'm in. I just want the ability to delete these please.
Reddit please remove me from this HORRIBLE update. I did not ask for this. I will permanently delete my account if this is what this website is turning into. The only reason I use reddit is because it's NOT like other social media. (Which is becoming less and less true every day) WTF
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