r/ideasfortheadmins

I've noticed a usability issue when reading long comment threads on Reddit Web.

If I'm deep inside a comment chain and decide to skip the rest of the discussion, I can click the parent comment line to collapse the entire thread. The problem is that Reddit keeps my current scroll position after collapsing the thread.

Since I've already scrolled far down into the comments, collapsing the thread often leaves me somewhere in the middle of the page. I then have to manually scroll around to find the next top-level comment thread. This makes the thread-collapsing feature less useful, especially in large discussions.

My idea is that when a thread is collapsed, Reddit should automatically scroll back to the collapsed comment so that the next thread is immediately visible. This would make it much easier to navigate through long comment sections.

Alternatively, Reddit could bring the iOS app's downward chevron button to the web app. On iOS, this button allows users to skip the current thread and jump directly to the next one. It solves the same problem and makes browsing long discussions much more efficient.

I'd like Reddit to introduce mandatory labelling of all AI content. There are quite a few people using AI to write posts and not declaring it; there are others being accused of using AI, perhaps wrongly.

Let's clear up the whole mess with mandatory AI labelling, including "I used AI to write this post for me".

I would also like to see a filter applied for all AI generated content to allow users to filter it out.

The bot is telling me this may not be constructive but I really think I’m being purely constructive with what I’m saying here, and not saying anything at all rude or destructive.

I know that thousands of people have already voiced their opinions about this, either in comments or in dedicated posts. I’m sure this was a change requested by people high-up in the company who believe that borrowing features from other popular apps would be a good idea… I and many others disagree. I believe it’s a change that meaningfully degrades the experience of using the app.

It’s become much more difficult trying to open comments on mobile (which is of course one of the main focuses of Reddit); mobile users now have to stretch their thumbs or shift their phone around in the hand in order to press the small comments button at the bottom of the UI. It’s a change nobody expected and I am hoping against hope that someone will come around and revert it, restoring a higher level of functionality and user-friendly feel to the app. This one small feature which I never previously paid much mind to is something I now miss very much.

If reverted, it wouldn’t be the first time a change was made and then undone after the community decided it wasn’t the right way forward, and I think it would be great if that could happen again. I think the community as a whole would appreciate it, as it seems to be a rather unpopular change. If nothing else I would really appreciate being able to select the old functionality in Settings if there’s a strong determination to keep the new functionality. This is the first time I’ve felt strongly enough about a change to come and say something about it, and I have seen many others doing the same across different subreddits.