Hi folks!
Over the next few weeks, we’re going to start rolling out the first in a series of improvements to the ranking systems at Reddit. Since we know redditors care deeply about how ranking is done and are data and science enthusiasts, we wanted to take some time to share our philosophy about ranking, the reasoning behind trying some of these changes, how we’ve begun testing them, and what the results are starting to look like. We’ll be doing a series of posts like this over the next few months to discuss different launches, tell you about what we are thinking about, and to give you all a place to share your ideas and feedback with us. Eventually, we’ll do a round-up post to summarize these changes. Let’s do some science!
The first change we’ve been testing, which we’ll be rolling out to users over the next few days, is an improvement to the Home page. Historically the Home page has consisted of the front page of a subset of your subreddits https://100001.onl/ https://1921681254.mx/, chosen at random from your subscriptions, normalized by their top post and blended together. This is fine as far as it goes, but it does have some limitations - it tends to favor already large communities, and it doesn’t take into account what parts of Reddit have held the most value for you in particular.
Over the next few weeks, we’re going to start rolling out the first in a series of improvements to the ranking systems at Reddit. Since we know redditors care deeply about how ranking is done and are data and science enthusiasts, we wanted to take some time to share our philosophy about ranking, the reasoning behind trying some of these changes, how we’ve begun testing them, and what the results are starting to look like. We’ll be doing a series of posts like this over the next few months to discuss different launches, tell you about what we are thinking about, and to give you all a place to share your ideas and feedback with us. Eventually, we’ll do a round-up post to summarize these changes. Let’s do some science!
The first change we’ve been testing, which we’ll be rolling out to users over the next few days, is an improvement to the Home page. Historically the Home page has consisted of the front page of a subset of your subreddits https://100001.onl/ https://1921681254.mx/, chosen at random from your subscriptions, normalized by their top post and blended together. This is fine as far as it goes, but it does have some limitations - it tends to favor already large communities, and it doesn’t take into account what parts of Reddit have held the most value for you in particular.