These Small Updates Are About to Drastically Improve the Reddit Commenting Experience

Reddit’s latest update brings new quality-of-life improvements to how comments work. The big feature is Reddit will now automatically save your comments as drafts if you navigate away from the page, and add them to a drafts section of your account.

This is a feature many have asked for on Reddit, and it was unclear why the company didn’t previously offer it. Reddit will let you save up to 20 drafts at a time, and they’ll stick around for two weeks before being deleted. However, any attached media, such as images, won’t be saved alongside your text.

How drafts work on Reddit comments (Credit: Reddit)

You can also now take one of your comments from a thread and turn it into a post of its own. If you think your post is particularly funny or insightful, and you want to share directly to a subreddit, select Share to add it to another community.

From here, you’re able to retitle the post, add body text, and then submit. Some subreddits won’t allow these submissions; they will appear grayed out in this menu.

Analytics tools built into Reddit (Credit: Reddit)

Reddit also wants you to know more about how your comments are being received with new analytics tools. There’s a new upvote ratio that will give you a clearer idea of how many times your comment has been both upvoted and downvoted.

Previously, you could only see your total score, which was your upvotes minus any downvotes. That meant in some scenarios it was hard to tell whether a post with a low score didn’t gain much attention, or whether it had been particularly divisive. You can also see your total replies, views, shares, and awards.

Reddit is on a roll with new features. Last week, it added a new feature allowing you to hide your interactions with not safe for work (NSFW) content. The feature allows you to hide various subreddits from your public profile without restricting how you can interact with them.

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