Logo tooltips
When we run a special logo on the front page, you can now hover your mouse over it for an explanation of what it's for.
Special thanks to our gold users, who tested this change over the past week. In case you weren't one of them, here are the logos along with their explanations:
Monday | Civil engineer Thomas Telford was born in Scotland on this day in 1757 |
Tuesday | The Crown Prince of Brunei received that title on this day in 1998. He's pictured here holding his trademark pool cue. |
Wednesday | Bombshell actress Hedy Lamarr co-invented frequency hopping, the basis of modern WiFi. (It's quite a story; you should read it.) The patent was issued on this day in 1942. |
Thursday | The so-called "Glorious Twelfth", when grouse-hunting season opens in the United Kingdom. |
Friday | This one actually didn't mean anything. We changed the mouseover text throughout the day so that goldmembers would be just as confused as everyone else. |
New comment highlighting
As one reddit gold feature rolls out, another rolls in: Gold subscribers can now see which comments were added since their last visit to a particular thread. It looks like this:
Plus, you can take it with you from computer to computer — if you encounter a good thread while you're at work, you can pull out your phone on the train ride home and check what's new. Then, when you're sitting in bed with your laptop later that night, you can see what you missed when you were washing the dishes.
Note: To make this feature work, our servers will remember (for 48 hours) which threads you've been reading. If you'd rather we not do this, you can disable the feature on your prefs.
Wanna check it out?
If you'd like to try these new improvements, plus all the other membership features, you can sign up for reddit gold here. All proceeds go towards improving the site and helping our team grow.
