Introducing Custom Feeds (plus: a Community Contest with modest prizes!)

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Introducing Custom Feeds (plus: a Community Contest with modest prizes!)

Hello hello,

Weโ€™ve made some changes to Multireddits that weโ€™d like to share with you. Also, a fun contest! Letโ€™s get to it...

Whatโ€™s New​


New Name: Multireddits โ†’ Custom Feeds

Multireddits have been around a long time. They are a way for redditors to curate communities into shareable feeds and can help newer redditors discover more communities. However, they havenโ€™t been widely adopted. In order to prevent confusion, we will be changing the name from Multireddits to โ€œCustom Feeds.โ€ Sometimes simple is better.

More Support

Weโ€™ve added more support to new Reddit and our iOS app for Custom Feeds. Now, redditors can create a new Custom Feed, add or remove communities from them, duplicate other redditors' feeds, and change the privacy settings. Previously, this was something you could only do from old Reddit. Weโ€™ll be adding support for Custom Feeds on Android in the near future.

iOS Screenshot

New Follow Functionality

You can now follow another redditorโ€™s Custom Feed (as long as itโ€™s set to Public). This means that when you follow a feed it will appear on your list of Custom Feed subscriptions and when that redditor adds another community to the feed, youโ€™ll see that update the next time you open the feed. This will be super useful for communities that want to keep a running feed of related communities, or for folks that have a specific ever-evolving interest that they want to share with others.

Follow on new Reddit

Improved Sharing

Weโ€™ve made some tweaks to the URL structure of your Custom Feed so that itโ€™s easier to share with others. No more accidentally sharing a URL with /me/ in it that wonโ€™t work for anyone else. Weโ€™ve also created a new privacy category for public custom feeds, Hidden, that can be accessed by anyone with the link but will not show up on your profile.

Spaces

You can now have spaces in the name of your Custom Feed. Enough said.

Mix and Match

Follow a mix of communities and profiles.

Coming Soon

In the near future communities will be able to create Custom Feeds that are owned by the community, rather than an individual. This will also support turning the Related Communities sidebar widget into a feed. We are also going to be building ways for you to see popular and trending Custom Feeds.

The Contest​


We are investing in this feature because we believe redditors are great at finding niche communities and we want more people to discover all of the unique communities that we have. Now for the gold part! We are holding a one-week contest for the best Custom Feeds created by redditors. The winners will receive Coins and bragging rights.

To submit your Custom Feed, reply to the top-level sticky comment with a link to your Custom Feed and the category it best fits under. It must be public. Please only submit one feed per category.

Here are the categories that we will award winners from:

  • Aww
  • Artist Resources
  • Beauty
  • Books & Writing
  • Cool Pictures (images only)
  • Discussion (text only)
  • Fashion
  • Food & Cooking
  • Health & Fitness
  • Music
  • Parenting
  • Quirky
  • Sports
  • Travel
  • Wholesome

Weโ€™ll be picking winners based on a combination of the number of followers the feed has, how many upvotes their comment entry has, and our internal voting. Winners will be announced in a follow-up post next week.

Here are some custom feeds to get you started (many of which are mine):


See the sticky comment below to enter your Custom Feed.

Edit: Added a quirky category

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