Aside from all the server issues this morning, which is usually a harbinger of some incoming algorithm update, reddit also appears to have reset some user preferences.
When they first rolled out the user status feature, I went into my prefs and unchecked the box that says "allow other users to see your online status." When I logged on this morning, the green dot was back, so I went into my preferences and sure enough, the box was checked off again, as was the box that says "allow reddit to log your outgoing clicks", which I had also made sure was unchecked.
Yes, we appreciated that update. Let us know if you find any changes.
I just wanted to share in case anyone else had involuntary changes made to their privacy settings that they wanted to fix.
It's a good share.
Like all your contributions, it's a good one.
Thanks. Both of those boxes weren't ticked but they were both enabled for me. Had to tick them, save prefs, then untick and save again to actually turn them off.
Click here and uncheck the bottom two options at the bottom of "Privacy settings"
Thanks for the heads up Dag!
Another thing i've noticed recently is that they've increased the amount of comment (NLP) bots to pad the dwindling participation on so many subreddits. They stand out like a sore thumb.
The biggest sign of their decline though is the increase of trolls and spamming on their site. They have the quantity, yes, but the quality of users is declining fast. That's on top of reddit increasingly deleting/banning subreddits because they have to keep up the precedent they've set of curbing any criticism of Democrats and the current admin.
Fuck reddit. Stay off that place
I am always paying attention, no matter what. Ignorance is not bliss.
Noticed this as well but the servers decided to shit themselves as you mentioned so sorting it wasn't easy.
I know I already turned off the online indicator and while I can't be sure it was disabled while the servers were borked it was then disabled again once things were running properly again.
I'm left wondering whether the instability was the reason it re-enabled in the first place if perhaps an outdated redundancy with different preferences tried to take over when the main servers failed.
For the record it reset mine again today.
You might want to check up on your settings Dag.
Mine were not reset again. Maybe it really was just a random accident resulting from server maintenance.
Could have been but I made a point yesterday of turning off both sections and my green dot was gone.
It came back by itself today so just keep an eye out for it.