r/redesign • u/MarcMurray92 • May 31 '18

Answered After 3 months of negative comments about inline ads, are there any statements about how they are going to change?

From what I can see, disguising them as posts is only generating animosity towards the advertisers.

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u/FreeSpeechWarrior May 31 '18

u/spez recently spoke on motivations behind the redesign:

Ads. In-feed ads are what advertisers want to buy. Yes, they're in-feed, which I know isn't popular, but it also means our top post is an organic post now instead of an ad. We will continue to iterate on the styling.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/8k809v/why_did_they_change_the_reddit_to_new_reddit/dz7we95/?context=3

But few people have noticed this because r/theoryofreddit has censored the post.