Reddit Launches An Improved Best Sort In Their Home Feed On Mobile

Reddit is looking to improve content discovery, by adding a Facebook-like feed algorithm to its ‘Best’ sorting option, which will take into account more personal engagement signals to decide what to show in your list.

There are lots of different sort options on Reddit – Hot, New Top, Controversial, Rising, and the Best sort. The old Best sort used upvotes, downvotes, the age of posts, and how much time someone spent on a community to determine what posts to show first in your home feed. Now all redditors on mobile have an improved, more personalized Best sort in their home feed that uses machine learning algorithms to constantly evolve and improve what posts you see.

As you can see in the above example, each listing will now also include an explanation for more context, like ‘Because you joined…’ and ‘Similar to…’ at the top of the post. Users will also be able to signal that they like, or don’t like, certain posts that appear in their feed, to help customize it to their preferences.

The new sorting option is now available in the latest version of Reddit on iOS and Android.