Probably Stories because that's what anything even remotely "social" has to do right now, apparently.

plus vscode, apparently.

VS Code has stories?

Reddit has really been emphasizing its social aspect lately, so I wouldn't be surprised if it introduced a Friends/Followers section and shifted towards a more personalized front page.

It has had it from near the beginning, and has been trying to promote the feature more over the last few months. You now get notified when you get new followers, at least. It is still very rudimentary, I agree that this will be an area of focus for them in the upcoming months/years.

honestly, i don't know anyone that really uses reddit's chat feature. most communities have their own discord server by now.

They just discontinued subreddit chat rooms too, which was a massive embarrassing back-tracking on a highly controversial feature.

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/jwme40/deprecating...

Reddit's whole philosophy with chat was just to shove it down everyone's throats, and see if it sticks. The spammers loved it right from the get-go, but nobody else is using it.

thank god. i got spammed so hard by it for a while -- and the worst part is that there was no way to avoid said spam.

As far as I can tell the personal chats, where most of the spam comes from, are still there.

I stopped checking it because 95% of it was harrassment for modding.

Both chat and their streaming seems pretty dead. They are trying to hard to be big boy social network.

I'm guessing their own 3rd party seller marketplace is next.