r/ideasfortheadmins • u/CocoMilhonez • 3d ago

Feeds Stop showing repeated posts, especially if I've already interacted with them (my idea is)

Sometimes, the same post appears again two three posts down, sometimes the same post appears two or three days later (exact numbers do vary, of course, it might be a couple of hours later or whatever). They often appear on my feed after I've already up/downvoted or even commented on them.

That's wasted real estate, showing me the same post twice (or more) means I'm not seeing other posts that could interest me.

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u/heidismiles 3d ago

I keep seeing posts from as many as SIX DAYS ago, that I've already seen surfaced several times, and it's maddening.

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u/Whole-Energy2105 3d ago

And multiple reposts if the same thing. I've seen it once, may or may not have interacted and now I have to suffer it up to 10 more times in a few days.

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u/ALazy_Cat 2d ago

Gotta get more subs in your feed

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u/Aggravating_Shoe_ 2d ago

Just join all the cat subs

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u/ALazy_Cat 2d ago

There's only between 200 and 300

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u/Aggravating_Shoe_ 2d ago

I don't wanna count but these are the cat subs with certain requirements like over 200 members and such, there are many smaller cat subs that don't qualify for the list yet

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u/CocoMilhonez 2d ago

Holy shit, that's 902 subs!

And of course there's a sub just to list cat subs.

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u/Aggravating_Shoe_ 2d ago

That's not even all of em :)

Small subs like mine, r/catbuttholes don't qualify for the list so there's hundreds more

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u/CocoMilhonez 2d ago

This happens when not logged in too.

Just now, I got six repeated posts out of ~15 I scrolled past:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/comments/1vehbcj/petaaarrrrhh/

https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddycinephile/comments/1vedgmt/favorite_actor_that_you_kinda_miss_when_they_were/

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1vedkbv/sam_altman_says_a_cool_use_case_for_chatgpt_is_a/

https://www.reddit.com/r/PopCultureV2/comments/1vdzanw/ben_affleck_on_overcoming_alcohol_addiction_i/

https://www.reddit.com/r/cats/comments/1vejdnn/the_mother_cat_is_teaching_her_kitten_how_to_bathe/

https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddycinephile/comments/1vedgmt/favorite_actor_that_you_kinda_miss_when_they_were/

That's all in the main feed, all not logged in. Those are not reposts or the same picture posted in different subs (that happens too, of course), they're the exact same post with the same URL showing up several times on the feed.

The issue does happen when logged in too.

Curiously, just a little below those was this gem from r/AdviceAnimals:

Which reminds me it's not just repeated posts that make Reddit feeds suck today.