Reddit’s iOS and Android app gets its biggest update in years

Enlarge / The Reddit iOS app icon. (credit: Getty Images | Yuriko Nakao )

The Reddit mobile app doesn't often get big updates, but this week was an exception, with the company adding a new "Discover Tab" and menus for managing subscriptions.

In a blog post announcing the feature, Reddit says that one in five users joined at least one new community after using the Discover Tab. Jason Costa, Reddit's director of product for content and communities, offered the following statement in the blog post:

We're ushering in a new era of discovery on Reddit, with images and video top of mind. We're making discovering relevant content and communities more intuitive with the Discover Tab. It's a great new way for people to explore and engage with hundreds of thousands of communities around the world.

The Discover Tab is now in the top-level app navigation, replacing the communities and subscriptions tab. Tapping it brings you to a scrollable grid list of Reddit content from a variety of subreddits you may not already be following.

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