Reddit reworks sharing from its apps and the look of link embeds for better social reach
by Umar Shakir from The Verge - All Posts on (#6BCRB)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit's blog post today admits it didn't make it easy" to share content like cool conversations and memes to other social platforms - but now it's finally doing something about it. Reddit is enhancing link embeds for messaging apps and adding more sharing functions like sharing directly to Instagram stories right from Reddit's app.
If you've ever tried to share a Reddit link from the official app on, for instance, iMessage on an iPhone, you might recall it not having a particularly content-rich preview. Now the company is enhancing it with a more robust visual preview of the content, its subreddit name, and the number of upvotes and comments it has.
Image: Reddit The new preview for Reddit shares in iMessage. ...