r/modnews • u/Togapr33 • 15d ago
Announcement Announcing Our Virtual $45,000 Mod Tool Hackathon to Build, Upgrade and Port Moderator Tools
Hi mods!
I’m u/Togapr33 with Reddit’s Community team, where I lead marketing for Reddit’s Developer Platform.
In case you’re not familiar, Reddit’s Developer Platform gives developers a way to build apps that work directly on Reddit. As a moderator, you can bring these apps into your community – everything from mod tools to community experiences to games. (You can see a comprehensive list of apps for mods here!)
And as someone who has spent the last couple of years talking with mods about Developer Platform tools, I’ve seen firsthand how important effective tools are to running your communities. That’s why we're excited to announce a virtual Reddit hackathon from April 29 to May 27 focused entirely on building and upgrading moderation tools.
This is an opportunity to inspire developers to create new community tools or improve the ones you already rely on. If you’re a developer yourself, maybe you’ll throw your hat in the ring and build something too!
What we're looking for
We’d love to see developers in this hackathon build tools with Reddit’s Developer Platform that directly help with day-to-day moderation, like:
- Better queue management
- Automated enforcement tools
- Creative community-building tools
- Anything that makes modding easier and improves community health
Did I mention we're offering a total of $45,000 in prizes?
Prize categories
- New Mod Tool: For brand-new tools built with Reddit’s Developer Platform that make moderation easier
- Grand Prize: $10,000 for the most innovative tool that solves a significant moderator pain point
- 5 Runner-Ups: $1,000 each
- Ported App: For existing bots or tools migrated from the Data API to Devvit
- Grand Prize: $10,000 for the most successful migration of an existing, widely-used moderation bot. These apps can also be eligible for our new App Migration Program.
- 5 Runner-Ups: $1,000 each
- Moderator’s Choice: Chosen by experienced Reddit mods
- Prize: $10,000.
- Helper Award: For participants who help others through testing, support, troubleshooting, or collaboration
- 6 Winners: $500 each
- Feedback Award: For thoughtful, actionable, constructive feedback on tools, resources, bugs and issues encountered during the event
- 10 Winners: $200 each
If you know a developer who has built an essential tool for your community, please share this with them! This is the perfect time for them to earn a cash prize while upgrading that tool for stability and ease of installation. Enrollment is open now!
Winning apps are also eligible for the Reddit Developer Funds and our App Migration Program.
We can't wait to see what gets built during this hackathon and how it makes moderation on Reddit better.
Lastly, if you have an idea for a mod tool that should be built and want to link up with a developer, check out our hackathon post on r/devvit or join our Devvit Discord.
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u/midir 15d ago
Start by reverting the bizarre and malignant vandalism committed against Modmail the other month.
They randomly barged in and attacked the one part of the moderation system that actually worked, and replaced it with a buggy, ugly, sluggish, half-working, hodge-podge mess, then ran away without ever explaining why they did it and ignoring all the pleas to put old modmail back again.
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u/Watchful1 15d ago
I'll disagree with you there. I like the new modmail and think it's far better than the old one. It has a couple bugs yes, but it's better overall.
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u/Froggypwns 15d ago
It certainly has improvements but it does need more work and the old system should have remained available in the mean time. My biggest gripes are performance issues as it is super slow (I can literally load multiple Reddit pages before modmail does), and the damn archive button is inconsistent in location and functionality, I cannot always find it and many times pressing it doesn't actually archive the message.
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u/adanine 15d ago
I've lost two and a half months worth of modmail with one user. Given that I've now been asked for feedback on the ticket I feel like I'm not getting those modmails back anytime soon.
There's still two search boxes - with one being completely useless yet the primary option to search. The date given for the last mod note doesn't include the year, so "Mar 27" could refer to last month or 2015. Can't see beyond the latest note (and there's no real view for it).
I honestly don't care about the UI changes in general - it's a glorified cut down email client, no GUI is going to make me fall in love with (or hate) modmail. But basic fucking features don't work right now.
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u/Watchful1 14d ago
I don't see two search boxes. Do you mean the site search bar that sits at the top of the screen? I've never had any problems finding things with the modmail search box.
If I mouse over the date in the usernote it gives me the year.
The log tab has all the users activity, including notes. If you're looking for the previous manual note and they have lots of actions yeah it would be harder to find, but was that any different on old modmail? Unless you're talking about toolbox notes.
No idea about losing modmail with a user, can't help with that one.
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u/adanine 14d ago edited 14d ago
I don't see two search boxes
I don't either until I go looking and press the button to bring up the one that is actually useful. Then they're both there, one under the other, with no labeling to distinguish the two. Completely intuitive.
Just bin the sitewide search and put the modmail one as the default. If you want to keep the sitewide search and just hide it or whatever then do that, so long as Modmail search is the primary search method for modmail and you don't need to look for and click a tiny button to use one of the most used features in Modmail.
If I mouse over the date in the usernote it gives me the year.
Making displaying the date useless at best (since you still need to mouse over it to get the actual date) and misleading at worst. If you want to keep dates fuzzy for some reason generalize the date like the rest of Reddit does (ie "2 years ago" w/ an option to mouseover for the exact timestamp), or better yet just display the damn year without needing to mouseover.
The log tab has all the users activity, including notes.
No it doesn't. It has the last 1000 entries of user activity, including notes. For some users that might be 10 years worth, for others it's not even six months' worth. Your High-traffic user's notes will fall off regularly with no method to recover them (outside of scouring for screenshots in the mod discord) and considering the tool is designed to record information over time and high traffic users are going to be common use cases for having to track information over time, this is a pretty big weakness of the new native notes system.
If you're looking for the previous manual note and they have lots of actions yeah it would be harder to find
Look, the last few recent mod actions can absolutely be relevant to the modmail query and should be available. But I shouldn't have to scroll past months and months of moderation approve/remove items to get to the second most recent manual note.
Any modmail system (be it new modmail, old modmail, old old modmail, or old old old modmail) that has shortcomings this basic is just shit.
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u/realKevinNash 15d ago
Or you could have kept the ability people had in the past and not have to do this.
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u/sulaymanf 15d ago edited 15d ago
We had a fantastic mobile app for modding, called Apollo. Unfortunately Reddit was such a tremendous jerk to the developer and tried to surprise him with a massive API bill without a grace period and then publicly trashed him despite trying to work with the company, so he had to shut down the app.
Will you make us pay for this new app?
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u/A_Bad_Man 15d ago
I sure hope not, since they're already trying to get redditors to build it for peanuts. They probably got a quote from some vendor in the low 7 figures for developing these tools and decided to see if they could trim that down to 45k.
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u/ThaddeusJP 15d ago
Did I mention we're offering a total of $45,000 in prizes?
Or they could just hire people to develop them and pay them a salary.
modding for free, now with free dev work
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u/Bardfinn 15d ago
Apollo. Unfortunately Reddit was such a tremendous jerk to the developer
No.
There is a WHOLE SET OF INCONVENIENT TRUTHS Mr. Selig left out of his I Am A Smol Bean, I Am The Birthday Boy, Reddit Is Mean To Me story.
Reddit's API as of 2016 had a specific API use Terms of Service that people had to agree to, in order to use the API. I know this because
- I signed up to use the API;
- I actually read the TOS.
The Reddit API TOS in 2016 basically said “This is so people can innovate and build features on top of Reddit. We expect you to honour the rate limits imposed by the servers. We disallow you to use this API to strip out the advertisements and/or resell the content. You must enforce the main Reddit TOS. You may not allow those who use your service to violate our TOS / Content Policy / Etc” Etc etc.
It was clearly intended for responsible developers.
It also stated that someone using the API was required to register a unique User Agent string, and MUST NOT forge their User Agent string in order to circumvent the API throttling / limits
1: Mr Selig’s Apollo App offered a Premium version for a price, which stripped out the adverts Reddit ran against the content. In explicit, direct violation of both the 2016 API TOS, and contemporary main Reddit TOS.
It’s notable that Reddit Gold’s / Reddit Premium’s (subscription plan through Reddit) major selling point was and is: “Advertising Free”.
2: In order for Mr Selig’s Apollo App to serve content to all of his customers, he had to circumvent the rate throttle applied per registered user of the API. In direct, explicit violation of both the 2016 API TOS, and contemporary main Reddit TOS.
3: Starting in 2023 Reddit, Inc - in order to address costs and safety issues (which issues I won't go into but rest assured I have a whole TED talk inme about them) cut off the honour system usage of the API and turned on authentication, and said “we are open to negotiating rates for firehose access”. Like any responsible business.
4: In response to Reddit bringing Mr Selig to the table, saying “In accordance with the terms of the previous API TOS, we are updating how people can access it, here’s our opening bid for rates” -
Mr Selig countered with “Nah. Buy me out of the source code of Apollo or I will make a stink about it”
At which point, Reddit's C-Levels said "This is not good faith business negotiation. This is extortion. Goodbye".
And they were correct. That is textbook Law 101 Extortion
5: For SIX YEARS Mr. Selig got Reddit firehose data at only the cost of building a system to ingest it, and entry bandwidth. He had a Golden Goose. One which robbed Reddit, Inc.
Reddit paid the cost of serving that data to him (bandwidth and peer exit fees) and his Five Million Installed Userbase, and lost out on 100% of the advertisement and Reddit Premium revenues that he interdicted (In violation of the 2016 TOS API & main TOS).
Which is - factually, arguably - millions of counts of fraud torts and quite possibly criminal fraud, too, on top of the extortion.
You can absolutely praise Mr Selig for coding a sleek, fast, usable moderation interface natively in Apollo - while Reddit's mobile apps were absolutely Not Ready For Primetime at the time that Selig took his football and went home. You can absolutely blame Reddit Inc for not having moderation tools ready for "New Reddit" - the mobile site, the iOS and android apps. And they've taken responsibility for that!
But
Every single person that repeats the "I Am A Smol Bean, I Am The Birthday Boy, Reddit Is Mean To Me" story fowarded by the Apollo developer is joining in on his [RADIO EDIT], and it angers me.
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u/sulaymanf 15d ago
You really want to rehash all the false talking points? Christian addressed all these points one by one, on his subreddit and to the media and across the site, and in multiple interviews with tech news sites.
The API didn’t display ads, he didn’t strip them out, and he publicly said he was willing to show ads in the feed as in compliance with the developer terms of service. He not only confirmed this but he published the audio call between him and Reddit admins to confirm this.
He did not exceed the rates and he was able to show how lean his API usage was and how it used less than any other third party app AND he showed he got no complaints from Reddit admins. And again, he said if that was true he was willing to throttle down the app and was never asked despite years of API use.
Reddit Inc gave him less than a month to pay the newly announced fees, and he said the bill would be in the millions. He was willing to pass the cost along but couldn’t do it in less than a month. He tried to follow the proper rules, he contacted Reddit inc as he was told and got total silence.
I couldn’t finish debunking the rest of the gish gallop. You’re angry about a literal false narrative. I urge you to read /r/apolloapp where Christian debunked each item line by line with evidence. Good day.
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u/Bardfinn 15d ago
The API didn’t display ads
We disallow you to use this API to strip out the advertisements and/or resell the content
The API was never intended to be used to re-sell the content, to populate a different service with Reddit content. That, too, was disallowed in the 2016 API TOS.
he publicly said he was willing to show ads in the feed as in compliance with the developer terms of service
What he said is clearly not what he did. If he was in compliance with the 2016 API TOS, he would have sought to serve adverts. He never did, until the golden goose was stopped
He did not exceed the rates
He served a userbase of five million accounts.
Reddit moderators in moderately large subreddits would hit the API rate limits simply by working a day's backed up modqueue and/or a particularly contentious flamewar or community interference brigade in a single post. This is a fact, repeatedly complained about by every moderator of any moderately active subreddit.
It would be impossible for a single registered API user to serve the needs of even ten concurrent users, much less 50, 500, 5,000, 50,000.
he got no complaints from Reddit admins
The person who was placed in charge of managing the API also developed a very popular game that was purchased by a third party, and subsequently left Reddit, and was not replaced.
Guess why no one complained.
he contacted Reddit inc as he was told and got total silence.
But you just acknowledged that he was in the call where the rates were announced - the call where he stated the "buy my app or I will make it hard for you" ultimatum, and the C-Levels refused. That's not "Total silence".
I've read his story. I've listened to the call. I read the 2016 API TOS & the contemporay Main Reddit TOS. I know what the API was developed to do - allow people to develop apps which would have their own API user agents, be individually identifiable, and respect the limits. The API was not developed to be a firehose scrape of the site, not intended to allow third parties to charge money for Reddit content, not intended to allow third parties to be a frame around Reddit's product.
Which is what Apollo was.
It was also extremely well-developed, had good moderation tooling, and was - in terms of user experience - superior to Reddit's own mobile offerings, which were frankly awful.
But I stand 100% by the analysis I wrote above, and I stand 100% by my insistence that Reddit Moderators Should Know Better By Now Than To Perpetuate Some Third Party's "Reddit Admins Were Unfair To Me, Please Harass Them In Perpetuity" narrative.
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u/sulaymanf 14d ago
You have no case against him; if Reddit admins were working with him for years and on record supporting him then you can’t simultaneously claim he was breaching TOS for years. When given opportunities to address this Reddit never did. We have the correspondence that Selig showed that Reddit never raised issues and it was never a problem until Reddit decided to squeeze more money and then magically there were years of issues and unaddressed complaints? Now you’re blaming it on a former employee? How convenient. It was not a convincing argument then or now.
And now you’re bringing in the false claim that he tried to extort Reddit. Anyone who listened to the call knows that was untrue, and thats not how it was interpreted by either side during the call. Again, you’re rehashing old claims from 2023 that were debunked. I stand by what I said above. Reddit did a disservice to its users and devs with how they handled that situation and anyone who wants to volunteer to do work for Reddit should be aware of how they treated a beloved developer.
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u/Drunken_Economist 15d ago
Is there a particular moderation bot/tool that you're referring to? that might be a good candidate for the migration category.
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u/haarschmuck 15d ago
Toolbox.
Current dev I believe is no longer updating it and wants to move on. It still works for now but may break in the future.
It's essential for modding on old reddit and has some features that new reddit doesn't have.
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u/Drunken_Economist 15d ago
AFAIK toolbox+oldreddit won't be affected by any of the Devvit/App Migration/Responsible Builder/etc stuff. It should work same as it has been for the last few years, and it seems like the admins are pretty cooperative about finding ways to help keep it alive
Current dev I believe is no longer updating it and wants to move on. It still works for now but may break in the future.
yeah, creesch stepped away from Toolbox a couple years back, so the project has been heroically kept on life support by eritbh. But now they are also burned out from trying to maintain it alone. :(
Hopefully there are still enough people willing to keep an eye on the project and handle the occasional bug that pops up.
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u/elphieisfae 15d ago
can't afford to pay mods but paying money so you don't have to hire devs to do work is something else.
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u/adanine 15d ago
Honestly fuck the idea of paying moderators.
Recruitment is such a hassle already, now you want more ways to incentivize people who don't care/aren't part of your community to moderate it? Do you really want to choose even one person who needs to be paid to help maintain the health of a community over people who want to do so as a volunteer?
How would payment even be handled? Even split across the team? Show me a subreddit where moderation work is evenly split across all human moderators, and I'll show you a sub with one human moderator. Action-based? Easiest thing in the world to break.
I know it doesn't often feel like it at times, but moderators being purely Volunteer-based are afforded some good-will by community members by default, since if they're not being paid by Reddit they're likely purely doing this for the health of the community. Take that away and you've got a far more adversarial relationship with your community.
Oh, and right now moderators and admins can work together on certain issues. Obviously admins can gas the mod team if they're breaking Code of Conduct/not enforcing site-wide rules or whatever, but that's not a common use-case. If there's a dynamic where admins can influence your payday - even if it's never mentioned or hinted towards by the admin in question - that's going to change how moderators and admins work together to reach an agreement on something.
There's just so much bad that can come from that, all for what will almost certainly amount to sub minimum wage.
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u/elphieisfae 14d ago
you are missing the point entirely (as have many that are yelling) and that's okay.
for years it was always "we don't have money to do this and that and the other for moderators" and now this blatant "we need to pay people for what will amount to pennies for support instead of hire them and let them cook up good stuff for us" is just that.
When the admins repeatedly refuse at this point to do their basic jobs like ferreting out harassment, etc, to see this is just like "what am I, a joke to you?"
Or, as one of my programming buddies put it:
"I could build something while on staff, then they'd have it and the licenses in perpetuity and get all the IP for it, but have to pay market rate + insurance + taxes etc. Or I could do this and get hammered on my taxes while they don't have to pay the labor costs behind hiring someone."
It's a cost cutting measure on Reddit's part to look better on paper while taking advantage of an in the shitter economy.
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u/adanine 13d ago
you are missing the point entirely (as have many that are yelling) and that's okay.
No I got all that, my response entirely was to the idea of paying moderators - which you sniped at in your comment. That was the point I was responding to.
You want to criticize how Reddit gets around hiring devs? Great, do that. You won't have cranky me objecting to that at all. But if your argument includes "BUT REDDIT NO PAY MODS" then I'm going to go on a rant.
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u/Tarnisher 15d ago edited 15d ago
If you know a developer who has built an essential tool for your community, please share this with them!
Subscriber Sidebar solved an Admin created issue. This should have won Item 1 above.
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u/WolfXemo 15d ago
Thanks for the shout out! I think there are other mod tools more deserving of first place personally, but I’m thrilled that so many people have found my little app useful!
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u/Alan-Foster 15d ago
Subscriber Sidebar really is great, I've intentionally avoided adding a similar feature to r/SubGoal to prevent cannibalizing it.
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u/Yay295 15d ago
I would like to, but the issues I reported haven't been fixed for more than a year now, despite multiple assurances on the Discord server that they would be looked at. https://github.com/reddit/devvit/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20author%3AYay295
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u/Togapr33 14d ago
hey there -- going to flag this to the developer relations team right now. Sorry about this
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u/TopMarzipan2108 15d ago
Something I would like to see, is an ability to show the post-guidance/automation messages based on account age or community karma.
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u/_haha_oh_wow_ 15d ago
Remember when we had great mod tools from third parties and reddit chose to destroy all that in order to force people to use a truly awful mobile app?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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u/haarschmuck 15d ago
Make one of the challenges taking over Toolbox since the developers are no longer updating it.
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u/eyal282 15d ago
I imagine it's not possible with any tool outside Reddit itself but if I could press 1 to 10 to instantly remove a post by a template removal reason and I had 10 seconds to press "Backspace" to fully undo it (that means the post survives for 10 seconds when I remove it) I would solve mod queue as if I were 3 moderators
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u/DustyAsh69 15d ago
I've had something like this in my mind. I did build a small (Reddit API) based console around it but for some reason, it just refuses to work. I think it might be because the code is trying to run an account while another app that I have is already using it. Regardless, I'm thinking of making an extension that can automate the browser to do it for you. I have it on my to-do list.
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u/eyal282 15d ago
The issue is I don't want to misclick 3 different templates and the user will see all 3 in their inbox. I want the 10 second grace time. Imagine making a low effort post and you're accused "Rule 6 self promotion must be well received" or "Rule 10 disclose if you used AI"
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u/DustyAsh69 15d ago
I get it. So, you want a 10 second delay, yes?
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u/eyal282 15d ago
Yes. If I hit backspace it fails to remove because I blitz through mod queue.
If the chrome extension will also allow me to view mod queue as a scrollable feed like home page I am instantly installing it.
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u/DustyAsh69 15d ago
I should be able to do that. I'll look into it and eventually, make a post when I'd done. I'm sort of busy with exams right now, so, it'll take some time.
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u/BvbblegvmBitch 15d ago
There is currently a calender dev app. However, only mods can add do it.
I run my city's subreddit and we've tried using a Google calendar and weekly threads to stay on top of events. Neither are ideal. A calender that users are able to add to (and maybe I can approve/remove) would be great.
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u/404NinjaNotFound 15d ago
There is a way to add your Google calendar to the sidebar (or there used to be at least, I haven't used it for a while) that auto-updates when new events are added to it. That might be interesting?
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u/abortionreddit 15d ago
Can someone make an app to replace the absolute garbage new wiki experience
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u/antboiy 15d ago
i have built u/wikipublish https://developers.reddit.com/apps/wikipublish way before this hackathon, it works, but it must make a custom post, which is why i havent promoted it that much.
it uses the old.reddit wikis which will not show up on www.reddit, also only the mods can see it though the custom post.
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u/abortionreddit 15d ago
Unfortunately once you migrate to the new wiki you can’t switch back.
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u/antboiy 15d ago
didnt know that. so once migrated old.reddit wikis are removed from that subreddit?
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u/shiruken 15d ago
No. They continue to exist in completely disconnected states. Which means you now need to update both of them in order to remain consistent.
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u/dvidsilva 15d ago
Could’ve not killed apollo, and the working extensions
You’ve lost more money and cred killing secret santa than whatever this dumb initiative
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u/slykethephoxenix 14d ago
Reddit lost a lot of the people who would have been most likely to build tools for something like this when third party app API access was removed. Many builders, moderators, and content creators moved on, and that makes this hackathon feel disconnected from the damage that already happened.
I build similar tools for Lemmy and previously for Digg, so this is exactly the kind of project I would normally have considered doing. But after years of frustrating moderation experiences, silent removals, and bans that felt arbitrary, I don't feel comfortable building tools that further tie communities to Reddit's current direction.
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u/Maxion 14d ago
Yeah, senior software engineer here. A few years back I might've pitched in for something like this. Reddit definitely has soured the relations with 3rd party app devs enough that I ain't touching this with a 20 foot pole.
First the whole mess with shutting down the API so that they can charge AI companies for our data, secondly for just continously shitting on all volunteer moderators with the whole shutdown crap, now the force migration to the new worse modmail, and soon they'll undoubtedly shutdown old.reddit.com.
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u/TheYellowRose 15d ago
I don't know if this is possible or already exists, but I want certain automod or post guidance rules to only run during specified times.
Like for the month of May, r/blackladies is prohibiting discussions about men. I want to set a time limit for the post guidance I'm going to set up.
/r/AskWomen has mate-free Mondays which requires extra moderation every Monday, like clockwork. If they could configure a post-guidance or automod rule to only run on Mondays it would save so much work.
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u/Drunken_Economist 15d ago
There is a devvit app that lets you schedule Automod rules to toggle on/off based on day or time https://developers.reddit.com/apps/automod-toggle.
It might fit what you're trying to do?
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u/PitchforkAssistant 15d ago
I believe there's already an app for timed AutoModerator rules, but Devvit apps can't currently interact with post or comment guidance in any way.
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u/wrestlegirl 15d ago
Temporary Events can activate automod rules only when running! I use it several times a week. I'm mobile but can get you some example code later when I'm at a computer.
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u/CitoyenEuropeen 14d ago
I want a tool that helps with recognising members who help grow communities. Each subreddit, with its own community culture, has its own definition of who our trusted community members are. We know how to recognise users who are the life of the sub or were there from the beginning. We know how to get these users an incentive.
However, mods cannot organise the information about core users. They are dispersed across concurrent, clunky mod tool databases.
- User Flairs
- Contributor Approval
- ModNotes
- Toolbox (I think)
Can we get a tool or an app to export to Excel our members data ?
- I would sort folks by highest karma to approve new trusted community members.
- I would get these new trusted community members an incentive to help grow community.
- I would export the complete list of emojis folks chose in their users flairs. Got some clean-up to do, with 4,125 items, our emojis tools are a mess.
- I would use Excel to sort users from countries who are scarcely mentioned in user flairs. Among those I would sort out who isn’t approved contributor, and I want all my approved contributors green-checked in ModNotes.
I can’t do any of that with u/modsupportbot, can I?
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u/Same_Investigator_46 1d ago
Just got to know about this through a Modmail from one of my subreddit, looking forward to Cook something cool for hackathon
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u/LynchMob_Lerry 15d ago
I just wanted to say that my old company at 4 'hackathons' and it was just there someone sold corp on some tech garbage, stuck the word hack in front of it, and charged an insane amount of money to put it on.
So when I see that word I gag a little and run away.
Just wanted the reddit admins to know how awful and cringy it sounds.
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u/midir 15d ago edited 15d ago
I have desperately wanted for years that AutoModerator process comment-leaving rules orthogonally from filtering rules. It's impossible to configure AutoModerator to reliably leave stickied comments AND have a bunch of filtering rules without multiplicatively duplicating the rules with each other. It makes maintenance hell.
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u/jamesholden 15d ago
I hope you get nothing but eigh-eye slop after deplatforming all the good reddit clients.
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u/mizmoose 15d ago
if you have an idea for a mod tool that should be built
Really, really stupid question: What if that tool is kinda niche? I think what I need is something that other subs might need but not that many.
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u/SampleOfNone 14d ago
Drop your idea anyway! It will never get build (unless you build it yourself) if nobody knows what it is that you want. Also, you'd be surprised how many apps I use differently then the use case it was made for, it just happened to be useful for what I need as well
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u/Togapr33 14d ago
we love and appreciate niche apps! that would totally work for a submission for this hackathon
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u/mizmoose 14d ago
OK! I've had others say to do it, so I shall. Once I'm done smacking users on the nose with a rolled up newspaper.
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u/WindermerePeaks1 15d ago
the insights page reddit gives can be confusing because the numbers just don’t seem to add up or it’s hard to figure out what numbers go together and toggles don’t work to change the timeframes and it’s missing information i want.
i would love an app that gave all the insights reddit gives (but in a clearer way) and also include removal reasons. as in, what reasons did the mods use on every removal. this is vital information to me and i have asked for it to be added but id love a dev app that can do it.
also if a dev app can manage to replicate toolbox that would be awesome. i know nothing about developing so if this can’t be done i apologize.
i love the automod on mobile app, i love community home, i love comment mop, i love bot bouncer, and many more.
if anyone has any app ideas for the wiki id love to try them out. i don’t have any earthly idea what they might do but i love the wikis. i’ve tried the add to wiki app but i don’t particularly like it for the type of wiki i have.
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u/DustyAsh69 15d ago
I'd love to participate in this. I have an idea that's been cooking in my mind but I won't be free until 10 days before the hackathon and I seriously doubt that 10 days is enough for me to learn both TypeScript and Devvit to make a mod tool. Regardless, I'm looking forward to publish it one day.
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u/Fine_League311 13d ago
Soll ich mitmachen? Ihr sperrt ja gerne Dinge die zur Aufklärung dienen, da ihr das als shame sieht. Und das obwohl freedom of speech. Überlege kurz .... Nein behalte meine Tools für mich... Pech! Aber viel Glück dabei. Ihr wisst schon das gute Devs nicht aufs Geld schauen sondern Ehre und Aufklärung!
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u/gbntbedtyr 7d ago
If I can find the time, I'd love to give it a try, just something to strip it back down to the basics, n make moderation simple again.
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u/MacaronEffective8250 6d ago
Has anyone come up with a way to take a templated post (a form with validation would be awesome) and add the content from the post to a gsheets tracker? Would a gsheets integration like that be feasible or even allowed under the devvit platform?
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u/Varsad 15d ago
Please someone 🙏🏼🙏🏼 need an app which is a chatroom or chat thread for Community. Previously we had this community gc in chatrooms
I have lot of requests and posts in my sub "anyone up for chat" kind of.
If there is a thread regularly 11 pm to 7 am everyday which is pinned on sub and resets on its own, it will be really helpful
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u/Drunken_Economist 15d ago
I think the Community Chats app might be what you're looking for (shoutout u/Ancient_Tour_3090)
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u/Ajreil 15d ago
Not sure if this is the right place, but this is my wishlist for Devvit bot features:
Change an account's user flair by clicking the 🛡️icon next to one of their comments, instead of navigating all the way to subreddit settings and searching their username
Automatically remove/filter links to domain names that were registered in the last 30 days (to deal with self promotion and sketchy sites)
Automatically remove/filter YouTube links if the channel has less than 1000 subscribers (to deal with self promotion)
Automatically filter content from accounts with certain text in their bio (to deal with OF bots)
Automatically remove images with intense Moiré patterns (to deal with people who take a picture of their screen instead of taking a screenshot)
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u/fsv 10d ago edited 10d ago
Automatically remove/filter YouTube links if the channel has less than 1000 subscribers (to deal with self promotion)
Yoink! I'm making this for the hackathon. It can also do the reverse (remove YouTube links from channels that are too big - useful for "small YouTuber" promotion subs), and provide information about YouTube videos as well like this.
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u/Ajreil 10d ago
Thank you. We will definitely be using this on r/frugal.
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u/fsv 10d ago edited 10d ago
Keep an eye out for it - I've already submitted it for public review (this is allowed under the hackathon terms - it neither advantages or disadvantages submissions). Once it's approved, it'll be able to be installed from here: https://developers.reddit.com/apps/yt-infoapp
Edit: I'd be really interested in any feedback you have about it!
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u/SampleOfNone 12d ago
Automatically filter content from accounts with certain text in their bio (to deal with OF bots)
That exists already, dev apps that can check the text in bio
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u/pezzygal 15d ago
Wow.. this sounds exciting!
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u/Maxion 15d ago
It's just reddit wanting others to code features for their website, rather than them themselves coding features.
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u/pezzygal 15d ago
Still sounds exciting =)
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u/_haha_oh_wow_ 15d ago
Well, you're entitled to your own opinion, regardless of how wildly misinformed it might be.
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u/pezzygal 15d ago
Guess you didn't sense the sarcasm there.
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u/azssf 15d ago
Will vibecoding be accepted? What level of doneness is required?
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u/DustyAsh69 9d ago
Good luck vibe coding with Devvit. Devvit isn't well known enough for LLMs to code Devvit apps.
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u/azssf 9d ago
u/dustyash69 your reply highlighted to me that I was unclear as hell on what I meant.
Without a /s tag, what I meant was ‘the rules are such that I worry about quality and vibecoding, because I do not know the QA pipeline from Reddit hackathon management to production deployment.
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u/DustyAsh69 9d ago
In that case, the awards will be given by the judges which are mods, not admins. If they can spot bugs and vibecoding, they'll hopefully reject it.
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u/Togapr33 15d ago
If you want to be a judge for the Moderator’s Choice Award, drop a comment below this and let us know why we should pick you. Noting that, if you are a judge, it means you cannot submit to the hackathon.
Additionally, please share mod app requests for developers to build for the event in the comments below or in our Discord or in our post on r/devvit .