u/Unique-Public-8594

I’m looking for mod support surrounding the Timestamp Bug.

Questions:

1. Are there other mods that are impacted?

Context: prior to Q1of 2024 (with reddit’s prior version, “New Reddit”), posts in queue awaiting mod approval, once approved, arrived at the top of New Sort, with a timestamp showing the time that content was approved. Excellent.

Now, with the current version of reddit (“shreddit” introduced in Q1 of 2024), posts that are held in queue awaiting mod approval, once approved, arrive lower in New Sort, with a timestamp showing the time that content was posted.

They now appear in New Sort as old/stale/sunken/lower, often lost from view, sequentially ranked according to its posted/old timestamp (not ideal) rather than its approved/current timestamp (ideal). This gives the subreddit a disadvantage. Content appears to be hours old without upvotes, views, nor comments (zero traction) because the post timestamp is shown rather than the approved timestamp. Since ours is a curated subreddit (all photos are removed to queue then voted on by our mod team as to whether they fit our genre), this hurts not only our sub’s visibility/traction but also hurts each contributor, as it puts their content at a disadvantage compared to other posts in a users’ home feeds.

It was previously mentioned that reddit is working on this and, after waiting all of 2025, it might be fixed in 2026 Q1. Now in May, we see huge earnings posted by reddit for Q1, but no fix of the Timestamp Bug. A fix would be greatly appreciated. We’ve been more than patient. To wait over a year for a bug fix seems… not reasonable, not what I would consider “mod support”.

Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/minimalistphotography/s/ulsle7PGYX

- 3:41pm ET (UTC -4) post submitted.
- Discussed by mod team.
- 7:33p approved and arrives (sunken) in New Sort with a time stamp of 3 hours old but no votes and no views. In our sub it shows at the top of New Sort as our newest post but in a users home feed, other more recent posts would bump it down the feed.

History: Previous posts and comments on this topic:

• days ago, ping, comment in Help subreddit Weekly Recap link
• days ago, requested fix, post in Bugs subreddit link
• days ago, in Help subreddit, admin response, comment, indicating a commitment to fix it: link, (though a more recent comment by Opus in a Help sub Weekly Recap was less optimistic).
• days ago, post in ModSupport subreddit: link

Tagging mods who have previously expressed concern:

• u/thepottsy
• u/SampleOfNone
• WolfXemo

Note: Message to this sub also being sent.

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