Get ready to hone your time-wasting skills.  After two months of beta testing, Reddit released a new feature called "multireddits," which allows users to view specific, customized groups of subreddits as opposed to the default front page. Reddit administrator chromakode announced the feature in a blog post that generated nearly 2,000 comments — most of which are negative.  Multireddits can be started, viewed and customized through a new sidebar located on the left edge of the front page. Many of the announcement's top comments detail complaints about the feature's obtrusiveness, though the new sidebar is easily hidden by clicking the arrow on its right edge. Regardless, a few users have already found and posted multiple methods for disabling the feature completely.  This isn't the first time the Reddit community has reacted poorly to change. When the site gave users the ability to comment on submissions, many decried the innovation, citing its uselessness and leaving comments like "get rid of them" and "noooooooooooooo." Today, comments are arguably the community's main draw, allowing users to discuss current events and participate in crowdsourcing.  In response to comments, the Reddit admin revealed that developers would soon add the ability to order multireddits in the sidebar and follow other users' multireddits.  After a few upgrades, multireddits should be incredibly useful. They certainly add efficiency to browsing the site; users will no longer have to create new accounts or insert lengthy URLs to view certain subreddit clusters.  Creating a multireddit is very simple. In the new sidebar, click the "create" button. After titling the multireddit, you will be directed to another page to group together subreddits. When finished, the new multireddit will be accessible via the sidebar. For a few example groupings, take a look at ours here and here. Many more user-generated groupings can be found on /r/multihub.  What do you think of multireddits? Will it change the way you use the site? Tell us in the comments below.
Reddit has developed a new way to group and view your favorite subreddits. Learn how to use it here.