When we added the ability to mark messages as unread last month, one of the maintenance problems that became apparent was a need to be able to find those unread messages once they fell off the first page, never to be seen again. So, we added an unread tab to the inbox page. Priming that listing required a little bit of db churn )enough to postpone this announcement for a couple of days actually(, and we think we got everyone, but let us know if your unread tab looks sub-par.

Welcome back to work, everyone. Now that last year is officially behind us, it's time to honor the best of 2009. That's right, we're kicking off the second annual "best of reddit" awards. To nominate someone or something, click the name of the category and post a top-level comment: Comment of the Year Commenter of the Year Submission of the Year Submitter of the Year Community of the Year Got it? Nominations go on the official threads linked above.

United States House Representative for Ohio's 10th congressional district Dennis Kucinich shared some of his busy schedule to answer your top 10 questions . Congressman Kucinich also has an important question for the reddit community at the end of the interview. Watch the full 28min interview in HD here or on youtube . Below the embedded video are all the questions, where you can also go directly to the Congressman's responses for each question.

After having our new sponsored link program in beta for the last 3 weeks, we're happy to announce that we've worked the bugs out )famous last words( and are opening it up to all users. To get started, simply click on the new "self-serve advertising" link in the footer on the front page, or, for the lazy, go here . All you need to get started is $20, a credit card * , and some time to skim our ToS )which can be summed up with: be nice, don't be sneaky,

We'll no longer be showing the "edited" star for comments edited in the first minute of their lifetime, as long as they don't garner any votes in that time. That means that you can quickly fix your typos without worrying about incurring the Edited Star of Doom)tm(. There's a Death Star joke in there somewhere.

Congressman Barney Frank answers your top ten questions . Watch the videos below or on YouTube HERE : Thank you to Congressman Frank for taking time out of an extremely busy schedule to answer these questions in great detail. If you don't have time to watch the full 40 min interview , do yourself a favor and watch Barney Frank's thought provoking answer to question #10 : Congressman Frank, earlier this week you remarked that the National Equality March in Washington D.C. was,

After a brief* hiatus, the daily reddit awards have returned ! Once a day, at the stroke of midnight )reddit standard time(, we'll scour the previous 24 hours' worth of activity and post the list of honorees here . Long-time redditors will remember we once had a simple leaderboard showing the highest-karma users. The site's grown a lot since then, and we wanted a new system that shows our appreciation of all good users, even the relative n00bs.

Ask Barney Frank anything. Ask questions HERE . United States House Representative for Massachusetts's 4th congressional district Barney Frank will be sharing some of his very busy schedule to answer your top 10 questions. Democrat Barney Frank has been in the House Of Representatives since 1982, serves as the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee , and is " widely considered to be one of the most powerful members of Congress ".

Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe answers your top ten questions : )you can also find the video playlist HERE (. To say that Mike went above and beyond in answering these questions would be an understatement. Oodles of fun anecdotes, commentary, and yes opera singin'. Also, his answer to " Is there any chance you'll stop having sex with my wife in her dreams? It's getting pretty old, Mike " is so elegant, it would have made Archimedes jealous.

Guest blogging by reddit's Fantastic Voyagers. Follow their journey on their reddit . Subscribe today! Hey guys and gals, it's Draynen from Reddit's Fantastic Voyage . Well, sort of anyway. While we were in Tampa, Jake and I stopped by Soapier, makers of the Reddit Alien soap and got a crash course in soap making. It might not seem like it just from looking at the bars themselves, but each Reddit soap is painstakingly hand crafted before heading out the door. It's not easy.

You may have heard that Stephen Colbert gave reddit a shoutout last week during his segment introducing Movits! )who rock, btw( a Swedish swing-hip-hop-jazz band he discovered on our site. Needless to say )and as I'm sure my neighbors can attest( we got a little excited. And yes, though it wasn't a direct Colbert Bump - more of a Colbert Nudge - we did see a nice little spike the following day. Movits!

Submit and vote on questions here. Our relationship with TED started not long after their famous talks began appearing on our front page; the talks were so well liked that we made them a featured channel on reddit.TV . And one of their most viewed talks was delivered by Sir Ken Robinson, whom reddit has the privilege of interviewing with our friends at TED. Sir Ken is a creativity expert. He challenges the way we're educating our children,

Advertising is one way we keep reddit running and free )well, merch helps, too(. There is no shortage of companies to advertise on reddit, but we want the right ones advertising here. Hence, we've created the Nominate Advertisers Reddit Would Hardly Admonish Looking@ commission. We've created a private reddit where a select group of reddit volunteers will submit and discuss advertisers who the community would like to see.

As you have probably noticed, a few days ago we started highlighting not just your friends, but also the submitter of a link and the moderators of the reddit you're reading. We had been getting numerous requests for submitter highlighting due to the recent popularity of reddits like AskReddit and IAmA , and we had also gotten occasional requests for moderator highlighting, so we pushed out what we thought was an innocent change: friends get an [ F ] next to their name,

The reddit t-shirt design contest has now entered Phase Two of Operations. Competitors submitted over 170 designs. To make voting simpler, we narrowed the submissions down to 25 designs . You can now vote on which of theses 25 works of art would best compliment the fashionable and trandsetting bodies of redditors worldwide. VOTE HERE . Vote early and vote often! The winner will be announced on July 17th. Thanks to everyone who submitted designs,

There's been no shortage of talk on reddit about our iPhone app lately, so Apple couldn't have better timed the approval of our latest update. This is a big one. )Yes, we did more than change the icon.( The 280North team addressed a number of the issues with the last version and generally made the app kick a whole lot more ass. Make sure to get the update if you haven't already. And if you've been on the fence about buying it, we're dropping the price to a mere $.

Redditors recently asked American economic commentator, author, and possible senate candidate , Peter Schiff their questions, and he has answered the top 9 questions* from his NYC office. Schiff is a redditor himself and has even hinted that he'll be answering follow up questions on [economics] . Join the fun HERE . Watch his full 20+ min interview here.

After talking up the reddit community for the last four years, we're going to let give employers the chance to tap into the best of the web. And frankly, most of the jobs boards we've seen over the years have been weaksauce . We wanted something dead simple - something that would attract the kind of jobseekers who spurn the PR BS )new acronym, anyone?(. In the interest of minimizing said PR-BS, here's our new job board: http://redditJobs.

Last month, it seemed like everyone was talking about toolbars. Reddit, of course, has had a toolbar since 2005. )You might not have known that, however, since it's always been an opt-in feature.( The site has come a long way in the past four years, but this small piece of code has been more or less left alone even as the rest of the site changed all around it. We thought it was time for a little makeover. We knew we didn't want to make any major functional changes,

I am a new reddit that's gotten quite popular in the last couple days. I am a reddit where you can ask Priests , Marines , Ex-Junkies , Diggerati , and yes a "21-year old chick" everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask. Are you "ask me anyting" worthy? Introduce yourself and share the enlightenment. I Am A Strange Loop .