Reddit, the popular social networking platform, announced this week that it will be launching the beta of its ‘News tab’ feature exclusively for its iOS app.

The News tab, which is described as the “easiest place to find news shared by communities across Reddit,” works to pull news article content from a variety of subreddits and displays the articles in a single page format.

The list of subreddits that the News tab pulls from was chosen after Reddit conducted a review of the most-clicked posts by domain, resulting in around ~1000 domains that fit the media and publisher category. This list was used to identify communities that met a minimum threshold of engagement with posts from the domain list.

Currently, Reddit will not be sharing the full list of subreddits that have qualified for the News tab. What is known is that the content is divided into common news topics, including sports and politics, and users can customize the tab to their liking.

One Redditor, in responding to the announcement, shared an opinion that echoed the sentiment of many within the community.

Your posted criteria here look good on the face of it. However there are communities that fit those guidelines but also have an extreme bias one way or another, and (on a community/voting level) don’t welcome or tolerate alternative viewpoints very much.

Other Redditors expressed concern over the cluttering of the “already buggy” mobile app, while some dislike the iOS-only availability for testing. However, Reddit has stated that it plans to release the new feature to the desktop platform later this summer.

As the comments might suggest, the total response to the new feature announcement has been less than positive. A look at the total ‘upvotes’, a quantified measurement of user response, shows that this is one of the more disliked announcements in recent months. While other announcements have had upvotes in the tens to hundreds of thousands, the New tab announcement currently sits at zero.

For now, Reddit iOS app users can try out the News tab and come to their own conclusions on the utility of this new feature.