It’s been a few months now since the last couple of blog posts related to reddit gold (#1 and #2), and today we have a few more updates about the program to share.

Gilding submissions

The ability to give people reddit gold for comments that you particularly appreciate (by “gilding” their comment) was added in November 2012 and there are always tons of excellent comments being gilded all over the site, but it hasn’t been possible to do the same thing for submissions… until now. Gold can now be given to the user that submitted a link or self-post, in much the same way as for comments — click the “give gold” link below the submission.

However, one difference for submissions is that gilding can only be done from the comments page, and the gold star showing which submissions have been gilded will also not be visible from listings such as your front page, /r/all, or the subreddit or multireddits that the post is shown in. This is to avoid having gilded submissions receive more attention solely due to being gilded.

Custom saving categories

Users with reddit gold already have access to a slightly better “save” feature than normal — they’re able to save comments as well as submissions, and also able to view their saved items based on which subreddit they came from.

Today, the ability to save comments is moving out of the gold feature list and becoming available to all reddit users, and gold users are getting access to another tool for organizing their saved items. When saving something, they can now choose a custom category to save the item into.

So to commemorate saving comments becoming available to all, here’s the current top 10 comments saved the most number of times by gold users:

reddit gold “gift codes”

We also fairly recently added the ability to buy a gift code for reddit gold, which will give you a short code that can be redeemed for gold by someone else (or you). These are mostly useful if you have a friend/relative who you want to buy gold for, but you don’t know their reddit username (often because they don’t want to tell you, surely because you would be consumed by jealousy about all the witty comments they post).

Gold partner updates

reddit gold partners were introduced last June, and since then we’ve slowly been expanding the deals available to people with reddit gold. Here are some of the newest offers we’ve added from some awesome companies, including our first “international” partner with WeTransfer (based in Amsterdam):

Barkbox – 20% off a subscription to have monthly dog goodies delivered.

Bridgford Jerky – 20% off various meat jerky.

Lyft – $30 off your first ride.

SparkFun Electronics – $20 off over $50 orders of electronic components.

WeTransfer – 50% off a WeTransfer Plus membership for transferring files.

Remember to keep an eye on /r/goldbenefits to find out about new partners as they’re added, which is always accessible from the “gold perks” tab in the sidebar on your front page if you have gold.

Edit: thanks for the gold!

And as always, thanks for helping support reddit by buying gold, both for yourselves and for others. We’ve managed to hit our daily gold goal quite often, which means that lots of our servers are adopting names chosen by gold buyers, and things are overall just looking very positive about making those darn green and red lines finally meet up, even despite recent decisions involving giving away a bunch of money.