Troubleshooting
Reddit, shadow DOM and other web-component sites
New Reddit renders posts and comments inside open shadow roots. The extension walks them and watches each one, but closed roots cannot be read.
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How Reddit is handled
New Reddit ("shreddit") builds the page from web components whose content lives inside open shadow roots. The Reddit adapter looks for shreddit-post and shreddit-comment elements through a deep query that walks into every open shadow root, and attaches an observer to each root as it appears so newly loaded comments are found. Old Reddit (old.reddit.com) uses ordinary markup and its .thing containers, which the adapter also understands.
What can and cannot be read
- Open shadow roots: read, observed, and overlaid. The circle is drawn relative to the post as rendered.
- Closed shadow roots: cannot be read by any extension. Nothing to do.
- Iframes (embedded tweets and videos inside a post): the extension runs inside each frame and checks its content with that platform's adapter.
Common Reddit questions
- Only some comments get circles. Comments under 40 characters are skipped, and the writing-pattern score has to reach your preset. Collapsed comments are not visible, so they are not checked until expanded.
- Image posts are not flagged. Reddit strips metadata on upload, so provenance checks find nothing; a circle then depends on a cached classifier result or a Pro trigger. Try Lenient to see lower scores.
- Galleries. Each slide is checked as it becomes visible, and the one circle sits on the visible area of the carousel.
Other web-component sites
The same deep query runs everywhere, so sites built on web components generally work with the generic adapter if their posts sit in article, list or comment containers. If one does not, report it.