Well, it’s been another very interesting week for us. Thankfully, I think we’re beginning to make real progress.

I’ll say it again: we screwed up. We screwed up in the way we’ve treated moderators and the community, and we screwed up in the way we handled our screwups last week. And I’m sorry. But we’re working hard to make amends, and we’ve already taken a lot of steps to do so, some small and some quite large.

Earlier this week, we posted an apology and tried to engage in a really earnest discussion with many of you. Deimorz, who has been with Reddit a long time and has been reassigned to work on moderator issues, held a really honest AMA and talked with moderators about what changes we could start making immediately. We also discussed these events and next steps more in depth on the Upvoted podcast this week.

On Friday we made even more changes. Ellen Pao resigned as CEO and posted a farewell to the community, and Steve Huffman, my good friend and cofounder, rejoined us as our new CEO. Sam Altman, one of our board members, did an AMA, and then Steve took your questions in an AMA as well.

I’m so excited to have Steve back at Reddit and for the progress we’re beginning to make. We’ve still got a lot of work to do, but we’re up for it, and we hope you’ll stick with us as we try to get better.

Now, after everything that has happened, I think we could all use a more lighthearted, feel-good email. Or at least, we sure could on our end. So, welcome to the eye-bleach edition of Upvoted Weekly.