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Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B

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Re: Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B

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Post by foepys »

SomeStupidPoint wrote: post #133
sorenjan wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They've since decided to keep the custom CSS: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/6auyq9/reddit_is_p... What's worse is that their new mobile site and their profile pages use more whitespace. A sign of things to come probably.

I can't even use their mobile website, I have to just use the desktop one (which has a delayed popup banner that shifts the page a second after load telling me to download their app).

You can use https://i.reddit.com. it is so much faster than m.reddit.com, it's unbelievable. Really shows how those JavaScript frameworks slow down everything and have a severe impact on my browsing experience. When reddit closes down i.reddit.com, I will not use Reddit on mobile anymore; maybe not even on desktop.

Re: Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B

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Post by Fej »

zitterbewegung wrote: post #45

As others have mentioned development of reddit has been slow for the fact that their Engineering teams were performing Administrative tasks to the point that they could only maintain the site. Since they have cleared that hurdle by instituting more straightforward moderation and administration. The only exception to this is when a reddit admin actively modified a thread by users being hostile. This creates irreparabl…

Few redditors know or care about spez's editing of another redditor's comment. I have to give him credit, it was a masterful trolling.

Re: Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B

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Post by guftagu »

jMyles wrote: post #88
crispytx wrote: post #20

Isn't reddit already successful? Why are they raising money? Shouldn't they be generating profits and returning those profits back to their shareholder(s)?

> Shouldn't they be generating profits and returning those profits back to their shareholder(s)? What black magic is this? Surely you aren't suggesting... the d-word?!

> > Shouldn't they be generating profits and returning those profits back to their shareholder(s)?

> What black magic is this? Surely you aren't suggesting... the d-word?!

Okay, I'll bite. What's the d-word?

Re: Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B

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Post by frou_dh »

SteveGregory wrote: post #112
jknoepfler wrote: post #89

I stopped using reddit when they put a "USE OUR MOBILE APP OR DIE" message that cannot be closed conveniently on their mobile page. There is no possible advantage that can accrue to me by giving them app-level access to my device rather than running in my browser, which I trust far more than I trust them. They are literally a dynamic, partitioned page-ranking system, why in the heck would I ever let that escape the b…

Really? I don't know if Reddit has been AB testing, but they seem pretty reasonable to me with their app ads. It's always been easy to clear and stays cleared for a while for me.

They absolutely have been A/B testing it for a curiously long time. Sometimes it's dismissable, sometimes it's not. IIRC it's even more hassle if you aren't logged in.

Re: Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B

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Post by syassami »

guftagu wrote: post #143
jMyles wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Shouldn't they be generating profits and returning those profits back to their shareholder(s)? What black magic is this? Surely you aren't suggesting... the d-word?!

> > Shouldn't they be generating profits and returning those profits back to their shareholder(s)? > What black magic is this? Surely you aren't suggesting... the d-word?! Okay, I'll bite. What's the d-word?

going to guess he means dividends

Re: Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B

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Post by jokoon »

komali2 wrote: post #3

Does anybody know why development at reddit is so slow? I know they have an engineering team, but if you track the changes over the last couple years, it's not much given how much time has passed. And that's not for lack of feature requests that Reddit staff have admitted would improve the site.

The only thing I wish I could do, is search through my upvotes and filter things by subreddit etc.

Re: Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B

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Post by squeaky-clean »

rickhanlonii wrote: post #96
johnfn wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ages ago an admin said "yeah it would make sense for post titles to be edited within the first x minutes of making one", an incredibly low-hanging fruit that has been requested since forever. It still hasn't been added.

I can think of a few problems with this just off the top of my head: The first x minutes of a post are _heavily_ influential in the success of the post, editing after allows you to hijack successful titles for gain (spam) For large subs, posts only hit the top of /new for x minutes (for small x), editing after is basically useless if it's not successful in that time Mods patrol the /new queue as posts come in, allowi…

At least allow mods to change titles. Even that isn't possible.

Re: Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B

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Post by cJ0th »

denim_chicken wrote: post #33
m-j-fox wrote: post #7

I love Reddit, but remind me what's their business model? I've never seen an ad using Relay For Reddit. Free content is great but how do they keep the lights on much less justify $1.7 billion? (Also, HN. Servers are cheap but how do they pay dang to tell me I'm being toxic?)

They track us and then sell our data.

ding!

Here is what Mr Huffman has to say on this topic:

https://youtu.be/6PCnZqrJE24?t=8m13s

Re: Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B

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Post by 9935c101ab17a66 »

zitterbewegung wrote: post #45

As others have mentioned development of reddit has been slow for the fact that their Engineering teams were performing Administrative tasks to the point that they could only maintain the site. Since they have cleared that hurdle by instituting more straightforward moderation and administration. The only exception to this is when a reddit admin actively modified a thread by users being hostile. This creates irreparabl…

Yah, we all know about the incidents here Alexis modified comments. You make it sound way worse than it is. Please provide sources or evidence of the other things you assert, as it's basically all unfounded, worthless personal opinion.

Re: Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B

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Post by pinpeliponni »

beager wrote: post #17
jliptzin wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe they don't want to fix what's not broken. If their usage continues going up at acceptable rates year after year, then maybe they have all the features they need right now. I have witnessed more than a few properties decline after site owners complicated the UI with stupid features barely anyone was asking for just for the sake of working on new stuff.

Also for context, Reddit found a lot of steam when Digg suffered a mass exodus based on seismic product shifts. I wouldn't be surprised if Reddit was consciously and unconsciously averse to that kind of mutation.

You call forging votes, and banning large parts of the community a "seismic product shifts" ? :)
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