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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 bauerd »

SkyMarshal wrote: post #156
Roritharr wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in a weird position there. I've recently decided on react for most of our frontend in the future because of all the technical advantages this offers and the productivity benefits I see, but I still harbor reservations against react because in practice I've rarely seen react pages that feel snappy and fast, rather than choppy and slow.

Interesting observation, b/c one of the original value propositions of React's virtual dom model was faster rendering than most other frontend frameworks at the time. I wonder if it's gotten so complicated it lost that? If so, there are a number of other intentionally lightweight virtual dom frontend frameworks. Mithril, Riot, Preact, virtual-dom all come to mind, and there are a probably a few more.

React's virtual dom/diffing is certainly not "slow". It's not the tool that's the problem, but how it's used. There's also more to perceived slowness than how fast your library reconciles the DOM, e.g. I too often encounter pages that will "preload" all their assets behind stupid loading screens, ill-timed CSS animations, modals on top of modals, React Components that badly wrap jQuery plugins, leaked callbacks, …

tl;dr Don't blame tools but their usage

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

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Post by monksy »

From what I've seen about reddit is a few things:

1. They have some weird policies about how they want their employees to work. At one point of time they were ok with being remote, then they moved everyone to SFO or told them to pound sand. 2. Scaling issues: Seems like that's an after thought and only gets addressed "when it happens"* (Never thought put in after the fact) 3. The Modmail.. it's bad when you're dealing with lots of it. There are features completely lacking. (Like searching, or a CRM for users and how they contacted the mods) 4. The non-obvious spam.. it's gotten worse now that they took down r/spam.

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

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Post by grub5000 »

minimaxir wrote: post #44
javiramos wrote: post #41

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I mean look at Craigslist. Almost no development.

Pointing out the existence of an extreme outlier is not a good counterargument.

Amazon.com? Ebay? Hard to think of any major development at either in recent years

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

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Post by stevoski »

jacquesm wrote: post #29

Trying to imagine the kind of strategy that will yield a large enough multiple of that valuation to satisfy the new investors, or the kind of strategy that would create an annual ROI that would keep them happy. And failing. Anybody have any idea what the long term game plan is here?

Could be Advertising. Reddit could do a lot better in helping advertisers spend money with them.

I've been comparing Facebook's Advertiser tools and options with Reddit's. Reddit is miles behind, in terms of making it easy to try different campaigns, different headlines, different messages.

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

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

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

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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).

They've been dicking about with it making it harder to choose the mobile version. One time, earlier this year, I got a "use the app" screen with no option to continue - you could block the overlay though.

Recently they added a useless interstitial.

It's interesting to me they say the app is faster; presumably they're artificially slowing the mobile site just to push app installs.

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

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Post by icefo »

foepys wrote: post #141
SomeStupidPoint wrote: post #133

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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.

Thanks I had no idea that i.reddit existed. It's so much better than the standard mobile version. I don't understand why they don't focus on making reddit fast and reliable.

Making it beautiful with nice animations should come second and the mobile version still crash a few times a day for me.

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