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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 jmkni »

arkitaip wrote: post #113
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…

Reddit's mobile site is designed to be a bad experience to such a degree that it's comical. I use it everyday and still get confused wrt to basic functionality like what to click. It's also suspiciously slow in a way that Reddit proper never is.

I think that the regular Reddit site bypasses the API somehow, but the mobile site and app uses it, hence the slowness.

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

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Post by twic »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #69
ktta wrote: post #54

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Reddit is actually facing a lot of flak for their plan of disabling CSS. This has made several of the subreddits announce themselves as Pro-CSS - sort of a rebel against the admins. https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/66q4is/the_web_red... https://www.reddit.com/r/ProCSS/

I haven't seen a single sub where CSS would add value. The worst example is r/science where colourful tags make it especially noisy.

r/rust used CSS on April Fool's day to add overenthusiastic Rust Evangelism Strike Force-type exclamations to the end of everyone's posts. That was pretty funny. FEARLESS CONCURRENCY!

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

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Post by FridgeSeal »

shawnz wrote: post #140
jliptzin wrote: post #5

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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.

Recently Reddit introduced a new kind of user profile where you can make text posts to your own profile. It got a huge amount of negative feedback (although I'm coming around to it, personally), and many obvious features, such as being able to mix a user's posts and comments together like on the old profile page, were missing. They claimed they were all-hands-on-deck adding these highly requested features, and even n…

It (rightfully) copped a lot of flack because it is a terrible idea: Reddit users don't want another user-driven/user focused Facebook clone, they want a community and topic driven platform.

I'm hoping that, like some of Reddit's other weird ideas, it kind of just gets abandoned and left to die.

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

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Post by jmkni »

iends wrote: post #62
grillwork wrote: post #59

reddit is about to suffer the same mass exodus Digg did if they keep up the shit brigade.. That site has gone to hell since the election.. ruined by shills and bots in every subreddit.. can't be bothered w/ it anymore.. sick of reading about Trump and Hillary.

Stick to the smaller technical subreddits.

Also the smaller local ones (for your Town/City/etc).

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

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Post by sotojuan »

Roritharr wrote: post #151
JosephLark wrote: post #119

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> Maybe they don't want to fix what's not broken Unfortunately, this doesn't appear to be the case. They haven't been hiding that they're gearing up for a major redesign. From what I've seen so far, I'm not at all excited for it. They launched user profiles recently, and it's an uninspired blocky design with way too much unnecessary whitespace for a desktop site. Also, even on desktop there is noticeable Javascript i…

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.

It's not React specifically. It's just JS. Reddit already has the worst performing mobile site because it's full of JS.

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

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Post by watter »

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).

The worst part is the banner advertises features that I absolutely do not want.

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

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Post by majani »

throw_away_777 wrote: post #124

Reddit has the worst mobile site i've ever seen, with constant pop-ups that make the site basically unusable. Sometimes a good idea and first to the market is better than good execution.

Sometimes I wonder whether some sites intentionally downgrade their mobile site to push people to download their app. Certainly seems that way with reddit. Anyway, at least i.reddit.com still exists, albeit in the background like some kind of insider rumor.

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

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Post by rospaya »

makecheck wrote: post #102

It seems like Reddit would be a good candidate for experimenting with tiny fees: namely, $12 per year just to use it. That’s one (moderately priced) lunch in total, a dollar a month, for a site that provides a huge amount of content and discussion or just distraction. Far less than one crappy movie in a theater, too. And if everyone paid this, they’d have tons of cash.

It's almost funny how much your comment is out of touch.

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

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Post by omegaham »

jmkni wrote: post #179
throw_away_777 wrote: post #124

Reddit has the worst mobile site i've ever seen, with constant pop-ups that make the site basically unusable. Sometimes a good idea and first to the market is better than good execution.

Yeah, their mobile website isn't very good, neither is their app. IMHO the only way to use Reddit on a mobile device is to request the desktop site. However, I recently opted into their new user profile thing which is completely broken on mobile (and you can't opt-out).

i.reddit.com is bare-bones and buggy, but it's fast.

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

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Post by dboreham »

zeantsoi wrote: post #139
austenallred wrote: post #86

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Because they have the potential to be monetized. I have wild success with Reddit ads even though you can tell the ads products never receive much love (or maybe that's just Reddit generally). Companies are valued based on discounted future cash flow. In other words, investors are betting that at some point in time Reddit will generate billions, even when adjusted for a discount for time. That's not crazy at all to me…

What do you advertise?

The last thing you browsed on Amazon typically.
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