Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation
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Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation
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Re: Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation
#2Frankly, I love Reddit. If you pick and choose the right communities, it can be an amazing resource for everything from tech discussions, to local news, to emotional support. However, I will strongly agree with the perception problem, there's also a lot of bad on Reddit and its structure as a series of echo chambers doesn't help.
Re: Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation
#3>the company is literally re-writing all of its code
Wow.
>An early version of the new design, which we saw during our interview, looks similar to Facebook’s News Feed or Twitter’s Timeline: A never-ending feed of content broken up into “cards” with more visuals to lure people into the conversations hidden underneath.
>“We want Reddit to be more visually appealing,” he explained, “so when new users come to Reddit they have a better sense of what’s there, what it’s for.”
I fear this major re-design will be a mistake. HN is designed similarly to Reddit and if HN ever tried to do a major re-design, I think I would visit it less. I keep coming back to it because of its stories, comments, and its simplicity and minimalism. It has good content and is very easy to use and navigate.
Re: Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation
#4Frankly, I love Reddit. If you pick and choose the right communities, it can be an amazing resource for everything from tech discussions, to local news, to emotional support. However, I will strongly agree with the perception problem, there's also a lot of bad on Reddit and its structure as a series of echo chambers doesn't help.
They should invest in some PR to let people know it's a platform, not a monolithic community. Although some people identify as "Redditors" which kind of undermines that point...
Re: Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation
#5Congrats, I really like Reddit as a user! It's already been around for a while though so it is hardly a startup now. Can a website redesign really triple or quadruple 200M dollar investment? I am interesting what those investors are thinking and how they are calculating this.
Re: Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation
#6>the company is literally re-writing all of its code Wow. >An early version of the new design, which we saw during our interview, looks similar to Facebook’s News Feed or Twitter’s Timeline: A never-ending feed of content broken up into “cards” with more visuals to lure people into the conversations hidden underneath. >“We want Reddit to be more visually appealing,” he explained, “so when new users come to Reddit the…
I still remember Digg. Great community, but once they changed the UX and some features, everything went downhill.
Re: Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation
#7>the company is literally re-writing all of its code Wow. >An early version of the new design, which we saw during our interview, looks similar to Facebook’s News Feed or Twitter’s Timeline: A never-ending feed of content broken up into “cards” with more visuals to lure people into the conversations hidden underneath. >“We want Reddit to be more visually appealing,” he explained, “so when new users come to Reddit the…
Yeah, I really appreciate the spartan quality to the UI. IT simply lists the topics, be they link submissions or text-posts, with a score and a comment count.
I also really like the Reddit forum / discussion UI. It makes it very easy to see who is replying to what, and let's you easily hide or collapse away whole uninteresting side-conversations.
I fear any "Facebook-style" visual embellishments will actually make it harder to discover the underlying conversations...
Re: Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation
#8>An early version of the new design, which we saw during our interview, looks similar to Facebook’s News Feed or Twitter’s Timeline: A never-ending feed of content broken up into “cards” with more visuals to lure people into the conversations hidden underneath.
Not sure why this UX concept needs to be applied to every kind of interface nowadays.
I think Reddit's current interface could be updated visually without changing its simplicity.
Re: Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation
#9surprised the valuation is so low for a top 5 destination (per alexa).
Re: Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation
#10>the company is literally re-writing all of its code Wow. >An early version of the new design, which we saw during our interview, looks similar to Facebook’s News Feed or Twitter’s Timeline: A never-ending feed of content broken up into “cards” with more visuals to lure people into the conversations hidden underneath. >“We want Reddit to be more visually appealing,” he explained, “so when new users come to Reddit the…
Yep, they are trying so hard to rollout Digg v4, it's ironic.