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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

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Post by root_axis »

wiremine wrote: post #41

Seen a few comments focus on the "redesign" and comparisons to Digg, and wanted to add a few comments: 1. People may forget, but Reddit was a (the?) major winner in the Digg exodus. 2. I don't think Digg every got the subreddit style discussion boards down. I think the reddit "homepage experience" vs. the typical subreddit experience to be very different. Should be interesting to see which way they slide for the rede…

There is a common misconception that Digg's failure was what pushed Reddit into the mainstream, but the truth is that Digg was on the decline and reddit on the rise long before the redesign.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2005-06-01%202...

Re: Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation

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Post by Semaphor »

giarc wrote: post #39
celticninja wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it is starting to happen already. A few too many jokey comments appearing, puns and the like.

I agree but I find that they are pretty quickly downvoted and therefore greyed out, or sit as a parent only comment without any discussion.

HN is protected a bit better with its karma requirements. But I feel like recently I've been getting way more upvotes than I feel I "deserve" for some comments, which scares me a bit.

Re: Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation

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Post by monochromatic »

afro88 wrote: post #18
stevenj wrote: post #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 the…

So they're doing a Digg. End of an era. What's the "reddit" that everyone will migrate to when they change the UX?

Hacker News.

Re: Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation

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Post by cat199 »

loceng wrote: post #14
stevenj wrote: post #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 the…

This could easily kill Reddit. I hope they'd do deep-long A/B test.

... because that worked really well for slashdot.

Re: Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation

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Post by Semaphor »

kilroy123 wrote: post #50
yoodenvranx wrote: post #40

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> the company is literally re-writing all of its code The old and ugly mobile website is _perfect_ (apart from some bugs). The new one is a horrible piece of garbage.

I disagree. I use the extension reddit enhancement suite and _that_ makes it useable.

For the desktop site, yeah. But whenever I mistakenly end up on the new mobile site (usually by using the in-app browser of my HN app, normal links open in Reddit Sync) I'm annoyed. It's slow and crappy.

Re: Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation

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Post by m777z »

throwaway81122 wrote: post #36
afro88 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So they're doing a Digg. End of an era. What's the "reddit" that everyone will migrate to when they change the UX?

Like Craigslist and its downfall, the migration isnt going to be to one large community, but many smaller ones.

Craigslist had a downfall? I thought it hadn't changed substantively in a decade at least.

Re: Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation

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Post by dopamean »

throwaway81122 wrote: post #36
afro88 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So they're doing a Digg. End of an era. What's the "reddit" that everyone will migrate to when they change the UX?

Like Craigslist and its downfall, the migration isnt going to be to one large community, but many smaller ones.

What happened at craigslist?

Re: Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation

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Post by jajern »

m777z wrote: post #67
throwaway81122 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like Craigslist and its downfall, the migration isnt going to be to one large community, but many smaller ones.

Craigslist had a downfall? I thought it hadn't changed substantively in a decade at least.

I had no idea either. I use it almost every day.

Re: Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation

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Post by refulgentis »

uncoder0 wrote: post #23
afro88 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So they're doing a Digg. End of an era. What's the "reddit" that everyone will migrate to when they change the UX?

Voat ( https://voat.co/ ) is also an option I've heard of before but never used. However I just looked at their front page and the number 2 post is titled 'How to solve the Voat's antisemitism problem' and the image contains an antisemitic slur so that's not very promising.

You buried the lede a bit. The image contains a slur in its proposal to kill all Jews
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