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What is .compact?
https://www.reddit.com/.compact There's also https://i.reddit.com which is a similar but slightly different experience. EDIT: per commenters below correcting my mistake, this is "the same" experience AFAWCT
Now it makes sense why they implemented all those user hostile strategies recently. To grow the user count. Hopefully, they'll be able to remove it after they go public.
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Market volatility doesn't seem to be extraordinarily high right now: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/VIX:INDEXCBOE?safe=off&...
Market predictability is at an extreme low. Rug pulls are happening on a regular basis, and spy is regularly being propped up by a few random, overvalued stocks.
VIX is back under 20, volatility is settling down.
Some unprofitable growth stocks have been sold off lately, but the rest of the market is chugging along just fine, at least until rates start to go up.
Here’s a way to keep an eye on the probabilities the market is assigning to rate hikes at future Fed meetings: https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/countdown-to...
Content aside, Reddit is possibly the worst performing large commercial website I have ever seen. Like half of all page loads and requests end with “something went wrong”. Search has been unusable from day 1, and somehow getting worse. Their new video player makes me want to throw my computer across the room. I have been using it on and off for a decade now and I can’t think of one aspect of the site (whether in term…
Reddit's product managers very much want me to check out my 'Reddit Recap'.
Well I've navigated to my recap about 30 times now in the last week, from multiple links, in app and desktop, and it's still totally broken.
On desktop now, it doesn't show anything except a "retry" button which is incorrectly stuck to the left side of my screen (CSS fail).
I can understand things being broken, but its really bad form to funnel a user to a prominent feature, have that feature be broken, and then have a broken and terrible error state.
I do wonder what kind of engineering team bungles a big feature release like this.
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Don't worry, we're next.
Strongly agree. Those who are skeptical and have recently joined HN just need to rewind, read a few threads from 2015, let alone 2010. The quality of discussion, the disagreements, the back and forth, the deep respect for each other - all those are eroding away on HN, albeit slowly. Still there is good discussion, especially on deep technical topics (e.g. Semiconductors). It may not be the fault of HN - today's inter…
Sometimes things get flagged incorrectly, but usually within a few days issues get fixed. Sometimes you see a flurry of unneeded downvotes.. but scores don't matter much and things get worked out.
My sarcastic comments generally score poorly, my helpful ones do well - which is about the desired outcome.
The goal is not to prevent inflammatory takes or have scores reflect some ideal of values, just to keep the signal above the noise threshold.
I still get odd emails from other HNers and still have interesting conversations.
How is Reddit IPO'ing after they were bought by Conde Nast? I've never really looked into it. It's an interesting thing that they managed to get un-acquired somehow. In fact, there are so many questions. Does YC get a payday out of this, or was their stock acquired during the acquisition? 2% of $5B is $100M, so it's a lot of money at stake.
they were spun off a while ago https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/31/reddit-just-raised-a-new-r...
* spend 9 figures for a redesign
The choice was obvious
i hate the CDN they use, it's slow af, you notice a lot on the gifts hosted on the reddit hostname
Content aside, Reddit is possibly the worst performing large commercial website I have ever seen. Like half of all page loads and requests end with “something went wrong”. Search has been unusable from day 1, and somehow getting worse. Their new video player makes me want to throw my computer across the room. I have been using it on and off for a decade now and I can’t think of one aspect of the site (whether in term…
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> Reddit has been passed around more than a joint at a Grateful Dead concert.
That's excellent - wonder if there are any of those undelete websites for hn (same as ceddit.com).
It hasn't worked for some time.