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Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by halfmatthalfcat » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 5:20 AM UTC

cbozeman wrote: post #196

CamelCaseName wrote: post #164

Half the comments in here boil down to "I would stop using Reddit if they discontinued old.reddit.com" and it really rubs me the wrong way. It's like saying "Facebook will die if they start charging users to post to their wall". Like, okay, sure. But Reddit has repeatedly said that they will not depreciate old.reddit.com. They have zero reason to, as many of their powerusers rely on it. In fact, I don't think Reddit…

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> every subreddit are rabid radical liberals who won't tolerate the slightest dissent from the party line.

> I'm glad he's dead - he'd probably kill himself again if he could see what's been done to the site.

Woof, there's one echo chamber and then there's this...

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by Rebelgecko » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 5:21 AM UTC

kingcharles wrote: post #95

greenknight wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the thing, i hate their new ui... and if ever they get rid of their 'old' ui I would leave reddit. Their "New UI" was brought in in 2018, and to me was like a digg moment. To me, Hackernews is what Reddit was 10 years ago, just without subreddits. Clean top quality content.

It's weird. I was a huge user of Reddit from its launch to 2013 when I fell off the Internet. I didn't use it again until 2021, so I had a big jump in UI. As a UX designer I really don't get all the hate about the current interface. It works great for me.

Just curious, did you abstain from the internet for 8 years? Or just Reddit?

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by TigeriusKirk » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 5:21 AM UTC

What's Reddit need access to public capital for?

Of course they want to make some individuals rich, but other than that?

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by na85 » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 5:21 AM UTC

bryans wrote: post #92

Reddit is operating on the shakiest house of cards, and their investors are being swindled, along with their advertisers. For one of many examples, they're grossly inflating viewership numbers on Reddit Live by injecting the top broadcast into the front page of 25,000 users every ~30 seconds -- largely against their will[1] or without knowledge[2] -- and then selling those as "video views" to record labels, Adobe, Le…

>On top of hundreds of lies at this point, they've been actively banning anyone who discusses this.

Reddit's been like that for at least a decade. I remember arguing with Huffman and later Pao about their awful corporate newspeak ("enabling authentic conversations") and how reddit is being actively gamed by advertisers and has been for years. The same goes for every user-hostile change they've made (and there have been many). It's always under some noble pretense but really it's about making reddit more palatable to advertisers. When confronted, the admins either avoid responding or else claim Big Tobacco-levels of ignorance.

It's all so patently obvious to anyone who chooses to look, and I think the blatant contempt the admins display towards their users (without whom, let's not forget, reddit would never have taken off) contributes to the toxicity on reddit, or at least it did years ago when reddit was smaller and the toxic culture is now self-perpetuating.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 5:21 AM UTC

randmeerkat wrote: post #197

I keep wondering, why hasn’t someone made a new Reddit that’s pretty much just the old Reddit? It seems like there’s a ton of demand for it. Disrupt what Reddit has become by creating what it used to be.

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Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by niij » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 5:21 AM UTC

henning wrote: post #200

The Reddit of 2006 where tutorials on generating HTML in Lisp rocket to the top of the homepage is long gone. I can't imagine investing in an ad company that is fueled by clickbait and outrage the way Reddit is. Plus, some percentage of the userbase will always run aggressive ad blockers and be impossible to effectvely monetize. However, my brain works very differently from other people's, so I could be wrong.

Which indexes? If they include US Large Cap then you already invest in FB and Twitter.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 5:21 AM UTC

henning wrote: post #200

The Reddit of 2006 where tutorials on generating HTML in Lisp rocket to the top of the homepage is long gone. I can't imagine investing in an ad company that is fueled by clickbait and outrage the way Reddit is. Plus, some percentage of the userbase will always run aggressive ad blockers and be impossible to effectvely monetize. However, my brain works very differently from other people's, so I could be wrong.

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Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by gpm » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 5:22 AM UTC

randmeerkat wrote: post #197

I keep wondering, why hasn’t someone made a new Reddit that’s pretty much just the old Reddit? It seems like there’s a ton of demand for it. Disrupt what Reddit has become by creating what it used to be.

lemmy.ml is an example of this, and I'm pretty sure that it's far from the first. The hard part is attracting a crowd, network effects are real.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by paxys » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 5:23 AM UTC

henning wrote: post #200

The Reddit of 2006 where tutorials on generating HTML in Lisp rocket to the top of the homepage is long gone. I can't imagine investing in an ad company that is fueled by clickbait and outrage the way Reddit is. Plus, some percentage of the userbase will always run aggressive ad blockers and be impossible to effectvely monetize. However, my brain works very differently from other people's, so I could be wrong.

You are forgetting this other ad company fueled by clickbait and outrage that has a trillion dollar market cap. It is a winning business model.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by mightyquacks » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 5:24 AM UTC

Reddit used to be amazing

Now it's like a red flag in your resume if you worked for reddit

Then they made a whole mess on the homepage. This is what happens when you hire mediocre engineers. Its like junior engineers who cant write code. Reddit mobile is not bad, but stop trying to make me install it. There are people who only wants to use web. But your web engineers are garbage

their ads is incredibly bad.

there are dark patterns everywhere. Now they're even trying to mess up the old.redit.com

The site always crashes.

It's like the early founders did a really good job, and the vultures who could barely pass as a PM or as an engineer took over.

I mean if they wanted to save this site, they would prob have to lay off all the fat and start rehiring.

I was excited for reddit back in the day, i thought they had a shot of saving the internet. now they're trying to get into everything, and can barely execute

So the trillion dollar question is, what's next to replace reddit