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Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by kodablah »

zozbot123 wrote: post #107
kodablah wrote: post #36

I have an idea for Reddit if they want to make money: I know your site is open source, but it is not an easy setup. The mixture between forum, customizable subreddits, and almost chat-like threading is tailor made for intra-company communication. We all feel the pain of ephemeral chat and closed-recipient email to do business. Employees need a way to show off, communicate, post neat things, customize their department…

You know that NNTP is a thing, right? It's not like the "chat-like threading" was Reddit's invention.

This is like telling someone installing Sharepoint that they know NFS shares are a thing right? Or a business using Slack that they know IRC is a thing right? Who is claiming Reddit invented it? They have made it approachable...hopefully one day all these people pointing out open alternatives that technically have feature parity will recognize why there's a difference in adoption.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by Elect2 »

jhedwards wrote: post #174
rubyn00bie wrote: post #108

I actually hate Reddit these days. I've never really been into their various communities/subredits- and on occasion they're really useful spots of information or entertainment. But... Their current "force you into app" (which appears to leave you logged in, able to make account changes, even if you change your password) approach is fucking horrible. Their mobile navigation is broken by design and.... for what? What i…

> What incentive do I have to sign up? Arguably the best Reddit experience is only available when you are signed in. Reddit's greatest value come from niche communities. Personally I enjoy things like r/savagegarden, r/mycology and r/askhistorians, so when I log in I see pictures of mushrooms and carnivorous plants, and get to read interesting articles about history and science. If you don't log in and subscribe to t…

OFF-TOPIC question: how did you first time find those subreddits?

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by deminature »

MRD85 wrote: post #365
bleriot wrote: post #336

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A lot of subs are full of edgelords. The sub was quarantined because they need to make Reddit more palatable to investors and advertisers.

A lot of subreddits had that happen to them. It's sad because they are choosing who can speak and who cannot.

They're not stopping those people from speaking, they're just hiding that content from average users. It's reasonable to think the average redditor probably doesn't want to see death videos alongside their cat pictures and memes.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by HNLurker2 »

arcticfox wrote: post #197
debaserab2 wrote: post #151

It amazes me the kind of sheer incompetency their product team has demonstrated over the past 2-3 years. (Edit - as pointed out in replies to this post, this is an unfair characterization fueled by my recent frustrations with the direction the site is going. I don't think it is unreasonable to point out that reddit is failing the expectations of their users, but I don't doubt for a minute that the individuals working…

They've totally broken "quarantined" subreddits as well. I used to occasionally visit /r/watchpeopledie as a reminder of my own mortality and some of the horrors of the world, but apparently NSFW wasn't enough for people visiting "watchpeopledie" to realize they might see something bad. So they "quarantined" it, which actually means totally breaking it, in my browser at least. RIP. Discussion by others here [0] "I'm…

You are right +1 . Meditating on immortality makes you fearless, anecdotally.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by prepend »

sephoric wrote: post #443
breck wrote: post #214

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Yes we all know the logged in experience is terrific. However, the anonymous experience is (was) also terrific for very different reasons. Reddit is next to unusable on mobile safari in incognito mode. Sometimes I don’t want to be tracked. I want to read whatever I want to at the moment, without having that be associated to my name in a database somewhere, and without having related ads follow me around. It’s an inte…

It's an intellectual freedom that has no precedent throughout history. If you walked into a library in the 1950s and thumbed through a book about communism, you were probably put on a list. If you walked into a privately owned book store, the owners had a right to gossip and tell others what you purchased, and I'm sure many people unfortunately made use of that liberty. This isn't new.

There are many amazing new possibilities brought about because of the Internet. Just because Stalin (and the FBI) tracked your library habits doesn’t mean we should squash out useful functionality.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by taurath »

YeahSureWhyNot wrote: post #157
nopriorarrests wrote: post #118

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Consider a few cases. - you want to advertise B2B software to small/medium business owners. - you want to advertise expensive fashion items to 20-35 y.o. women in NY/CT. Will you pick FB or reddit? And then yes, lack of brand safety for non-targeted ads.

genuine question. is reddit good place to advertise a B2B software? my startup offers B2B warehousing/ecommerce solution and I never thought about reddit in that way even if I visit its front page daily.

You might get some brand awareness if you target specific subs (devops, etc), but I'd imagine the decisionmakers in companies that need what you're providing are not spending their time on subreddits, and the non-decisionmakers probably have adblocking on.

Thats just my perception though - also that reddit as a whole is very lowest common denominator tech/business wise.

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Post by HNLurker2 »

ndnxhs wrote: post #478
throwawaymath wrote: post #378

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If nothing else, I think your conclusion that the product team is incompetent (or displays a lot of incompetency) is debatable. That seems very uncharitable. Reddit isn't flush with money the same way Google, Facebook, Amazon and Netflix are. They can't throw wild amounts of cash at a problem to solve it or attract the talent who can. I think your characterization of Reddit's infrastructure challenges - which basical…

They dont need to throw huge amounts of money at it. Reddit was much much better a few years ago. Its next to useless now.

Can you elaborate? I was, kid you not searching for good subreddits and then cane to HN for suggestions and found this on front page.

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Post by mevile »

jedberg wrote: post #148
EpicEng wrote: post #135

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>We spent too much time firefighting and not enough time innovating I honestly don't mean this in a back-handed manner, but what innovations have come about since that time? Reddit is great because of its momentum and user generated content. That model does best when the admins stay out of the way for the most part. Many (including myself) are not at all a fan of the more recently emerging dark patterns or the site r…

I stopped working there right as it exploded, so I can't list them all, but I know a ton of backend work was done after I left to make site more stable and faster. And externally the biggest one was mobile support, which is light years ahead of what it was back then.

Light years ahead with a subset of the features. Reddit has been down for me a lot lately too. I'm not sure Reddit has been getting better tbh. As long as the communities stick around I'll keep using it though. I like reddit a lot.

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Post by rhcom2 »

crowdpleaser wrote: post #460
rhcom2 wrote: post #392

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> I want to see the illegals dumped at the embassy rather than hooked up to medicine. That is a horrible, near sociopathic, line of thinking. You seem to have gotten to a point where you can't even recognize illegal immigrants as human beings.

I don't see it as any more or less sociopathic than saying "you need to pay for these people's medicine or else I'll sic the authorities on you". If I saw illegals as non-human, I'd advocate for the local DNR to hand out hunting permits for illegals. Don't you see my humanity? I bust my ass to earn my keep, I don't demand access to things others have, if that attitude were reciprocated and people took care of themsel…

You can see people as less than human without thinking it is okay for you to hunt them as animals. Advocating to let people die, instead of treat them, because they aren't here legally is putting their immigration status above them as a person and to me absolutely lessening their humanity.

If someone is hurt and comes to me for help, I don't ask to see their papers.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by shok3001 »

syrdon wrote: post #461
jhedwards wrote: post #174

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> What incentive do I have to sign up? Arguably the best Reddit experience is only available when you are signed in. Reddit's greatest value come from niche communities. Personally I enjoy things like r/savagegarden, r/mycology and r/askhistorians, so when I log in I see pictures of mushrooms and carnivorous plants, and get to read interesting articles about history and science. If you don't log in and subscribe to t…

Reddit.com/r/askhistorians+mycology+savagegarden gets that same experience though.

old.reddit.com/r/askhistorians+mycology+savagegarden

FTFY

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