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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 qgsrw3fd »

SlowRobotAhead wrote: post #160
blotter_paper wrote: post #100

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Another clear red line was when spez started editing comments.[0] It was childish and non-consequential, but should have resulted in an immediate exodus from the platform. I'm not politically aligned with r/The_Donald, but I think this sort of petty power abuse should not be forgiven; the platform needs to die, as an example to other platforms. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5ekdy9/the_admi...

That was beyond unacceptable because it didn't show the comment as have been edited with an asterisks. Which means they have and use special admin powers at will. The only issue to Reddit it seems was that he was caught doing it.

I don't think admins can edit comments using the regular website interface. The CEO edited the comments directly in the database. That's why the asterisk never appeared. (Which, by the way, means the CEO has direct access to the database. Why?)

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

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Post by sushid »

hjort-e wrote: post #438
georgespencer wrote: post #343

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I find this sort of slightly gloating incredulity at just how "obvious" the things a company ought to be working on are to be surprising. You have almost none of the information required to make informed judgements about whether or not Reddit's product team is incompetent (maybe they're doing way better than they should be under the circumstances?), or whether they're focusing on the right things. There are definitel…

The site is literally down for me right now. Second time this week. Several high profile issues i encounter on a daily/weekly basis: - Sometimes you are "not logged in", but when you click the login button, it says welcome back and you're properly logged in. - Subreddits can change background color pagewide, which renders dark practically useless. - It's so resource intensive that simply scrolling will make a youtube…

> - Subreddits can change background color pagewide, which renders dark practically useless.

Disable subreddit styles altogether to fix this problem. I have my complaints as well but this one you can't blame Reddit for. They wanted to do away with custom CSS on Subreddits but the community was very pro-css and thus they kept it.

I personally like to keep it on by default and blacklist ones I find annoying.

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

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Post by gamanoid »

ssnistfajen wrote: post #294
superfrank wrote: post #257

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> I suspect they will be bigger than Facebook (maybe not in valuation, but usage) in the next 7 years and these problems will only be exacerbated. I only agree with that in the sense that I think Facebook (the facebnook.com site) usage will decline quicker that Reddit usage. As someone who's been on Reddit for almost 9 years, I feel like the redesign is kind of equivalent to the timeline change that Facebook had. Whi…

I'd love to be surprised with a decent competitor but all of the Reddit spin-offs I've seen are all trying to be not-Reddit, and that often includes keeping the community niche/exclusive.

Out of curiosity have you heard of Tildes.net?

It's a non-profit site created by a former Reddit admin Deimorz (known for being the creator of /u/Automoderator, /r/SubredditSimulator...).

It's currently in closed alpha so the community is somewhat exclusive because of that; but if you wanted a HN+reddit hybrid, then it might be worth checking out.

sub: /r/Tildes source: https://gitlab.com/tildes

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

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Post by didip »

komali2 wrote: post #39
minimaxir wrote: post #16

I've been a fan of Reddit for a very long time (as the amount of data science work I've done with their data can attest to), but lately it seems like the incentives between Reddit as a business and Reddit as a community leader are not aligned, and that is a problem. The increasing amount of dark patterns Reddit has been employing lately is concerning. (recent example: Reddit now gates content in mobile Safari to push…

Re: "Download the app!" gates, banners, etc. Medium does this too. Why? What's the business reason? What does a native app provide the business that a mobile website doesn't?

I wish that button actually works reliably.

More often than not, I got redirected to App Store to re-download Reddit app, instead of launching the post in the app.

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

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Post by qgsrw3fd »

babypuncher wrote: post #230
wnevets wrote: post #90

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There are so many more issues with Reddit, I'm surprised they haven't been digg'd or myspace'd yet.

As soon as a viable alternative pops up that doesn't seem tailor made for racists, I'm there. So far every competitor I've seen pop up seems to think Reddit's biggest problem is their (rather weak) stance against hate speech and user harassment, and not all the actual problems being discussed here.

What part of reddit makes it tailor made for racists? The fact that pictures of members of the KKK appear when you sign up, or the fact that when you're writing a comment you're suggested to include as many racial expletives as possible?

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

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Post by ssnistfajen »

gamanoid wrote: post #593
ssnistfajen wrote: post #294

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I'd love to be surprised with a decent competitor but all of the Reddit spin-offs I've seen are all trying to be not-Reddit, and that often includes keeping the community niche/exclusive.

Out of curiosity have you heard of Tildes.net? It's a non-profit site created by a former Reddit admin Deimorz (known for being the creator of /u/Automoderator, /r/SubredditSimulator...). It's currently in closed alpha so the community is somewhat exclusive because of that; but if you wanted a HN+reddit hybrid, then it might be worth checking out. sub: /r/Tildes source: https://gitlab.com/tildes

I already have a Tildes account. It's not really active so I haven't checked it out very often. They are very careful about community growth so I don't see how it will become a competitor to Reddit, as least not in terms of business value.

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

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Post by wolco »

throwawaymath wrote: post #399
wolco wrote: post #309

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You had me believing that reddit was a bad place to work. When you complain that the CEO gave drugs to an employee in a cabin I started to question if your opinion matches my value system. When you were shocked they hosted other points of view then I completely changed my mind because reddit is a place for all viewpoints and thought reddit is starting to sound like a great place to work. Sounds like teams are impleme…

To your point about viewpoints: Reddit is pretty demonstrably not a place for all viewpoints. Note that I'm not making a normative comment here, I'm just stating a fact: in most of the mainstream and default subreddits, there are a variety of opinions you really can't express without being downvoted. As for the thing with the CEO giving drugs to someone in a cabin...I think you should interpret this a little more hol…

The comment around CEO and drugs was gossip pure and simple and should be ignored. I've seen many CEOs buy beer for employees it is part of many offices. Recreational drugs should be treated in the same manner. I will not judge him any differently.

Each subreddit is a kingdom to itself but the fact that you can start your own kingdom allows free speech without forcing all speech on everyone.

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

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

conception wrote: post #579
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #557

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>"the average redditor probably doesn't want to see death videos alongside their cat pictures and memes" // Was that possible _by accident_ in recent renditions of reddit? IME you have to be in a reddit where that sort of content is, and change settings to make it default visible?

/r/all potentially could have anything pop up, no?

I could be wrong but it always (in my recollection, so only going back a few years) excluded nsfw? When I last visited even going to a fully nsfw subreddit all the media was blurred out, so you might have NSFL titles .. but if you're that timid then probably any site with UGC is going to be a struggle.
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