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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 nolok »

tosser0001 wrote: post #315
GordonS wrote: post #93

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2 things about Reddit's "use our app instead!" buttons: 1. They cycle through a couple of different messages, and the buttons get switched around 2. The wording is such that you read it twice and still aren't sure which button will just take you to the damn website I don't mind them promoting their app, but these dark patterns truely rile me

I find it ironic that their tagline is "The front page of the internet" but they push you to use a proprietary app.

For the record, that tag line was an idea from their users, and chosen hey their users (through upvotes, of course). It wasn't how reddit the company sees itself, it was how its users saw it. I still remember the thread where it happened years ago.

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

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Post by leadingthenet »

gfwhuuku wrote: post #33
ihuman wrote: post #10

>But supporting and moderating all that content isn’t cheap What? Moderators don't get paid at all to moderate.

They have paid site-wide moderators. I've been banned many times by them, even for posts in very niche subs, and I've also been in many subs that were banned, so I imagine they have a few paid mods like that.

Those are called admins, not moderators (which are all unpaid).

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

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Post by shanehoban »

rhinoceraptor wrote: post #145
GordonS wrote: post #93

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2 things about Reddit's "use our app instead!" buttons: 1. They cycle through a couple of different messages, and the buttons get switched around 2. The wording is such that you read it twice and still aren't sure which button will just take you to the damn website I don't mind them promoting their app, but these dark patterns truely rile me

I do mind them promoting their app, it’s a horrible app and they’ve continually ruined their website. The only way I can stand to use reddit anymore is through Narwhal, at least until they kill their 3rd party apps API.

I refuse to use the new design with the same contempt as I refuse to pay for picking my seat on an aeroplane (P.S. Ryanair: my girlfriend is not happy about this... but at least I get some peace and quiet right? /s).

I use Boost for Reddit (Android) and the old reddit style, and RES in my browser. I see why they are going towards the Instagram style route - people generally like what they are accustomed to; and I guess more people use Instagram than Reddit.

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

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Post by collyw »

jhall1468 wrote: post #37
collyw wrote: post #21

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> I can be immediately connected with the most knowledgeable and enthusiastic people on virtually any subject I care about. Politics on Reddit seems to fall into either The_Donald or "Orange man bad" with very little objectivity in the middle in my experience.

/r/politics is fairly left-leaning by US standards, while The_Donald and /r/conservative are hardly about politics anymore. Furthermore, I'd say on a global scale /r/politics is pretty much dead middle, while subreddits like /r/latestagecapitalism represent the far left. Frankly, Democrats are being pulled to the left by the progressives and Republicans went hard right years ago with the tea party, so the reason ther…

r/politics is definitely in the "orange man bad" camp. There are a few objective posters on there but they are not the majority.

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

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Post by taejo »

adventured wrote: post #723
FiddlyPack wrote: post #688

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Paying for employees, infrastructure, etc requires sustainable revenue, not profit.

It's impossible to run an organization at zero capital buffer perpetually (see: even Wikimedia likes to have a capital reserve). That's a great way to end up bankrupt. What you're suggesting is well beyond absurd. When the recession hits how do you plan to buffer the revenue beating you're guaranteed to take? If you had built up a cash reserve, you can absorb some or all of the hit. Where do you plan to get a large a…

> It's impossible to run an organization at zero capital buffer perpetually (see: even Wikimedia likes to have a capital reserve). That's a great way to end up bankrupt. What you're suggesting is well beyond absurd.

And yet, Wikimedia is a non-profit. So is Harvard. Non-profit doesn't mean you can't have a capital reserve. It only means you don't pay that capital reserve out to shareholders.

> Profit is inherently necessary so that when inevitable bad things happen, you can afford to absorb them.

Some of the longest-lasting institutions in the world are non-profit.

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

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Post by brynjolf »

zozbot123 wrote: post #459
ryanmcbride wrote: post #259

I know someone worked for reddit for a while last year (they don't anymore because they hated every second of it) and from what I understand the engineering teams there are a nightmare of groups that don't talk to each other, constantly write the same code in completely different ways, have no common style and just shoehorn in whatever they want. Everything breaks pretty much all the time. All of that is aside from t…

To their credit, they got rid of the "incel" stuff pretty quickly after it became basically-synonymous with "dangerously violent male-supremacist cult" (it used to just be "losers who can't relate with the opposite sex, and seem to be weirdly proud of this fact"). A similar story holds for the racist content.

You mean the Donald? It is still there

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

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Post by qgsrw3fd »

vvillena wrote: post #642
qgsrw3fd wrote: post #607

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If your comment is not sarcastic, you can go and ask in Eastern Europe if the people who want to "redistribute money" are scary or not.

Please, don't equate taxes to a complete nationalization of nearly all industries plus a ban on all monetary transactions save a few whitelisted types. It's an absurd comparison that does nothing to further the current discussion.

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

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Post by code_duck »

rjbwork wrote: post #251
IggleSniggle wrote: post #194

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It’s funny, the web app used to be really good. Much better than the native app. Since then they have been making the web app increasingly worse over time, actively degrading its functionality and pleasantness to use.

You can just permanently set your account to use the old layout/view. I've noticed little to no changes other than user profiles, which are the "old new" ones. On my phone I use reddit is fun. I have no issues at all with reddit atm in terms of them fucking with my experience.

There are many situations where you are presented with the mobile or new desktop designs, such as being logged out. I have to sign in at least twice every time to use the old desktop version.

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

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Post by code_duck »

benbristow wrote: post #249
rhinoceraptor wrote: post #145

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I do mind them promoting their app, it’s a horrible app and they’ve continually ruined their website. The only way I can stand to use reddit anymore is through Narwhal, at least until they kill their 3rd party apps API.

If their API is killed I think Reddit's done for. I wouldn't use it if I were forced to use the official app myself, sure many others wouldn't either. Folk would probably move over to something like voat.co

Voat? Might as well believe that Facebook users are switching to Diaspora
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