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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 rodly »

superfrank wrote: post #225
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.

Yeah, I use their app on android and it's pretty bad. There's currently a bug that seems to get fixed and then reappear where if someone responds to your comment, you get an alert and when you click on the alert it takes you to the comment, but if the comment is too nested, it just takes you to the top of the thread. This makes responding to a comment in any thread with over 100 comments near impossible. Because of t…

Hey there, we've got a fix coming for this, so sorry about that. Thanks for the feedback!

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

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Post by jahlove »

georgespencer wrote: post #343
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…

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…

Have you gone back and looked at your predictions immediately after Facebook acquired Instagram? They're pretty interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3817840

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

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Post by skinnymuch »

gfwhuuku wrote: post #276
slg wrote: post #263

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Challenge accepted. The current top comment on the current top post on /r/politics [1]: >David Frum said it best this morning on NPR, his call for unity isn't actually a call for unity, he's demanding that everyone to support him and his policies. The current top comment on the current top post on /r/The_Donald [2]: >Schumer looked disgusting. Glasses at the end of his nose. Very disrespectful. The politics comment m…

It's a reference to a classic Trump tweet: https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/14958910416893952... (Edit to the guy below: I'm not saying I disagree with you, just adding some context.)

How many Trump tweets can be classic? I’d wager you’d try to give this context for any reference to any Trumpian thing. Which dilutes it meaning anything.

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

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Post by taejo »

klank wrote: post #867
taejo wrote: post #766

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> 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 ne…

> Some of the longest-lasting institutions in the world are non-profit. Is it just some or is it all? Honest question, the only very long lasting institutions I can think of are not for-profit.

There are a handful of still-running for-profit businesses that were founded before 1000, which I consider to good enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies

There are, of course, religious institutions that are older.

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

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Post by ryanmcbride »

korm wrote: post #658
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When Reddit rolled out their new mobile site I had strong suspicions the org must be a mess internally. Out of all the problems one stuck out to me. For many months the comment sorting dropdown took 15 seconds to open from a warm start. That is a billion dollar company making newbie mistakes with React as if it was an intern doing the rewrite. But the situation employees like you have been describing is surreal, I wo…

I think when it truly clicked for me was when they had a workable ecperience (old reddit) that was made pretty great by a plugin (reddit enhancement suite), and then when they did their redesign in an attempt to make RES obsolete, they managed to make something even worse.

They had a perfect opportunity to just roll all of RES's functionality into reddit, and messed it up. Can't even collapse comment trees in the browser app, but you can on mobile.

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

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Post by ryanmcbride »

rswail wrote: post #711
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No comment on the internal management issues, but why is drug use considered an issue unless it is in the work environment? I'm really sick of people thinking that "drugs" are bad, while alcohol/tobacco are not. If someone's substance use is affecting their work, then that's a legit issue. Otherwise it's as irrelevant as which (if any) football team they support.

In the experience of my friend (I know this equates to hearsay since they aren't here to directly comment) it definitely did affect people's work.
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