Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation

Re:Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation by apercu on Monday July 31, 2017 @03:53PM (#14895349)

I have no idea why I care about the NFL, but I have been going to profootballtalk.com daily for years. NBC partnered with a bunch of independent sports blogs like PFT a few years ago. They then rolled 'em all out on a new redesign. I stopped visiting after the first couple tries, then PFT backed out of the redesign and went back to their previous (crappy, old) layout. The other blogs I used to go to (pro hockeytalk and pro basketball talk) didn't and I've never returned.

What I like about reddit and HN (more so) is the minimal, fast, low overhead experience. It's like the original slashdot.

I hate the new animated, ad heavy slow web.

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Re:Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation by cyxxon on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @04:19AM (#14898724)

I also never get why these sites don't change gradually. I mean, Slashdot tried - their code was a mess, and it looked really old. But it took them ages to rewrite this, and they did it all in one go. Bam! Community was pissed. Why not move the broken old HTML to standard compliant one section at a time, and clean up things here and there, and maybe introduce a new font, or section images, ... instead of this huge explosion_ Sure it might be more work and might also not be completely doable, but if you do it all at once, you are almost guaranteed to alienate your users. And if you are Reddit or Slashdot, that's what makes you.

(I somehow triggered a wrong keyboard layout while typing. I tried to find all typos, but probably didn't get them all)

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Re:Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation by MrPatan on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @05:28AM (#14909140)

Most likely Left Alt + Left Shift, if you're on Windows. I use it on purpose now, but man was it baffling when I didn't know what was going on.

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Re:Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation by hyperpallium on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @12:29AM (#14897875)

"The slow web" is a much better buzzword than web 2.0.

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Re:Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation by crazypyro on Monday July 31, 2017 @04:52PM (#14895798)

PFT looks like one of those blogs that is just made up stuff, but it is a pretty good source. I feel like their layout actually harms their credibility though.

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Re:Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation by heartbreak on Monday July 31, 2017 @11:55PM (#14897785)

Their reputation among hardcore NFL fans is strong enough that they don't need a slick layout.

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Re:Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation by ryanmerket on Monday July 31, 2017 @04:41PM (#14895714)

Why not have both?

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