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Re:Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation by CamperBob2 on Monday July 31, 2017 @11:07PM (#14897622)
YouTube is a pretty trivial piece of work compared to Reddit. Nobody would lose a moment's sleep if YouTube's comment system were radically revised, and few would complain if it went away entirely. On Reddit, the comment system is everything.
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Re:Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation by rrdharan on Monday July 31, 2017 @11:54PM (#14897784)
Can't tell if you are joking, but just in case you aren't:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/11/09/google-plu...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/11/14...

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Re:Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation by CamperBob2 on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @01:44AM (#14898164)
The integration complaints had absolutely nothing to do with design aesthetics. There were some serious privacy concerns that arose when Google unified YouTube accounts with accounts used for other Google services.
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Re:Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation by heartbreak on Monday July 31, 2017 @11:52PM (#14897773)
YouTube's comment system was revised a few years ago when Google+ launched, and people definitely "lost sleep" over it.
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Re:Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation by CamperBob2 on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @01:45AM (#14898169)
Not because of the design, though. The way they introduced unified IDs was viewed as problematic (to put it mildly).
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