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How is Reddit IPO'ing after they were bought by Conde Nast?

I've never really looked into it. It's an interesting thing that they managed to get un-acquired somehow.

In fact, there are so many questions. Does YC get a payday out of this, or was their stock acquired during the acquisition? 2% of $5B is $100M, so it's a lot of money at stake.

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they were spun off a while ago

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/31/reddit-just-raised-a-new-r...

* keep the old.Reddit.com design for everyone

* spend 9 figures for a redesign

The choice was obvious

I don't think a lot Gen Z don't like the old.reddit.com because it looks kind of old fashioned vs say react "modern" pages and they're afraid of lookign old-fashioned. However, that is what keeps me coming back along with relative anonymity and content on topics that I like.

information density is too low. Why would I spend 2.5x time scrolling through www.reddit.com/r/fantasyfootball when I can read all the important headlines faster at old.reddit.com ... the redesign also loads fewer posts at a time so you constantly wait for a spinner to fetch new content

Mobile apps solved that problem. The redesign made desktop problems.

I only use my phone when I have to. If I'm within 20 feet of a computer w/ a monitor I'll go use that. I know it's old fashioned but it is what it is.

Do you see yourself ever using a phone docked?

Late Zoomers I think you're correct, however my early Zoomer friends and I all use old reddit - we grew up with it after all.

> The capital will be used to redesign Reddit’s famously cluttered homepage, co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman tells Recode. The company also plans to pour more resources into user-uploaded video.

Wow, time has not been kind to this paragraph. The redesign is still hated by a large portion of the userbase and the Reddit video player is infamously unreliable.

I'm curious what happened behind the scenes here.

Are they going to compete with YouTube?

Can anyone compete with YouTube? Facebook is probably closest to it in scale but it is not a video sharing platform.

I doubt the redesign matters to the vast majority of users, despite the vocal nature of the minority who dislike it.

One of the best HN replies I've ever read was in this thread. I am so sad it was deleted.

What did it say?

> Reddit has been passed around more than a joint at a Grateful Dead concert.

That's excellent - wonder if there are any of those undelete websites for hn (same as ceddit.com).

Ceddit was really good for r/askhistorians threads. You could read interesting takes on the questions that did not pass the mods snob filter.

It hasn't worked for some time.

There are alternatives, like reveddit. I think they all use the Pushshift API behinds the scenes.

That's correct. I'm the author of Reveddit. A few things like user pages and the desktop extension work entirely without Pushshift. Threads can function somewhat without it. I maintain a FAQ with details of how it works in case anyone's interested,

https://www.reveddit.com/about/faq/

Wouldn’t a joint being passed around get all consumed in less than one pass? This is Grateful Dead we’re talking about.

Really interesting thing about the Grateful Dead is back in the 90s their tour was the distribution network for the Bay Area organization that made virtually all of the US market’s LSD. Back then the DEA actually published their internal research on the Internet. Their research conclusively showed it was a single lab making it all. It even discussed how impossible it was to infiltrate the network because they were spiritual zealots and not mercenary drug dealers. I miss those days.

Apparently no culture is a match for withstanding just 30 years of unfathomable wealth.

Depends on the size of the joint.

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