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I think this is a brilliant move. To all those saying whether or not current redditors will use it: that's not the point. This is Reddit attempting to use the
by austenallred 11y ago
I think this is a brilliant move.
To all those saying whether or not current redditors will use it: that's not the point. This is Reddit attempting to use the content users generate on the platform for the 99% of people who don't use Reddit. Call it buzzfeed if you want, an absurd amount of people use buzzfeed.
So long as Reddit and Upvoted are separate, I think it makes a ton of sense.
- alexis 11y agoThanks. Yep, they're separate, but based on the success of the Upvoted podcast and newsletter over this year, we definitely see the potential of upvoted.com to be a gateway to get new users into Reddit. One reason why, for instance, we have a link to a comment section on r/upvoted at the bottom of every article (each Upvoted.com gets automatically submitted to r/upvoted upon posting).
- halcyondaze 11y agoYo Alexis - was the main logic behind starting this the fact that so many other sites are using Reddit UGC to drive their content machines (and thus revenues)?