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Reddit plans to rewrite its website in 2017

17 points by panic 10y ago

wyldfire 10y ago
> One project I would like to preview is a rewrite of the desktop website. It is a long time coming. The desktop website has not meaningfully changed in many years; IMO it's not broken and shouldn't be fixed. I've used reddit pretty regularly since before they had comments. The only feature I think I'd like now is for it to remember collapsed threads (like HN does).
- wil421 10y ago
  Reddit used to do this on my iPhone. I'm not sure if it changed when I upgraded to iOS 10 or when I changed from an iPhone 6 to iPhone 7.
- Terr_ 10y ago
  I worry they're gonna repeat Digg's mistakes somehow, dressing everything up and coincidentally increasing their ad/sponsored zones. The minimal comment-and-reply-focused experience is the reason I use Reddit.
  - celticninja 10y ago
    Yup my thoughts too, plenty of imitators already exist (many using Reddit's existing open source code too) to take their spot if they fuck it up.
  - deleted 10y ago
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  - brianwawok 10y ago
    That's how the mobile is already. More pictures less content.
  - astrodust 10y ago
    "Introducing the Redd Bar!" Fucking Reddit had every chance to learn, and instead failed harder on a more massive scale.
- untog 10y ago
  To be fair, it sounds as much of a code rewrite as a presentation rewrite. I can absolutely imagine that the apps might be using a centralised API that the decade-old web site code isn't using, for example.
- astrodust 10y ago
  The software, such as it is, is only part of the problem. The community itself is crumbling, there's just too many people in too many places to effectively manage. When it was a smaller community it was more self-policing. Now the police have given up and it's the inmates running the asylum.
I_am_neo 10y ago
To bad they can't rewrite their mods and admins, thats where I would start.
- astrodust 10y ago
  Unfortunately it was the mods and admins that rewrote the company and cemented their place as kings of the burning trash pile that is Reddit. It used to be a much more civilized place, but over time kingdoms were established, trolls grew in numbers, and now, yikes. Even living in a sub-sub-Reddit doesn't isolate you from the occasional incursion.

17 points by panic 10y ago

> One project I would like to preview is a rewrite of the desktop website. It is a long time coming. The desktop website has not meaningfully changed in many years; IMO it's not broken and shouldn't be fixed. I've used reddit pretty regularly since before they had comments. The only feature I think I'd like now is for it to remember collapsed threads (like HN does).

wil421 10y ago
Reddit used to do this on my iPhone. I'm not sure if it changed when I upgraded to iOS 10 or when I changed from an iPhone 6 to iPhone 7.
Terr_ 10y ago
I worry they're gonna repeat Digg's mistakes somehow, dressing everything up and coincidentally increasing their ad/sponsored zones. The minimal comment-and-reply-focused experience is the reason I use Reddit.
- celticninja 10y ago
  Yup my thoughts too, plenty of imitators already exist (many using Reddit's existing open source code too) to take their spot if they fuck it up.
- deleted 10y ago
  [deleted]
- brianwawok 10y ago
  That's how the mobile is already. More pictures less content.
- astrodust 10y ago
  "Introducing the Redd Bar!" Fucking Reddit had every chance to learn, and instead failed harder on a more massive scale.
untog 10y ago
To be fair, it sounds as much of a code rewrite as a presentation rewrite. I can absolutely imagine that the apps might be using a centralised API that the decade-old web site code isn't using, for example.
astrodust 10y ago
The software, such as it is, is only part of the problem. The community itself is crumbling, there's just too many people in too many places to effectively manage. When it was a smaller community it was more self-policing. Now the police have given up and it's the inmates running the asylum.

I_am_neo 10y ago

To bad they can't rewrite their mods and admins, thats where I would start.

astrodust 10y ago
Unfortunately it was the mods and admins that rewrote the company and cemented their place as kings of the burning trash pile that is Reddit. It used to be a much more civilized place, but over time kingdoms were established, trolls grew in numbers, and now, yikes. Even living in a sub-sub-Reddit doesn't isolate you from the occasional incursion.