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Can anybody name a successful ground-up redesign of a popular website? Or a successful from-scratch rewrite of a heavily used codebase?

• RickS 9y ago
  I recall twitter's early rewrite going pretty well. The "fail whale" was a real big deal before that. They went from notoriously poor uptime to being on par with facebook.
  • mrkrabo 9y ago
    But that was a rewrite of the backend which was very needed. The design didn't change. Although I agree, Reddit desperately needs a rewrite of its backend.
• pramodliv1 9y ago
  Basecamp is the only one I can think of - https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3856-the-big-rewrite-revisited https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3856-the-big-rewrite-revisite...
• emmett 9y ago
  The Facebook newsfeed.
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