{"id":18498,"date":"2017-07-31T15:33:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T19:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18498"},"modified":"2017-07-31T15:46:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T19:46:18","slug":"reddit-raises-200m-rewrites-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/31\/reddit-raises-200m-rewrites-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit Raises $200M, Rewrites Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.recode.net\/2017\/7\/31\/16037126\/reddit-funding-200-million-valuation-steve-huffman-alexis-ohanian\">Kurt Wagner<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=14893846\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.recode.net\/2017\/7\/31\/16037126\/reddit-funding-200-million-valuation-steve-huffman-alexis-ohanian\"><p>Reddit has raised $200 million in new venture funding and is now valued at $1.8 billion, according to CEO Steve Huffman.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Huffman&rsquo;s plan for the new funding includes a redesign of reddit.com &mdash; the company is literally re-writing all of its code, some of which is more than a decade old. An early version of the new design, which we saw during our interview, looks similar to Facebook&rsquo;s News Feed or Twitter&rsquo;s Timeline: A never-ending feed of content broken up into &ldquo;cards&rdquo; with more visuals to lure people into the conversations hidden underneath.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Reddit is also beefing up its video efforts, and recently launched a beta feature that lets users upload videos directly to the site for the first time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Supporting video could potentially be very interesting. Making the design more like Facebook would probably make it less appealing to me, though.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/announcements\/comments\/6qptzw\/with_so_much_going_on_in_the_world_i_thought_id\/\">Reddit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/announcements\/comments\/6qptzw\/with_so_much_going_on_in_the_world_i_thought_id\/\"><p>We&rsquo;re making some changes to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/help\/privacypolicy\">Privacy Policy<\/a>. Specifically, we&rsquo;re phasing out Do Not Track, which isn&rsquo;t supported by all browsers, doesn&rsquo;t work on mobile, and is implemented by few&mdash;if any&mdash;advertisers, and replacing it with our own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/personalization\">privacy controls<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dhh\/status\/892105118467928065\">David Heinemeier Hansson<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt Wagner (via Hacker News): Reddit has raised $200 million in new venture funding and is now valued at $1.8 billion, according to CEO Steve Huffman. [&#8230;] Huffman&rsquo;s plan for the new funding includes a redesign of reddit.com &mdash; the company is literally re-writing all of its code, some of which is more than a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[354,101,77,355,1366,97,96],"class_list":["post-18498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-advertising","tag-business","tag-design","tag-privacy","tag-reddit","tag-video","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18507,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18498\/revisions\/18507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}