Reddit co-founder tells TNW about the sneaky design trick it decided to abandon

Reddit co-founder tells TNW about the sneaky design trick it decided to abandon

5 years ago
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https://thenextweb.com/dd/2018/05/25/reddit-executive-tells-tnw-about-the-sneaky-design-trick-it-decided-to-abandon/

How do you redesign a site with 350 million monthly active users, 300 million comments a day, and a user base known to get a little rowdy when things go wrong? This is exactly the sort of challenge Reddit’s CTO and Co-Founder Chris Slowe has been tackling over the past year.

In a talk at TNW Conference, Slowe let loose a little about the recently redesigned “front page of the web,” aka Reddit. Perhaps the most interesting element — at least to me —  was one that never made the cut.