This article has been imported from chorus.fm for discussion. All of the forum rules still apply. Reddit is now valued at $1.8 billion after their latest round of funding. According to Recode the company will be going on a hiring spree and redesigning their website: Reddit has raised $200 million in new venture funding and is now valued at $1.8 billion, according to CEO Steve Huffman. The new funding round, the company’s largest ever, should expedite a number of internal product and business efforts, including a redesign of its homepage and its first foray into user-uploaded video, Huffman added in an interview with Recode. The money comes courtesy of a number of well-known Silicon Valley investors, including firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, and individual investors like Y Combinator President Sam Altman (also a board member) and SV Angel’s Ron Conway. It also includes money from the hedge fund Coatue, investment firm Vy Capital and mutual fund giant Fidelity. Expand - View Original
Not sure about a whole redesign. They've already started to implement some new profile pages for users which is pretty terrible.
Ugh, I already see this backfiring. I don't go to Reddit for visuals or style; I'm there for it's easy of use and functionality. It's a news and content aggregated forum - it's primary purpose is for discussion and to be a simple portal to other content not directly hosted by Reddit. It's "outdated" layout serves this purpose in my opinion. Don't fix what ain't broken.