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The human-powered megasite’s Reddit Answers feature hints at its ambition to become even more essential to online research.
Reddit's journey from a college dorm room idea to a publicly traded entity capped off with a $6.4 billion IPO on Thursday, cementing its place as the newest social media company to go public. Yet ...
More than 6,000 communities on the popular social networking forum Reddit have gone dark as moderators protest the company’s decision to charge some third-party apps for the use of Reddit data ...
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced in an interview Thursday that Reddit would pursue changes allowing users to vote out subreddit moderators, many of which are participating in a blackout protest ...
Most notably though, it is removing the ability to opt out of ad personalization based on Reddit activity. The company said that it will still have opt-out controls in “select countries ...
Reddit stamped out its user revolt, as Gizmodo reported, but in its Pyrrhic victory, may have irrevocably damaged its relationship with its users. Many subreddits just aren’t the same.
Reddit has rolled out some changes to the logged-out web experience. The intent of the updates is to “deliver a more consistent, reliable, and fast web experience.” ...
Reddit, an 18-year-old site that was part of an early wave of social networking, has been trying to “ grow up,” Mr. Huffman has said in interviews. What is unclear is whether Reddit’s ...