Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation
Oh god. I had the pleasure of seeing one of their new executives speak. An ex-Microsoft guy.<p>I won't be surprised at all when they alienate their userbase with a pointless redesign that adds nothing of substance.<p>The kinds of people that are working at Reddit now are the kinds of people who are not creative and incapable of creating something original. They are the kinds of people who join a tech company solely to ride off the coat tails of those who came before them with original ideas and substance.<p>Naturally, since they don't understand the original desire and intent they are not able to contribute anything new or original. So how they contribute is instead by a route redesign of something that already exists.<p>Redesigns are generally not about improving upon something that was there before. They are a political process for who can get control over something popular that someone already made.