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79-411: "This is a shot at a collection of ideas I had a few years ago, about looking critically at the universe of Super Mario Bros. in light of the total lack of explicit narrative in the original game in particular. Who are these strange men? What motivates them? By what right do they wreak the havoc they do on this strange place? What do they feel about where they are and what they’re doing? And so, this

158-602: A polygon —"the basic visual building block of video games". After raising money in a second round of funding in late 2013, Vox Media announced that they would be investing further in the site's video product, such that the site's experience would feel "as much like TV programming as magazine publishing". Polygon announced that it would run fewer features in June 2014, with the departure of features editor Russ Pitts, their video director, and video designer. Polygon hired Susana Polo, founder of The Mary Sue , in 2015, which marked

237-415: A " hilarious parody." Motherboard ' s Emanuel Maiberg remarked while it is a "small and funny browser game," it is "not as fun to play as the original Super Mario Bros ." Gamnesia ' s Gabriel McBride found the game as "possible interpretation" to Luigi's actions and thoughts in official games and thus "manages to be pretty amusing in the process." Boing Boing ' s David Pescovitz reviewed

316-419: A "Polygon Recommends", a game that the reviewer, having played enough of the game to make a determination, can stand behind and support for the site. These Recommended titles subsequently will serve as the basis of selection of "Polygon Essentials", games that the site feels everyone should play. The site uses a pink color palette and emulates the magazine-style layout of The Verge . Their longform journalism

395-564: A "serious commitment to online journalism" in an age of content farms and disappearing print publications, but Grant did not trust the offer and declined. Upon seeing the effort that Vox Media put into The Verge , their Chorus content management system , and the quality of their content and sponsorships, Grant changed his mind and returned to pitch Bankoff. Grant wanted the new site to compete with top gaming websites GameSpot and IGN , but still be able to run longform "magazine-style journalism" that could be of historic interest. As part of

474-484: A Black candidate". Michael Seibel , then-CEO of Y Combinator, was subsequently named to the board. On December 13, 2020, Reddit announced it had acquired short-form video social platform Dubsmash , hiring its entire team, with the intention of integrating its video creation tools into Reddit. On March 5, 2021, Reddit announced that it had appointed Drew Vollero, who has worked at Snapchat 's parent company Snap (SNAP), as its first Chief Financial Officer weeks after

553-855: A brainstorming session to pitch another startup, the idea was created for what Graham called the "front page of the Internet". For this idea, Huffman and Ohanian were accepted in Y Combinator's first class. Supported by the funding from Y Combinator, Huffman coded the site in Common Lisp and together with Ohanian launched Reddit in June 2005. Embarrassed by an empty-looking site, the founders created hundreds of fake users for their posts to make it look more populated. The team expanded to include Christopher Slowe in November 2005. Between November 2005 and January 2006, Reddit merged with Aaron Swartz 's company Infogami, and Swartz became an equal owner of

632-685: A common foundation named Baseplate. It was originally implemented in Python, but since 2019, parts of it have been reimplemented in Go for better performance. Reddit also runs its services through Kubernetes and uses Spinnaker for continuous delivery . In early 2009, Reddit started using jQuery . In 2017, Reddit announced it adopted TypeScript for its UI redesign. Reddit's search function has had many iterations and currently uses Lucidworks Fusion to implementation. In 2010, Reddit released its first mobile web interface for easier reading and navigating

711-518: A fun, depressing little distraction as it looks literally at the cartoonish abstractions of the Mushroom Kingdom ." Pajiba ' s Vivian Kane described it as "Luigi minus that philistine Mario, plus cigarettes and deep thoughts." Columbus Alive ' s Brad Keefe listed Ennuigi on their list of fictional siblings remarking "Think it wasn’t hard growing up in his brother’s shadow?" The Mary Sue ' s Jessica Lachenal called Ennuigi

790-433: A funding round led by Sam Altman and including investors Marc Andreessen , Peter Thiel , Ron Conway , Snoop Dogg , and Jared Leto . Their investment valued the company at $ 500 million at the time. In July 2017, Reddit raised $ 200 million for a $ 1.8 billion valuation, with Advance Publications remaining the majority stakeholder. In February 2019, a $ 300 million funding round led by Tencent brought

869-498: A given subreddit were rolled out in 2018. Reddit Talk was announced in April 2021 as a competitor to Clubhouse . Reddit Talk lets subreddit moderators start audio meeting rooms that mimic Clubhouse in design. In 2022, Reddit Talk was updated to support recording audio rooms and work on the web version of Reddit. A desktop app is reportedly slated for a late February release. Reddit Public Access Network , commonly known as RPAN ,

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948-428: A group formed to organize future protests. Yishan Wong joined Reddit as CEO in 2012. Wong resigned from Reddit in 2014, citing disagreements about his proposal to move the company's offices from San Francisco to nearby Daly City , but also the "stressful and draining" nature of the position. Ohanian credited Wong with the company's newfound success as its user base grew from 35 million to 174 million. Wong oversaw

1027-465: A lecture by programmer-entrepreneur Paul Graham in Boston, Massachusetts , during their spring break from University of Virginia . After speaking with Huffman and Ohanian following the lecture, Graham invited the two to apply to his startup incubator Y Combinator . Their initial idea, My Mobile Menu, was unsuccessful, and was intended to allow users to order food by SMS text messaging . During

1106-469: A lifetime of strange things and events beyond his control." Polygon ' s Owen S. Good said "That brooding chiptune will have you questioning what you've really done with your life, too." The Mary Sue ' s Jessica Lachenal described the music as "slow, plodding, aimless." Dangerous Minds ' s Martin Schneider reviewed "The slow, tinny music is a perfect complement" to the game. In 2015,

1185-514: A major redesign of its website in April 2018. Huffman said new users were turned off from Reddit because it had looked like a "dystopian Craigslist". Reddit also instituted several technological improvements, such as a new tool that allows users to hide posts, comments, and private messages from selected redditors in an attempt to curb online harassment , and new content guidelines. These new content guidelines were aimed at banning content inciting violence and quarantining offensive material. Slowe,

1264-458: A natural language processing company. In September 2022, Reddit acquired Spiketrap for an undisclosed sum. In April 2023, Fidelity , the lead investor in Reddit's funding round in 2021, devalued its investment in Reddit by 41% cumulatively. It was revealed in a monthly disclosure that Fidelity valued its stake at $ 16.6 million, down from its initial investment of $ 28.2 million which had valued

1343-667: A new image uploading tool, a move that shifted away from the uploading service Imgur that had been the de facto service. Users still can upload images to Reddit using Imgur. Reddit's in-house video uploading service for desktop and mobile launched in 2017. Previously, users had to use third-party video uploading services, which Reddit acknowledged was time-consuming for users. Reddit released its "spoiler tags" feature in January 2017. The feature warns users of potential spoilers in posts and pixelates preview images. Reddit unveiled changes to its public front page, called r/popular, in 2017;

1422-573: A new revenue stream for the business that did not rely on banner ads. On September 6, 2011, Reddit became operationally independent of Condé Nast, operating as a separate subsidiary of its parent company, Advance Publications. Reddit and other websites participated in a 12-hour sitewide blackout on January 18, 2012, in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act . In May 2012, Reddit joined the Internet Defense League ,

1501-500: A partnership with Google in a deal worth about $ 60   million per year, to license its real-time user content to train Google's AI model. The partnership also lets Reddit get access to Google's "Vertex AI" service which would help improve search results on Reddit. In March 2024 it was announced that Reddit would target a valuation of up to $ 6.4 billion in its U.S. IPO. The platform intends to sell 22 million class A common shares at

1580-407: A personalized Snoo (known as a "snoovatar"), and a Reddit premium trophy that can be displayed on the user's profile. Reddit Gold was renamed to Reddit Premium in 2018. In addition to gold coins, users were able to gift silver and platinum coins to other users as rewards for quality content. On the site, redditors commemorate their "cake day" once a year, on the anniversary of the day their account

1659-463: A pretty weird implied narrative once you step back and look at it, and enjoyed funneling some thoughts about all that into a recharacterization of Luigi as a guy who's as legitimately confused and distressed by his strange life as you'd expect a person to be once removed from the bubble of cartoony context of the franchise." "Left" and "right" control "walk around," while "up" for "ruminate" and "down" for "smoke." The player cannot "jump" as, according to

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1738-486: A price between $ 31 and $ 34 alongside some of its investors, looking to raise up to $ 748 million. Reddit's initial public offering opened on March 20, 2024, at $ 34 per share and a $ 6.4 billion valuation. They went public the next day on the New York Stock Exchange at $ 47 per share and rose to $ 50.44 at market close on its first day of trading, reaching a market cap of $ 9.5 billion. On May 16, 2024 it

1817-428: A total of 1.2 million) as of July 2018 . Subreddit names begin with "r/"; for instance, " r/science " is a community devoted to discussing scientific publications, while "r/gaming" is a community devoted to discussing video games, and "r/worldnews" is for posting news articles from around the world. In a 2014 interview with Memeburn , Erik Martin, then the general manager of Reddit, remarked that their "approach

1896-1337: A transition in the site's scope to add pop culture and entertainment alongside their video game coverage. GamesIndustry added that the hire marked a changing cultural sensibility in game and tech media towards the acceptance of progressive, feminist principles in the wake of Gamergate . Vox Media later created several sites dedicated to specific video games with editorial staff from Polygon and SB Nation : The Rift Herald (for League of Legends ) in March 2016, and The Flying Courier (for Dota 2 ) and Heroes Never Die (for Overwatch ) in June 2017. Brian Crecente left Polygon for Rolling Stone 's gaming website Glixel in July 2017, and Chris Plante replaced him as Executive Editor. Polygon video producer Nick Robinson left Polygon in August 2017, following allegations of inappropriate online sexual advances. Video producers Brian David Gilbert and Jenna Stoeber were hired soon after. In 2018, Griffin and Justin McElroy announced their departure from Polygon , in order to focus on their podcasting and families. In July 2019, Editor-in-Chief Christoper Grant

1975-517: A way to increase revenue for the platform. Later, a five-day testing period began. During the testing period, streaming was for a select group of users, allowing 30 minutes of streaming per person and 100 slots. On July 1, 2020, RPAN Studio was released, an application that allows users to broadcast live from desktop computers. RPAN Studio has been built on top of OBS , an open-source streaming and recording program. On January 28, 2021, Reddit permanently increased streaming times to three hours. RPAN

2054-544: A year earlier as an outgrowth of sports blog network SB Nation before Vox Media was formed. Vox Media's chief executive officer , Jim Bankoff , approached Joystiq editor-in-chief Christopher Grant in early 2011 about starting a video game website. Bankoff considered video games to be a logical vertical market for Vox, whose sites attracted an 18- to 49-year-old demographic. He also saw games to be an expanding market in consideration of mobile and social network game categories. Forbes described Bankoff's offer as

2133-536: Is $ 10 billion. Reddit has received praise for many of its features, such as the ability to create several subreddits for niche communities, being a platform for raising publicity for numerous causes, and has grown to be one of the most visited websites on the Internet . It has also received criticism for spreading misinformation . The idea and initial development of Reddit originated with college roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005, who attended

2212-416: Is a website comprising user-generated content —including photos, videos, links, and text-based posts—and discussions of this content in what is essentially a bulletin board system . The name "Reddit" is a play-on-words with the phrase "read it", i.e., "I read it on Reddit." According to Reddit, in 2019, there were approximately 430 million monthly users, who are known as "redditors". The site's content

2291-417: Is an American social news aggregation , content rating , and forum social network. Registered users (commonly referred to as "Redditors") submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down ("upvoted" or "downvoted") by other members. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called "subreddits". Submissions with more upvotes appear towards

2370-463: Is desirable to "magazine-quality advertisers". The site pitched its longform journalism to advertisers as an indicator of high-quality content. The site's founding sponsors included Geico , Sony , and Unilever . In June 2014, Polygon ranked fourth among games sites by Comscore web traffic data, behind IGN , GameSpot , and Kotaku . The same month, Grant reported that the previous month had been their most popular. VentureBeat criticized

2449-433: Is divided into categories or communities known on-site as "subreddits", of which there are more than 138,000 active communities. As a network of communities, Reddit's core content consists of posts from its users. Users can comment on others' posts to continue the conversation. A key feature to Reddit is that users can cast positive or negative votes, called upvotes and downvotes respectively, for each post and comment on

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2528-532: Is headquartered in New York City and Washington, D.C. The site was developed over the course of ten months, where the staff chose the site's name and set standards for their reporting and review score scale. Polygon staff published on The Verge as " Vox Games " beginning in February 2012 and ending with their October launch. The site's name was announced at a PAX East panel in April. It refers to

2607-452: Is one lens through which to look at all that, with Luigi, the second brother, the also-ran, as a complicit onlooker, wandering now through some fractured, rotting liminal place in this strange world, reflecting on it all in scattered fragments."  —Josh Millard The story of Ennuigi centers on Luigi's inability to come to terms with the lack of narrative in the original game. In a Reddit thread, Millard commented "I [...] think it's

2686-654: Is to give the community moderators or curators as much control as possible so that they can shape and cultivate the type of communities they want". Subreddits often use themed variants of Reddit's alien mascot, Snoo , in the visual styling of their communities. Reddit Premium (formerly Reddit Gold) is a premium membership that allows users to view the site ad-free. Until 2023, subscribers could also use coins to award posts or comments they valued, generally due to humorous or high-quality content. Reddit Premium unlocks several features not accessible to regular users, such as comment highlighting, exclusive subreddits such as r/lounge,

2765-1073: The CEO of Reddit ( Steve Huffman ). Subreddits are overseen by moderators, Reddit users who earn the title by creating a subreddit or being promoted by a current moderator. Reddit users may also request to moderate a sub that has no moderators or very inactive ones in r/redditrequest. These requests are reviewed by the Reddit admins. Moderators are volunteers who manage their communities, set and enforce community-specific rules, remove posts and comments that violate these rules, and generally work to keep discussions in their subreddit on topic. Admins, by contrast, are paid to work for Reddit. Reddit also releases transparency reports annually which have information like how many posts have been taken down by moderators and for what reason. It also details information about requests law enforcement agencies have made for information about users or to take down content. In 2020, Reddit removed 6% of posts made on their platform (approx. 233 million). More than 99% of removals were marked as spam;

2844-500: The Lisp community, the change was justified by the efficiency and clarity Python provided for the project. This initiative not only influenced the technical evolution of Reddit but also contributed to the broader web development community by inspiring other frameworks and remaining a significant part of Reddit's history. (In 2020, Ohanian claimed that rather than Swartz being a co-founder, the correct description would be that Swartz's company

2923-627: The Vault. Richard Lawler of The Verge described them as " non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that are available for purchase in the Reddit Avatar Builder". In 2017, Reddit developed its own real-time chat software for the site. While some established subreddits have used third-party software to chat about their communities, the company built chat functions that it hopes will become an integral part of Reddit. Individual chat rooms were rolled out in 2017 and community chat rooms for members of

3002-460: The activity that redditors would recognize that helped define Reddit. These include subreddits "WTF", "funny", and "AskReddit". Reddit rolled out its multireddit feature, the site's biggest change to its front page in years, in 2013. With the multireddits, users see top stories from a collection of subreddits. In 2015, Reddit enabled embedding and as a result users could share Reddit content on other sites. In 2016, Reddit began hosting images using

3081-481: The change creates a front page free of potentially adult-oriented content for unregistered users. Polygon (website) Polygon is an American entertainment website by Vox Media covering video games, movies, television, and other popular culture. At its October 2012 launch as Vox Media's third property, Polygon sought to distinguish itself by focusing on the stories of the people behind video games and long-form magazine-style feature articles. The site

3160-424: The code and libraries written for Reddit were freely available on GitHub , with the exception of the anti-spam/cheating portions. In a September 2017 announcement, the company stated that "we've been doing a bad job of keeping our open-source product repos up to date", partially because "open-source makes it hard for us to develop some features 'in the clear'... without leaking our plans too far in advance", prompting

3239-641: The company as it raised $ 50 million in funding and spun off as an independent company. Also during this time, Reddit began accepting the digital currency Bitcoin for its Reddit Gold subscription service through a partnership with bitcoin payment processor Coinbase in February 2013. Ellen Pao replaced Wong as interim CEO in 2014 and resigned in 2015 amid a user revolt over the firing of a popular Reddit employee. During her tenure, Reddit initiated an anti-harassment policy, banned involuntary sexualization, and banned several forums that focused on bigoted content or harassment of individuals. After five years away from

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3318-533: The company at $ 10 billion. This was followed by an announcement in June 2023 of plans to layoff 5% of Reddit's workforce and to reduce the number of planned hires for the year. In June 2023, BlackCat hacker gang claimed responsibility for a February 2023 breach of Reddit's systems. On their data leak site, they claimed that they stole 80 GB of compressed data and demanded a $ 4.5 million ransom from Reddit. This attack did not involve data encryption like typical ransomware campaigns. In February 2024, Reddit announced

3397-462: The company's first employee, rejoined Reddit in 2017 as chief technology officer. Reddit's largest round of funding came in 2017 when the company raised $ 200 million and was valued at $ 1.8 billion. The funding supported Reddit's site redesign and video efforts. On June 5, 2020, Ohanian resigned as a member of the board in response to the George Floyd protests and requested to be replaced "by

3476-464: The company's valuation to $ 3 billion. In August 2021, a $ 700 million funding round led by Fidelity Investments raised that valuation to over $ 10 billion. The company then reportedly filed for an IPO in December 2021 with a valuation of $ 15 billion. Reddit debuted on the stock market on the morning of March 21, 2024 with the ticker symbol RDDT. The current—July 2024—market cap

3555-450: The company, Ohanian and Huffman returned to leadership roles at Reddit: Ohanian became the full-time executive chairman in November 2014 following Wong's resignation, while Pao's departure on July 10, 2015, led to Huffman's return as the company's chief executive. After Huffman rejoined Reddit as CEO, he launched Reddit's iOS and Android apps, improved Reddit's mobile website, and created A/B testing infrastructure. The company launched

3634-557: The cover stories of magazines. They also decided to allow their game review scores to be updated as the games were updated, so as to more adequately reflect games that had changed with downloadable content and updates since their original release. In consideration of games that may differ in quality before and after release, Polygon later began to mark pre-release reviews as "provisional" to defer final scoring until after their public release. Polygon 's emphasis on video production expanded in late 2013, and waned in mid-2014 with

3713-455: The data pipeline. Reddit uses Redis and its implementation of HyperLogLog to cache approximate page views with an underlying Apache Cassandra cluster for persistence. For general caching of queries and memoization , Reddit uses memcached behind Facebook's memcached router, mcrouter. In 2017, it had almost 3.3 terabytes of memory on 54 EC2 instances dedicated to caching split across different pools. Services at Reddit are structured around

3792-784: The decision to archive its public GitHub repos. As of November 10, 2009 , Reddit decommissioned its servers which it owned and migrated to Amazon Web Services , using EC2 for application services and S3 for storage. Reddit uses PostgreSQL as its primary datastore. As part of an effort to be more data-driven, Reddit built a data analytics pipeline on top of Apache Kafka and Hive as its data warehouse . It uses Amazon's Elastic MapReduce to run Hadoop workloads across Hive and stores results in S3, eventually putting data in Amazon RDS for visualization purposes. It also uses HAProxy for load balancing and Jenkins and Apache Pig in

3871-540: The game "excellent." GamesRadar ' s Sam Prell, despite the concept, implored "It's funny though, I promise." Dangerous Minds ' s Martin Schneider described Ennuigi as a "dreary, Beckettian video game." The Next Web ' s Mic Wright received the game favorably stating it "reveals the bleakness of Luigi alone time. There are no bad guys, no adventure, just smoking and moping." In 2016, Polygon ' s Owen S. Good said "[ Ennuigi ]'s gotten some attention lately." PC Gamer ' s Steven Messner reviewed

3950-454: The game was received by various news publications favorably. In a review for the interactive movie video game Night Trap , TechCrunch ' s John Biggs recommended playing a little Ennuigi . The A.V. Club ' s Jennifer Billock appraised the game favorably stating "thankfully, you can play." Rock, Paper, Shotgun ' s Emily Gera praised the game with "It is excellent." Destructoid ' s Steven Hansen said it "makes for

4029-663: The game with "Where Mario games are typically upbeat and energetic, Josh Millard's reinterpretation of the Mushroom Kingdom is glum, sometimes pretentious, and sometimes wonderfully insightful." The Nerdist ' s Blake Rodgers said "this side-scrolling game staring Luigi is equal parts hilarious and heart-wrenching." The Boston Globe ' s Jesse Singal called it "a very different, very dark take on its 'Mario Bros.' source material." Wired UK described it as "a darkly amusing take on video game worlds." Reddit Reddit ( / ˈ r ɛ d ɪ t / )

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4108-681: The game, "Jumping is not consistent with ennui!" Ennuigi is procedurally generated . It is available to play on the Pico-8 Forums. Reviewers described Luigi's character in Ennuigi as " chain smoking ," "depressed," "laconic," "perpetually miserable," and "an angsty teenager who just finished writing a book report about Albert Camus ' The Stranger ." A reviewer said "it’s like Luigi read too much Derrida " while another adds " Sartre and Nietzsche too to that assessment." IndieGames.com ' s Joel Couture called Luigi "a man commenting on

4187-472: The loss of video staff and the editorial decision to run fewer feature articles. By 2015, the site began to shift from games-only coverage to pop culture coverage, similar to the scope of rival sites IGN and Kotaku . Polygon 's Minimap podcast was named among iTunes's best of 2015, and New York praised the site's Car Boys web series. The website's flagship podcast, called The Polygon Show , launched in 2017 and discusses gaming and culture. It

4266-544: The remainder made up of a mix of other offensive content. Around 131 million posts were removed by the automated moderator and the rest were taken down manually. It is estimated that Reddit's moderators do a total of 466 hours of work every day, which totals up to $ 3.4 million in unpaid work each year. This roughly equates to 2.8% of the company's annual revenue. Subreddits (officially called communities) are user-created areas of interest where discussions on Reddit are organized. There are about 138,000 active subreddits (among

4345-487: The respect that we feel for them. Justin McElroy on Polygon 's editorial strategy, October 2012 Polygon publishes video game news, entertainment, reviews, and video. They sought to set their content apart from other games journalism outlets by focusing on the people making and playing the games rather than the games alone. At the site's outset, Polygon planned to run multiple longform feature articles weekly, which they intended to be comparable in intent to

4424-430: The resulting parent company, Not A Bug. Swartz went on to help rewrite the software running Reddit using web.py, a web framework he developed. The passage from Aaron Swartz's blog post "Rewriting Reddit" reveals that the switch from Lisp to Python, specifically using the web.py framework developed by Swartz, was driven by a desire for simplicity, maintainability, and performance. Despite facing skepticism and critique from

4503-465: The site for accepting $ 750,000 in sponsorship from Microsoft to make documentary Press Reset in 2014. Game Revolution criticized the site's comparatively low review score given to The Last of Us in 2013, which was later increased with the game's remastered edition. Polygon released a gameplay video of Doom in May 2016, which was ridiculed online for being played by someone who appeared to be

4582-472: The site was thrust into the spotlight due to its role in the GameStop trading frenzy. Vollero's appointment spurred speculation of an initial public offering, a move that senior leaders have considered publicly. In December 2021, Reddit revealed that it had confidentially filed for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission . In June 2022, Reddit acquired MeaningCloud ,

4661-868: The site's attempt to "redefine games journalism", Vox Media made a 13-part documentary series of the site's creation ("Press Reset") that tracked the site's creation from start to launch. Forbes described Polygon 's original 16-person staff as "star-studded" for including the editors-in-chief from three competing video game blogs. Grant left Joystiq in January 2012 and brought the editors-in-chief of Kotaku and The Escapist , Brian Crecente and Russ Pitts. Other staff included Joystiq managing editor Justin McElroy as well as weekend editor Griffin McElroy , and staff from UGO , IGN , MTV , VideoGamer.com, and 1UP.com . The Polygon team includes remote workers based in Philadelphia, Huntington, San Francisco, Sydney, London, and Austin, while Vox Media

4740-542: The site's numerous subreddits are visible on the front page to those who browse the site without an account. By default for those users, the front page will display the subreddit r/popular, featuring top-ranked posts across all of Reddit, excluding not-safe-for-work communities and others that are most commonly filtered out by users (even if they are safe for work). The subreddit r/all originally did not filter topics, but as of 2021 it does not include not-safe-for-work content. Registered users who subscribe to subreddits see

4819-451: The site. The number of upvotes or downvotes determines the posts' visibility on the site, so the most popular content is displayed to the most people. Users can also earn "karma" for their posts and comments, a status that reflects their standing within the community and their contributions to Reddit. Posts are sometimes automatically archived after six months, meaning they can no longer be commented or voted on. The most popular posts from

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4898-436: The top content from the subreddits to which they subscribe on their personal front pages. Additionally, some subreddits have a karma and account age requirement to discourage bots and spammers from posting. Front-page rank—for both the general front page and for individual subreddits—is determined by a combination of factors, including the age of the submission, positive ("upvoted") to negative ("downvoted") feedback ratio, and

4977-493: The top of their subreddit and, if they receive enough upvotes, ultimately on the site's front page. Reddit administrators moderate the communities. Moderation is also conducted by community-specific moderators, who are unpaid volunteers. It is operated by Reddit, Inc. , based in San Francisco . As of August 2024, Reddit is the 9th most-visited website in the world . According to data provided by Similarweb , 51.75% of

5056-453: The topics that they engaged with, and allows the user to view it. On July 7, 2022, Reddit announced ' blockchain -backed Collectible Avatars', customizable avatars which are available on the subreddit r/CollectibleAvatars for purchase separate from Reddit Premium. The avatars were created by independent artists who post work on other subreddits, and who receive a portion of the profits. They use Reddit's Polygon blockchain-powered digital wallet

5135-442: The total vote-count. Registering an account with Reddit is free and requires an email address. In addition to commenting and voting, registered users can also create their own subreddit on a topic of their choosing. In Reddit style, usernames begin with "u/". Noteworthy redditors include u/Poem_for_your_sprog, who responds to messages across Reddit in verse, u/Shitty_Watercolour who posts paintings in response to posts, and u/spez,

5214-903: The website on touch screen devices. For several years, redditors relied on third-party apps to access Reddit on mobile devices. In October 2014, Reddit acquired one of them, Alien Blue, which became the official iOS Reddit app. Reddit removed Alien Blue and released its official application, Reddit: The Official App, on Google Play and the iOS App Store in April 2016. The company released an app for Reddit's question-and-answer Ask Me Anything subreddit in 2014. The app allowed users to see active Ask Me Anythings, receive notifications, ask questions and vote. The site has undergone several products and design changes since it originally launched in 2005. When it initially launched, there were no comments or subreddits. Comments were added in 2005 and interest-based groups (called 'subreddits') were introduced in 2008. Allowing users to create subreddits has led to much of

5293-639: The website traffic comes from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom at 7.15% and Canada at 7.09%. Reddit was founded by University of Virginia roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian , as well as Aaron Swartz , in 2005. Condé Nast Publications acquired the site in October 2006. In 2011, Reddit became an independent subsidiary of Condé Nast's parent company, Advance Publications . In October 2014, Reddit raised $ 50 million in

5372-423: Was "responsible for keeping the site going" under Condé Nast's ownership. Martin facilitated the purchase of RedditGifts and led charity initiatives. Reddit launched two different ways of advertising on the site in 2009. The company launched sponsored content and a self-serve ads platform that year. Reddit launched its Reddit Gold benefits program in July 2010, which offered new features to editors and created

5451-412: Was a live streaming service run by Reddit. Viewers interacted with streams by upvoting or downvoting, chatting, and giving paid awards. During the off-air hours, 24/7 streaming was possible to the dedicated subreddits, but with limited slots and capabilities. On August 19, 2019, Reddit announced RPAN. It was said to be in testing, but they were experimenting with making it a permanent program, as well as

5530-402: Was acquired by Reddit 6 months after he and Huffman had started.) Huffman and Ohanian sold Reddit to Condé Nast Publications , owner of Wired , on October 31, 2006, for a reported $ 10 million to $ 20 million and the team moved to San Francisco . In November 2006, Swartz blogged complaining about the new corporate environment, criticizing its level of productivity. In January 2007, Swartz

5609-611: Was announced that Reddit and OpenAI reached a deal that will allow OpenAI access to the Reddit API to train its models, while Reddit will receive certain AI tools for moderators and users. Reddit's share price increased by 42% after reporting its third quarter results in October 2024, where it recorded its first quarterly profit. The surge was also attributed in part to increases in revenue from AI content licensing and advertising, and reaching close to 100 million active users. Reddit

5688-404: Was built over the course of ten months, and its 16-person founding staff included the editors-in-chief of the gaming sites Joystiq , Kotaku and The Escapist . Vox Media produced a documentary series on the founding of the site. The gaming blog Polygon was launched on October 24, 2012, as Vox Media 's third property. The site grew from technology blog The Verge , which was launched

5767-521: Was created. Cake day adds an icon of a small slice of cake next to the user's name for 24 hours. In August 2021, the company introduced a TikTok -like short-form video feature for iOS that lets users rapidly swipe through a feed of short video content. In December 2021, the company introduced a Spotify Wrapped -like feature called Reddit Recap that recaps various statistics from January 1 to November 30 about each individual user, such as how much time they spent on Reddit, which communities they joined, and

5846-439: Was elevated to the position of Senior Vice President of Polygon and The Verge by Vox Media. Grant was replaced as Editor-in-Chief by Christopher Plante. On December 28, 2020, Brian David Gilbert announced he was leaving Polygon via Twitter and his final Unraveled video, saying he left "because it feels like the right time!". We want to focus on the human side of development, and focus things on people. I want people to feel

5925-417: Was fired for undisclosed reasons. Huffman and Ohanian left Reddit in 2009. Huffman went on to co-found Hipmunk with Adam Goldstein , and later recruited Ohanian and Slowe to the new company. After Huffman and Ohanian left Reddit, Erik Martin, who joined the company as a community manager in 2008 and later became general manager in 2011, played a role in Reddit's growth. VentureBeat noted that Martin

6004-527: Was named one of the "10 gaming podcasts every gaming nerd should know" by The Daily Dot in 2018. In May 2018, Polygon launched the YouTube series "Brand Slam", in which brand mascots battle against one another. Starting in September 2018, the site opted to drop scored reviews for games, as to let their reviewers have more freedom in how they review a game; they will substitute their scoring system for

6083-413: Was officially discontinued on November 15, 2022. In 2019, Reddit tested a new feature that allowed users to tip others. It was only made available for a user named Chris who goes by the alias u/shittymorph , who was known for posting well-written comments, only for them to end with the same copypasta referencing the 1998 Hell in a Cell match between wrestlers The Undertaker and Mankind . Reddit

6162-501: Was optimized for reading on tablets. In August 2024, Polygon migrated their site to the WordPress CMS. The site uses a "direct content sponsorship" model of online advertising used by SB Nation and The Verge . For example, a video series sponsorship pairs brands with specific editorial content. Forbes wrote that Vox Media's avoidance of content farm and news aggregator tactics, and interest shown in building communities

6241-502: Was originally written in Common Lisp but was rewritten in Python in December 2005 for wider access to code libraries and greater development flexibility. The Python web framework that Swartz developed to run the site, web.py , is available as an open source project. As of November 10, 2009 , Reddit used Pylons as its web framework. Reddit was an open source project from June 18, 2008, until 2017. During that time, all of

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