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Reddit (/ ˈ r ɛ d ɪ t / ⓘ) 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.
After being tested in public beta since early 2015, [6] Apollo officially launched on the App Store for iOS on 23 October 2017. [7] Halifax-based [8] [9] developer Christian Selig, a former Apple intern, [10] [11] said in his Reddit introduction post that he saw the app as a suitable replacement for Alien Blue, and that the new official app, unlike Apollo, had not incorporated fan-favourite ...
By September 2014, Reddit raises $50 million in funding in a Series B round, and makes its first app acquisition in October 2014. 2014–2016: On July 10, 2015, Pao resigned as CEO and was replaced by Reddit cofounder Steve Huffman. 2020 On June 5, 2020, Ohanian resigned from the board and planned to be replaced "by a Black candidate".
After Alien Blue became the most popular Reddit app on the iOS App Store, the iReddit app (the result of a collaboration with an outside contractor) [7] was essentially abandoned due to a lack of resources, [8] and Alien Blue was officially acquired by Reddit on October 15, 2014 [9] for an undisclosed sum [10] [11] and made Reddit's new official app for iOS. [12]
Accompanied by the launch of Threads, Meta announced their vision for the app to be a "positive and creative space to express your ideas". [37] Users can create posts consisting of up to 500 characters of text or 5 minutes of video content (compared to Twitter's 280 characters of text and 2 minutes 20 seconds of video content for non-paying users).
A leak from Fandom's Community Council was posted to Reddit's /r/Wikia subreddit in August 2018, confirming that Fandom would be migrating all wikis from the wikia.com domain, to fandom.com in early 2019, as part of a push for greater adoption of Fandom's wiki-specific applications on both iOS and Android's app ecosystems. The post was later ...
On each instance, a front page presents the user with popular posts from several communities. [13] These posts can then be filtered according to origin: posts from the instance the user is on, or from all federated instances. It can also be made to only show posts from communities the user has subscribed to. [9]
Some subreddits, such as r/NintendoSwitch, r/Frugal, and r/StarWars, opted to restrict new posts. r/DankMemes only allowed users to post memes relating to the API changes. [32] At approximately 10:58 a.m. Eastern Time, Reddit was affected by a major outage caused by "expected stability issues" due to the large number of subreddits going private.