Reddit co-founder tells TNW about the sneaky design trick it decided to abandon

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by Sindy Cator on May 25, 2018 at 11:42 am

How do you redesign a site with 350 million monthly active users, 300 million comments a day, and a user base known to get a little rowdy when things go wrong? This is exactly the sort of challenge Reddit’s CTO and Co-Founder Chris Slowe has been tackling over the past year. In a talk at TNW Conference, Slowe let loose a little about the recently redesigned “front page of the web,” aka Reddit. Perhaps the most interesting element — at least to me — was one that never made the cut. The team knew after launching its first mobile app,…