A suite of new colors known as GuavaPink, LimeGreen, BananaYellow, and JuniperBlue will pop up in designs, bringing more color into the platform and its apps.
Further reading: https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/29/reddit-rebrand-refreshes-its-logo-as-ipo-speculation-swirls
Like chrome plating a turd.
That’s not going to help them out of the mess they’ve gotten themselves into.
They err seem to be doing fine?
Do we know how they’re doing now, are there any numbers on that?
The numbers that matter are $$
The issues right now probably won’t affect the money for a while
Mods/users/tools leaving --> quality drop --> usage drop –> $$ drop
they have bots, AI, and astroturfing, their numbers will be fine despite quality having gone downhill for some time
Yeah, for a while corpos have their finger into astroturfing the shit out of almost every product. At some point it will have barely any user, but bots and corpo accounts.
They’re downward spiral is by this point inevitable. It takes time for a site to fully die and even the the URL usually still resolves, kinda like now MySpace and digg are still around in some form but totally irrelevant
what about long term
I find it odd that they changed their tagline from “the front page of the Internet” to “the heart of the Internet.” Reddit is certainly a massive hub for discussion, but “compassionate” is not the first association I have with Reddit conversations. Smug condescension, certainly. Frothing mob mentality, often. But compassion? Rare, at best.
I suppose that Reddit may be trying to simply manifest their hopes for the platform into a reality, but I don’t think it’s that easy. The Reddit welcome banner reads, “Come for the cats, stay for the empathy,” but most people probably know Reddit for the Boston Bombing debacle, r/theDonald trolls, and other nasty news items. It’s hard to believe the cushy corporate messaging when Reddit has so consistently allowed horrible shit on their site until the media fervor gets so intense that they can’t ignore it anymore
It used to be the heart of the internet, but they’re about 13 years too late for that now.
They should consider rebranding to “another one of the Internet’s many assholes”
When “X” just isn’t gross enough.
As much as I like to shit on Reddit, Twitter is, in my opinion, still way worse. Way, way worse! I follow exclusively left leaning accounts and a couple of game developers on Twitter, yet my ‘for you’ tab has increasingly more right wing bullshit thrown my way. And I actively block stupid Nazi shit. Still, the Twitter algorithm thinks I might be interested in some local assholes who say openly racist and bigoted stuff.
iirc 4chan is the asshole. reddit is the drain.
most people probably know Reddit for the Boston Bombing debacle, r/theDonald trolls, and other nasty news items.
I was just starting to promote reddit to my friends when violentacrez happened …
Don’t you know that Marketing is just fancy lying? They have to be as unethical as all the other big companies to succeed. You can’t expect a company to succeed by being ethical. When has that ever worked?
“Heart of the internet”
Looking at the controversies Reddit had over the years, especially the latest one regarding third party applications (which is what made so many of us migrate to Lemmy in the first place), I’m getting the vibe that this slogan is nothing more but sarcasm.
Yes, The sphincter of the internet
No amount of lipstick will get me to use reddit without old.reddit and RES. And I barely like using that.
Bringing flowers to a grave once a year is not gonna distract regulars from the fact that you do zero to upkeep it during the other 364 days of the year.
Ha ha ha, yes, the lack of bright colours is why everyone has left!
We already gave you a pretty orange, what else could you possibly want? Content moderation? Bah!
Kinda lile the Blurple switch with Discord. Why did they change it to the flashbang type of blurple :|
Looks like snapchats creepy bitmojis. Thats not a compliment.
Red…dit? Looks weird…
Some shitty Nazi ridden corpo Lemmy knockoff
Sounds gross.
Saw it earlier today.
Looks ugly.
I will always stand by flat icons and design. They’re always a solid choice, even when they’re not the current trend.
Even worse than the discord rebranding
And I was one of the folks that actually liked it.
Reddit’s rebranding is just garbage.
Someone’s having a midlife crisis.
Gross
Ok I don’t care about Reddit and that’s why I’m on lemmy
My brother in Christ you are commenting on a post in a community called “Reddit”
If spez is still running that dump, there’s no reason to even consider going back.
This looks partly terrifying…