If you spend a lot of time online, chances are you've heard of Reddit. The site bills itself as the "front page of the internet," and that's not an empty boast: As of this writing, Reddit is the seventh most popular site in the United States, according to Alexa, and the 18th worldwide. So, what exactly is Reddit? Essentially, it's a massive collection of forums where people can share news and content or comment on other people's posts. Here's everything you need to know.
Reddit is broken up into more than a million communities known as "subreddits," each of which covers a different topic. The name of a subreddit begins with / r /, which is part of the URL that Reddit uses. For example, / rba is a subreddit where people talk about the National Basketball Association, while / r / boardgames is a subreddit for people to discuss board games. Those are straightforward subreddits, but they can get weird, such as / r / birdswitharms, a subreddit devoted to pictures of birds ... with arms.
If you're just looking at Reddit for the first time, you may be a bit confused by what you are seeing, so here's a quick rundown. The homepage (or "front page") shows you various posts that are currently trending on the site, pulled from a variety of subreddits. You can sort these posts by clicking one of the icons on the ribbon menu located underneath the Create Post text box. These icons will sort the posts by Best, Hot, New, Top, or Rising.
The mission of the Web Platform team is to design, explore and create a solid foundation for our Web and MobileWeb products. In addition, we establish best practices to build features on our platform.
As a Principal Software Engineer in the Web Platform team, you will be responsible for designing a solid foundation for our Web and MobileWeb development. You will have company-wide scope, impact, and responsibility in shaping the future of Web development at Reddit.
This role will enable us to execute one of the most important projects for the company now - a complete redesign of the MobileWeb and Web experience. Part of this role's responsibilities will be to own the design and execution of the complete redesign of the Reddit Website both on mobile and Desktop. In this role, you will champion the technology selection, best practices in Reddit's Web and MobileWeb products. You will act as an Architect for the frontend technology development at Reddit.
Recent Developments shows the relationship between Q & A websites use and users with the expanded goal of interactive and new forms of media. Today community-based Q & A (Question And Answering) websites have successfully garnered through a participatory platform. Since its inception, it has been developing across the world and enabled users to collaborate in asking and answering questions. Here Reddit comes as the most popular platform for discovering what is happening around and proves it tagline "front page of the Internet" .It provides an open platform to participate and free discussions about hundreds of different topics like entertainment, politics, inventions etc.and sharing their views. Reddit web development took a unique approach by letting everything happening so organically, at the time when companies were trying to build communities, hire large numbers of community managers, and geared up a community strategy.
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