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idlewords
on July 31, 2017
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Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation
Can anybody name a successful ground-up redesign of a popular website? Or a successful from-scratch rewrite of a heavily used codebase?
RickS
on July 31, 2017
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I recall twitter's early rewrite going pretty well. The "fail whale" was a real big deal before that. They went from notoriously poor uptime to being on par with facebook.
mrkrabo
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But that was a rewrite of the backend which was very needed. The design didn't change.
Although I agree, Reddit desperately needs a rewrite of its backend.
pramodliv1
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Basecamp is the only one I can think of -
https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3856-the-big-rewrite-revisite...
emmett
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