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Enlarge / Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian (credit: Getty Images) Entrepreneurs Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman famously founded Reddit as college roommates in 2005. Tech journalist Christine Lagorio-Chafkin’s recent book, We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet’s Culture Laboratory, follows their sometimes rocky relationship as Reddit grew from a simple, user-directed […]
By partnering with Reddit, Patreon hopes it can convert more Redditors into patrons, helping them discover and support creators on the platform. https://media.wired.com/photos/5bce4965cfc3b316c37ebb8a/master/pass/reddit_patreon.jpg
Obsessive online learning can often lead to nothing but bottomless pits. https://media.wired.com/photos/5bbfe976ffac9b2ce1d579a4/master/pass/youtubereddit.jpg
Reddit’s tougher policies just led to more community bans, albeit not for typical reasons. The site has confirmed to Slate that it shut down subreddits associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory, including GreatAwakening, QProofs and thestorm, among others. While the company didn’t say exactly what had prompted the bans, it noted that its rules bar […]
This article was produced in partnership with Point, a YouTube channel for investigative journalism. It discusses topics that you may find upsetting and contains strong language and racial slurs. Somewhere out there, a man wants to rape Emily. She knows this because he was painfully clear in typing out his threat. In fact, he’s just […]
Reddit is down for many regular users tonight who are unable to access regular services. Many Redditors are seeing issues just getting to the page they want to view, and finding themselves being pinged with error code 503 messages. Thousands of reports are being seen on sites such as Downdetector, which look to cover the […]
The tech community has known about the risk of using SMS in two-factor authentication for years. Reddit appears to have missed the memo. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b620c800a4a950b900cf5c3/master/pass/Reddit%20User%20Data%20Breached%20Because%20of%20Woefully%20Insecure%20Two-Factor%20Setup.jpg
Reddit wants to bring its communities closer together. Its solution: throwing it back to real-time chatrooms. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b4e7637774f6c0b5552bc6c/master/pass/reddit_chat_room-01.jpg
Enlarge / Steve Huffman, cofounder and chief executive officer of Reddit Inc., listens during a Bloomberg Technology television interview in San Francisco in 2017. (credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images) A Reddit user has found himself at the end of a week-long suspension—and from the look of his account, it might have come because […]
Enlarge (credit: FlightSimLabs) The last time FlightSimLabs made news outside of the insular community of high-end flight simulator fans, it was for some invasive password-extractor malware included with a recent add-on package as an ostensible “anti-piracy” measure. Today, the company is again making waves for what many see as overzealous legal threats in response to […]
