{"id":40147,"date":"2025-12-05T08:01:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/reddits-ceo-says-the-platform-is-ditching-a-key-part-that-sucks\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T08:01:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:01:21","slug":"reddits-ceo-says-the-platform-is-ditching-a-key-part-that-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/reddits-ceo-says-the-platform-is-ditching-a-key-part-that-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit&#8217;s CEO says the platform is ditching a key part that &#8216;sucks&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69324f847ecd1d1da662fb60?format=jpeg\" alt=\"In this photo illustration, a person holds a smartphone displaying the logo of Reddit Inc.\"\/><figcaption>Reddit is removing a key feature from its platform.<\/p>\n<p>illustration by Cheng Xin\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Reddit is retiring r\/popular as its default feed.<\/li>\n<li>CEO Steve Huffman said the feed &quot;gives the false impression of a singular Reddit culture.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>He said removing the feature would promote a more personalized and relevant user experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reddit is getting rid of one of its oldest fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>The platform&#039;s CEO, Steve Huffman, said in a post that Reddit would be removing its r\/popular feed from the homepage for new users to promote a more personalized and relevant user experience.<\/p>\n<p>The popular feed, located on the left sidebar of the website, displays the most liked recent posts across the platform.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;In theory, it&#039;s what&#039;s most popular on Reddit, but it&#039;s actually what is liked by the most active users on Reddit\u2014which is not the same thing,&quot; he said. &quot;Having it as a default feed gives the false impression of a singular Reddit culture, one that is neither representative of Reddit nor appealing to new users (or anyone at all, IMO).&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He summed up his disdain for the feature by saying, &quot;r\/popular sucks, and we&#039;re moving away from it, and towards better, more relevant and personalized feeds.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Huffman, who has been the platform&#039;s CEO since 2015, said Reddit would stop showing the popular feed in the sidebar unless users read it regularly.<\/p>\n<p>He said his favorite part of Reddit was that every community on the platform had its own unique culture, rules, and sense of humor.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;And if your perspective isn&#039;t represented, you can create the community you want to see,&quot; he said. &quot;The freedom to build your own corner of the internet is what makes Reddit, Reddit.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The platform gets 116 million visitors daily, he said. Reddit&#039;s stock price has risen about 44% in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>In the post, he announced a few other changes, like limiting the number of high-traffic communities a single person can moderate, and changing the way it shows community sizes.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;These changes are all part of the same goal: making Reddit more conducive to how people actually use it today,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>This is not Reddit&#039;s first effort to nudge its users into smaller community groups, as it recalibrates its platform alongside competitors like Quora, and beyond that, the likes of Meta. <\/p>\n<p>In October, Reddit removed its public chat feature and urged users to chat on private group chats as a way to &quot;connect with communities in smaller, focused spaces.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit is removing a key feature from its platform. illustration by Cheng Xin\/Getty Images Reddit is retiring r\/popular as its default feed. CEO Steve Huffman said the feed &quot;gives the false impression of a singular Reddit culture.&quot; He said removing the feature would promote a more personalized and relevant user experience. 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