{"id":254475,"date":"2018-04-03T10:36:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T08:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=254475"},"modified":"2018-04-03T10:39:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T08:39:13","slug":"reddit-rolling-out-site-redesign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/254475-reddit-rolling-out-site-redesign.html","title":{"rendered":"Reddit rolling out site redesign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit has started deploying an update to the site&#8217;s design, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/reddit-redesign\/\">Wired reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This follows <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/announcements\/comments\/7a4bjo\/time_for_my_quarterly_inquisition_reddit_ceo_here\/dp70sul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a post<\/a><\/strong> from Reddit CEO Steve Huffman in which he stated that Reddit was in need of the change.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Reddit&#8217;s new team of 20 designers worked on the redesign for the last year-and-a-half.<\/p>\n<p>Upon switching to the new design, subscribers will be presented with three different layout options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Card:<\/strong> Auto-expanded gifs and images.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Classic:<\/strong> Reddit&#8217;s iconic look.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Compact:<\/strong> The densest view with just the headlines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The new design also features a hamburger menu which can be used to access feeds, subreddit subscriptions, and profiles.<\/p>\n<p>Posts open in a modal, lightbox-like popup rather than linking to a new page.<\/p>\n<p>Only about 1% of\u00a0Reddit users will initially see the new design, and it will be phased in during the coming months, stated the report.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Reddit-redesign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-254479\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Reddit-redesign-640x383.jpg\" alt=\"Reddit redesign\" width=\"640\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Reddit-redesign-640x383.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Reddit-redesign-600x359.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Reddit-redesign-768x460.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Reddit-redesign-1200x719.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/254177-reddit-disables-bitcoin-payments.html\">Reddit disables Bitcoin payments<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit has started deploying an update to the site&#8217;s design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":197907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[8045],"class_list":["post-254475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-reddit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254533,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254475\/revisions\/254533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}