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The new update of the Reddit mobile app makes navigating through comments easier

As announced through the official Reddit blog, the iOS and Android mobile app has received a new update aimed at “removing obstacles and reducing friction points”. Among the changes implemented to achieve this goal, we must highlight the improvement that has been made in navigating between comments.

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To be exact, this navigation between comments in the Reddit mobile app has improved in terms of instant loading of comments, once the user has clicked on the comments button in the app, and the context of the post in question remains accessible while reading the comments. In addition, general navigation between different conversations in the posts has been improved.

Reddit improves comment navigation and overall usability

Going into more detail, it should be noted that, in addition to comments loading much faster now; if we click on the comments button of a post in the Reddit smartphone app, this action will take us directly to the top of the comments themselves, so we will always have the ability to review what has caused the conversation taking place in the comments.

As we mentioned, the context will be kept in view thanks to the implementation of a “context bar” (a dropdown bar, that is), which will allow us to review that post, whether it is a text content, compressed image or video. Simply, when we are reading comments and this bar appears at the top of the screen, we will have to click on it to be able to see the original post or an image or video in an enlarged way. With these changes and the improvement that has been added for this purpose, conversations on Reddit are now much more consistent, regardless of the type of post it is.

Being more specific, Reddit conversations are now more consistent, in addition to what has already been mentioned, because a unified media player, immersive transitions, and consistent gestures have been added, as indicated by the social network. “Simply swipe up to view conversations and swipe left to view new content,” they add.

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We will have to see if with these changes in the Reddit app for iOS and Android the points of friction between users and the network end up disappearing. Certainly, these changes should put an end to it, since these improvements have been tested by other users prior to their final implementation.

Is it possible to continue discovering secrets in Baldur’s Gate 3 after 400 hours? Yes, according to this Reddit user

Baldur’s Gate 3 continues to surprise us, revealing places and situations that we hadn’t seen until now, no matter how many hours we put into it.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is an absolutely massive game. The average player will take around 70 hours to complete it, and at least double that to see everything, depending on the class and race they have chosen. That’s why there are people who have already spent several hundred hours in the game: it never gets boring no matter how much time we invest in it. This makes it surprising, but only to a certain extent, that there are still undiscovered secrets.

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That’s the case of elsonwarcraft, a Reddit user who has spent over 400 hours playing the game. While the number itself is already staggering, what’s most surprising is that there is still content he hadn’t discovered yet. And to the surprise of the entire Baldur’s Gate 3 Reddit community, it seems that no one had done it until now.

Elsonwacraft found an entrance to an unknown cave southeast of The Queen of Water’s House. Inside there is a group of water priestesses, as well as multiple Sahuagins. With a few hidden treasures, including 500 or 600 gold even before encountering any of our enemies, this is a quite interesting place to explore for those who are short on money. Or for those who want to explore the entirety of the game.

400 hours I had never discovered this secret passage?
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While some Reddit users claim to have been in that cave before, it seems to be a common occurrence that goes unnoticed by the majority of players. Hidden in a hard-to-reach and unattractive spot to explore, it demonstrates why this game is capable of capturing players’ attention for hundreds of hours.

If there will continue to be new places that are still unknown in Baldur’s Gate 3 is something we don’t know. But there is no doubt that there are still secrets in the game that, even if someone knows, have not yet been revealed to the majority of players.

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Reddit plans to reach $748 million with its IPO

Reddit, the well-known social platform whose plans to go public have been known for some time, sets a goal of $748 million after the IPO that officially marks Reddit’s leap into the shareholder market. This figure reflects the high expectations of the company with its IPO, but the company is fully convinced of the success of the operation.

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Reddit and its IPO

As Bloomberg has reported, Reddit plans to raise up to $748 million with its IPO, and they are fully convinced of it. The well-known platform that brings together millions of users daily on the internet is confident that the long-planned IPO will be a success and that the generated expectations will be easily met.

The IPO is usually one of the riskiest steps that many companies take when making profound changes in their business model. In fact, many companies were severely punished by a stock market that was not as interested as expected at first. That was the case of Twitter, a social network that, despite its immense success, was in losses, and that, after Elon Musk’s purchase, its value has plummeted substantially.

Exciting times for Reddit

But in the case of Reddit, the expectations are different. With an estimated value of around 6.5 billion dollars (one-tenth of what Twitter was worth in 2022) and a share price between 32 and 34 dollars, the company believes that the IPO will be a success and that this 2024 will undoubtedly be one of the best years in its history.

It doesn’t happen the same, however, with decisions related to community management, since, especially in the last two years, there have been numerous changes that have generated a high controversy among the most frequent users of Reddit. In fact, the application has been the subject of boycotts by its community, despite the fact that, economically, the service is going through one of its sweetest moments. Therefore, it remains to be seen if Reddit manages to win back the favor of its user base.

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The Reddit IPO: would go public with a value of 6.5 billion dollars

It has been known for a long time that Reddit plans to go public, and in recent weeks it has been revealed that this debut would be imminent. The entry of this company into the stock market, which has generated a lot of expectation, is also the subject of much speculation and theories. In fact, according to various media reports, the Reddit IPO valuation would be around $6.5 billion.

With this, what is still to be known is whether, finally, in this month of March, Reddit will be seen as a publicly traded company. It is a plan that has been years in the making, so the fact that it will come to an end in the coming weeks has aroused a lot of interest among curious people, investors, and regular Reddit users.

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Reddit and its IPO

The Reddit IPO could have a value of $6.5 billion, but also, media outlets like CNBC have hinted that the price per share of Reddit would be around $31 and $34, positioning itself from the start as a company with strong expectations in the technology sector stock market.

It was already known about Reddit’s IPO, but little by little more information and estimates about the start of this media IPO are being known. With this change, although it does not imply big changes for users, it will be for the company, since it radically changes the type of company it was previously constituted. Now, in addition, with the stock quotes, the new investors who enter the company will also have weight on the decisions that need to be made in it.

Reddit as a service

Reddit is well known by millions of users for being a service that has been on the web for many years, being, in a way, one of the most important forums of forums on the Internet. That is why their current team is confident in their IPO, with which they have high expectations.

However, its community has had a love-hate relationship with this platform for some time, as, especially in recent years, it has implemented very unpopular measures or even gone against the original ideas of the service itself, which generated a lot of discontent among its long-time users. Now, however, the outcome of its IPO remains to be seen with a major change in its business.

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Reddit is preparing to go public: what does this mean for you?

Reddit also revealed that it generated revenue of $804 million in 2023, with 98 percent of that money coming from advertising.

Yesterday we said that on Reddit they had reached an agreement to sell all the content of their forum, created by millions of platform users, to the giant Google. The goal of the agreement is to earn 60 million per year while Google trains its AI.

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Back in December 2021, the popular forum Reddit announced that it had plans to launch an initial public offering and become a publicly traded company. Now, over two years later, it seems that plan is finally going to happen very soon.

In a new presentation today before the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Reddit revealed its current financial number, along with the number of users that the online forum currently has. This means that the IPO could happen at any time. When it does, Reddit’s shares will be sold, bought, and traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “RDDT”.

These are the daily and monthly active users that Reddit has

The request indicates that Reddit currently has 267.5 million weekly active users and about 73 million daily users. In a separate announcement from Google, it was revealed that the company now has access to Reddit’s data API.

This means that Google’s artificial intelligence models will be able to be trained using the content of Reddit posts. Although neither Google nor Reddit have revealed the financial details, Reuters reports that Google will pay Reddit $60 million per year for this agreement.

Reddit also revealed that it generated $804 million in revenue in 2023, and that 98 percent of that money came from advertising. However, it also revealed that it is still not profitable, as it lost $90.8 million last year.

In 2023, Reddit also revealed that it would start charging most developers for access to its API. This caused a great reaction from many Reddit users. Some of its most popular subreddits “went dark” for a while to protest the changes in the API.

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In today’s presentation, Reddit has indicated that it will try to monetize its data in different ways and generate revenue from commercial solutions, in addition to advertising.

Another interesting thing that Reddit says it’s going to do is give its top moderators, along with users with the highest karma scores, an invitation to buy company shares.

Reddit sells its users to Google in exchange for 60 million dollars

Until a few days ago, it was unknown which company might be interested; now we know it is Google, the giant that has been able to offer 60 million…

Reddit will allow Google to access its user-generated content platform as part of a new licensing agreement. The agreement is valued at around $60 million annually, Reuters confirmed today.

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Until recently, most AI companies trained their data on the open web without asking for permission. But that has proven to be legally questionable, leading companies to try to obtain data on a more solid basis.

Google beats OpenAI to the punch

Until a few days ago, it was unknown which company could be interested, now we know that it is Google, the giant that has been able to offer 60 million when OpenAI was offering the media only 5 million dollars annually.

In this way, Reddit is going to sell the content of all its users to Google to make around 60 million dollars a year. With everyone’s texts and contributions, Google’s AI will be trained.

According to The New York Times, Apple has also been seeking multi-year deals with major news organizations worth “at least $50 million”.

The news also comes after Reddit threatened in October to cut off Google and Bing search crawlers if it did not reach a data training agreement with AI companies.

Reddit has already shown before that it is willing to play hard. Last year, it managed to come out unscathed from the biggest protest in its history after changes in third-party API access prices forced the developers of the most popular Reddit applications to shut down.

As Bloomberg writes, Reddit’s year-over-year revenue increased by 20% at the end of 2023, but they were still $200 million short of the $1 billion target set two years earlier.

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Apparently, the company was advised to seek a valuation of $5 billion when it goes public, which is expected to happen in March. It is half of the $10-15 billion it could have reached last time it applied to go public in 2021, before a market downturn halted it.

Cyberpunk 2077 has new secrets nobody discovered until NOW

Three years since its release, hidden secrets of Cyberpunk 2077 are still being discovered, demonstrating the care that is put into the game.

It is common for open-world games to have many secrets that are discovered over time. Sometimes, even years later. All the great titles of the genre have had them, in many cases they still have them, and even today, they continue to amaze us with everything their developers hid in them.

The latest game to experience this has been Cyberpunk 2077. A Reddit user named CommercialLeg2439 one day discovered something strange at the Grand Imperial Mall in the Pacifica area. He noticed that when night fell, some letters would light up while others wouldn’t. Which resulted in an apparently nonsensical message: “GRA D IMPERI L MALI”. Except it turned out to have a hidden meaning.

As other Reddit users noticed, the message was in Latin and if you ignore the L, you get “grad imperi mali”. Or “Degree of government evil”. Something that if we introduce the L, which is the number 50, could well mean either that the 50 states of the United States are part of that evil, or that the degree of evil is 50. Depending on how we want to interpret the message.

Although it’s not a big detail, it shows that, despite everything, Cyberpunk 2077 still has many hidden details yet to be discovered. A reminder of the attention to detail that developers put into this kind of games, and how they don’t seem to run out even years after their initial release.

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Science has spoken: we now know what sunscreen spray they use in GTA 6.

Science has spoken: we now know which sunscreen spray they use in GTA 6, or at least the one used by one of the NPCs that appears in the game’s first trailer.

It is always said that GTA fans dissect everything related to the franchise to absurd points. They take the trailers and dissect them until there is nothing left. But it’s not true. There are always things left to discover. Secrets that don’t come to light. Because no matter how dedicated a fanbase is, there are things they can’t uncover.

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That doesn’t mean they won’t try. It’s been less than a month since the GTA 6 trailer came out and we already know all kinds of potential details about the game. Although we can’t confirm anything for sure, there are so many people dissecting the trailer that it’s hard to imagine there are any secrets left to discover in the game. Not even who plays the protagonist character, Lucía. There will be some. And in fact, someone has decided to show that you can dig even deeper than what has been done so far.

A Reddit hero named @ficerc has conducted an exhaustive investigation to try to answer one of our burning questions. What is the sun protection factor of the sunscreen spray used in the GTA 6 trailer?

The result is an article of over 1500 words full of diagrams, tables, and scientific explanations that seek to justify the level of solar intensity and the optimal level of sun protection factor that the specific NPC we see applying the spray would require. An absolute masterpiece that proves that yes, if there is something that can be investigated in a GTA trailer, there will be someone who will investigate it, no matter how far-fetched it may be.

It is no less true that this specific case is a parody. A joke very well told. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t much simpler ways to tell a joke than by conducting a rigorous scientific investigation. Although, isn’t that the joke’s charm?

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Steam peeked into Reddit and played Santa Claus with this user who asked for a tiny gift

Steam se asomó a Reddit e hizo de Papel Noel con este usuario que pedía un regalo minúsculo, concediéndole exactamente lo que necesitaba

Christmas gifts can take many forms. They don’t have to be something material and tangible. They can perfectly be an experience, a feeling, a shared sensation. Sometimes it can be a digital asset. Sometimes, a simple number. Because gifts don’t have to have a tangible, traditional, and classic form for us to value them as such. Sometimes, they are simply what they have to be.

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That doesn’t mean there aren’t gifts that wouldn’t excite us at first. If someone gives us Steam Points, we wouldn’t jump for joy. Part of the Steam platform, it is used to buy cosmetics for the profile and reward other users’ reviews, but nothing more. Therefore, it is very common to accumulate an obscene amount of points over the years that, on the other hand, have no particular use. And yet, this year, for one person, the best gift they could receive is a single steam point.

Recently, on the Steam Reddit page, a user asked a very specific question. They asked how it would be possible to get a single steam point. The reason was because they had 68,999 points and wanted to reach a nice round number like 69,000. What was the problem? There was no way to get a single point. And the possibility of getting more than one point and then spending points until reaching that round number was very difficult, if not directly impossible. Even if in the thread, many users were trying to figure out how to do it.

Then came December 25th. The day of excitement. And the same user came back to tell the miracle: their points balance had increased by a single digit overnight. They had exactly 69,000 steam points, just as they had always wanted.

Although clearly someone at Valve read the thread and made it possible, no one at the company communicated with the user about it. Which leads us to speculate that, perhaps, it wasn’t Valve at all. Not even Steam. It was a Christmas miracle. The holiday spirit itself manifesting, manipulating the Steam source code, and adding one more number to a balance that, anyway, doesn’t count for anything. Because, yes, it’s more likely that, like the current offers that you should take advantage of, it was done by a human being. But isn’t it nicer to think that it was the Christmas spirit?

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Valve has asked players, please, not to sniff the Steam Deck gases

Valve has asked players to please not snort smokes from the Steam Deck, because it could very well end up affecting your health.

Look, we get it. There are things that smell too good. The ink of freshly bought books. Early morning bakeries. Well-tended gardens in spring. These are scents we chase after, ones we want to inhale whenever possible. Not just to revel in them but actively seek them out and make them our own. But sometimes, it’s inappropriate, if not dangerous. That’s why Valve had to step in and tell us, well, no, we shouldn’t be sniffing the gases from our Steam Deck.

This isn’t new. Since the Steam Deck came out, many people have commented on enjoying the scent emanating from the console’s vents. It’s something that’s made a lot of people actively and consciously sniff that scent, becoming a meme in itself among the user community. The aroma from the Steam Deck’s ventilation is so pleasant and unique that it’s tempting to sniff it. That’s why Valve had to come out and clarify, for the love of all that’s good, let’s not do that.

On December 12th, Reddit user Metapod100 shared a screenshot where they asked Steam support if it was safe to “inhale the gases from the extractor” of the device. Valve responded, with a somewhat resigned tone, stating that “like with all electronic devices, it’s generally not recommended to inhale the gases from your device’s extractor.” They added that “while there are no safety issues with normal use, direct inhalation of these gases should be avoided.”

Of course, Valve hasn’t outright forbidden it. Nor have they said you’ll die if you continue doing it. But it does seem advisable not to do so simply because, you know, we don’t know how it might affect your health. It’s a sound piece of advice from Valve, who might be a bit late in releasing incense with the scent of Steam Deck’s extraction system gases.

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