Reddit’s new profile pages could fundamentally transform the site
The next big shift in Reddit’s evolution may look quite familiar. Last night, the company announced the introduction of what it’s calling profile pages. This is exactly what it sounds like: a personal page tied to a username, with a feed of posts and an avatar. The change is just in the testing phase, and it’s only been rolled to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, League of Legends game developer Riot Games, and prominent user Hector Janse van Rensburg, a British painter who goes by the Reddit handle Shitty_Watercolour.
It will over time become available to every user on the platform, the company says. While cribbing from other social networks, Reddit’s new feature also specifically steers away from core aspects of Facebook and Twitter....