<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>krn</author><text>&amp;gt; I am surprised that reddit is on #13.&lt;p&gt;Reddit might be a #1 &lt;i&gt;project&lt;/i&gt; out of all the startups ever funded by Y Combinator, but it&amp;#x27;s unlikely to ever become a top 10 &lt;i&gt;company&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Because as an ad business it can neither match Google at targeting audience by exact user intent, nor Facebook at targeting audience by exact user profile.&lt;p&gt;In fact, I see reddit more like Couchsurfing: a project which would do &lt;i&gt;much&lt;/i&gt; better as a foundation rather than a corporation, based on the role it plays in the society.&lt;p&gt;At its essence, it&amp;#x27;s a highly scalable CRUD application, which requires a simple user interface, respectful community moderation, and as little user tracking as possible.</text><parent_chain><item><author>screye</author><text>I am surprised that reddit is on #13.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s alexa rank in US social media websites is #2 behind Facebook. Apart form their redesign shenanigans, people actually like the product they offer (in contrast to facebook) and they are still growing.&lt;p&gt;I wish Reddit stays in the kind of &amp;quot;grey&amp;quot; area where it never gets as &amp;quot;official&amp;quot; as twitter, despite the popularity. If anything, that might be entirely its appeal.&lt;p&gt;That predicament will eternally present a glass ceiling for reddit&amp;#x27;s revenue, but as a consumer I&amp;#x27;d rather see that than it going the full facebook -&amp;gt; hyper growth above anything else approach.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Y Combinator Top Companies List 2019</title><url>https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Taylor_OD</author><text>I know twitter is a household name and everyone knows about it but is reddit really that far behind? My mom isnt using it yet but has probably been linked to it via twitter and facebook over the last year. Not to sound pretentious but there has been a huge shift in the site as it&amp;#x27;s grown over the last couple of years. Most of the popular subreddits are just pointing out silly behavior on other websites or asking for the hivemind to weigh in on their personal life.</text><parent_chain><item><author>screye</author><text>I am surprised that reddit is on #13.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s alexa rank in US social media websites is #2 behind Facebook. Apart form their redesign shenanigans, people actually like the product they offer (in contrast to facebook) and they are still growing.&lt;p&gt;I wish Reddit stays in the kind of &amp;quot;grey&amp;quot; area where it never gets as &amp;quot;official&amp;quot; as twitter, despite the popularity. If anything, that might be entirely its appeal.&lt;p&gt;That predicament will eternally present a glass ceiling for reddit&amp;#x27;s revenue, but as a consumer I&amp;#x27;d rather see that than it going the full facebook -&amp;gt; hyper growth above anything else approach.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Y Combinator Top Companies List 2019</title><url>https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/</url></story>