In October 2021, the American discussion website, Reddit, hired its first chief product officer.
Out of all the candidates at the time, the company's CEO Steve Huffman hired Pali Bhat, the former Vice President for product management and design at Google Cloud.
Pali Bhat Shares Reddit's Future Plans
Although Huffman had his reservations, Bhat proved to be a great addition to the team. He introduced the SUPER approach: Simple, Universal, Performant, Excellent, and Relevant. This is what Reddit follows when deciding which feature to add to the platform.
There have been a lot of improvements since Bhat's hiring. According to Adweek, he introduced the Discover tab, which allowed Redditors to look for communities and topics faster. He added the Localization feature provides other languages that users can select to understand the platform better.
Now, Bhat shared a list of possible updates and improvements to Reddit that will be rolled out by the end of 2022.
In a blog post, Bhat shared why he decided to join Reddit. He praised how thoughtful and passionate the community is, and he also pointed out that it is a platform where people engage in authentic and meaningful conversations.
Bhat said that his mission is to ensure that the authentic and meaningful conversations that everyone loves about Reddit stays that way, as reported by Fast Company.
Reddit's Key Pillars
To make that happen, in 2020, Reddit's product team is focusing on empowering its users and the communities.
Bhat revealed the five key pillars that the Reddit team will be working with: Simple, Universal, Performance, Excellent, and Relevant.
On the simplicity pillar, Bhat shared that Reddit will make the curation better for communities, and introduce new live spaces for livestreams, sessions, and events. He also wants users to explore posts and recommendations faster.
On the universal pillar, Reddit is working to make the site available in more languages. Currently, the site can be read in English, Italian, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Reddit is working with local teams so users can be connected to relevant local content, including partnering them with local moderators to help build experiences that are authentic to their cultures.
On the performance pillar, Reddit unified its mobile and web versions for easier navigation. This means that web version users will see the same features on the app version.
On the excellent pillar, Reddit will work on its audio and will now allow moderators to add approved hosts to Reddit Talk sessions outside of communities.
The company is also working on expanding the site's chat functionality, including teaming up with moderators hosting live chat posts within communities. This can help reduce buffer time and improve video caching.
On the relevant pillar, Reddit wants to ensure that the items that its users see on the platform are based on their interests. The company will use AI for the completion of this plan.
Bhat wants users to be able to go to Reddit and vote on the content that they want to see and upvote comments that they think are helpful to their queries, according to Tech Crunch.
Machine learning will also be added to assess an item's pertinence and block any harmful content.
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Written by Sophie Webster
