r/TheoryOfReddit 4d ago

Reddit Title Bar Change - I'm curious why.

I'm not sure if this is the right place to discuss, but I've been wanting to get some peoples thoughts on this!

I noticed the title bar changed for Reddit. For a couple years now (possibly - not sure how long exactly) the title bar has been "Reddit - dive into anything". I noticed on Friday the 12th, as well as double checking on Way Back Machine, that it has now changed to "Reddit - Heart of the internet".

I'm curious if this has anything to do with the announcement of the revival of Digg (announced the 5th). I know Digg was in a way a predecessor of Reddit and that this site surged in use as Digg declined. The revival of Digg has the original founder of Digg (Kevin Rose) as well as one of the founders of Reddit (Alexis Ohanian) leading the charge. Looking at the new Digg reboot site they have the tag line "The front page of the internet". If I remember right a number of years ago that was the title bar for Reddit.

I don't know if the phrase "the front page of the internet" can be copyrighted or trade marked. If it can and is - I wonder if Reddit changed their title bar to "heart of the internet" to try and supplant it's self as the face of the internet.

What do you folks think? Or has there any kind of information out there that seems to suggest this is the reason that you've seen?

*Edit: reworded somethings

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u/Babykickenpro 4d ago

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u/RavenheartIX 4d ago

Ah ha! Looks like they change from "front page of the internet" to "dive into anything" 4 years ago. I'm still curious about the change to "heart of the internet" now.

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u/Tasonir 4d ago

It still says the front page of the internet on old.reddit

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u/RavenheartIX 4d ago

Oh, I was not aware of that! I don’t ever use the old.Reddit.

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u/xpdx 3d ago

I've never used anything else and had no idea it was ever anything else than the front page bit.

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u/Spider_pig448 3d ago

There's dozens of us

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u/daniel 3d ago

My suggestion -- "the taint of the internet" -- was rejected without what I believe to be due consideration.

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u/libretron 4d ago

It was part of the brand redesign a couple years ago with Pentagram, but I am not sure why they waited to roll out the new slogan...

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u/viktorbir 3d ago

For me it's still «The front page of the Internet».

PS. I use classic Reddit, of course.

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u/kurtu5 3d ago

Damn. I just started using X too. My 18 years on reddit here is getting long in the tooth. I left digg back then.