Friday, May 29, 2009

Reddit Toolbar celebrates 3.5th anniversary, becomes lickable

Last month, it seemed like everyone was talking about toolbars.

Reddit, of course, has had a toolbar since 2005. (You might not have known that, however, since it's always been an opt-in feature.)

The site has come a long way in the past four years, but this small piece of code has been more or less left alone even as the rest of the site changed all around it.

We thought it was time for a little makeover. We knew we didn't want to make any major functional changes, or start forcing it upon anyone, but we did want to make it prettier, snappier, and generally easier to use.

So we're excited (in a low-key way) to unveil the new and improved Reddit Toolbar 2.0.



You can read all about it on the help page, or take it for a test-drive here. (Props to ketralnis for doing most of the difficult coding while I was fiddling with the gradient and working on an Easter Egg.)
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