Reddit is sharpening its focus on improving its core product and expanding into international markets. At the same time, the social platform is deprioritizing several 'user economy' initiatives.

Reddit is going to be leaning even harder into search in the coming months as Steve Huffman wants the site to become a "go-to search engine."

It seems a natural direction for Reddit, which now has more than 70 million weekly active users on its search function and more than 6 million WAU using Reddit Answers. Huffman believes Reddit is ideally positioned in a world where people are increasingly wanting human-powered answers to searches driven by their massive amount of Reddit chats.