Co-founder and CEO Nirav Tolia told AP News: "There should be enough value that we are creating for neighbors that they feel like they need to open up Nextdoor every single day. To that end, Nextdoor announced its "most consequential redesign of its core product to date." "We thought in our early days that neighbors would take over, almost as citizen journalists or local reporters," Tolia said to AP. With these improvements, Nextdoor is hoping to boost that number, which could provide an ancillary boost for the struggling local news market. "If Nextdoor is another vessel to get readers to news sites, and local news sites in particular," Franklin said, "It would come at a real moment of vulnerability for local news organizations and would be a real opportunity."