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Re: Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Early Engineer at Pinterest, Its First CTO

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Post by dang »

optimusclimb wrote: post #5

What is a "founding engineer"? It must not mean founder, since then one would just say "founder". It's clearly not Director of Engineering, CTO, or VP o E. I had just assumed this was new phrasing used by recruiters and business people trying to get early engineer hires that they don't want to give a real title to (because if/when the company grows they'll bring in adults to run things and get those titles.) Note, se…

Ok, since "founding" is misleading (or at least distracting) we've replaced it with "early" above.

Re: Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Early Engineer at Pinterest, Its First CTO

#12

Post by dntrkv »

boomzilla wrote: post #9

What are the technology challenges is Reddit facing? Clearly not scaling as it's been pretty reliable. New features? What more feature does one need from Reddit? It's pretty good for what it's doing.

Maybe one day they will fix search?

Re: Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Early Engineer at Pinterest, Its First CTO

#13

Post by pavs »

boomzilla wrote: post #9

What are the technology challenges is Reddit facing? Clearly not scaling as it's been pretty reliable. New features? What more feature does one need from Reddit? It's pretty good for what it's doing.

Reddit still borks during peak hour, after all this years. But not as often as it used to. There was a huge discussion about reddit not implementing better moderation/spamming/vote-rigging and site wide feature tools that has been promised for years. Basically reddit has been bit stagnant feature wise for some time now. Lot were promise with lotsa new hires but nothing much to show for it.

With spez being back, hopefully it will change. he doesnt have a habbit of bullshitting, unlike recent CEOs.

Re: Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Early Engineer at Pinterest, Its First CTO

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Post by boomzilla »

dntrkv wrote: post #12
boomzilla wrote: post #9

What are the technology challenges is Reddit facing? Clearly not scaling as it's been pretty reliable. New features? What more feature does one need from Reddit? It's pretty good for what it's doing.

Maybe one day they will fix search?

Most people I know just use Google for site search by adding the site name to the query. More sophisticated queries can use site:reddit.com syntax, but usually adding reddit to a query should have the desired effect.

If any DuckDuckGo guy around here, is there a command for reddit search, like !rd or something.

Re: Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Early Engineer at Pinterest, Its First CTO

#15

Post by boomzilla »

pavs wrote: post #13
boomzilla wrote: post #9

What are the technology challenges is Reddit facing? Clearly not scaling as it's been pretty reliable. New features? What more feature does one need from Reddit? It's pretty good for what it's doing.

Reddit still borks during peak hour, after all this years. But not as often as it used to. There was a huge discussion about reddit not implementing better moderation/spamming/vote-rigging and site wide feature tools that has been promised for years. Basically reddit has been bit stagnant feature wise for some time now. Lot were promise with lotsa new hires but nothing much to show for it. With spez being back, hopef…

I mostly read Reddit while not logged in, so I've never seen any latency. I guess it's mostly because of authentication/personalized content stuff, which should be easy to fix, by doing less of them or lazy loading.

Re: Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Early Engineer at Pinterest, Its First CTO

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Post by piotrjurkiewicz »

It is clear that Reddit is facing some problems with scalability. I often get server errors during peak hours. But I think that politically-based censorship, which is being enforced by many moderators (with the help of Reddit admins), will kill this service sooner than scalability problems. Users will simply left Reddit when they will become censored. Many users I knew already did that. Moreover, moderators of many subreddits want to have more powers, including ability to see user IP address, ban users basing on IP address and ban users globally (not only on subreddit they moderate). Granting them these privileges will accelerate the decay.

https://np.reddit.com/r/Leakeverything/comments/3c0d9e/some_...

It is no coincidence, that /r/europe mods are the ones who ask the most loudly for more powers. They massively ban users on their subreddit, for variety of reasons, but the most common last months is criticizing current EU immigration policy. Some users create new accounts and come back after few days. That's why they want to have the ability to ban IP addresses. It is much harder to change IP address.

Exemplary user stories:

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/3b86ws/mods_of_reur...

https://www.reddit.com/r/subredditcancer/comments/374s5i/thi...

Re: Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Early Engineer at Pinterest, Its First CTO

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Post by kevando »

piotrjurkiewicz wrote: post #16

It is clear that Reddit is facing some problems with scalability. I often get server errors during peak hours. But I think that politically-based censorship, which is being enforced by many moderators (with the help of Reddit admins), will kill this service sooner than scalability problems. Users will simply left Reddit when they will become censored. Many users I knew already did that. Moreover, moderators of many s…

Yeah, it's kinda sad to see this happen to Reddit... I feel like there is so much potential to create unique revenue driving efforts beyond the standard ad based concepts that Reddit should be exploring..

Re: Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Early Engineer at Pinterest, Its First CTO

#18

Post by hkmurakami »

optimusclimb wrote: post #5

What is a "founding engineer"? It must not mean founder, since then one would just say "founder". It's clearly not Director of Engineering, CTO, or VP o E. I had just assumed this was new phrasing used by recruiters and business people trying to get early engineer hires that they don't want to give a real title to (because if/when the company grows they'll bring in adults to run things and get those titles.) Note, se…

Basically "Engineer hire #1" (or similar) that was on board super early but wasn't part of the founding team when the team itself was formed.

I am guessing the distinction is to delineate the fact that the engineer did not join 1+ year from company founding, which is often the case for Engineer #1.

Re: Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Early Engineer at Pinterest, Its First CTO

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Post by diyorgasms »

piotrjurkiewicz wrote: post #16

It is clear that Reddit is facing some problems with scalability. I often get server errors during peak hours. But I think that politically-based censorship, which is being enforced by many moderators (with the help of Reddit admins), will kill this service sooner than scalability problems. Users will simply left Reddit when they will become censored. Many users I knew already did that. Moreover, moderators of many s…

There is no need to bring reddit intra-site politics here. I doubt readers could care less about SJW vs anti-SJW factions on another site. Furthermore, the actions of certain moderators have nothing to do with this staffing announcement, so you are doubly off-topic. It would make me happy at least if we could contain reddit politics to reddit itself.

Re: Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Early Engineer at Pinterest, Its First CTO

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Post by pavs »

boomzilla wrote: post #15
pavs wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit still borks during peak hour, after all this years. But not as often as it used to. There was a huge discussion about reddit not implementing better moderation/spamming/vote-rigging and site wide feature tools that has been promised for years. Basically reddit has been bit stagnant feature wise for some time now. Lot were promise with lotsa new hires but nothing much to show for it. With spez being back, hopef…

I mostly read Reddit while not logged in, so I've never seen any latency. I guess it's mostly because of authentication/personalized content stuff, which should be easy to fix, by doing less of them or lazy loading.

Its a lot more than that I am sure. Considering its the 10th most visited site. Handling 1000s of comments per second (if not more), among other things, is no trivial thing.

Their shadowbanning is the worst, I have an 8 year old account and I was shaddowbanned countless time, I was finally un-shadowbanned after years of whining about it.

I have a feeling Spez will get this right. Lets see.

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