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an open letter to Alexis Ohanian fix search, it's been broken for a couple of weeks now.
Reddit search? Was there ever one?
Our search machines are under too much load to handle your request right now. :( Sorry for the inconvenience. Try again in a little bit -- but please don't mash reload; that only makes the problem worse.
Uhh...what? These are features that seem kindof obvious to me...I think they're awesome. In fact, this is really similar to something that I used to do on my website over a year ago (we stopped doing it because there weren't enough users to make it feasible at that time...some of the ideas still exist though). Alexis, one of the problems with reddit, at least right now, is that there are just too many freaking people…
Reddit comments are excellent, and I think that while having a buzzing community creates a lot more noise, there is also a lot more great content. Initiatives like $180,000 for Haiti, or the secret santa wouldn't have been the same 5 years ago.
That said, there are a variety of good communities on Reddit.
Reddit's quality has gone down in flames; it's 6 months away from being Digg with a shitty (if lovable) interface. I still visit Reddit, but less than ever. So to talk down to Digg, which Reddit shamelessly copied, and while Digg is at least trying to innovate is odd. What has reddit done lately? Subreddits? Narwhals? I still have love for Reddit, but this post seems obnoxious.
Uhh...what? These are features that seem kindof obvious to me...I think they're awesome. In fact, this is really similar to something that I used to do on my website over a year ago (we stopped doing it because there weren't enough users to make it feasible at that time...some of the ideas still exist though). Alexis, one of the problems with reddit, at least right now, is that there are just too many freaking people…
Reddit comments are excellent, and I think that while having a buzzing community creates a lot more noise, there is also a lot more great content. Initiatives like $180,000 for Haiti, or the secret santa wouldn't have been the same 5 years ago.
That place has been a sewer for years and I hate that it was ruined.
I think that Kevin realizes that to reach a broader audience the site needs to have value for people who don't choose to be active members of the community (or want their own little niches). Facebook does some of this, but it's too closed-off (unless you're on a fan page). Twitter does some of this, but it's too broad in some ways. If anything, it kinda takes the best elements from each.
Digg has a lot of problems with the way its audience has grown, and as a result, it's become overly-influenced by one core group of people: Young guys. Jezebel actually called them out on this recently:
http://jezebel.com/5531991/boys-will-be-boys-the-problem-wit...
If you want to win the influence game, you have to have more than just guys and more than just Justin Bieber fans. And the fact of the matter is, you can still have a huge audience on Twitter even without ever touching the trending topics. The current Digg, you have to roll the dice the right way. Reddit, you have to also keep your fingers crossed.
And to win the publishers over, you have to a) not treat them as if they're jerks for wanting to build traffic b) not waste their time. This design does both.
I'm going to use this once it goes up, because it doesn't feel like the deck is stacked against my little blog ( http://shortformblog.com/ for the curious).
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Reddit comments are excellent, and I think that while having a buzzing community creates a lot more noise, there is also a lot more great content. Initiatives like $180,000 for Haiti, or the secret santa wouldn't have been the same 5 years ago.
Yes and no. I just made the mistake of looking at /r/pics, and it's a sty. That said, there are a variety of good communities on Reddit.
an open letter to Alexis Ohanian fix search, it's been broken for a couple of weeks now.
Uhh...what? These are features that seem kindof obvious to me...I think they're awesome. In fact, this is really similar to something that I used to do on my website over a year ago (we stopped doing it because there weren't enough users to make it feasible at that time...some of the ideas still exist though). Alexis, one of the problems with reddit, at least right now, is that there are just too many freaking people…
People weren't making "friends" on digg for much else than spreading their content, so I suspect most of the networks in place aren't adding much value to me as a reader. V4 makes the process all the more transparent - publishers plugging in RSS feeds that autodigg each post is a far cry from a reader powered frontpage. And to be fair, of those first 10 redditors you miss, over half of them were me ;)
There's still a void between random links my facebook friends like and random links tweeters (?) I follow like that solves the signal/noise problem. Someone will fill it - I'd love for it to be newslily. Just promise you'll gank from Steve's commenting system, it really is top notch (in my biased opinion).
This is such obvious linkbait that it even admits "this title is linkbait" at the bottom. He means give the power back to Kevin Rose, which is exactly what appears to have happened recently. So... non-story.
Has he spent any time with Kevin? Because frankly this version reeks of Kevin - it's just endless twiddling with design and a fear of doing anything to actually change the way the site works.