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You can't even edit the title of a Reddit post. That's been known for years and nothing's been done about it.
That's almost certainly by design. Just as with tweets, it would be massively abused.
I love Reddit, but remind me what's their business model? I've never seen an ad using Relay For Reddit. Free content is great but how do they keep the lights on much less justify $1.7 billion? (Also, HN. Servers are cheap but how do they pay dang to tell me I'm being toxic?)
Does anybody know why development at reddit is so slow? I know they have an engineering team, but if you track the changes over the last couple years, it's not much given how much time has passed. And that's not for lack of feature requests that Reddit staff have admitted would improve the site.
With the immense and demographically diverse userbase, I imagine keeping the site running smoothly and user analytics is their chief focus. Their strategy probably is to introduce changes slowly so as not to alienate or confuse people (I'm looking at you Facebook). Also, they expose their data via an API that developers have used to make all sorts of features, giving them the luxury of being able to basically test fe…
I'd really like to hear from a reddit volunteer moderator, a group who essentially keeps the site running for free and who have voiced their concerns over lack of tooling for... again a decade.
Finally we're only a year or two out from major PR issues at the company. I would not be surprised if it alienated engineering talent (that and presumably a smaller budget for compensation due to the revenue, profitability, time since last raise, etc.).
Does anybody know why development at reddit is so slow? I know they have an engineering team, but if you track the changes over the last couple years, it's not much given how much time has passed. And that's not for lack of feature requests that Reddit staff have admitted would improve the site.
I read through the front page of each of the top 5,000 subreddits (by subscribers) over the last few weeks, and a lot of the subreddits are adding hundreds or thousands of new subscribers per week. They seem to have gone into hypergrowth recently without anyone really noticing.
The other interesting thing of note is that of the 125,000ish posts I read through, there are only a few dozen submissions from independent blogs on the front page of all of these subreddits put together at any given time.
Does anybody know why development at reddit is so slow? I know they have an engineering team, but if you track the changes over the last couple years, it's not much given how much time has passed. And that's not for lack of feature requests that Reddit staff have admitted would improve the site.
Too busy working on April Fools day material: https://redditblog.com/2017/04/13/how-we-built-rplace/
Would love to know revenue numbers. At some point, 10 years in, you need to have a monetization plan. $1.7B is a lot of money
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That's almost certainly by design. Just as with tweets, it would be massively abused.
Might make sense to make it optional per subreddit. Some communities are far less filled with trolls than others. Locked after N hours or minutes is also a potential solution elaboration that could give subreddits flexibility (on/off, if on then lock after N time options). Default it to locked. One more layer would be to enable only for established accounts and or based on the account behavior historically, and so on…