What's the point of the new "profile post"? What kind of content you are willing to post on your profile?
Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B
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Re: Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B
#282Reddit has an opportunity to do right everything that Twitter has done (and continues to do) wrong. It took me about ten years to figure out that Twitter is a cesspool of useless noise and ego. Everybody tries to outdo each other with noise and follower count. What Reddit does right is focus on topics , primarily, not personalities. (Although I actually like the new user profiles, since they tend to be secondary focu…
> Twitter is a cesspool of useless noise and ego That's what Reddit has been, in my humble opinion, since I've started using it - since 2005. Country subs, most of the most famous subs, pretty much everywhere - it's just a lot of nonsensical quips, flame wars, karma hoarding (Reddit has a different unparliamentary word for that starting with "w"), the ubiquitous herd-mentality - one comment (mostly a "quip" reply) th…
> "There are no girls on the Internet"
Pretty sure that's actually 4Chan originally.
Re: Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B
#283If Reddit is still around in 10 years, I will eat my hat.
Google is roughly 19 years old, right? In 10 years Reddit will be 22. That's a pretty high bar you're setting.
Re: Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B
#284Re: Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B
#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Isn't the modern approach to that problem simply limiting new features to a subset of users then analyzing the result and deciding whether or not to release it to the full user base? As a heavy user of Reddit there is an argument to be made that it is (mostly) feature complete to the average user, and they have certainly made significant strides in scalability (though not without a decade of hiccups). I'd really like…
> Isn't the modern approach to that problem simply limiting new features to a subset of users then analyzing the result and deciding whether or not to release it to the full user base?
For most companies it is. But sites like reddit get people to do it for free. Basic A/B testing takes a not insignificant amount of resources, usually consisting of at least a marketing/analytics person, a developer, a designer, qa resources and a project manager.
Re: Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B
#286If reddit founders and investors make bank out of content generated for free, the content creators will get pissed off there's nothing for them. And they'll move on. YouTube is the only one I see who is really trying to make it work. Instagram worked it out by placed ads for the most popular models. And a key sin of all these sites is they think the content is theirs. It's not. Stop trying to regulate it to be what y…
Twitch is also a highlight here. When they came to the scene content creators flocked to their business model very rapidly.
Re: Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B
#287Reddit has an opportunity to do right everything that Twitter has done (and continues to do) wrong. It took me about ten years to figure out that Twitter is a cesspool of useless noise and ego. Everybody tries to outdo each other with noise and follower count. What Reddit does right is focus on topics , primarily, not personalities. (Although I actually like the new user profiles, since they tend to be secondary focu…
Reddit is only marginally better than twitter.
* They're launching new user profiles that center around the user; see the Washington post's Reddit account
* Reddit's model of communities is fundamentally broken. Each sub, unless STRONGLY curated like AskHistorians, develops its own hivemind. Post against the grain and receive downvotes, then take the downvote train as people LOVE to pile on downvotes.
* Reddit's upvote / downvote system is fundamentally broken. Easy to parse, light content or quips / jokes get hundreds of upvotes while actual, informational but boring responses get buried way below.
* Reddit has BLATANT advertising masquerading as user posts to big subs like Pics or MildyInteresting, or TodayILearned. Perfect usage of brand names, convenient brand symbol or product positioned perfectly, etc. And somehow posts that are straight up advertising get thousands of upvotes quickly.
* Reddit has done nothing about certain subreddits automatically banning people who post in X Y Z other subreddits, regardless of the content of their response.
* Their CEO, Spez, shadow edited people's comments in the_donald without telling anyone. Ellen Pao even commented on this and nothing fucking happened.
Etc. there are plus sides to reddit, but very few subs worth commenting in unless you have the popular opinion.
Re: Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B
#288Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Twitter is a cesspool of useless noise and ego That's what Reddit has been, in my humble opinion, since I've started using it - since 2005. Country subs, most of the most famous subs, pretty much everywhere - it's just a lot of nonsensical quips, flame wars, karma hoarding (Reddit has a different unparliamentary word for that starting with "w"), the ubiquitous herd-mentality - one comment (mostly a "quip" reply) th…
> "There are no girls on the Internet" Pretty sure that's actually 4Chan originally.
Yeah, this has been a 4chan thing since the mid 2000s. Guess this is a sign of its lack of relevancy these days.
Re: Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B
#289Reddit has an opportunity to do right everything that Twitter has done (and continues to do) wrong. It took me about ten years to figure out that Twitter is a cesspool of useless noise and ego. Everybody tries to outdo each other with noise and follower count. What Reddit does right is focus on topics , primarily, not personalities. (Although I actually like the new user profiles, since they tend to be secondary focu…
Reddit is only marginally better than twitter. * They're launching new user profiles that center around the user; see the Washington post's Reddit account * Reddit's model of communities is fundamentally broken. Each sub, unless STRONGLY curated like AskHistorians, develops its own hivemind. Post against the grain and receive downvotes, then take the downvote train as people LOVE to pile on downvotes. * Reddit's upvo…
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Re: Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B
#290reddit is about to suffer the same mass exodus Digg did if they keep up the shit brigade.. That site has gone to hell since the election.. ruined by shills and bots in every subreddit.. can't be bothered w/ it anymore.. sick of reading about Trump and Hillary.
Stick to the smaller technical subreddits.
Programming subreddits, aside from a few well moderated ones, are more full of vitriol, fanboyism, and misinformation than HN.