Even the traditional PHP forum has all kinds of senseless 'flare' on each post. Post counts, signup dates, eye catching signatures, etc. A large portion of the screen space on your typical forum is still dedicated to attention seeking behavior. IRC is better. There is very little on screen besides the discussion itself. IRC nicks can be used to grab attention, but there are only a few characters to work with so usual…
Let's make a web-browser-accessible persistent IRC with threads and no scores?
I believe you've described a major chunk of Slack's business model.
Even the traditional PHP forum has all kinds of senseless 'flare' on each post. Post counts, signup dates, eye catching signatures, etc. A large portion of the screen space on your typical forum is still dedicated to attention seeking behavior. IRC is better. There is very little on screen besides the discussion itself. IRC nicks can be used to grab attention, but there are only a few characters to work with so usual…
Let's make a web-browser-accessible persistent IRC with threads and no scores?
When I first saw the subreddit, I thought it was a neat idea. I like the idea of digging into a tough subject and challenging our beliefs. I couldn't put my finger on it for the longest time, but what I eventually realized was that I didn't like how inauthentic the whole thing felt. Changing a deeply held belief just isn't that easy, yet almost every thread has the OP giving a delta. How it appears to me is that peop…
For better or worse, the "delta" concept has become to mean "you made a good point on the opposite side that I hadn't considered" and still serves a useful function in that context.
I wonder how much more this will happen with the current controversy surrounding Reddit’s funding and uncertain future. They are doing surprisingly well after a horrid redesign and everything else that’s happened over there.
Reddit is transitioning to a Facebook model to suck up all the users that are hemorrhaging from over there. There's a new concentration on posting to personal profiles, integrating commercial entities (ie, u/washingtonpost) as "users" to blend in their ads seemlessly, and gentrifying to appease these new adertisers that don't want to be next to potentially controversial content. These are all things that don't bother…
I think that was inevitable the moment they started taking big VC money. There's most proven way to become massively profitable is trading your user's attention for ad money.
> How it appears to me is that people have beliefs that they realize are either unpopular or controversial, and so they use the subreddit to learn what they "should" believe or at least a rationalization for ignoring their true beliefs. A large portion of Reddit in general (especially the front page and popular subreddits) is people making up stories/opinions/content created specifically to illicit as many replies an…
Even the traditional PHP forum has all kinds of senseless 'flare' on each post. Post counts, signup dates, eye catching signatures, etc. A large portion of the screen space on your typical forum is still dedicated to attention seeking behavior. IRC is better. There is very little on screen besides the discussion itself. IRC nicks can be used to grab attention, but there are only a few characters to work with so usual…
And 4chan theoretically is better still, because the anonymity means posters are not rewarded at all for their contributions. Even the same poster, posting twice in the thread is not identifiable on most boards, allowing the discussion to be the primary focus. On the other hand, the culture of most *chans is to be abusive and confrontational, so who knows if it is any better.
Even the traditional PHP forum has all kinds of senseless 'flare' on each post. Post counts, signup dates, eye catching signatures, etc. A large portion of the screen space on your typical forum is still dedicated to attention seeking behavior. IRC is better. There is very little on screen besides the discussion itself. IRC nicks can be used to grab attention, but there are only a few characters to work with so usual…
And 4chan theoretically is better still, because the anonymity means posters are not rewarded at all for their contributions. Even the same poster, posting twice in the thread is not identifiable on most boards, allowing the discussion to be the primary focus. On the other hand, the culture of most *chans is to be abusive and confrontational, so who knows if it is any better.
In my experience 4chan has more attention seeking behavior than IRC (inline images facilitate it moreso than nicks), and on IRC users tend to be more friendly and aware of each other's humanity.
Yes, it's called the web. Reddit's source is free [0], and you can host your own (sub)reddit, which no one will be able to take away from you easily. [0] https://github.com/reddit
We need the discoverability Reddit provides.
Ironically, the discoverability reddit provides was originally as a link sharing site. Says a lot about how reddit has changed that this isn't considered as true anymore.
Change my view: Verb forms of "graduate" which have a direct object should be followed by "from" unless they're referring to the act of calibration. "Jimmy graduated from college." Not "Jimmy graduated college." Alternately acceptable exception that proves the rule: "State College graduated 1500 students this year."
"Jimmy graduated from college." Not "Jimmy graduated college." See also: "Oil needs to be changed." Not "Oil needs changed." People are afraid of "to be" these days.
> How it appears to me is that people have beliefs that they realize are either unpopular or controversial, and so they use the subreddit to learn what they "should" believe or at least a rationalization for ignoring their true beliefs. A large portion of Reddit in general (especially the front page and popular subreddits) is people making up stories/opinions/content created specifically to illicit as many replies an…
Even the traditional PHP forum has all kinds of senseless 'flare' on each post. Post counts, signup dates, eye catching signatures, etc. A large portion of the screen space on your typical forum is still dedicated to attention seeking behavior. IRC is better. There is very little on screen besides the discussion itself. IRC nicks can be used to grab attention, but there are only a few characters to work with so usual…
Serious question here- but how do I go about finding irc channels for stuff I’m interested in? When I was younger I loved irc but my warez days are long gone and I literally have no idea where to start looking anymore.