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Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by joewee »

Alex3917 wrote: post #83
sha666sum wrote: post #62

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You know, the people who talk about USENET and IRC are people who don't want to be "updated" to what modern users demand. I don't know if you've had a look around you lately, but the modern internet is a dumpster fire. Anyways, ideally you would be able to connect to services with whichever client you want. You could use a pretty eye candy client, or then not. With the web, however, it's an impossible feat to impleme…

> the people who talk about USENET and IRC are people who don't want to be "updated" to what modern users demand. IRC is objectively terrible. If you ask a question, the only way to get the answer is if you stay logged in until someone answers you. That's like buying a phone that doesn't ring unless you're already holding it up to your ear, or an email client that deletes all your email unless you happen to be lookin…

Young people now think it’s ok to send out a message and respond whenever they feel like it. Communication is no longer a conversation in the tradition sense, it’s a series of monologues or statements where the sender usually only cares about whether you are impressed by the statement.

IRC was all about conversation. You went there to have a conversation, like a party line voice bridge. You even waited around for someone to have a conversation with... oh I miss it...

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by kamaal »

opmac wrote: post #97
mike_d wrote: post #93

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"We are a startup that inherited a 15 year old website" was one of the things that resonated when I worked there. Facebook is Alexa #5 in the US and has ~40,000 employees. Reddit is #6 and has ~500 employees. Twitter is #17 and has ~4,000 employees. (Numbers taken from quick Google searches) They have some super talented engineers that work miracles with band aids and bubble gum. Edit: Yes I understand not all employ…

Meh... they could have rewritten the site from the ground up, including any sort of data migration, multiple times over by now. I have never worked there, but outside looking in, it seems like there is a significant lack of technical vision from them. Other big players like Facebook, Twitter, etc, are literally inventing pivotal parts of the modern web technical stack. What has come out of reddit?

>>they could have rewritten the site from the ground up

They did. They even tossed out Common Lisp and bought in Python because they thought it would fix their problems. It didn't.

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by conception »

dumbfoundded wrote: post #44
bitwize wrote: post #27

Y'know, the toll that all this activity takes on Reddit's servers gave me an idea for a sort of distributed Reddit. News links and stories assorted into topic-based groups, with the option for users to comment or respond to others' comments in a threaded discussion. It would be completely decentralized and belong to the users, not some central media company. We could call it Users' Network, or USENET for short. We co…

You mean Steemit?

Yeah this already exists and was done pretty well actually.

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by nine_k »

bitwize wrote: post #27

Y'know, the toll that all this activity takes on Reddit's servers gave me an idea for a sort of distributed Reddit. News links and stories assorted into topic-based groups, with the option for users to comment or respond to others' comments in a threaded discussion. It would be completely decentralized and belong to the users, not some central media company. We could call it Users' Network, or USENET for short. We co…

While the joke is not lost, think of the pictures. Of animated gifs and video clips. They are a large part if Reddit.

Sending every peer a copy can be wasteful and slow. It only there'd be a cluster of servers to make these media available via http...

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by mehhh »

beatgammit wrote: post #157
mehhh wrote: post #101

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Lemmy is a federated alternative to Reddit: https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy Edit: Check out the dev instance of Lemmy! https://dev.lemmy.ml/

Wow, this is quite possibly exactly what I've been looking for! I love Rust (have experience with Actix as well), React (so hopefully Inferno will come naturally), and have been looking for a Reddit alternative for some time! I'm not sure if I should thank you or curse you for making me want to spend a ton of time on yet another side project ;)

Lemmy is a fun project that I'm sure you could make even better!

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by Deimorz »

kamaal wrote: post #212
opmac wrote: post #97

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Meh... they could have rewritten the site from the ground up, including any sort of data migration, multiple times over by now. I have never worked there, but outside looking in, it seems like there is a significant lack of technical vision from them. Other big players like Facebook, Twitter, etc, are literally inventing pivotal parts of the modern web technical stack. What has come out of reddit?

>>they could have rewritten the site from the ground up They did. They even tossed out Common Lisp and bought in Python because they thought it would fix their problems. It didn't.

That was in December 2005, less than 6 months after the site launched. Reddit was tiny and didn't even have subreddits or comments yet. This is what it looked like: https://web.archive.org/web/20051205025706/http://reddit.com...

The problems they're dealing with 14 years later as one of the top sites on the internet aren't even slightly comparable.

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by Gaelan »

attqqq wrote: post #201
inscionent wrote: post #192

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Oh no! They have a business model!

There’s always ethical ways to generate money, too. Opt in generosity is proven to be viable.. see: Wikipedia, All of Patreon, Etc

Reddit gold was that, for a long time. Presumably, it didn’t work. (Or maybe wasn’t profitable enough?)

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by elSidCampeador »

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #143
hu3 wrote: post #109

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Not really a miracle. Reddit software is magnitudes simpler than Facebook. Not to mention the quality is often sub-par. For example, many hate their mobile app with a passion and search field could as well just not exist when I tried.

Their new redesign is so completely awful they have to have an option to “just show the old reddit” in your settings. If they ever take that away I think I’ll just stop using it, it’s that bad.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way - if they ever force me to use only the new site, then I'll leave reddit for good. Or maybe just use it on my phone (Apollo for Reddit is pretty good)

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by Iv »

basch wrote: post #170
cwkoss wrote: post #98

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I've specced out a decentralized reddit alternative a little bit, but have too many side projects. Someone please take this and build it. Let me know if you try, would love to spectate and advise on development. The key is there shouldn't be a globally consistent front page. Sorting should be done on an individual basis. Upvotes boost signal signal to peers and downvotes squelch. By propagating content scores transit…

I would much rather have the feed based on trust weighting of experts or people smarter than me, than the feed trying to feed me what it thinks pleases me. Metacritic vs Netflix. Aldaily vs facebook. You dont need a consistent front page for everyone, but communities of like people should get similar front pages based on what is "best" and best shouldn't be defined as universally popular, but instead popular with som…

Well what cwkoss describes would work well for you too: you would choose your experts of choice and have them as trusted users. I would too expect some users to become trust nexuses like that.
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