Does anyone know why they tweeted this??? https://web.archive.org/web/20190918200317/https://twitter.c...
What do you mean? Is it false or something?
Reddit was down for over two hours
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Re: Reddit was down for over two hours
#252Y'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…
> an idea for a sort of distributed Reddit
Free name suggestion: Distreddit
Re: Reddit was down for over two hours
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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…
Wikipedia is one of the Alexa top 10 globally (above Reddit, which is #20) and has 300 employees.
and Wikipedia also runs on a shoestring - even with some of the smartest people I know working at Wikimedia, the tech department could have 10x the people without running short of work at any point
Re: Reddit was down for over two hours
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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.
they could still backend to C or rust, no?
Re: Reddit was down for over two hours
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> they could have rewritten the site from the ground up, including any sort of data migration, multiple times over by now. Sigh, every. fucking. time. > I have never worked there, ... or anywhere else where high traffic is involved, right? It's always the people without any real world experience who come up with these BS claims about how everyone else is stupid and how it could be done differently. > ... but outside…
You've managed to say a lot without really saying anything. You make plenty of baseless assumptions about my background and ambitions... but I'm not even going to try to address my professional experience (or lack thereof) because it doesn't matter, since you're just using it as a straw man to deflect criticism. The facts are as follows: 1. Reddit is one of the highest visited websites in the world. 2. Throughout nea…
so, where is your website?
Re: Reddit was down for over two hours
#256I dont know how, but reddit's tech actually feels WORSE now. The old site was simple, but it was fast, clean, and it worked for the one thing it needed to do: upvote downvote content.
Now the newer version is always trying to kick me into either Chrome or the App. I don't want the f'ing App. And the mobile experience is supppper slow. Its literally just a text webpage it should load near instantly, if they didnt have to redesign the whole thing in some new web framework.
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I a lot of people use third party mobile apps because the official one is subpar. They should just acqui-hire Apollo for iOS at least.
Given what happened after they acqui-hired Alien Blue, I'd say no they shouldn't.
Good point, I'd forgotten about that.
Re: Reddit was down for over two hours
#258Y'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…
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…
This was called Advogato, and while it was interesting it ultimately died: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advogato
Re: Reddit was down for over two hours
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500 employees is still alot. Especially given the technology ecosystem that exists for leverage. The revenue piece is an interesting one because i was an early adopter and remember the revenue struggle. Gold/silver doesn't cut it because it relies on generosity. FB/Twitter are an ads business. Is that really not too lucrative of a field for reddit?
There are ads on Reddit already. I only ever use their website with an, but I get ads on the iOS app. I've been seeing a significant rise in the usage of gold/silver/platinum lately, used heavily for banter on r/soccer (and for rewarding quality content as well.)
ads on iOS ?
Do yourself a favor and install Apollo like every sane person
Re: Reddit was down for over two hours
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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 stopped criticizing redesigns because i usually get over it, but the Reddit one makes the site at least 8x slower for me.
That’s been my complaint. The old server side rendered site was really fast to load. Ever since the first redesign a few years back it’s been really slow.