It speaks volumes that Conde Nast spending $2200 on Reddit is enough to generate headlines.
Big Reddit Changes Coming? Conde Nast Purchases 285 Reddit Domain Names
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#22How about paying for proper server resources? I mean fuck... it's down every day multiple times.
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#23I know the phrase "reddit has become worse over time" is pretty much a meme here on hn but wow has that website been extremely bad as of late. Nothing but rage comics and pictures of pets, and some trolling. Probably a combination of more and more people plus summer vacation for the kids who have too much time on their hands.
Try a 'reddit reset' - unsub from every subreddit and then hand pick those that you find useful.
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#24This is a good example of coming to the right conclusion for the wrong reasons. Big things are indeed coming for reddit, but it has a lot more to do with Conde Nast finally investing some money in personnel than the fact that they registered redditgreen.com and redditblue.com. http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/11/reddit-programmer/
This.
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#25> If you did not have specific plans for 285 domain names (which would cost over $2200 to register for one year), you normally would not purchase them. Clearly the author has never worked with a content company on the web (writing for a blog aside). This kind of thing happens all the time. Purchasing domain name permutations related to your brand en masse is still usually cheaper than going through the legal process…
Also, it's hard to imagine that they could possibly have specific plans for 285 domain names ranging from zenreddit.com to redditsex.com. Oh, and my personal favourite, redditthe.com
Surely you've heard of Mahalo's domain spam?
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everything is broken into subreddits on reddit and if you learn to select the subreddits that interest you instead of just reading the "rage comic" and "pet picture" subreddits it might be of more interest.
Rage comics, advice animals, scumbag x, etc have bled over into virtually every subreddit now. It's basically part of reddit's culture. I've said it before, but you can unsubscribe from a subreddit, but you can't unsubscribe from a culture.
There are many subreddits where posts/comments along those lines get downvoted hard.
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#27> If you did not have specific plans for 285 domain names (which would cost over $2200 to register for one year), you normally would not purchase them. Clearly the author has never worked with a content company on the web (writing for a blog aside). This kind of thing happens all the time. Purchasing domain name permutations related to your brand en masse is still usually cheaper than going through the legal process…
To put it in perspective $2200 would be 3.5 billable hours from our IP attorney. Spending this small sum up front could save $500K in legal fees (assuming it only took 3.5 hours to reclaim a squatted domain legally).
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#28I know the phrase "reddit has become worse over time" is pretty much a meme here on hn but wow has that website been extremely bad as of late. Nothing but rage comics and pictures of pets, and some trolling. Probably a combination of more and more people plus summer vacation for the kids who have too much time on their hands.
Unsuscribe from /r/reddit.com /r/todayilearned /r/pics /r/videos /r/askreddit /r/politics and pretty much all the default reddits.
Suscribe to topic specific reddits ( e.g. /r/haskell or /r/Android ).
Enjoy your tenfold improved reddit.
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#29How about paying for proper server resources? I mean fuck... it's down every day multiple times.
It's not the servers' fault. Even Google would have terrible uptime if they only had five engineers -- regardless of how many servers they had.
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#30Reddit may be doing better than any of the other businesses that company owns.