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Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

younata wrote: post #35
jcol wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit has quite a few stability/uptime problems. Probably not his fault, but a scary prospect nonetheless. EDIT: Did I get downvoted by someone who thinks Reddit is stable? It clearly isn't and anyone who thinks otherwise is dreaming. I guess I'll stop going against the HN hivemind just to keep my account in good standing. This place feels more like Reddit every day.

> This place feels more like Reddit every day. That's why I downmodded you.

Didn't you prove him right ...?

Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

#52

Post by radioactive21 »

younata wrote: post #35
jcol wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit has quite a few stability/uptime problems. Probably not his fault, but a scary prospect nonetheless. EDIT: Did I get downvoted by someone who thinks Reddit is stable? It clearly isn't and anyone who thinks otherwise is dreaming. I guess I'll stop going against the HN hivemind just to keep my account in good standing. This place feels more like Reddit every day.

> This place feels more like Reddit every day. That's why I downmodded you.

Pretty much HN reminds me of Reddit before Digg imploded.

Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

#54

Post by rms »

eggbrain wrote: post #9

The biggest question I have is: why are so many people leaving Reddit? Over the past few months, the site has grown continuously yet the people that have been the driving force of the site seem to be leaving just as the site is hitting its peak. What has changed?

Average-ish salaries with much higher than average work expectations. Basically the only perk of the job is that you're working on Reddit, but it seems obvious that there's a lot of extra stress involved.

Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

#55

Post by astrodust »

dailo10 wrote: post #46
runinit wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Jedberg is leaving because he values his marriage over reddit. He kinda hints at that in his blog post.

He has one of the most difficult, stressful jobs scaling one of the most heavily trafficked sites in the world. And I'm sure the bitching and moaning whenever there's downtime doesn't help.

Under-funded, over-loaded, filled with hyper-critical users and entire armies of abusers. Sounds like a great job!

Anyone who's stuck that out for years is a hero.

Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

#56

Post by ulvund »

eggbrain wrote: post #9

The biggest question I have is: why are so many people leaving Reddit? Over the past few months, the site has grown continuously yet the people that have been the driving force of the site seem to be leaving just as the site is hitting its peak. What has changed?

It's a high stress low pay job

Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

#57

Post by jedberg »

emmett wrote: post #31
kacy wrote: post #4

He was employee number one and I think the last remaining link to the founding team (not sure). I've got a lot of respect for him, especially after meeting him in person when I toured the office earlier this year. His commute was over 2 hours each day, and he had to deal with all the scaling issues with amazon almost single-handedly, not to mention the Saturday nights that were devoted to keeping the site up. I wish…

Jedberg was not on the founding team of Reddit. The founding team of reddit was Steve Huffman (spez) and Alexis Ohanian (kn0thing). Jedberg was their first hire after acquisition, though they'd acquired two other team members via merger (Chris Slowe and Aaron Swartz) prior to that.

Thanks for clarifying that. By the time I got to it, it was already fixed. :)

Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

#58

Post by jedberg »

malnourish wrote: post #30
jedberg wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And let me tell you how awkward that was knowing that I was going to post this today! And not being able to say anything.

Were you able to make arrangements with the team to make the transition easier? Do they know the ropes as well as you? Was there much camaraderie among the team members? It seemed that way. Did you have to agree to/sign anything from Conde Nast to proceed with your resignation? I wish you the best of luck and I hope you succeed both personally and in future ventures.

We all got along very well and I'm confident that they will be able to handle it. Also, I'm not dropping off the face of the planet -- they can still ask me questions. :)

Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

#59

Post by antirez »

There is something sounding very wrong about that: the work of a sysadmin that is of value for a big site should never reach the point to be so stressful that you have to wake up on alerts too many times.

It may happen 4 or 5 days every year maybe, if it is worse than that then there is something wrong. It is not impossible that jedberg is actually leaving because that kind of condition is not good in the long time. But here the problem is, a better employer would fix the root cause instead of letting good people go.

I'm saying that as I think this happens in many places actually, and is a huge mistake. A lot of work and traffic should never turn into a nightmare for a few guys.

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