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Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

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Post by jedberg »

astrodust wrote: post #55
dailo10 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Someone sent me a cape once, but it didn't fit.

To be honest, none of those things by themselves really bothered me. But I supposed the sum total of it always dragged on my subconscience.

Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

#72

Post by jedberg »

phlux wrote: post #26
jedberg wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First I have to clarify that nothing I did was single handed. I couldn't possibly have done what I did without the support of the awesomeness that was the rest of team reddit. As for hipmunk, I think they already have too much talent, since they have the rest of reddit. :)

Where were you commuting from?

Cupertino.

Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

#73

Post by pja »

cookiecaper wrote: post #68
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #62

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What are you talking about? Altering the link the user submits isn't manipulating user content? Especially when they incentivize sponsored ads from users that use affiliate links specifically? How is it NOT?

Well, it's not altering the intention, at least. The link still leads to the product that the user intended. As long as they aren't actively removing existing affiliate codes I don't see a problem with that approach. Reddit can't live off nothing forever, they are going to have to find a way to monetize in line with corporate overlord expectations for a site of its traffic level or eventually be replaced by drones.

Personally, I'd be quite happy if they pulled user affiliate codes from links and replaced them with their own.

Every sane person knows that a site like reddit has to be paid for somehow & this seems like a relatively unintrusive way to do so.

Metafilter does this, and their user base has no problem with it.

Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

#74

Post by redthrowaway »

ulvund wrote: post #56
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

I'll give you high stress, but I doubt it was low-paying. When they were doing their hiring rounds they said applicants with experience would be making six figures, so I'm sure their chief architect wasn't exactly starving.

Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

#75

Post by redthrowaway »

Joakal wrote: post #64
antirez wrote: post #59

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.…

That's a good point, why can't responses be automated to alerts? I wonder what critical parts he needs to fix.

They did automate most of it. They need to get off EBS, as there are simply too many issues with it that have a negative effect on performance and stability. Doing that, however, is a bit of a task.

Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

#76

Post by redthrowaway »

rick888 wrote: post #65
blhack wrote: post #34

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I've said it before, so I apologize for repeating myself, but it shocks me (shocks!) that reddit doesn't append affiliate IDs to all of the outbound links to amazon that are generated. I've probably made well over $100 in purchases just in the last few months via links I've seen on reddit. ("Can you recommend a good book on welding/bicycles/iOS dev/etc.") Hopefully they don't do what you're suggesting, because I thin…

One of the problems with Reddit is that the vast majority of users are anti-ads and anti-corporation making any form of commercialism (even if it means more employees or a better site) nearly impossible.

And yet tons of them shell out $4 a month for Gold, so it's clearly not impossible to monetize.

Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

#77

Post by panacea »

jedberg wrote: post #71
astrodust wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Someone sent me a cape once, but it didn't fit. To be honest, none of those things by themselves really bothered me. But I supposed the sum total of it always dragged on my subconscience.

>Someone sent me a cape once, but it didn't fit.

How does a cape not fit??

Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

#79

Post by CMay »

jedberg wrote: post #19
blhack wrote: post #5

IMHO, this is a major, major loss for reddit. Jedberg, I know you read HN -- you were a hugely important part of that community; any time there was about to be a user revolt, it seemed like a red-lettered Jedberg would pop up in the thread to calm everybody down. I don't think you were technically a community manager (were you?) but you did a damn good job at it anyway.

Thank you. That really means a lot to me.

Good luck on whatever you do in the future and thanks for the family time, effort and sanity invested into reddit.

Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

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Post by jedberg »

blhack wrote: post #32
jedberg wrote: post #19

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Thank you. That really means a lot to me.

Good, man. You deserve every word of praise that you get, especially for keeping that site running with the team you had (5, was it? And you were the only SA?). Good luck at whatever it is that you decide to do :)

Thank you. That's very kind of you.

The most dire time was right after raldi left, when I had just two tech people, a programmer and a sysadmin.

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