After using this mess of website reddit I am wondering why people didn’t like usenet and prefer centralised private and censored services.
Ask HN: Why is Reddit so slow and unreliable?
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Re: Ask HN: Why is Reddit so slow and unreliable?
#22They pay their engineers below and in cases half of market rates, place no organizational value on quality engineering, their CEO/head engineer is a buffoon and they have a history of screwing people with regard to equity compensation. It's not a complicated explanation at all.
Share numbers?
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#23twitter is a close second for me. The bug that requires you to reload three times, inconsistent pop-ups demanding you to login, and slow interface. old.reddit.com is still ok, but yeah the redesign is terrible.
You would think metrics would be much better if the sites were a little more usable.
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#24Reddit might be the easiest short once they go public.
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#25It's written in Python and uses Cassandra.
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#26They pay their engineers below and in cases half of market rates, place no organizational value on quality engineering, their CEO/head engineer is a buffoon and they have a history of screwing people with regard to equity compensation. It's not a complicated explanation at all.
And rely on the “community” to moderate. For zero point zero compensation.
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#27They pay their engineers below and in cases half of market rates, place no organizational value on quality engineering, their CEO/head engineer is a buffoon and they have a history of screwing people with regard to equity compensation. It's not a complicated explanation at all.
> their CEO/head engineer is a buffoon and they have a history of screwing people with regard to equity compensation. It's not a complicated explanation at all.
This is the first time I’ve heard something negative about Huffman. Could you elaborate?
Re: Ask HN: Why is Reddit so slow and unreliable?
#28The cynic in me has to guess that too much of their development efforts are geared around disrupting and managing viewpoints that their users and corporate sponsors find problematic. To give a small example: back when a certain subreddit used to frequently appear in /r/all Reddit apparently wrote code to prevent it from ever appearing there again.
You’re giving them wayyyy too much credit for being able to pull anything off.
The problem with reddit isn’t their employees. It’s the finders keepers moderation system. First one to set up a “community” on a given topic is now able to manage messaging.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Reddit so slow and unreliable?
#29Reddit should be a quarter page box in a social psychology book about groupthink. It’s a shit website and there are better link aggregators.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Reddit so slow and unreliable?
#30Reddit should be a quarter page box in a social psychology book about groupthink. It’s a shit website and there are better link aggregators.
What alternatives do you like? I was looking at Lemmy