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Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by AussieWog93 »

ferdowsi wrote: post #33

Congratulations folks! I'll say that Reddit has become one of my favorite sites to visit occasionally and I feel they've earned their success. I honestly feel it is a positive factor in my life, for the little I use it. There's really excellent content to be had, like well moderated educational content at subreddits like r/AskHistorians and r/COVID. I've learned a lot from hobby communities that are hard to find else…

>I've learned a lot from hobby communities that are hard to find elsewhere (like for pizzamaking).

I wish that was my experience too.

Generally I'll avoid the subreddits for anything I'm interested in, as they're frequented by "experts" who feel the need to ruin everyone's fun.

It's great for things I'm not interested in, though, as it's a quick way to get genuine information on what is considered a good brand of bike shorts or hair curling products.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by hammock »

IgorPartola wrote: post #217
henning wrote: post #200

The Reddit of 2006 where tutorials on generating HTML in Lisp rocket to the top of the homepage is long gone. I can't imagine investing in an ad company that is fueled by clickbait and outrage the way Reddit is. Plus, some percentage of the userbase will always run aggressive ad blockers and be impossible to effectvely monetize. However, my brain works very differently from other people's, so I could be wrong.

Ok I’ll bite. How would you fix Reddit? I have been using online forums for the past 20+ years and I know what you mean about communities like Reddit going from nerd heavy topics to primarily being the free advertising platform for onlyfans accounts and political hacks. But how would Reddit at this point stuff the genie back into the bottle? For that matter, if you don’t believe in Reddit’s long term success, there a…

I didn't see where he said it could be fixed. You are right when you draw comparison to the genie out of the bottle. Online communities evolve and it's one way. You can't "fix" them, you can only move to new and different ones.

Just like real life social scenes, or city neighborhoods, too, now that I think about it.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

yalogin wrote: post #79

This is not good. The only reason I am still using Reddit is because of the old.reddit.com interface. Feels like an IPO will make them retire it at some point.

I only use teddit.net to access reddit these days. On those odd occasions that I follow a link to the actual reddit site I'm reminded why I avoid it:

- Pop-up to download app

- Pop-up has been un-clearable on a number of occasions

- Having to click "read more" to see more than two posts

- Having to click a link to a new page to follow a thread more than two / three replies deep (and often finding that it's only a single, useless reply)

- Other progressively more trivial annoyances

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by GhettoComputers »

mightyquacks wrote: post #210

Reddit used to be amazing Now it's like a red flag in your resume if you worked for reddit Then they made a whole mess on the homepage. This is what happens when you hire mediocre engineers. Its like junior engineers who cant write code. Reddit mobile is not bad, but stop trying to make me install it. There are people who only wants to use web. But your web engineers are garbage their ads is incredibly bad. there are…

Nice to see you on HN. ;)

It used to be written in lisp. It used to be good before eternal September. Being a redditor was a nerdy virtue signaler. Now? You can be seen as a white supremacist, a commie, a clout chasing loser trying to get upvotes, or an incel when you mention it.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by tayo42 »

post_break wrote: post #34

Will they be banning porn like tumblr? I know they removed it from "All" and then I believe they hid it in other ways. Just wondering when the Digg 4.0 / Tumblr will happen to Reddit. So far it's been a slow burn but I'm waiting for the great purge to bring down the house. It always seems to happen around an IPO.

It's not even really porn. Just free ads for only fans now lol

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by GhettoComputers »

sneak wrote: post #230
mightyquacks wrote: post #210

Reddit used to be amazing Now it's like a red flag in your resume if you worked for reddit Then they made a whole mess on the homepage. This is what happens when you hire mediocre engineers. Its like junior engineers who cant write code. Reddit mobile is not bad, but stop trying to make me install it. There are people who only wants to use web. But your web engineers are garbage their ads is incredibly bad. there are…

> now they're trying to get into everything, and can barely execute I feel like this happens to a lot of organizations/products that start off being really neat. Fast forward 10 years, and most/all of the people responsible for the good stuff have moved on. The brand ambles on like a relative with dementia. The lights are on, but you know nobody's home.

Amazon is the only one I know that didn’t.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by IgorPartola »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #235
IgorPartola wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok I’ll bite. How would you fix Reddit? I have been using online forums for the past 20+ years and I know what you mean about communities like Reddit going from nerd heavy topics to primarily being the free advertising platform for onlyfans accounts and political hacks. But how would Reddit at this point stuff the genie back into the bottle? For that matter, if you don’t believe in Reddit’s long term success, there a…

I personally think the fix is to let it be separate communities; kill/deemphasize the "all" feed, emphasize separate subreddits, and make it easy for users to curate what they see. The problem, of course, it that this runs counter to maximizing engagement .

I am a member of 4 closely related subreddits themed around 3D printing. Would those get split up? Would I need separate accounts for each?

There are some subreddits that I found because they were cross referenced. I consider that to be a core feature.

Re: Reddit files to go public

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Post by DantesKite »

The larger subreddits have problems, but Reddit has done a remarkable job of collecting people with niche interests into one area.

I wouldn't discount their success and future success (as much as I'd like to).

What's odd is they haven't stopped growing. It's just been linear user growth.

They could literally do nothing and the site would still grow. It's closer to Wikipedia than a social network in some respects. And by that standard, we should try to judge it.

I look forward to the next forum site as much as the next person. But I don't know what it would look like. If anyone does, I definitely urge you to build it if you can.

Substack has every incentive to build a community. Discord as well. So there's definitely opportunities, but from where I sit, I don't have any insight as to what you could do to beat this behemoth.

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