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I am Steve Huffman, the new CEO of Reddit. AMA. (2015)
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Re: I am Steve Huffman, the new CEO of Reddit. AMA. (2015)
#32I think reddit has run its course for me, and I don't think they're losing anything of value when I stop browsing. I've been using old. for years, and always been pretty strict about blocking ads. In the past few years, it's been getting less and less enjoyable for me, and since I stopped visiting on Monday, I've been feeling better, and I don't think I'll be going back. Reddit is saving a little on bandwidth since I…
> In the past few years, it's been getting less and less enjoyable for me, and since I stopped visiting on Monday, I've been feeling better, and I don't think I'll be going back. The reddit experience I've had in the last few days is actually the best I've had since I signed up 12-13 years ago. All the smaller niche subreddits I forgot about are back to front and center, all the community interaction is on AskReddit,…
Reddit is so much better if you unsubscribe from all the big subs and turn off recommendations so they aren’t constantly shoved in your face.
Re: I am Steve Huffman, the new CEO of Reddit. AMA. (2015)
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a private company. What else was it supposed to be about? Distributing VC money to users?
You could run a company that sustains itself and its employees, maybe makes a modest profit. You could just make something valuable that people like and want to use, and have that mostly be the end goal. You probably won't get incredibly rich, though.
> You could run a company that sustains itself and its employees, maybe makes a modest profit.
Reddit is not profitable, though.
They're burning through investment cash just to keep the lights on. That can't last forever, so they have to do something.
Re: I am Steve Huffman, the new CEO of Reddit. AMA. (2015)
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Re: I am Steve Huffman, the new CEO of Reddit. AMA. (2015)
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Steve Huffman exited once before. Did he get equity to return again as CEO? I don't understand why he'd return instead of starting something new.
He surely did. It’s usually part of comp packages for any member of the C suite. I was the second engineering hire at a lifestyle business turned VC funded startup. After we went public and I could see disclosures including how many shares were paid out to the C Suite. The board and some first time C Suite members got the same level of equity in their comp package that I had received over six years of working there.…
I'm curious what is the normal equity share given to board members? Is their advisory worth six years of engineering?
Re: I am Steve Huffman, the new CEO of Reddit. AMA. (2015)
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why will Reddit going back to normal stop you from enjoying the smaller subreddits? I use Reddit all the time and literally never see anything from those monstrous multi million user subreddits.
It's like some people don't understand Reddit. You get to choose what you want to follow, you can create a multireddit with a subset of them, you can create a new account and hide all the big subs to let the little ones filter through. The world was always your oyster and yet people act like it took subs going dark to do that, it didn't. If someone says they only see crap on Reddit it's their own fault. It doesn't ta…
This is incredibly unfair.
While I’m familiar with many of those tricks, I haven’t even thought about them in probably, literally years.
The current Reddit UX does not encourage and maybe doesn’t even support that view. If that’s something you’re doing, I can say with some level of confidence that you’re a Reddit Poweruser. The only time I ever really thought about tricks like that is when I used the Reddit Enhancement Suite, which, as far as I know, is not a part of New Reddit, at all.
And despite what anyone’s insular, private group of friends may say, I strongly suspect that New Reddit is the one that the vast, vast majority of users user.
Re: I am Steve Huffman, the new CEO of Reddit. AMA. (2015)
#37I think reddit has run its course for me, and I don't think they're losing anything of value when I stop browsing. I've been using old. for years, and always been pretty strict about blocking ads. In the past few years, it's been getting less and less enjoyable for me, and since I stopped visiting on Monday, I've been feeling better, and I don't think I'll be going back. Reddit is saving a little on bandwidth since I…
Last year after I posted a innocuous, benign comment on a certain subreddit I was permanently banned from that subreddit because I was allegedly "ban evading" (I wasn't, I have a single account). I contacted the mod from that subreddit saying I wasn't ban evading, and they replied "Sure" and blocked me from messaging mods for a year.
An hour later (without doing anything else) I got banned site wide for 3 days for "ban evading".
That really pissed me off and I haven't used reddit ever since (except for google search results). I'm definitely happier without reddit.
Re: I am Steve Huffman, the new CEO of Reddit. AMA. (2015)
#38I think reddit has run its course for me, and I don't think they're losing anything of value when I stop browsing. I've been using old. for years, and always been pretty strict about blocking ads. In the past few years, it's been getting less and less enjoyable for me, and since I stopped visiting on Monday, I've been feeling better, and I don't think I'll be going back. Reddit is saving a little on bandwidth since I…
Reddit has built a reputation for being "not social media", but in my opinion it has come to embody most of what people say they hate about social media. If I visit Reddit without logging in, the content on the home page is disastrously bad: Videos of fights with comments from people cheering on the violence. Screenshots of exaggerated Tweets taken out of context. 10 different stories about the latest tragedy somewhere in the world and editorialization about how it's a sign the world is coming to an end. Ragebait videos taken from TikTok and other social medias for the express purpose of getting Redditors riled up and angry.
I know the story goes that you can avoid it by carefully selecting the right subreddits, but in my experience the trash content bleeds into everything. Even the technical subreddits I followed have become inundated with low-effort posts and people who just want to pick fights.
> I don't think they're losing anything of value when I stop browsing. I've been using old. for years, and always been pretty strict about blocking ads.
Thanks for being honest about it. I suspect Reddit is well aware that the average user (who views ads) is not likely to be among the angrier power users who are pulling the strings. If anything, I'm starting to get a sense that the non-commenters and casual users are getting sick of the mods using their power to shut the conversation down. The average user doesn't use Apollo and doesn't care about this drama. I think it's easy to forget this when the vocal minority of power users are upvoting angry topics and mods are shutting down subreddits.
Re: I am Steve Huffman, the new CEO of Reddit. AMA. (2015)
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
> In the past few years, it's been getting less and less enjoyable for me, and since I stopped visiting on Monday, I've been feeling better, and I don't think I'll be going back. The reddit experience I've had in the last few days is actually the best I've had since I signed up 12-13 years ago. All the smaller niche subreddits I forgot about are back to front and center, all the community interaction is on AskReddit,…
Reddit is so much better if you unsubscribe from all the big subs and turn off recommendations so they aren’t constantly shoved in your face.
The default front page is like reading gossip magazines. A lot of those subs appeal to base instincts (rage bait, etc) and are worth making a strong effort to avoid and ignore.
Re: I am Steve Huffman, the new CEO of Reddit. AMA. (2015)
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's like some people don't understand Reddit. You get to choose what you want to follow, you can create a multireddit with a subset of them, you can create a new account and hide all the big subs to let the little ones filter through. The world was always your oyster and yet people act like it took subs going dark to do that, it didn't. If someone says they only see crap on Reddit it's their own fault. It doesn't ta…
This is incredibly unfair. While I’m familiar with many of those tricks, I haven’t even thought about them in probably, literally years. The current Reddit UX does not encourage and maybe doesn’t even support that view. If that’s something you’re doing, I can say with some level of confidence that you’re a Reddit Poweruser. The only time I ever really thought about tricks like that is when I used the Reddit Enhanceme…
> I strongly suspect that New Reddit is the one that the vast, vast majority of users user.
No doubt, those people are masochists, either knowingly or not, same with the people that use the official app. Old.reddit and/or third party apps made a huge difference in usability of Reddit, there is a reason so many people are up in arms over this change.
If it took subs going dark for you to see what was available to you all along that's yet another massive failing on reddit's part to provide value. To people who have been living that dream via third party apps, that was a normal Tuesday. I don't know a better way to put it, I constantly hear people say "I've been using the app, it's fine" and then also saying things like you did, the truth is the app is not fine, discoverability is shit, the features are limited, etc. Apollo is a power tool for reddit similar to how RES was, I won't wade through the reddit BS to use it without an app like Apollo.