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Rebuilding? Why not take the working code and refine, refine, refine, continuously, so that each week or two the site is subtly better, less buggy, more usable?
I humbly submit that anything built in 6 weeks is going to be a disaster
Six weeks!? A well designed static website takes longer than that.
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> Personally I'd try to target groups that reddit alienates. Who are these groups? I'm (re)starting development of my own social news site, and I'm looking for a userbase to cater to.
You could try creating a conservative-bent social news site (as suggested here in 2008: http://mattmaroon.com/2008/10/11/conservative-social-news/ ). As the article mentions, it can be harder to do so since the Internet as a whole leans left, but as it continues to become more mainstream someone could maybe make it work.
Good luck, chaps
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Brooks has repudiated that claim, though. See for example the first question at: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/350008/The_Grill_Fred... Also, if we're going to link Joel articles from the decade before last, let me add this one which is merely ten years old, and elaborates the ideas from the previous: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000348.html All that said, I think there are things to be lear…
To extend on this, a later article talks about how the system is written on an "in-house language" ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01.html ) called wasabi. > FogBugz is written in Wasabi, a very advanced, functional-programming dialect of Basic with closures and lambdas and Rails-like active records that can be compiled down to VBScript, JavaScript, PHP4 or PHP5. Wasabi is a private, in-house language w…
Not phrases that usually go together.
Am I the only one without a smartphone? I'm still using some old, beaten up Samsung crap which allows me to talk and sms a little. I spend my whole life in front of a computer, I am still always connected. Clearly, they are taking the "mobile" approach, it just doesn't suit me very well
It's not just your phone. I have an iPhone and an iPad (well...and another convertable netbook "tablet" thing that has been sitting in a project box for over a year), and I don't really "do" mobile. Mobile news ? Are people that attention deficient?
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> The second thought was that ground-up rewrites are almost never a good idea to begin with. For a complex system, like an OS or a browser. This is a bloody social news site, as trivial an application as it gets. One man can write a half-decent one in a week. And for ramping it up, even the scaling roadblocks and tricks are old news by now to the web building community in general.
> This is a bloody social news site, as trivial an application as it gets. I'm gonna have to disagree with you there. It's a fairly complex transactional system. > One man can write a half-decent one in a week. No, one man can write something that resembles a social news site in a week, but building a good one that scales takes a bit longer. :) > And for ramping it up, even the scaling roadblocks and tricks are old n…
That totally depends on your available toolset and experience.
>What they didn’t mention is that we’re rebuilding it from scratch. In six weeks. Famous last words. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
What exactly do you think you're building?
I take "from scratch" to mean "we are totally rethinking everything!
Look - lets not b fucking morons. The ONLY thing bought was digg.com the name which has a PR/publicity pull.
You will fail - digg has sucked and will suck and even the cult of personality around kevin rose evaporated, like milk, immediately after joining Google.
The fact is that the word digg and kevin rose have represented only one thing - the desire to extract fame and fortune from outdated and poor thought out ideas.
I wish you only failure.