Yishan, I'd like to buy you a beer.
A new team at Reddit
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Re: A new team at Reddit
#52Wow, didn't expect this. The original founding team of Reddit were awesome. 1) Personally responded to feedback emails. 2) Actually cared about sensible moderation, instead of the terrible moderation practices that have taken over in recent years. Examples of reddit's recent problems: certain subreddit moderators perpetrating massive multi-million dollar scams by banning people who warned about scamming businesses. M…
regarding 2), sounds interesting. Got any more information on that? Surely, if you are objective and just present facts, this can be discussed here? What multi-million dollar scams are going on on reddit?
There were a few Bitcoin/dogecoin scams, unsurprisingly.
Two incidents I remember are a) /r/hearthstone, where a moderator who owned a fansite killed links to other fansites and b) a moderator of /r/tumblrinaction posted a link to a MLM on the top bar.
Re: A new team at Reddit
#53Does this mean that Reddit will start evolving again? It's been stagnating for years with few user-facing changes. The UI is a complete mess. From the outside at least, it looks like they've stopped investing in it and are just milking it until it dies.
This had little to do with Yishan, and more to do with having a user base that abhors changes.
Which is funny, considering most on Reddit are all about being progressive..
Re: A new team at Reddit
#54Re: A new team at Reddit
#55Relevant context: Wong wanted everyone who worked at Reddit to move to San Francisco in an attempt to increase cohesion. http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/01/after-raising-50m-reddit-f... Some speculated that the move was to please investors, especially after a fundraise. This announcement indicates that the investors...disagreed?
Odd, onewaystreet claims Yishan didn't want the company moved to SF: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8603996
kickme444 refutes onewaystreet. kickme444 is a reddit employee.
Re: A new team at Reddit
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wong didn't want to move the company to SF. The board did. That's no small thing to disagree on.
Maybe I'm missing the context here, but Reddit is in San Francisco. They're in the same SoMa office building Wired is in.
Yes, the context is that it used to be a somewhat remote team and when the latest round of funding was raised everyone outside of SF was essentially forced to move to San Francisco.
Re: A new team at Reddit
#57Nice words, growing it 5x is great. Resigning over office plans sounds like a last straw sort of thing. In the grand scheme of things office locations aren't that big a deal. But then again, Reddit has had some weird dis-coordinated public communications, maybe more cohesion really was necessary?
5x growth is great, but Reddit definitely has a "if it isn't broke don't fix it" mentality (probably a fear of "digging"). I struggle to attribute that growth to one CEO's decisions, when it really seems more like inevitable growth due to the success of the product and community that was defined long before he took the helm. Arguably, by Alexis (community) & Steve (product).
Reddit is a company with a huge user base and any investor willing to do his job (in spite of the moral or social implications) is going to want to squeeze that teat for every drop of ARPU he can get.
Because where else are the users going to go? Digg? Slashdot? 4chan?
Re: A new team at Reddit
#58"It’s interesting to note that during my very brief tenure, reddit added more users than Hacker News has in total." Zing! =P
Re: A new team at Reddit
#59Nice words, growing it 5x is great. Resigning over office plans sounds like a last straw sort of thing. In the grand scheme of things office locations aren't that big a deal. But then again, Reddit has had some weird dis-coordinated public communications, maybe more cohesion really was necessary?
5x growth is great, but Reddit definitely has a "if it isn't broke don't fix it" mentality (probably a fear of "digging"). I struggle to attribute that growth to one CEO's decisions, when it really seems more like inevitable growth due to the success of the product and community that was defined long before he took the helm. Arguably, by Alexis (community) & Steve (product).
> if it isn't broke don't fix it
This is the kind of mentality more companies need. It is why craigslist is still running a site that looks like it is from 1999. The opposite thinking is why digg when down in flames.
Re: A new team at Reddit
#60Ellen Pao is former VC and has a bizarre sordid past: http://www.vanityfair.com/society/2013/03/buddy-fletcher-ell...
This is a serious red flag for the future of the site. If anyone wants to catch the great Reddit exodus of 2016, start building your competitor right now.