"It’s interesting to note that during my very brief tenure, reddit added more users than Hacker News has in total." Zing! =P
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A new team at Reddit
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#92I really liked the "move to Daly City" idea. Millbrae also seems like it would make sense.
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#93Ellen 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.
saying someone has a sordid past because they've been sexually harassed makes you, well, a victim-blaming prick
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
Have you done a search on Craigslist lately? They're still going for a basic-HTML4-user-agent "theme" (since that's basically their brand now), but the implementation is actually quite dynamic/AJAXified and CSS-heavy. (Also, apparently they use Redis everywhere on the backend for Matryoshka cashing, among other modern practices.) Also, Digg's failure had nothing to do with a visual refresh; it was that they changed t…
My point was just that users want the same experience as they got when they started using the site for the most part. Too many changes and you risk driving away your user base. Changes being anything from visual components to mechanics of the site.
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#95Re: A new team at Reddit
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
Have you done a search on Craigslist lately? They're still going for a basic-HTML4-user-agent "theme" (since that's basically their brand now), but the implementation is actually quite dynamic/AJAXified and CSS-heavy. (Also, apparently they use Redis everywhere on the backend for Matryoshka cashing, among other modern practices.) Also, Digg's failure had nothing to do with a visual refresh; it was that they changed t…
The point is that the user experience for craigslist is the same to user.
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#97Ellen 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.
Pao has been acting as the COO of Reddit for a while now. While running operations she also did the Alien Blue deal, built a mobile team, and oversaw the AMA app. Everything new that has happened product wise at Reddit in the last year has had her hand on it. You should judge her by that.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe Wong wanted to move HQ to the Valley proper, rather than SF itself? Almost all corporate HQ relocations move closer to the CEO's home. But also, there's a (plausibly-fair) knock on SF-city-based companies as being more superficial, frothier, and more prone to distraction and high-burn rates than those in the more-authentically-nerdy Valley. Maybe someone can leak where Wong wanted the new HQ to be.
> Almost all corporate HQ relocations move closer to the CEO's home. Is there any evidence of that? Seems quite interesting..
Apparently that is William Whyte's rule:
Re: A new team at Reddit
#99Ellen 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.
"sordid" ? She got harassed by colleagues, but _her_ past becomes sordid?
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe Wong wanted to move HQ to the Valley proper, rather than SF itself? Almost all corporate HQ relocations move closer to the CEO's home. But also, there's a (plausibly-fair) knock on SF-city-based companies as being more superficial, frothier, and more prone to distraction and high-burn rates than those in the more-authentically-nerdy Valley. Maybe someone can leak where Wong wanted the new HQ to be.
> Almost all corporate HQ relocations move closer to the CEO's home. Is there any evidence of that? Seems quite interesting..
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