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Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by scelerat »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #89
brianpgordon wrote: post #26

Does 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.

> The UI is a complete mess. Isn't that kind of subjective? And as long as we're being subjective: It's got my favorite comment UI of any given news site - built in comment collapsing, ability to link to specific comments with parent context, flexibility in URLs, etc. HN could stand to borrow some of these improvements.

I wish reddit would remember my folds / unfolds per comment thread. Always stinks to read the comments, collapse some of the discussion for readability, click a link and then return to find the entire thread expanded again.

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by jackgavigan »

hiou wrote: post #120
sama wrote: post #85

I realize that this sounds non-credible (and it's certainly one of the craziest professional things I've ever been a part of), but it's actually what happened. Yishan wanted to move the office from SF to Daly City. The board pushed back but said we'd agree to it with certain data (we wanted Yishan to figure out how many employees would stay with the company through the move, get a comparison to other market rents, et…

I don't want it to sound like you are being dishonest about this, and it's possible there were things going on in Yishan's head that you were not aware of, but "a new team at reddit" in 8 days makes it a bit hard to believe this came completely out of nowhere.

Any credible board will have a succession plan in place, ready to trigger if the CEO resigns/has to be fired/gets hit by a bus.

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by karissa »

dang wrote: post #141
pavel_lishin wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The UI is a complete mess. Isn't that kind of subjective? And as long as we're being subjective: It's got my favorite comment UI of any given news site - built in comment collapsing, ability to link to specific comments with parent context, flexibility in URLs, etc. HN could stand to borrow some of these improvements.

> HN could stand to borrow some of these improvements Which ones, besides comment collapsing (which we definitely intend to do)?

how long does it take to write a comment collapser? -_-?

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by skeletonjelly »

scelerat wrote: post #171
pavel_lishin wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The UI is a complete mess. Isn't that kind of subjective? And as long as we're being subjective: It's got my favorite comment UI of any given news site - built in comment collapsing, ability to link to specific comments with parent context, flexibility in URLs, etc. HN could stand to borrow some of these improvements.

I wish reddit would remember my folds / unfolds per comment thread. Always stinks to read the comments, collapse some of the discussion for readability, click a link and then return to find the entire thread expanded again.

Simplest solution I've found to this is just use your browser tabs.

Re: A new team at Reddit

#176

Post by mbesto »

hiou wrote: post #120
sama wrote: post #85

I realize that this sounds non-credible (and it's certainly one of the craziest professional things I've ever been a part of), but it's actually what happened. Yishan wanted to move the office from SF to Daly City. The board pushed back but said we'd agree to it with certain data (we wanted Yishan to figure out how many employees would stay with the company through the move, get a comparison to other market rents, et…

I don't want it to sound like you are being dishonest about this, and it's possible there were things going on in Yishan's head that you were not aware of, but "a new team at reddit" in 8 days makes it a bit hard to believe this came completely out of nowhere.

Also, what people say and what they do are not always equal.

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by kn0thing »

reduce wrote: post #34

Wow, 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…

Aww, thanks. Responding to each and every feedback email was something Steve + I took very very seriously. If only we'd had Front back then ;)

https://frontapp.com/

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by codezero »

gojomo wrote: post #134
cpeterso wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about the office location was so contentious that the CEO would quit?

Generally such a resignation is about being-overruled (board no-confidence), rather than just the particulars of one decision. With ~sama's revelation that Wong preferred a Daly City HQ, the battle-lines could have been: Pro-Daly-City: "more space, cheaper, less-cool, longer-runway, more employees who've self-selected for willingness to do Reddit muckwork vs. glamorous SoMa networking, outsider perspective" Pro-SF: "…

It would be interesting if startups would get together and do some real analysis on location.

My company is in SoMa, and recruiting is not super easy, I'm confident if someone really wanted to work at Heap, they'd work in Daly City or Sunnyvale. Location has never been a great selling point.

Maybe there is a certain kind of candidate for whom not being in the city is a dealbreaker, but I'd like to see numbers.

That's not to say that this isn't a common and seemingly true myth of recruiting, but it would be interesting to be able to dispel or confirm it.

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by skeletonjelly »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #95
thrillgore wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed, but it is very very uncharacteristic to show up and just respond in kind.

uncharacteristic of what?

A CEO. Anything to be discussed though has most likely already been said in the multiple thousand comment threads that spawned as a result of this incident.

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by dang »

karissa wrote: post #174
dang wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> HN could stand to borrow some of these improvements Which ones, besides comment collapsing (which we definitely intend to do)?

how long does it take to write a comment collapser? -_-?

I'm sure most people here could do it in a couple hours or a weekend.
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