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Re: Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin

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It honestly feels like it got taken over by silicon valley middle management marketing types or something, and now they just can't seem to figure out why the users keep getting pissed off at them. I can't agree more, back in the jedberg/HueyPreist days the staff felt like reddit users, now you get the feeling the office just looks at the community as a magic box of unpaid labor. Anyone putting in real effort is bette…

>the handful of people who put in effort under reddit's brand are in an exploitative relationship. In some ways, it feels like Twitch.tv. I'm a little sad when I think of all these people making an 'exception' with twitch.tv by turning off their ad-blocks, by gladly giving $5 per month PER subscription (and some people subscribe multiple times on the same channel), by excusing a streaming website that still uses Flas…

The music detection stuff I feel was probably bigger than them. DMCA and whatnot. You forget YouTube follows suite in this regard.

Not keeping videos forever honestly made sense to me. They were very scientific about it in their blog post and showed that honestly, nobody is really watching these archives. If at most they're there to watch a certain clip (which can be highlighted which ARE kept forever).

Banning cleavages again makes sense... Otherwise the site would turn into a softcore cam site with gamers.

I'm not saying you're wrong; Twitch can certainly go down that route, but most of your examples are in my opinion exaggerated.

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What's really sad is that reddit and Alexis were, arguably, the most successful Y-Combinator startup, and now they've fallen by the wayside as cronyism and personal agendas take over. Alexis let this happen, though. Not that I blame him, I'd have taken the money too.

By far and away, Airbnb is the most successful Y-Combinator startup. It's not a close race between Reddit and Airbnb. After that is Dropbox and Stripe perhaps. I don't think Reddit ever quite stacked up to these types of companies in terms of potential. Reddit is a link-aggregator, the very definition of a poor business opportunity (they don't own anything, and hardly control anything on their own site). Airbnb is ca…

Reddit was part of the first batch of YC and was sold for a large amount for Conde Nast, so it makes sense that at that point in time they were the most successful.

Although they're really really really not by today's standards, as you point out.

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Trying to grow a site to Reddits size on IIS? That won't end well.

I think stackexchange are still running on IIS so it's probably close to doable - although I imagine they have some seriously smart people and resources way beyond what Voat will in the near future. That said, does Azure play nicely with IIS? I bet it's expensive but can you scale that way maybe?

It's possible to scale, but you have to think about scaling ahead of time. Voat actually didn't and are now scrambling.

Re: Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin

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Alex Ohanian's comments about this ridiculous tire fire, and the Reddit community's unhinged responses. Priceless . https://www.reddit.com/user/kn0thing

I've seen some of 'Alexis' comments and it really seems like he doesn't give a shit. 'Make something people want' amirite? what a joke.

Re: Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin

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It's kindof astonishing what is happening over at reddit right now. "The internet" has it's own culture, and the people running reddit right now (one of the places where this culture is the strongest, imo), seem to have no idea how to interface with it. It honestly feels like it got taken over by silicon valley middle management marketing types or something, and now they just can't seem to figure out why the users ke…

"The internet" will route itself around reddit then.

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> "a load bearing wall in the house of AMA has been removed" - Knothing That is a quote by karmanaut not kn0thing (Alexis Ohanian). The comments by kn0thing have been in some cases just fuel for the fire.

Yeah, I feel a bit sorry for kn0thing. This must be an incredibly stressful time in the Reddit office, and that really comes through in his comments.

You clearly missed his antagonizing of the community in about nine different threads.

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Peak Reddit was 2011-2014. The people running the 'business' just don't realize it yet. Three years from now, Reddit will be half as influential as it has been these past three years. A community like Reddit is incredibly challenging to keep balanced long-term. Services like it just tend to blow-up eventually. The upside is, innovation will probably come out of its meltdown, new types of services will bloom, and wipe…

I agree. If you don't believe this, ask yourself where is SomethingAwful now?

All in EVE Online, if the size of Goonswarm is any indication.

Re: Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin

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It's kindof astonishing what is happening over at reddit right now. "The internet" has it's own culture, and the people running reddit right now (one of the places where this culture is the strongest, imo), seem to have no idea how to interface with it. It honestly feels like it got taken over by silicon valley middle management marketing types or something, and now they just can't seem to figure out why the users ke…

We've seen this happen time and time again : USENET, Compuserve, to some degree .. AOL .. slashdot .. kuro5hin .. etc. etc.

Those who fail to study their Internet history are doomed to repeat it, it seems.

I've never been content with the centralized nature of Reddit as an Internet forum - for me this moment of truth has been bound to occur.

Re: Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin

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It's kindof astonishing what is happening over at reddit right now. "The internet" has it's own culture, and the people running reddit right now (one of the places where this culture is the strongest, imo), seem to have no idea how to interface with it. It honestly feels like it got taken over by silicon valley middle management marketing types or something, and now they just can't seem to figure out why the users ke…

It honestly feels like it got taken over by silicon valley middle management marketing types or something, and now they just can't seem to figure out why the users keep getting pissed off at them. I can't agree more, back in the jedberg/HueyPreist days the staff felt like reddit users, now you get the feeling the office just looks at the community as a magic box of unpaid labor. Anyone putting in real effort is bette…

> back in the jedberg/HueyPreist days the staff felt like reddit users

some would go back even further and talk about the Aaron Swartz days...

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