An update on the state of the Reddit repositories
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Re: An update on the state of the Reddit repositories
#2I recommend reading the comments by other users on that post as well. This change isn't as nefarious as it sounds.
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#3Title is clickbaited from target page's "An update on the state of the reddit/reddit and reddit/reddit-mobile repositories"
[edit: it's been fixed now]
Re: An update on the state of the Reddit repositories
#4Reddit and Twitter should merge or one acquire the other. Both kind of the same web property, with the same problems and same audience.
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#5>Open-source makes it hard for us to develop some features "in the clear" (like our recent video launch) without leaking our plans too far in advance. As Reddit is now a larger player on the web, it is hard for us to be strategic in our planning when everyone can see what code we are committing.
I'm curious what harm they are afraid of? Like, what happens if outsiders know what reddit is working on next?
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#6Title is clickbaited from target page's "An update on the state of the reddit/reddit and reddit/reddit-mobile repositories" [edit: it's been fixed now]
Specifically, 2 out of 100+ repos are no longer open source.
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#7Title is clickbaited from target page's "An update on the state of the reddit/reddit and reddit/reddit-mobile repositories" [edit: it's been fixed now]
How is it baiting if it's 100% true ? The original article title is an euphemism... it's not an 'update', it's an obituary.
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#9>Open-source makes it hard for us to develop some features "in the clear" (like our recent video launch) without leaking our plans too far in advance. As Reddit is now a larger player on the web, it is hard for us to be strategic in our planning when everyone can see what code we are committing. I'm curious what harm they are afraid of? Like, what happens if outsiders know what reddit is working on next?
Perhaps something like
> Start making feature
> People hype it up
> Feature gets scrapped
> Angry mob
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#10Interesting third argument.
Based on work by google and published papers, monorepos have some advantages. Of course not always and not everywhere.
But here, reddit connects it with service oriented architecture. Somehow i dont get it.