All this backlash is going to kill Reddit. It will take a thousand little cuts for sure, but it started the moment they announced their ludicrous pricing.
I wonder.. The very same thing hardly seems to have hurt Twitter.
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#12What if all the blackout communities move to an open source, community funded, community owned and run version of Apollo?
I’d be happy to try and convince my 100k community to Apollo and if the UX is similar for web and mobile then I’m not sure switching costs would be that high during the blackout.
I’d help fund it but all my money is wrapped up in my trash cooperative.
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#13Hi all! I wrote this code, and for educational purposes, I’d be more than happy to answer any questions. A gentle reminder that the whole history is here for show. This is very vulnerable — you can see the times I was in a rush, or when I took my time. You’ll find my mistakes. Either way, all I ask is please be kind. I know there are 50 things I could have done better, but this is a product of the reality at the time…
Thanks for your work. Apollo made using Reddit a decent experience, and clearly you had a very large part in that.
User rapnie mentioned the code in the repository doesn't have a license [0]. You might want to review that.
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#14All this backlash is going to kill Reddit. It will take a thousand little cuts for sure, but it started the moment they announced their ludicrous pricing.
I wonder.. The very same thing hardly seems to have hurt Twitter.
Personally, when someone mentions tweets nowadays, my first impulse is to ridicule / discount it all - "what, are you seriously using a service Elon bought to promote far-right topics...?"
Typically it comes out of my mouth in a more moderate stance, like "sorry, I don't use Twitter anymore. Any chance you could link a better forum?"
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#15Hi all! I wrote this code, and for educational purposes, I’d be more than happy to answer any questions. A gentle reminder that the whole history is here for show. This is very vulnerable — you can see the times I was in a rush, or when I took my time. You’ll find my mistakes. Either way, all I ask is please be kind. I know there are 50 things I could have done better, but this is a product of the reality at the time…
Thanks for your work. Apollo made using Reddit a decent experience, and clearly you had a very large part in that. User rapnie mentioned the code in the repository doesn't have a license [0]. You might want to review that. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36256566
I’ll check in with Christian and see what he wants to do. Got any particular recommendations?
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#16Hi all! I wrote this code, and for educational purposes, I’d be more than happy to answer any questions. A gentle reminder that the whole history is here for show. This is very vulnerable — you can see the times I was in a rush, or when I took my time. You’ll find my mistakes. Either way, all I ask is please be kind. I know there are 50 things I could have done better, but this is a product of the reality at the time…
> A gentle reminder that the whole history is here for show. This is very vulnerable — you can see the times I was in a rush, or when I took my time. You’ll find my mistakes. Either way, all I ask is please be kind. I know there are 50 things I could have done better, but this is a product of the reality at the time — a balance between something that works and something that was cost effective for Christian.
The way I took Reddit's comments were there were things that could be optimised to reduce costs. I've not seen a codebase yet where that isn't true.
Sadly, in the hands of Redditors who think you can host an API on AWS for $1 per million requests comments like come across as "Oh they did shoddy work".
What I think is we're seeing production quality code like the majority of us have running.
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#17There's a Reddit CEO AMA later today: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/144ho2x/join_our_ce... Can't see it being anything other than a PR disaster for them, unless they change their stance.
It's more than likely that they'll inject their own softball questions and focus on those instead of addressing everyone's concerns in any meaningful way.
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#18All this backlash is going to kill Reddit. It will take a thousand little cuts for sure, but it started the moment they announced their ludicrous pricing.
I don't think it will. It'll IPO just fine, make their shareholders wealthy and become another millquetoast advertiser friendly walled garden for your average internet user while the jilted original users go and find another platform, which will in turn IPO just fine, make their shareholders wealthy and the cycle repeats forever.
The average internet user by the way, is statistically not you reading this, doesn't really care too much about APIs and finds the current Reddit client just fine really and as a recent registration, doesn't understand that the developer community basically built the interest in reddit and without third-party moderation tools, clients and a community that deeply cared about their special website, flawed though it was.
All platforms go through this cycle, but Reddit felt special to me and it hurts to find that wasn't true.
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#19Hi all! I wrote this code, and for educational purposes, I’d be more than happy to answer any questions. A gentle reminder that the whole history is here for show. This is very vulnerable — you can see the times I was in a rush, or when I took my time. You’ll find my mistakes. Either way, all I ask is please be kind. I know there are 50 things I could have done better, but this is a product of the reality at the time…
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for your work. Apollo made using Reddit a decent experience, and clearly you had a very large part in that. User rapnie mentioned the code in the repository doesn't have a license [0]. You might want to review that. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36256566
I’ll check in with Christian and see what he wants to do. Got any particular recommendations?
You probably want MIT