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Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by turnip1979 »

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 see a lot of negativity on this topic, but I for one am extremely excited about Alexis returning to Reddit in a more substantial way. I've been on Hacker New for a while (with different accounts) but have only recently started to use Reddit. Alexis is one of the most inspiring guys I've met ... lets just say I am a big fan. So, I'm really happy about this.

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by leoc »

werid wrote: post #212
tootie wrote: post #160

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My other main concern is that she evidently doesn't have a reddit account. At least not a public one.

I believe it's this: https://www.reddit.com/user/ekjp

Confirmed, it seems: https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2m7pf5/coming_home/cm...

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by SeoxyS »

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

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> 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)?

Undoing of votes would be nice. It's so easy to make an irreversible mistake.

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by jarek »

SamReidHughes wrote: post #185
anon808 wrote: post #166

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Daly City is 9.7 miles from the reddit office, for all practical purposes it sounds like Yishan wanted to just move offices in the same city; the Daly City part doesn't seem like it's important. Or am I missing something?

9.7 in San Francisco miles is a long commute.

Also strongly depends if "Daly City" was "Daly City three minutes walk from BART" or "Daly City in an office park by a freeway somewhere"

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by macNchz »

kenrikm wrote: post #156
calimac wrote: post #115

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Moving an office like this scenario and timeline can and in most cases, does cause tectonic shift in the company's dynamic. There's a ripple effect through far reaching aspects of the employees lives that effect there work. On another note- Office location can be the most personal aspect of business to an exec processing the decision. A territorial undercurrent is in play.

In my experience you always loose employees when moving offices. It's a really weird feeling just after the move and takes a while to get back into the grove.

My last company was the first place I've worked that moved offices while I was there, and we definitely experienced a 'weird feeling' and we lost a bunch of people. Everything just felt off after the move, even though things went smoothly, and our new space was objectively much nicer (upgraded from thoroughly class C space to a nice class A building).

I was trying to stick it out and wait for the culture and mood (which had been fantastic beforehand) to get back in the groove, but our best people started to leave one by one, then one of the founders of my current company reached out to me personally, and it was too hard to pass up.

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by asaramis »

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…

Ellen Pao. Harvard Law, Harvard MBA, time at Cravath (very, very fancy law firm) and partner at Kleiner (which I imagine most of us know) is now to be the head of Reddit?

I am a firm believer that most media out there is not extracting enough value from their audience, or "under-monetizing", to use a ridiculous term. However, Reddit truly is different. I simply can't imagine someone with Ellen's professional upbringing will be the one who figures out how to retain the spirit, activity, and engagement of Reddit, while satisfying that 10x, $500mm valuation.

This ain't sexist, this is anti-elitist.Cutting and pasting monetization templates from other media properties, and building projected revenue models off of traffic numbers just can't work here. It's not Buzzfeed or Business Insider.

I was suspect when Erik Martin left (had the pleasure of meeting him in NYC, he lived and breathed what makes Reddit wonderful), and this really seems to solidify what I guess should've been pretty obvious.

I genuinely hope Ms. Pao holds things together, and the return of Alexis helps things out. The more I've learned, it seems Alexis was already gone by the time Reddit really took off and has been writing and speaking ever since. Curious how his operational prowess shows through the new chairmanship role.

Rant done. We're praying for you Reddit.

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by ripb »

atko wrote: post #116
debacle wrote: post #57

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Reddit is a company with a huge user base and any investor willing to do his job (in spite of the moral or social implications) is going to want to squeeze that teat for every drop of ARPU he can get. Because where else are the users going to go? Digg? Slashdot? 4chan?

Where else are the users going to go? Try WhoaVerse.

WhoaVerse: A reddit clone where you can talk to Atko and 5 of his or her alt accounts.

Become a partner today!

Re: A new team at Reddit

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Post by krapp »

dang wrote: post #217
pavel_lishin wrote: post #198

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Being able to link to a specific comment, with a context history. Right now, I can link to a comment, but you have to keep clicking "parent" to understand the full conversation.

As an occasional Reddit user, I find that particular feature rather confusing. If anyone wants to suggest a "native" way to do it on HN, i.e. that would fit with the existing design and be simple and intuitive, please email hn@ycombinator.com and we can talk about it offline.

I personally find it annoying when I follow a comment parent by parent only to have to find the original comment somewhere inside what turns out to be a really large thread. Something as simple as having a link to the original post in each comment might help navigation a bit too.
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