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Reddit is the only major social media/aggregator I can think of that actually has to go offline for scheduled maintenance still. I can’t imagine the kind of shitshow it must be internally. Imagine if Facebook or Twitter had to go down regularly for “maintenance”. Heads would roll.
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Can't they run in read-only mode during maintenance? That would be a relatively simple workaround, I suppose.
They used to. Not sure why they don’t now.
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So what? 24/7 builds up to fragility like the NYC subway system or has huge costs. It's social media, not a hospital.
The revenue per minute of these sites is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. While that can be budgeted for if needed, its not just inconvenient for users, it could mean missing a revenue target.
Y'know, the toll that all this activity takes on Reddit's servers gave me an idea for a sort of distributed Reddit. News links and stories assorted into topic-based groups, with the option for users to comment or respond to others' comments in a threaded discussion. It would be completely decentralized and belong to the users, not some central media company. We could call it Users' Network, or USENET for short. We co…
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They also have very frequent cases where the site throws up an error page or is completely unreachable because it is under heavy load. I can't think of another major social network that has those problems on a weekly basis either.
Not recently, but Twitter's "fail whale" became famous due to problems Twitter had under heavy load.
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That doesn't follow at all. There are all sorts of insanely popular websites which have significant monetization issues (think tumblr, wikipedia). Just because lots of people use something doesn't make them willing to pay for it, and it doesn't make a platform inherently monetizable.
Indeed, also not everybody is trying to squeeze money out of their user base regardless of costs (to popularity, principles...).
Reddit is just as much of a profit driven company as Facebook or Twitter, I’m not sure why you’d think otherwise.
Y'know, the toll that all this activity takes on Reddit's servers gave me an idea for a sort of distributed Reddit. News links and stories assorted into topic-based groups, with the option for users to comment or respond to others' comments in a threaded discussion. It would be completely decentralized and belong to the users, not some central media company. We could call it Users' Network, or USENET for short. We co…
That being said, I've always thought that the right way to implement a distributed social network would be not with blockchain, but with IPFS, or something similar to IPFS. Pinning someone else's IPFS hash would be the equivalent to an upvote for that item.
Y'know, the toll that all this activity takes on Reddit's servers gave me an idea for a sort of distributed Reddit. News links and stories assorted into topic-based groups, with the option for users to comment or respond to others' comments in a threaded discussion. It would be completely decentralized and belong to the users, not some central media company. We could call it Users' Network, or USENET for short. We co…
If only everyone who talks about usenet, IRC, and the rest could actually be bothered to update the experience to what modern users demand.
Y'know, the toll that all this activity takes on Reddit's servers gave me an idea for a sort of distributed Reddit. News links and stories assorted into topic-based groups, with the option for users to comment or respond to others' comments in a threaded discussion. It would be completely decentralized and belong to the users, not some central media company. We could call it Users' Network, or USENET for short. We co…
Except UX is everything. 100s of billions in corporate value are based on nothing more than better UX. If only everyone who talks about usenet, IRC, and the rest could actually be bothered to update the experience to what modern users demand.