I loved Fark, especially their photoshop contests (which I recall using Paint Shop Pro for).
Fark redesign is now live (2007)
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#442Re: Fark redesign is now live (2007)
#443Oh man, this makes me miss Odd Todd.
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#444Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of the major differences is that there’s no clear alternative. Digg and Reddit had a lot of overlap in what they were trying to do immediately prior to Digg’s redesign. Reddit was an obvious place to go if you preferred Digg up until that point. Now what’s the clear alternative to Reddit? Discord is probably the closest just from a UX perspective and I expect to be finding stuff there that I used to find on Reddi…
To be honest I think the problem for Reddit may be that no one really needs a direct alternative. For me it’s good at one thing which is reviews and in depth educational content on some of the more niche subs. For community though, people can use discord, for content consumption, people seem to be using tik tok, for political flame wars you have Twitter. I don’t see a bright future for Reddit. A lot of the broad appe…
I’ve been mulling this over this morning and in the end, I think you’re right. I keep making the Discord comparison everywhere because from a structural comparison (on Twitter you follow people, on Reddit and Discord you follow communities) it seems the obvious analogue, but honestly it might just be that Reddit can actually die and it would leave no void to be filled by anything in particular.
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#445I think it is time to check Fark again after a 16 year hiatus.
At the time one of the reasons for moving from Fark to Reddit was that browsing Reddit looked more "professional" - ie something you could get away with at work...
EDIT: I checked and it seems... dead
There are still a few sub sections and most articles get single digit comments.
I really thought Fark would have grown in these years. It seemed to have carved a niche for aspiring radio DJs for "news of the weird variety".
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#446"You'll get over it."
I remember this too.
Honestly I should go back and thank the mod/poster because that little splash of cold water prepared me for everything that has come after that. I think about it every now then when I run into the newer variations of that theme.
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#447I was the creator of the OG Popurls which at the time was the #1 traffic driver for Reddit and Digg; and also created Twidroid the very first Android Twitter client which became one of the reasons for shutting down 3rd party apps after its acquisition. Since I'm a sucker for anything old-school Web, I've been working on a Digg 1.0 rehash for a while now so if any of you wants to beta test let me know.
Since you were much closer to it than a bit of google would reveal, can I ask you— what killed Digg?
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#448Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is Discord even a closest alternative? Everything is on its own "server" and conversations happen in real-time, not async like Reddit.
Depends on the server, and the channel on the server. Depending on the channel, you might get a handful of posts a week while the #general channel might be a non-stop firehose (at least on the more social Discords). As to how it’s the closest alternative, mainly in that the atomic unit around which Discord is organized like Reddit is the community. On Reddit it’s subreddits and on Discord it is servers and it has got…
Search is useless in a Discord server, especially one sufficiently busy enough. You cannot tell at a glance whether a keyword uttered at a specific moment in time is a crapshoot or not. You may have just a single person asking saying the word/phrase, or you may stumble upon whole conversations.
Threads are "ok" but still more ephemeral than a reddit thread.
I'm aware there are subs running discords on the side... and it's just on the side. I've had occasion to visit a few, and most of the time (from my own experience), they are just rehashing discussions already had on reddit and there is usually a channel or two that reposts links to reddit. It's great if you already spend the majority of time in Discord but I don't. I don't have time to sit in a discord and wait to have interesting discussions.
Earlier today, I was met with someone getting upset at me trying to have a discussion; editing prior comments because I called them out on something they had said [snide comments about people being asexual] and blocking me because "I don't fight on Discord".
All that said, I'm willing to give Discord a try here and there- but my prior experiences don't instill a huge amount of faith or hope in me. Until I find a Discord community that provides an analogue to normal discussion, which may never happen.
I can't imagine having to explain things to someone in real-time or helping them with programming issues. I imagine the vast majority of help channels cater to people coming off beginners' tutorials. Many of which can be covered with a simple search through Reddit or Stack Overflow.
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#449Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is Discord even a closest alternative? Everything is on its own "server" and conversations happen in real-time, not async like Reddit.
I hate Discord for killing classic forums and therefore robbing us of good searchable niche content.
I'm pretty sure Digg, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, et. al. killed off classic forums. Discord and Slack and killed off IRC [though by and large, most will tell you that rumors of its demise is greatly exaggerated].
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#450I like that you could use swear words by paying for it. > You can purchase FarkUnits for $10 for 100 FUs, or you can get a discount if you purchase in bulk. > Using it is easy. If you type a word with "fuck" or "shit" in your comment, a new button will pop up that says "Add Comment using SwearJar - 20FUs." Just click or tap that and those words won't be filtered to the customary 'fark' or 'shiat.'
Reminds me of the dialogue in the movie Johnny Dangerously which made it past censors because many of the lines were spoken with very thick accents. For example, 'you fargin ice-awhole' ...
A classic "Whale oil beef hooked" moment.