This was a triumph. • Hacker News Board

Re: This was a triumph.

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Post by tlack » Tue, Jul 13, 2010, 3:58 PM UTC

kwyjibo wrote: post #49

tlack wrote: post #47

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There is sentiment that Reddit's developers are too quick to adopt the latest me-too web technology which overall doesn't benefit them. So I think what he's implying is that it's money wasted on EC2 when a traditional server would be more cost effective. I tend to agree.

In the last thread they said that they are spending over 250.000$ a year just in servers. They could save huge amounts of money if they would just switch to rented servers.

$250k? That's disturbing.

Re: This was a triumph.

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Post by philwelch » Tue, Jul 13, 2010, 7:51 PM UTC

btmorex wrote: post #26

philwelch wrote: post #23

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/. has had editing problems, but the comment quality has not, to my experience, dipped that low. It's not as high as HN, but it hasn't dipped that low, either. HN and /. are on opposite ends of a spectrum--HN is what happens before the trolls arrive, given you seed the community well, and /. is what happens after the trolls leave.

I always though the biggest problem with slashdot was that the moderation somehow lead to an extremely insular community. There was a prevailing "slashdot" opinion and that was pretty much the only opinion expressed in highly moderated comments. I was a reader for years and that's pretty much why I left. What's strange is that slashdot moderation isn't that different from any other site, but for whatever reason, I th…

I usually found a lot of highly moderated comments opposing the "Slashdot groupthink", particularly ones that criticized the "Slashdot groupthink" by name. But there were a lot of shared cultural assumptions there as well.

Re: This was a triumph.

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Post by kwyjibo » Wed, Jul 14, 2010, 10:55 PM UTC

tlack wrote: post #51

kwyjibo wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the last thread they said that they are spending over 250.000$ a year just in servers. They could save huge amounts of money if they would just switch to rented servers.

$250k? That's disturbing.

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1502171