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An update on the state of the Reddit repositories

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Re: An update on the state of the Reddit repositories

#5
>Open-source makes it hard for us to develop some features "in the clear" (like our recent video launch) without leaking our plans too far in advance. As Reddit is now a larger player on the web, it is hard for us to be strategic in our planning when everyone can see what code we are committing.

I'm curious what harm they are afraid of? Like, what happens if outsiders know what reddit is working on next?

Re: An update on the state of the Reddit repositories

#6

Title is clickbaited from target page's "An update on the state of the reddit/reddit and reddit/reddit-mobile repositories" [edit: it's been fixed now]

Specifically, 2 out of 100+ repos are no longer open source.

https://github.com/reddit?q=type:sources&type=public

Re: An update on the state of the Reddit repositories

#7

Title is clickbaited from target page's "An update on the state of the reddit/reddit and reddit/reddit-mobile repositories" [edit: it's been fixed now]

How is it baiting if it's 100% true ? The original article title is an euphemism... it's not an 'update', it's an obituary.

Re: An update on the state of the Reddit repositories

#9

>Open-source makes it hard for us to develop some features "in the clear" (like our recent video launch) without leaking our plans too far in advance. As Reddit is now a larger player on the web, it is hard for us to be strategic in our planning when everyone can see what code we are committing. I'm curious what harm they are afraid of? Like, what happens if outsiders know what reddit is working on next?

Perhaps something like

> Start making feature

> People hype it up

> Feature gets scrapped

> Angry mob

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