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The article doesn't really explain how anything is actually going to work in practice. By 'warmier and fuzzier' do we mean it's targeted at kids (as the graphic

by nv-vn 11y ago

The article doesn't really explain how anything is actually going to work in practice. By 'warmier and fuzzier' do we mean it's targeted at kids (as the graphics might suggest)? In that case, will they be moderating profanity and whatever they deem inappropriate for children? Or is it just going to be based on reducing harassment (as they mentioned in the article)? And in that case, what would constitute harassment and how would it be dealt with? It seems like the idea is very broad without an actual target at what it should be. I don't think Reddit was the right model to base it off of for what they're attempting to do.

kwgardner 11y ago
Hi! A few things. 1. We're not trying to be "warmer and fuzzier"--those are the author's words. 2. We're not trying to be a children's site--we just wanted to make something that made us (and hopefully others) happy, and that included cute dinosaurs. 3. We're not based on Reddit, nor are we trying to replace them. (As a note, the author of this article didn't talk to us, and they haven't actually seen any more of our site than you have.) Here's what we ARE doing. We're building a community site based on issues we've seen in all different platforms--Reddit, sure, but also Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Patreon, and more. We've tried to build a really broad, flexible platform that makes it so communities can do all the things they want to in one place, with a developer platform to make sure that's possible. We've built in a payments system. We've designed it to be more user and mobile friendly instead of an outdated forum style. Those are honestly the things that I care most about, and the possibilities they open are what I think will have the biggest impact on hopefully making Imzy a really viable community platform that I want to work on, not the things that we're trying to prevent. Hope that helps explain our thinking. I'm happy to elaborate further if you have any questions.
- nv-vn 11y ago
  Thanks for reaching out to answer my questions. I was really confused visiting the website after I read the article because barely anything matched up with the descriptions they gave.

by nv-vn 11y ago

kwgardner 11y ago

Hi! A few things. 1. We're not trying to be "warmer and fuzzier"--those are the author's words. 2. We're not trying to be a children's site--we just wanted to make something that made us (and hopefully others) happy, and that included cute dinosaurs. 3. We're not based on Reddit, nor are we trying to replace them. (As a note, the author of this article didn't talk to us, and they haven't actually seen any more of our site than you have.) Here's what we ARE doing. We're building a community site based on issues we've seen in all different platforms--Reddit, sure, but also Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Patreon, and more. We've tried to build a really broad, flexible platform that makes it so communities can do all the things they want to in one place, with a developer platform to make sure that's possible. We've built in a payments system. We've designed it to be more user and mobile friendly instead of an outdated forum style. Those are honestly the things that I care most about, and the possibilities they open are what I think will have the biggest impact on hopefully making Imzy a really viable community platform that I want to work on, not the things that we're trying to prevent. Hope that helps explain our thinking. I'm happy to elaborate further if you have any questions.

nv-vn 11y ago
Thanks for reaching out to answer my questions. I was really confused visiting the website after I read the article because barely anything matched up with the descriptions they gave.