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Personally I've been using reddit for about a decade. It seems more or less the same site it always has been just a lot bigger and with some incremental improve

Personally I've been using reddit for about a decade. It seems more or less the same site it always has been just a lot bigger and with some incremental improvements. 99% of the user base has no clue about who most of the people in your post are, they aren't up in arms about anything, they only care that the site continues to work, which it does. Additionally, I cannot see how a competitor can possibly compete with reddit, reddit offers everything most people want without charging anything, without excessive advertising and without demanding a lot of personal information. How do you build a competitor that matches those criteria and then makes a ton of money?

Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
>Additionally, I cannot see how a competitor can possibly compete with reddit, reddit offers everything most people want without charging anything, without excessive advertising and without demanding a lot of personal information. How do you build a competitor that matches those criteria and then makes a ton of money? The answer is simply "build what Reddit was like 5 years ago". It's plain to see that Reddit is on a downward spiral - their product has been getting worse and will continue to get worse. Same goes for the community. Reddit is showing all of the signs of a dying platform, if you study the historical lifecycles of web properties it matches quite well. Unfortunately, whatever comes up to replace it is probably going to suffer the same fate.
- vidarh 9y ago
  What Reddit was like 5 years ago didn't make much money.
  - Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
    Which is why the replacement is doomed to suffer the same fate. Reddit is not a suistainable business model.
  - wand3r 9y ago
    To my knowledge, it still doesn't.
CrystalLangUser 9y ago
A competitor can compete by building a platform that handles user load & doesn't shill out for advertisers. And one that focuses on actually improving the site's functionality (search, anyone?) instead of user profiles which don't even make sense really given reddit's original purpose.

Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago

>Additionally, I cannot see how a competitor can possibly compete with reddit, reddit offers everything most people want without charging anything, without excessive advertising and without demanding a lot of personal information. How do you build a competitor that matches those criteria and then makes a ton of money? The answer is simply "build what Reddit was like 5 years ago". It's plain to see that Reddit is on a downward spiral - their product has been getting worse and will continue to get worse. Same goes for the community. Reddit is showing all of the signs of a dying platform, if you study the historical lifecycles of web properties it matches quite well. Unfortunately, whatever comes up to replace it is probably going to suffer the same fate.

vidarh 9y ago
What Reddit was like 5 years ago didn't make much money.
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
  Which is why the replacement is doomed to suffer the same fate. Reddit is not a suistainable business model.
- wand3r 9y ago
  To my knowledge, it still doesn't.

CrystalLangUser 9y ago

A competitor can compete by building a platform that handles user load & doesn't shill out for advertisers. And one that focuses on actually improving the site's functionality (search, anyone?) instead of user profiles which don't even make sense really given reddit's original purpose.