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Reddit was a YC company. Why don't we like Reddit?
by imgabe 7y ago
Reddit was a YC company. Why don't we like Reddit?
- warent 7y agoExtreme herd mentality. The community often values base, emotional instinct over logic and rationality. Glib responses are typically more highly valued than thoughtful replies.
- asveikau 7y agoI couldn't tell which community you were talking about there. I sometimes feel like this community dresses up its expression of base, emotional instinct and herd mentality by trying to pass it off as logic and rationality.
- warent 7y agoIt goes without saying that in the end we're all apes and no system is perfect. I think many would agree that with HN there is at least a consistent effort to strive for higher ideals.
- dang 7y agoReddit's incredible. We're just focusing on a different sort of information and discussion here. For those who might not know: Reddit was pg's idea, which he suggested to Steve and Alexis. Once it started to become popular, Reddit became less interesting for him personally to read (plus they stopped implementing his feature requests), so he made HN. In that sense "not being Reddit" is one of the founding impulses of this site. But there were others too, like wanting a watercooler for the startup world, and wanting to write a web app in Arc. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20reddit%20sibling&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- imgabe 7y agoI agree it's a different sort of vibe, and Reddit depends heavily on which sub you're looking at. I'm just objecting that liking one precludes liking the other. I post on both and get different things from each. One can appreciate both Shakespeare and the Three Stooges
- thimkerbell 7y agoIs there a list or sampler somewhere, of the P.G. feature requests for Reddit that the Reddit people wouldn't implement?
- YeGoblynQueenne 7y agoSure it includes items like: Feature Request 2345: Make the site user-scriptable with Common Lisp.
- dang 7y agopg doesn't like CL; too complicated. Back then I'd guess MzScheme.