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It appears that Reddit's days are numbered. Sure they may be able to get by with one developer for a while, the product is fairly mature and content is driven

It appears that Reddit's days are numbered. Sure they may be able to get by with one developer for a while, the product is fairly mature and content is driven by the user base. But how long can a website remain stagnant, with no innovation until the user base starts to migrate to the next best thing? Also, being owned by a large, old media company doesn't necessarily give one much confidence that Reddit is backed by visionaries who are willing to push the envelope and take risks.

Raphael 16y ago
And what is the next best thing in your opinion? It's one of the few places that does nested comments properly and the lightweight up/down voting always keeps it interesting. The only thing I can see replacing it is an outright clone, but no one's stepped up and done it in all the years Reddit has been around.
- officemonkey 16y ago
  >And what is the next best thing in your opinion? I'll know it when I see it. I was a daily user of Slashdot from 2001 to 2006 and then I found Reddit. I completely abandoned Slashdot less than a year later. What could beat reddit? Well, if there was a facebook-y site which allowed me to associate with people who had my interests (rather than family, friends, and people I went to college/high school), I'd be down with that. (I love my mom, but I don't think she cares about Minecraft, old-school RPGs, French pop songs, Asa Akira, and Jules Verne novels.) Twitter is close, but the character limit, url shorteners, and "twitter-speak" (intentional bad spelling/grammar in order to "get under the limit") just make my teeth itch.