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Reddit.com on July 25th, 2005 – 1 month after launch
- baggy_trough 6y agoBetter UI than it has now.
- teraflop 6y agoThey haven't yet gotten rid of https://old.reddit.com/ https://old.reddit.com/, as much as they seem to want to.
- Jtsummers 6y agoAnd the day they do will be the last day I (deliberately) visit that site. The new UI is just so non-functional for me. Some quality-of-life improvements (I think there are some improvements in the markdown handling in comments), but beyond that the old one is just faster to load and much easier to use.
- Bluecobra 6y agoFunnily enough, I used to be a big Digg user and what drove me to Reddit was when they redesigned everything.
- Jtsummers 6y agoI wasn’t big on Digg, but I was moderately active. And I switched at the same time. This pattern plays out over and over. At least Reddit has left old.reddit up.
- beervirus 6y agoOnly a matter of time.
- nvr219 6y agoThe best UI for Reddit is not made by Reddit. It's Apollo.
- dn3500 6y agoOriginal reddit shows me 12 threads "above the fold" (without scrolling). Current old.reddit shows me 8. New reddit shows me 3. The extra space is taken up by useless garbage like "give award", "share", and "save", operations that I'm not going to want until I've actually clicked through to the thread. I don't see how that's progress.
- bognition 6y agoI've never quite understood HackerNews's obsession with reddit over other social networks. I'd love if someone could it explain it
- k0stas 6y agoIt's a YC startup from the first ever batch and HN was created to try to recapture what Reddit was like at the beginning.
- renewiltord 6y agoIt's an absolute phenomenon, man. Recommendations, discussion, backstage access to celebs. And it's YC.
- echelon 6y ago> It's an absolute phenomenon, man. It was. Now it's a cesspool. > Recommendations, discussion, It's become the worst kind of echo chamber. The comments feel like they're written by GPT-3, and there's a lot of prideful ignorance or confidence when it's undeserved. I had to laugh when they added "avatars" and everyone started setting theirs to dancing seizure cockroaches. My avatar is the Digg logo. > backstage access to celebs AMA was sincere when it started. Now it's just lame cash grab marketing and self-promotion. > And it's YC. Yeah. I feel like they exited too early. Conde Nast made all the money here.
- Jtsummers 6y agoThis is why I exclusively stick to technical subreddits. r/programming suffered from severe moderation a few years back which knocked me out of even looking at it (posts were heavily moderated and their front page wouldn't change for days). But the various programming language subreddits (in aggregate) make for good reading for me.
- Diederich 6y ago> It was. Now it's a cesspool. All of it? https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians for example.
- maxton 6y agoHonestly, it looks like HN does right now, albeit with a different color scheme.
- echelon 6y agoI wish there was a giant, global social network protocol. Open and distributed that connected all of us. Email, but more modern to capture the kind of stuff that Reddit and Twitter are great at. Photos, videos, discussion. I then wish we could overlay filtering to keep out the high-noise drivel and advertising. Probably using social graph metadata. I'd like to have an anonymous or pseudonymous presence, the ability to cryptographically sign my posts, and automatically elevate the score of individuals along my interest graph. This should "just work" and be invisible to the average user. It shouldn't seem like geeky technology. I know that this is probably a terrible thing to bring into the world given all the conspiracy theory groups (it keeps them in their filter bubble), but I'm dying to have something that removes marketing and spam and only brings me high quality content. Marketing and spam are still the biggest problems on the Internet.
- riffic 6y agoActivityPub exists.
- edoceo 6y agoAnd what is blocking it's wide adoption? If it's so great, why can't I use it to get my mom off that damn facebook?
- Jtsummers 6y agoBecause your mom, like many people, probably trusts corporations more than random service hosts. Plus her social circle is already on Facebook, network effects.
- riffic 6y agoI wouldn't write ActivityPub off as a failure. It has a healthy developer ecosystem and is doing fine so far in its adoption.
- elcomet 6y agoMarketing. They have zero budget when compared to Facebook.
- duderific 6y agoKind of OT but the links to articles mostly work, and I stumbled onto this ArsTechnica article postulating about rumors of an upcoming iPhone release: https://web.archive.org/web/20061201011009/http://reddit.com/viewlink?id=954 https://web.archive.org/web/20061201011009/http://reddit.com... The comments below are well worth a read. Here's a sample: "...yaaawn... it's going to take a REALLY impressive phone for anyone to give a damn at this point. and as far as that pug-fugly blue & green mockup goes, if that's the phone (and it's not, where are the numbers? ive would not let something that ugly be associated w/ apple) it would be a disaster."
- holler 6y agoI found the links to be interesting as well! I had never heard of aimfight.com, or the lady who turns pets into pillows. Also interesting that Boeing adding wi-fi was news at that time, something taken for granted on flights in 2020. More comments from ^ iphone link: "I would be much more excited about an Apple-branding smartphone with iPod level storage capacity. This is neat, but doesn't appeal to me." "lol, i think that the target demographic are the crazy consumer who since the Ipod have been running rampant buying up any and all things related to "i" or "pod". just look at the naming of podcast or the iscreen and u can see that a lot of ppl are hopping on the i bandwagon. they probably just see a way to make some moneys with their iphone. altho, i must say if the phone looks like the 1 in that picture, thats kinda cool."
- SPascareli13 6y agoWait, podcast is named after iPod?
- Macha 6y agoYes - a rival mp3 player producer pioneered the idea of episodic audio content that was automatically downloaded to the device to listen to on the go. But then they went bankrupt, and other developers implemented it for the iPod, which was the most popular device and that's the medium on which they caught on first, hence the name. Especially helped when Apple added actual support for iTunes. Also why the iTunes directory is the defacto podcast directory used by most independent podcast applications.
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- andai 6y agoI heard in the beginning most of the posts were posted by the admins. They had a box where they could just type in a new username for each post, to make it look like people were using the site.
- Spooky23 6y agoAnd in the end half of the content is dreck posted by bots for information warfare purposes.
- gfody 6y agothere's a thread here somewhere with an OG founder describing how they would seed entire threads emulating the sort of voice and attitudes they wanted to encourage. with that and technology like GPT3 (plus downright scary shit I've seen from SubredditSimulator) I can't shake the suspicion that reddit is largely artificial.
- chx 6y agoI also can't shake the suspicion that aside from the very carefully moderated subs it's mostly a completely natural toxic cesspit. triketora's recent AMA was truly something else.
- Whut 6y agoI know this gets said over and over again, but it's so depressing to look at what major social networking sites have become. I remember actually having fun on Facebook and twitter when they were in there early years. I feel like when I used Facebook in high school I didn't have this overwhelming sadness and whenever I logged off.
- Aeolun 6y agoProbably because nobody was using actual psychologists to fuck with your mind yet.
- spike021 6y agoI won't say I don't get negatively affected at all, but I still have a huge amount of fun on twitter. I curate my "feeds" by using special follow lists (usually an obscured feature probably to make people think they can only use the main feed). I have a few different baseball lists, a list for automobile news since I'm into races like Super GT, and a couple other specific lists. While I do wind up seeing negative stuff on my main tweet feed, it's easy to choose to only look at stuff I enjoy reading and responding to. I'm sure most of the blame goes to Twitter because as I said, they sort of made that lists feature obscure. But I feel like there's a lot that users can do to take their own control of what they see on Twitter. I certainly do.
- awad 6y agoThis is largely the appeal of TikTok to many, for what it is worth.
- codezero 6y agoOh wow, this also is such a record in time - Armstrong wins in France - that's when I was there, on that very day, the day before my birthday :) The next day I was in Warsaw celebrating over some fireworks that were apparently in celebration of a former communist holiday, and a local guy we needed up hanging out with told us "We don't let invaders change us, but we'll keep the fireworks and beer they leave behind."
- open-source-ux 6y agoIf you are looking for a "lighter" version of the Reddit site, try this: https://i.reddit.com/ https://i.reddit.com/
- codeulike 6y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20061201000220/http://reddit.com/viewlink?id=958 https://web.archive.org/web/20061201000220/http://reddit.com... As Lance Armstrong heads for a record seventh win in the Tour de France, Denis Campbell analyses the physical and emotional strengths that make him great hmmmm 'Genetically Lance is a freak,' says his friend Tony Doyle, the British former pursuit cycling world champion. 'His heart and lungs are bigger than most people's, and most other elite cyclists', so they make him more efficient as an athlete. He also generates far less lactic acid than the others, and he recovers quicker - vital in a race where you push yourself to the limit day after day after day.' hmmmm
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- p1esk 6y agoPretty sure that's 100% accurate, what's with 'hmmm'? Or perhaps you think he used more drugs than others?
- W-Stool 6y agoHe always claimed - always - that he never used performance enhancing drugs or blood processes (doping). Which of course he did.
- ajhurliman 6y agoDo you think the other cyclists are not?
- dang 6y agoBugbear is PG, btw. http://bugbear.com/ http://bugbear.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=bugbear%20pg&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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- agambrahma 6y agoI liked this old "Why FreeBSD?" article there :-) https://web.archive.org/web/20061130234337/http://reddit.com/viewlink?id=1043 https://web.archive.org/web/20061130234337/http://reddit.com...
- agambrahma 6y ago... and then I was wondering what the modern equivalent of that would be, probably this: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2020/09/07/quare-freebsd/ https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2020/09/07/quare-freebsd/
- Osiris 6y agoMy favorite headline: "Drivers using cell phones are more likely to crash". 15 years later and we still haven't solved that one. It's interesting how much has changed and how much has stayed the same in 15 years.
- codeulike 6y agoWe solved it in the UK. Illegal to touch your phone unless parked.
- TheCycoONE 6y agoOntario Canada too.
- kencausey 6y agoThis is extremely off-topic at this point but I'm interested in other's thoughts on this: I personally have a pretty solid 'no phone use while driving' policy. Honestly I don't really like talking on the phone so it's not that hard for me to ignore it in the rare cases that it rings while I'm driving. However on Friday my mother had an outpatient surgical procedure and while I was driving her home my phone repeatedly rang, and I don't get many calls so this was very odd. On the third time I decided I would answer it. It turned out to be the nurse who had brought my mother out for me to pick up (no visitors in the hospital at this time) and she was afraid that she had not removed my Mother's IV. My mother checked and indeed it was still in place. So we turned around and went back to the hospital. The nurse was waiting outside in the same place, she opened the back door where my Mother was sitting with her leg up on the front passenger seat back which was folded all the way down, and removed the IV and wrapped the area.
- lobster45 6y agoWhy FreeBSD? Some things never change!
- acheron 6y agoI thought FreeBSD died when Netcraft confirmed it.
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- narrator 6y agoNot a single headline with a politician's name it. How things have changed!
- joshu 6y agoIncredibly reminiscent of early del.icio.us too. https://www.flickr.com/photos/joshu/765859193/in/album-72157600740166824/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/joshu/765859193/in/album-72157...
- MichaelZuo 6y agoThere may be an opportunity for someone to create what reddit was meant to be. A minimally designed and curated site that enforces some sort of unique ID system to prevent all the trouble of online communities.
- sunstone 6y agoI was there around this time. They were posting links on slashdot to drive traffic to their site.