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And you just KNOW it's going to disappear. Not immediately of course, some slight visual breakages here and there. Then some hotshot manager is going to point o

by marto1 5y ago

And you just KNOW it's going to disappear. Not immediately of course, some slight visual breakages here and there. Then some hotshot manager is going to point out how it doesn't bring any "value" to the company and how in fact it actually hurts reddit's image. Then it will be gone.

beaconstudios 5y ago
And then somebody makes a substitute UI that calls the api, then reddit tries to take it down, then someone builds an open source version, then github gets a C&D letter and the creator makes blog post about it that reaches the front page of HN. I'm looking forward to the journey.
- scott_w 5y ago
  The first part happened: https://teddit.net https://teddit.net ;-)
- mdaniel 5y ago
  > then someone builds an open source version Damn, I went to dig up the URL for reddit's source and it seems it is no longer open :-( https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
  - r721 5y ago
    Saidit is an old reddit fork with small changes (the biggest one is no downvotes): https://github.com/libertysoft3/saidit https://github.com/libertysoft3/saidit
mike_d 5y ago
From my time at Reddit I can say the reason it has lasted this long is there are no hotshot managers. Chris Slowe is the hand guiding the ship day to day, with a bunch of really passionate hackers underneath him. They are maintaining like 4 different code bases and keeping feature parity as best they can with a team that could still comfortably go on a ski trip together (compare that to the 60k+ at Facebook). The users hate change while also demanding new features. The business makes no sense. Steve is off doing... something, to ads or something and make investors happy so they keep the ship afloat. UI is going to hell to drive DAU metrics for investors. Banning shitweasels brings down the wrath of the conservatives. Yet they are still working their assess off to keep a mound of spaghetti from bursting into flames with 1/10th the staff they need to do so.
- throwawayboise 5y ago
  Good to know that a major social media platform is built on the same shit and bailing wire that most of us have to deal with every day. Sort of makes me feel like the SV companies really aren't any different than anyone else, they just (typically) have a lot more money.

by marto1 5y ago

beaconstudios 5y ago

And then somebody makes a substitute UI that calls the api, then reddit tries to take it down, then someone builds an open source version, then github gets a C&D letter and the creator makes blog post about it that reaches the front page of HN. I'm looking forward to the journey.

scott_w 5y ago
The first part happened: https://teddit.net https://teddit.net ;-)
mdaniel 5y ago
> then someone builds an open source version Damn, I went to dig up the URL for reddit's source and it seems it is no longer open :-( https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
- r721 5y ago
  Saidit is an old reddit fork with small changes (the biggest one is no downvotes): https://github.com/libertysoft3/saidit https://github.com/libertysoft3/saidit

mike_d 5y ago

From my time at Reddit I can say the reason it has lasted this long is there are no hotshot managers. Chris Slowe is the hand guiding the ship day to day, with a bunch of really passionate hackers underneath him. They are maintaining like 4 different code bases and keeping feature parity as best they can with a team that could still comfortably go on a ski trip together (compare that to the 60k+ at Facebook). The users hate change while also demanding new features. The business makes no sense. Steve is off doing... something, to ads or something and make investors happy so they keep the ship afloat. UI is going to hell to drive DAU metrics for investors. Banning shitweasels brings down the wrath of the conservatives. Yet they are still working their assess off to keep a mound of spaghetti from bursting into flames with 1/10th the staff they need to do so.

throwawayboise 5y ago
Good to know that a major social media platform is built on the same shit and bailing wire that most of us have to deal with every day. Sort of makes me feel like the SV companies really aren't any different than anyone else, they just (typically) have a lot more money.