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"Engagement-driven" product development is a very poor choice. You might be optimising for the short-term and your personal product manager performance review.
by shoto_io 5y ago
"Engagement-driven" product development is a very poor choice. You might be optimising for the short-term and your personal product manager performance review. But other than that it will slowly kill your product.
- Gigachad 5y agoReddit has been "slowly killing" their product for a long time now, and it's bigger than ever. Problem is this stuff actually does work if you want to mass market.
- nradov 5y agoIs Reddit profitable yet?
- radu_floricica 5y agoI wonder about that. I'm not on reddit anymore, nor is anybody I know.
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- devoutsalsa 5y agoI will leave Reddit in a week or so. I’m just waiting for this one potentially hilarious cat gif to load in the Reddit video player.
- spurgu 5y agoNiche subreddits are still decent but the community as a whole is a cesspool. The mistake was bringing internet to the masses, as opposed to keeping it difficult enough to be used only by passionate and/or smart people. Now that the cat is out of the bag maybe paid memberships to exclusive communities is the way to go? Just late night riffing here after a few drinks and, might be wrong about all of the above.
- dotancohen 5y agoYou're being downvoted for "gatekeeping" but you're not wrong. NSF has the L2 paid membership section, which is the absolute best place for information in the field - both public and insider information. Likewise airliners.net has (or had) an excellent paid option, and I can think of a few others. Requiring payment is still a good way to let those passionate about a topic self-admit themselves while keeping the masses at bay.
- nefitty 5y agoThey could have left that part about intelligence out. I'm extremely intelligent, probably in the top 0.01% of the world. I welcome the less intelligent into my world. I believe in democracy.
- dotancohen 5y agoI suppose that you could invite quite a lot of people less intelligent than yourself into your world, and still be surrounded by brilliant people. For some of us, inviting people less intelligent than ourselves into our world carries significant risk of being surrounded by idiots. ))
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- marginalia_nu 5y agoI think the problem is the scaling of communication, rather than letting in the unwashed masses. In any community experiencing continuous growth, there will be a constant influx of people unaware of the social norms and conventions. Most of these "normies" are just regular people, that if they stuck around, you'd realize they were no different than the regulars. If this is a one-thing event, the community usually stabilizes, but the problem with reddit is that the central premise seems to have become growth, so there's always a bunch of new faces, which makes maintaining an actual community nearly impossible. Only exceptions seem to be communities where the topic is extremely esoteric, or the moderators are super aggressive.
- Claude_Shannon 5y agoWhy do you think so? As long as you ignore the default subs, I felt fine.
- emptyfile 5y agoIt's fine as long as your sub doesn't blow up, then it turns to crap in a heartbeat.
- shoto_io 5y agoYou're right, they're bigger then ever before. The relevant question for me is: how much bigger would Reddit be today without their shitty approach? I never turned into an active user - mostly because I'm appalled by things like: being forced into their mobile app, for example. I just use reddit to read stuff and then leave. On HN I contribute a lot.