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There was a certain lull point in Reddit, where it was still great for what it was, but it had lost the intellectual early adopter set but had not yet become th
by rms 15y ago
There was a certain lull point in Reddit, where it was still great for what it was, but it had lost the intellectual early adopter set but had not yet become the cultural juggernaut that it is now. Maybe it was right before the Digg exodus? I'm not quite sure of the timing, but guessing you know what I mean.
Do you have any input on what happened to take Reddit from where it was two or three years ago to where it is now?
- kn0thing 15y agoConsistency. The power of user-created subreddits took years to really gain momentum. For the first year or so I was spending a lot of my time raising awareness for communities we'd created that seemed like obvious fits (like /r/gaming) doing things like running house ads and being a good moderator of the subreddit -- things that our awesome mods are now doing themselves. I encourage you to subscribe to subreddits like http://truereddit.reddit.com/ http://truereddit.reddit.com/ if you're missing the old days. There's a wealth of great, smaller subreddits that maintain the intellectual roots. http://philosophy.reddit.com/ http://philosophy.reddit.com/ too!
- kn0thing 15y agoBy consistency, I mean even after Steve & I left, the team continued to maintain the course and endured a lot of ups and downs in the process. What they've done is really impressive.
- zmonkeyz 15y agoI think the Digg exodus is what really pushed it over in terms of numbers.