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I'm amazed at how unprofessional the management's reaction has been to the blackout. They could've waited a couple of weeks for the controversy to die down. Ins
by slily 3y ago
I'm amazed at how unprofessional the management's reaction has been to the blackout. They could've waited a couple of weeks for the controversy to die down. Instead they further escalated the issue and are now making utterly nonsensical decisions like undeleting people's entire posting histories and now things like this [if this isn't a false flag]. What are they thinking?
- tnecniv 3y agoThey’re not thinking. They never really have. They add features nobody wants all the time instead of making changes the community asks about for years. Who wanted live streaming or instant messaging on Reddit? Spez has edited users’ comments in the past as well. Basically Reddit the company is incompetent for failing to understand their product and run by a child.
- carstenhag 3y agoInstant messaging? Yeah, not sure about that, but reddit was really lacking there. About live threads: the existing static threads were annoying to use for ongoing sport events for example. So I did like the idea, but the implementation was poor.
- tnecniv 3y agoFor live streaming, I meant live video streams. They were pushing it hard for a while. It was a lot of musicians taking requests and a therapy frog (?!). It was fun for a minute but the novelty wore off quickly and I doubt it was worth whatever they paid to build it. It’s like they want to be every social media app at once instead of focusing on their strengths.
- commandlinefan 3y agoReddit was always doomed - it's kind of a surprise it's lasted as long as it did. They call themselves the "front page of the internet" and that's what they've always wanted to be. But to be that, they have to be _completely_ open. No banning subreddits. No banning users. No deleting comments. And for the most part, that's what they were when they started (and I loved it back then). But that's not just not workable as a business model, it's not workable even if there was no cost involved, it invites too much blowback. The only reason we ever got the internet we have (or had, anyway...) was because it was completely decentralized, not in any one person's or organizations hands, and there was nobody to blame for "the whole thing" rather than one part of it.
- tedivm 3y agoI'm sure their NFT system will be super profitable /s
- juujian 3y agoIt's the "alternative facts" shitposting school of crisis management.
- JohnFen 3y agoI have avoided reddit for a couple of years now because I found the unpleasantness of it it was greater than any value I got from it. But I'd still follow links to specific reddit entries when discussions brought them up (on HN, for example). But, purely because of Reddit's (and especially the CEO's) behavior around this issue, Reddit now occupies the same position for me that Twitter does: I'm not even following occasional links to it. It's radioactive to me. (Musk fans: I treated twitter this way before Musk bought it, it's unrelated to him.) Not that this will affect Reddit in any way, but it's better for my own well-being.
- 83 3y agoIt would have been so easy for them to deescalate that they must think there's something to gain from it, they can't be that incompetent right? It'll be interesting to see if the current outrage machine actually has any long term effect or if next year things will just be business as usual at Reddit.