> you have to ask yourself why Reddit was so successful despite them No you don’t. The answer is that Reddit started out more as a topsite system than a forum

> you have to ask yourself why Reddit was so successful despite them No you don’t. The answer is that Reddit started out more as a topsite system than a forum; then was subsidized by billionaire VCs to capture the old forum ecosystem. Per usual as soon as they captured the market they began to transform from what made them their name. It wasn’t like people left old forums for modern Reddit because it was a better system.