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But if Reddit survives this, if it's just "clearing house" for a future set of users, and, after a period of lower usage, start growing again, it will be golden
by BLKNSLVR 3y ago
But if Reddit survives this, if it's just "clearing house" for a future set of users, and, after a period of lower usage, start growing again, it will be golden; it will be seen as un-killable. Too valuable a resource to fail.
As much as I disagree with the gross consumer-unfriendliness of the direction and choices of management, they're sitting on an incredibly valuable data store that will attract search results - I've read a number of comments recently that "site:reddit" is a required filter on Google these days. That's hard to kill.
- fundad 3y agoYahoo is hard to kill
- seanp2k2 3y agoAsk Jeeves is hard to kill
- JamesLeonis 3y agoDigg is still around too
- quitit 3y agoI expect reddit to survive this because this isn't something that will stop people from visiting it. While they may originally go to reddit for information, they stay for the communities. It's pretty well established that no one there reads beyond the headline before heading to the comments section. I feel the bigger threat to reddit is that many of the ways that people are introduced to it will be better served by AI-driven services. If people can find what they're looking for without ever visiting reddit, then they won't get involved in the communities, and the communities there slowly thin out. Amusingly I see part of the reason for reddit's success is how poorly Google has become at finding information on the web. These days it seems that reddit is the go to place to find answers to a myriad of problems.