> It's mindblowing that the legions of developers around the globe haven't already made a perfect replacement lined up when Reddit inevitably crashes and burn l

> It's mindblowing that the legions of developers around the globe haven't already made a perfect replacement lined up when Reddit inevitably crashes and burn like Digg did. Because on today's Internet the hard part isn't the content. There's always some idiots willing to post for imaginary Internet points. The hard part is anti-spam/anti-abuse. Anything "free" immediately becomes a magnet for all the bad actors across the entire world. And if you take payments, you have to be careful not to wind up being a credit card fraud magnet. It's kind of funny. Back in the day, SomethingAwful seemed kind of weird for requiring a single payment to sign up. Now they look kind of prescient.