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Reddit will be 19 years old next month, it’s not flavor of the month.

• mplewis9z 2y ago
  Chocolate’s been around a while too, but it can still be the flavor of the month.
• paxys 2y ago
  Digg is 19 years old as well, and was significantly more popular than Reddit at its peak. Where is it now? Or Myspace? Or Tumblr? Or Google+? Or Twitter? Any open forum that is private and profit-focused is eventually going to destroy itself. Reddit is not an exception, especially after its recent IPO. How long do you think it will be before investors are no longer content with losing hundreds of millions of dollars every year and want more monetization and more user-hostile features built in?
  • echelon 2y ago
    > Any open forum that is private and profit-focused is eventually going to destroy itself. Reddit is not an exception. Facebook is still around. If we count the date commercial dial-up was first available (1992) to the Facebook launch date (2004), Facebook has been around for the majority of most people's internet experience. I think you have the wrong mental model of this. Rather, when a community wins and reaches steady state, it becomes entrenched and almost impossible to dislodge. Google+ tried to suck the air out of the room for Facebook and it failed.
    • paxys 2y ago
      Facebook is very far from an "open forum". You can't even view posts without creating an account. The service is useless if your entire social graph isn't also over there. Content you post is heavily moderated, both automatically and by paid humans. There's a reason there's no Java discussion happening there.