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which is a good thing considering by the time that happens to reddit, kn0thing will have made his impact, and will be able to do whatever else he wants, and som
by tokenizer 14y ago
which is a good thing considering by the time that happens to reddit, kn0thing will have made his impact, and will be able to do whatever else he wants, and somebody else's site will be the new and popular one (until it is).
- astrodust 14y agoReddit crossed that event horizon a year ago. People inside just haven't realized yet.
- bgilroy26 14y agoThat's true. The only thing that Reddit has going for it is that has a way to build new communities built in. /r/DepthHub, /r/math, and /r/askscience are doing just fine.
- guth 14y agoThe "only" think Reddit has is an engine to sustainably produce new communities as good as the original Reddit, at the cost of providing a pile of chaff I dislike that thousands of people enjoy? I would love to have "only" what Reddit has.
- baq 14y ago/r/askscience is nearly 600 thousand subscribers, that's hardly 'only'. subreddits are as good as their moderators and that's also true of HN.
- astrodust 14y agoPerhaps an astrophysicist will one day explain why communities like Reddit tend to implode. Once the "pressure" of those in the core, which are the ones doing most of the work to keep people in line and promote healthy community behavior, start to fizzle out and aren't replaced, the core will implode and the whole thing will go supernova. Smaller communities, like smaller stars, seem to have much longer lifespans. The good news is when a site like Digg or Reddit goes supernova it spreads a lot of well-intentioned people around the greater internet to create their own new communities and start the process all over again.
- pwmanagerdied 14y agoIf you don't realize that Reddit crossed that line years ago, you're part of the problem.