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The Email I Sent Steve That Kicked Off Reddit
- wodenokoto 12y agoI love reddit and has been a user for several years, but what was the pitch exactly? "Digg with only headlines and no preview?"
- taternuts 12y agoI'd be willing to bet the sub-reddit idea was heavily emphasized since that's arguably the only novel idea that reddit had, but it's a good one that allows it to not turn to shit and stave off eternal september for as long as possible.
- noblethrasher 12y agoCannot find a source at the moment (I think it was a podcast), but I recall that Joel Spolsky was influential in getting them to adopt the idea of subreddits.
- wodenokoto 12y agoMaybe I'm super naive, but that really seemed like something that was added when people wanted to filter posts, and then later these filters got styling and a community sense. Maybe it was the plan all along and they just gradually implemented it in a way that felt organic and user driven. But I agree with you, the subreddits are brilliant at what they do. The concept of merging all your favorite BB into a single stream is fantastic and pulling it off is even more impressive. But early reddit did not look to me like anything that was aiming to be more than a digg clone that used basic text layout to scare the n00bs away and then it just gradually evolved into this crazy huge community.
- general_failure 12y ago"Front page of the internet" is quite a pitch. Being a reedit fan, I still think reedit can do this.
- Gigablah 12y agoAh yes, all the keyboards in Singapore are Dvorak :p