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I'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 t
by taternuts 12y ago
I'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.