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How hard would it be to fork reddit AMA on a third party site? I'd imagine if you got Victoria on board, a lot of the mods/community would follow. Certainly s

How hard would it be to fork reddit AMA on a third party site? I'd imagine if you got Victoria on board, a lot of the mods/community would follow. Certainly some custom support for the AMA would be nice, like getting cleanly summarized final outputs and highlighting direct conversation with the askee, and making it easy to find highly upvoted non-answered questions.

joosters 11y ago
I imagine it'd be extremely difficult. It's the users that give reddit its power. You can set up another site but if it hasn't got the readership, fewer people are going to do AMAs there. There are already several reddit clones but they are nowhere near as successful.
- hoopd 11y ago
  When Barbara Walters switches networks viewers and celebrities follow her because they like and trust her, people feel the same way about Victoria.
habitue 11y ago
This is pretty much what voat is. The biggest issue is handling the traffic. Only a fraction of users went to voat and it was offline for days, crippled by the traffic. edit: I previously said Voat was a reddit fork, that wasn't correct.
- joshuapants 11y ago
  > This is exactly what voat is, a Reddit fork Voat mimics Reddit functionally, but I don't think it's a fork
  - danso 11y ago
    That's correct...Voat is written in C# ASP.NET MVC 5. https://github.com/voat/voat https://github.com/voat/voat
  - habitue 11y ago
    Ah whoops! I'll correct it
pbreit 11y ago
Nearly impossible.
pbreit 11y ago
Nearly impossible. The code is the easiest part by far. Much, much harder is getting viewers and then subjects.
pbreit 11y ago
Nearly impossible. The code is trivial. Getting the viewers and subjects is the hard part.
byuu 11y ago
> I'd imagine if you got Victoria on board Very doubtful she'd work for free, so that rules out owners that can't afford at least a full-time salary. Find someone willing to risk ~$50-100K just on the IAmA coordinator alone (who may not be able to attract celebrity talent to an unknown site), on the hope their site displaces Reddit (a very slim chance), and that they'll somehow then magically make it all profitable without chasing everyone off, and it's doable.

joosters 11y ago

I imagine it'd be extremely difficult. It's the users that give reddit its power. You can set up another site but if it hasn't got the readership, fewer people are going to do AMAs there. There are already several reddit clones but they are nowhere near as successful.

hoopd 11y ago
When Barbara Walters switches networks viewers and celebrities follow her because they like and trust her, people feel the same way about Victoria.

habitue 11y ago

This is pretty much what voat is. The biggest issue is handling the traffic. Only a fraction of users went to voat and it was offline for days, crippled by the traffic. edit: I previously said Voat was a reddit fork, that wasn't correct.

joshuapants 11y ago
> This is exactly what voat is, a Reddit fork Voat mimics Reddit functionally, but I don't think it's a fork
- danso 11y ago
  That's correct...Voat is written in C# ASP.NET MVC 5. https://github.com/voat/voat https://github.com/voat/voat
- habitue 11y ago
  Ah whoops! I'll correct it

pbreit 11y ago

Nearly impossible.

pbreit 11y ago

Nearly impossible. The code is the easiest part by far. Much, much harder is getting viewers and then subjects.

pbreit 11y ago

Nearly impossible. The code is trivial. Getting the viewers and subjects is the hard part.

byuu 11y ago

> I'd imagine if you got Victoria on board Very doubtful she'd work for free, so that rules out owners that can't afford at least a full-time salary. Find someone willing to risk ~$50-100K just on the IAmA coordinator alone (who may not be able to attract celebrity talent to an unknown site), on the hope their site displaces Reddit (a very slim chance), and that they'll somehow then magically make it all profitable without chasing everyone off, and it's doable.