Nathan2055

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by Nathan2055 3y ago
I’d argue that the management/user relationship has been dead ever since they killed Secret Santa. Some others might argue that the Victoria firing is what did it, but at least the admins were still showing up publicly at that point in
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by Nathan2055 3y ago
That’s basically just Lemmy/kbin. Those two services can even interconnect with Mastodon thanks to ActivityPub. As I’ve said elsewhere in this thread, moving text around on the Internet has been a solved problem ever since NNTP. And th
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by Nathan2055 3y ago
Reddit is effectively just a text-only forum (image and video uploads are fairly recent features, and the latter has never even worked properly) with subthreads and a voting system. Text forums have effectively been solved ever since NNTP w
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by Nathan2055 3y ago
Pretty much a week after starting any web development job, you discover that 95% of making a site fast is simply reducing the number of times it has to call the database. Typically, this means caching everything as much as you possibly can.
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by Nathan2055 3y ago
It’s also a 180 from last week’s position, because Reddit has continually stated throughout this whole thing that they’re happy to continue supporting third-party apps as long as they pay, and that if they wanted third-party apps gone, they
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by Nathan2055 3y ago
One again, it looks like Steve Huffman is ignoring his own company’s history and trying to pretend third-party apps weren’t a major part of Reddit’s initial success. Reddit did not have an official, first-party app until 2016. Prior to that