And paid off Ellen Pao and the paedophile Aimee Knight.
It’s shocking how uninspiring Reddit is as a thing today as it was a few years ago. Sure, there’s some more work done on new.reddit.com and the mobile app and stuff, but the site as a technology has had few (if any) visible transformative addition for the vast majority of its users in forever.
It does scale better. The uptime is better – I don’t know if you guys used Reddit way back, but it went down a lot, had all kinds of crazy bugs showing up as people pushed changes into production with limited testing. They respond quickly when something does break. I would guess that there is some efforts to avoid network attacks (which have happened) and abuse. They build some monitoring infrastructure.
I mean, those don’t make Reddit look different, but they do matter.
Some of that would also probably need to be done for a larger Fediverse.
It isn’t the lack of new features that’s a problem for me. Sure, it’d be cool if some feature that I really liked came out, but I was okay with things on the feature front.
I don’t really like the changes from how things had been operating, though.
I have no idea why tech companies do this. Especially tech companies that aren’t even profitable yet. You’re not in the nft business and you will never be in the nft business. Improve your actual product, get profitable, then go with the dumb stuff like that.
