![]() Not if you're looking at the actual requirements of building out the most popular web forum in the world (or at least western world I guess, IDK what China has internally) HN loves to think that any one of us could rewrite reddit in a weekend, but only if you're looking at the easy part of the job which is building a web forum. They could of course kill all the attempts at shitcoin integration and probably fire half of middle management who keeps coming up with those kinds of ideas, but that's just US management disease. To do that all technically better, you're probably going to have to higher more expensive developers and take even bigger hits to the bottom line rather than firing half the company and even further dropping the balls that are being juggled. Even if it sucks, that probably helped revenue. Even image and video serving is doing well enough to keep users stuck to the site better and not going to competition and not seeing more ads. But that effort probably long since paid for itself. Everyone hates the shitty issues with the redesign. Everyone here hates the way that flood of users maximizes the Eternal September of reddit even harder, but that keeps all their numbers going up and to the right. And the corollary to that is that you have to deal with the nazi babytalk subreddits and stamp them out because nobody wants to see that spread all over your platform and advertisers will utterly lose their shit over it - being a "free speech absolutionist" is going to be incredibly damaging to revenue.Įveryone here also hates the redesign, but it has been wildly successful at driving numbers. ![]() You still have to run a company that sells ads to its actual customers and you need to support all that infrastructure as well. That takes effort to keep it from spreading all over your platform.Īnd that's on the front end dealing with the users. Reddit has largely managed to deal with shit like the old nazi babytalk subreddits that used to proliferate everywhere (shit like r/FrenWorld and its "six million nosefrens who love baking" lightly coded nazi shit). Arguably whatever infrastructure they have isn't keeping up at all with new challenges, but that infrastructure is probably miles more complicated than you think, even though it doesn't do its job well enough.Īnd your attacker is groups of humans, some of them probably funded, all of them able to organize on other sites like 4chan and 8chan. You need to build out anti-bot infrastructure. And you need to build out systems to give them information on the users so that they can make moderation decisions. You need to have reddit admins that are paid employees of the company which meta-moderate.
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