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Re:Ex-Reddit exec launches 'Imzy,' a warmer, fuzzier Reddit by sixQuarks on Saturday April 23, 2016 @03:00PM (#11556909)
Hey, don't let negative comments get to you. Always happens on HN. Best example being DropBox launch, top comments said something along the lines of "this will never work".

As a long-time reddit user, I like what I see so far. I submitted my email for invite, how long does that usually take?

Re:Ex-Reddit exec launches 'Imzy,' a warmer, fuzzier Reddit by minimaxir on Saturday April 23, 2016 @03:02PM (#11556929)
Citing an outlier event is not strong evidence against negative-comments-are-always-wrong.

The complaints about Imzy on this submission are justified by the commenters and, in my opinion, accurate.

Re:Ex-Reddit exec launches 'Imzy,' a warmer, fuzzier Reddit by sixQuarks on Saturday April 23, 2016 @03:08PM (#11556966)
DropBox is certainly not an outlier on HN, it's just the largest example.
Re:Ex-Reddit exec launches 'Imzy,' a warmer, fuzzier Reddit by zedadex on Saturday April 23, 2016 @10:46PM (#11558349)
He didn't say negative comments were always wrong, he said to not let them get to him.
Re:Ex-Reddit exec launches 'Imzy,' a warmer, fuzzier Reddit by kwgardner on Saturday April 23, 2016 @09:01PM (#11558111)
Thanks! :)

We're trying really hard to purposely grow things slowly to keep them at a scale we can manage both on the community and technology side. Dumping a whole bunch of people into one place all at once turns into a free-for-all, and we want to make sure we're able to moderate communities to have the kind of quality interactions we want rather than a bunch of circlejerking, and that our technology is able to evolve at the same rate our userbase grows.

Right now the only way to get in is if you get invited by another person who's already a member (there are usually people on Twitter sharing their invites if you search for them), or requesting to join a specific community, and then the leader of that community can let you in. Otherwise, we'll be slowly letting people into Imzy in the order they signed up in, and unfortunately that may take a while if you just signed up, since the list is pretty long right now. :/ We really want to do this right rather than explode quickly and die a week later.

Re:Ex-Reddit exec launches 'Imzy,' a warmer, fuzzier Reddit by rmc on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @07:19AM (#11570879)
> Hey, don't let negative comments get to you. Always happens on HN. Best example being DropBox launch, top comments said something along the lines of "this will never work".

Nothing beats the Slashdot review of when the iPod was first released: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...