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Re:The 'Fuck You' Pattern by marto1 on Monday June 28, 2021 @04:40PM (#27667773)
And you just KNOW it's going to disappear. Not immediately of course, some slight visual breakages here and there. Then some hotshot manager is going to point out how it doesn't bring any "value" to the company and how in fact it actually hurts reddit's image. Then it will be gone.
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Re:The 'Fuck You' Pattern by beaconstudios on Monday June 28, 2021 @04:58PM (#27668016)
And then somebody makes a substitute UI that calls the api, then reddit tries to take it down, then someone builds an open source version, then github gets a C&D letter and the creator makes blog post about it that reaches the front page of HN. I'm looking forward to the journey.
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Re:The 'Fuck You' Pattern by scott_w on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:04PM (#27668091)
The first part happened: https://teddit.net ;-)
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Re:The 'Fuck You' Pattern by mdaniel on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:55PM (#27668706)
> then someone builds an open source version

Damn, I went to dig up the URL for reddit's source and it seems it is no longer open :-(

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

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Re:The 'Fuck You' Pattern by r721 on Monday June 28, 2021 @11:52PM (#27671566)
Saidit is an old reddit fork with small changes (the biggest one is no downvotes):

https://github.com/libertysoft3/saidit

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Re:The 'Fuck You' Pattern by mike_d on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:25PM (#27668376)
From my time at Reddit I can say the reason it has lasted this long is there are no hotshot managers.

Chris Slowe is the hand guiding the ship day to day, with a bunch of really passionate hackers underneath him. They are maintaining like 4 different code bases and keeping feature parity as best they can with a team that could still comfortably go on a ski trip together (compare that to the 60k+ at Facebook). The users hate change while also demanding new features. The business makes no sense. Steve is off doing... something, to ads or something and make investors happy so they keep the ship afloat. UI is going to hell to drive DAU metrics for investors. Banning shitweasels brings down the wrath of the conservatives. Yet they are still working their assess off to keep a mound of spaghetti from bursting into flames with 1/10th the staff they need to do so.

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Re:The 'Fuck You' Pattern by throwawayboise on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:46PM (#27668615)
Good to know that a major social media platform is built on the same shit and bailing wire that most of us have to deal with every day. Sort of makes me feel like the SV companies really aren't any different than anyone else, they just (typically) have a lot more money.
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