Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hostile redesign killed it

Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by sillysaurusx on Monday June 12, 2023 @03:08AM (#36289475)

I wish pg would call up Huffman and try to convince him that this is a bad bet regardless of whether they win.

They’ll survive. But no one will love them anymore. I was still a fan of Reddit as a platform till the moment Huffman lied about Apollo’s developer for no reason whatsoever.

That goodwill is hard to earn. And although goodwill isn’t convertible to dollars directly, it tends to affect trajectory over the long term. See freenode’s dramatic decline, among many other examples.

I thought tildes was supposedly a Reddit alternative. I guess they never caught on.

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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by peruvian on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:20AM (#36290048)

pg would tell him to push through this, get the IPO, cash out, and then leave Reddit to become an angel investor.

Plus, pg would make money off the IPO. It’s a YC company after all.

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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by sillysaurusx on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:23AM (#36290074)

pg has enough money. It’s not his primary motive.

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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by shafyy on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:45AM (#36290270)

Oh, my sweet summer child. Rich people never have enough money and power.

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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by CatWChainsaw on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:01PM (#36295699)

That's the thing about endless ambition - it comes with eternal discontent.

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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by malermeister on Monday June 12, 2023 @05:23AM (#36290584)

Capitalist's only motive is money, everything else be damned.

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