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 mr_mitm on Monday June 12, 2023 @03:25AM (#36289630)

Plus, they have the Reddit gold program.

Not sure if that is enough, but does Reddit really need 2000 employees and hundreds of millions of CV money? I have a hard time estimating what it costs to run a site like Reddit.

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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by dgb23 on Monday June 12, 2023 @03:45AM (#36289800)

My guess is that many marketing based sites bloat their staff and expenses to a self perpetuating and useless degree.

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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by Nux on Monday June 12, 2023 @03:50AM (#36289833)

Wow.. Didn't know this. It sounds like something has gone wrong there. Good old greed maybe?

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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by primax on Monday June 12, 2023 @05:47AM (#36290812)

I'm a very attached reddit user and I have no idea what they could be doing with 2000 employees. I'm honestly shocked.

The development they've done in the past 5 years could have been done with like 50-100 people, including keeping all the SRE going. Insane.

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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by vxNsr on Monday June 12, 2023 @05:53AM (#36290857)

Reddit has been overwhelmed by a certain type of employee that spends more time worrying about the political opinions of their colleagues and less about excellence and productivity. Similar to twitter which turned out to be a finely tuned Rube-Goldberg machine that required hourly maintenance to keep online. Im not saying I’m smart enough to make things work well but that such people exist and they don’t/didn’t work at either twitter or Reddit.

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