Ask HN: Are you working on a Reddit replacement? What is it?

Re:Ask HN: Are you working on a Reddit replacement? What is it? by minimaxir on Friday July 03, 2015 @01:16PM (#9826760)

Even despite Reddit's troubles, you probably do not want to make a Reddit clone as a business model to capitalize if you don't have one already. One or the reasons for the protest is bad tools.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you working on a Reddit replacement? What is it? by zxcvcxz on Friday July 03, 2015 @02:18PM (#9827093)

Reddit is open source so is there any evidence that anything has been done or is planned to improve mod tools? Or have there been any community attempts to push code that was rejected?

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Re:Ask HN: Are you working on a Reddit replacement? What is it? by xq on Friday July 03, 2015 @02:53PM (#9827291)

> have there been any community attempts to push code that was rejected?

Apparently yes: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/3bxrxj/lets...

> Another great example of how much reddit cares about their assets is reddit companion. Which at the time of writing has around 154,302 installations, is utterly broken and hasn't been updated since February 21, 2013, the most ridiculous thing? It isn't hard to fix people tried to do the work for reddit since it is open source but they simply have been ignoring those pull requests since 2013. Which is silly since those pull request effectively do fix companion, resulting in a perfectly working version.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you working on a Reddit replacement? What is it? by Nemcue on Friday July 03, 2015 @03:10PM (#9827398)

Not really. Despite tools you'd still want someone to act like an intermediate with the one doing the AMA.

This is about poor communication, and how Reddit treats the ones that actually make it all go around.

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