Re:Reddit boss apologises after staff sacking causes 'revolt'
by xq on Saturday July 04, 2015 @02:45PM
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> > Oh well, it was great while it lasted.
> Also an eight-year user; couldn't agree more.
I've also been around since nearly the beginning (coming up on tenth cakeday) and I feel very similarly.
I expressed as much in Alexis' modtalk thread, and I was glad to see many others doing the same. Site usability issues aside, frankly I couldn't care less about the admin-moderator and moderator-user dynamic of the default subs. The large-scale reddit community lost my interest years ago in typical Eternal September fashion.
But I feel, on the whole, betrayed by the new direction of the site. Not only does it not reflect the early days of reddit that drew me in -- it doesn't even seem to reflect a natural growth-driven evolution of the platform.
I find myself losing all remaining interest in reddit and suspect I'll delete my account in the coming weeks if there aren't major changes to
(a) the horrendous attitude of the [user-facing] admins,
(b) communication channels between reddit engineers and users who try to contribute to site development,
(c) the ancient moderation tools that can't handle subreddits over 50 thousand users.
It's been a great run. Really, what an amazing decade. But, at least for me, these recent events are just the final blow. They represent a turning point in reddit and a turning point in my own life. These discussion silos of the early 2000s all feel bloated and fairly useless now.
> Also an eight-year user; couldn't agree more.
I've also been around since nearly the beginning (coming up on tenth cakeday) and I feel very similarly.
I expressed as much in Alexis' modtalk thread, and I was glad to see many others doing the same. Site usability issues aside, frankly I couldn't care less about the admin-moderator and moderator-user dynamic of the default subs. The large-scale reddit community lost my interest years ago in typical Eternal September fashion.
But I feel, on the whole, betrayed by the new direction of the site. Not only does it not reflect the early days of reddit that drew me in -- it doesn't even seem to reflect a natural growth-driven evolution of the platform.
I find myself losing all remaining interest in reddit and suspect I'll delete my account in the coming weeks if there aren't major changes to
(a) the horrendous attitude of the [user-facing] admins,
(b) communication channels between reddit engineers and users who try to contribute to site development,
(c) the ancient moderation tools that can't handle subreddits over 50 thousand users.
It's been a great run. Really, what an amazing decade. But, at least for me, these recent events are just the final blow. They represent a turning point in reddit and a turning point in my own life. These discussion silos of the early 2000s all feel bloated and fairly useless now.