During all this talk about Digg and reddits current trajectory I came across the open letter Alexis Ohanian , co founder of reddit sent to Digg in 2010
"It's a damned shame to see digg just re-implementing features from other websites.
"But I've got a strong feeling it's not you making these decisions anymore"
"this new version of digg reeks of VC meddling"
These things could be said about reddit the last few years. As reddit approaches going public they are under pressure from current investors who want to make money at IPO and a general desire to be more investor friendly
What users want and what investors want are usually complete opposites. Expect reddit to get worse.
Unfortunately without a big enough userbase to create the content in the first place , no alternative will ever take off.
RacoonSmuggler on June 6th, 2023 at 01:19 UTC »
Reddit engineers prepare to kill 3rd party apps, 2023
TheSaSQuatCh on June 6th, 2023 at 02:09 UTC »
And here we are. 13 years later, after the mass exodus.
winterlyparsley on June 6th, 2023 at 06:58 UTC »
During all this talk about Digg and reddits current trajectory I came across the open letter Alexis Ohanian , co founder of reddit sent to Digg in 2010
"It's a damned shame to see digg just re-implementing features from other websites.
"But I've got a strong feeling it's not you making these decisions anymore"
"this new version of digg reeks of VC meddling"
These things could be said about reddit the last few years. As reddit approaches going public they are under pressure from current investors who want to make money at IPO and a general desire to be more investor friendly
What users want and what investors want are usually complete opposites. Expect reddit to get worse.
Unfortunately without a big enough userbase to create the content in the first place , no alternative will ever take off.