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  1. 1 hour ago, chainsaw said:

    You're missing something important at step 3. It's not only a form ("user-friendly") problem. It's also a substance problem because those APIs are also important for the volunteer mods who use them to do their jobs. So:

     

    3A -- the moderators can't (or won't) do their jobs anymore

    3B -- the submissions and discussions will get worse

    3C -- what little content remains is going to be un-engaging, scammy, spammy, botty, and mostly inappropriate

    3D -- whatever good content left behind on reddit will be hard to find

    3E -- TLDR; party's over. It's going to play out basically exactly how it did on the old site.

    Based on Huffman's post a lot of the mod tool issues will be remediated.  Granted, he hasn't really earned the right to take him at his word, so we'll see.

  2. 3 minutes ago, Blotto said:

    Agreed. This is all driven by the upcoming IPO. The last round of funding was completed at ~$10B valuation, so presumably those investors will want a profitable exit, which would be tough based on their current revenue estimates $450M (primarily from advertising). So rather than accept that they might have to IPO at a suboptimal valuation, they hatched this plan to juice revenues.

    If I was asking questions on their IPO roadshow, I would ask the CEO how it is that Reddit now employs close to 3000 people and their UI and content management tools suck so bad that power users prefer to use 3rd party front ends like Apollo, which are created by one or a handful of people. This is a "problem" of their own creation. Imo, they should figure out how to maximize the value of their content as a data source for AI engine training perspective, and get that money from the AI companies that stand to make bank (Google, ChatGPT, etc...). 

    I'm probably on reddit daily and while not a power user, find it one of the more interesting sites online. If it goes tits up tomorrow, I'll just migrate to whatever replaces it, and something else always does. 

    I also agree with all of this.  Reddit as a company has always been an unserious, poorly managed mess (much like Twitter in all its iterations.  Elon is destroying it but it was never going to survive with Jack at the helm either).  It grew in spite of its founders and subsequent leadership.  

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  3. I'm not really sure what people expect.  The only way social media sites make money is via ad spend, and if a huge swath of your users aren't being served ads, then it is never going to be profitable.  That it should be expected that 3rd party apps be allowed to pull data for free that Reddit pays to store indefinitely is kind of ludicrous.

    On the other hand, their API pricing model is steep for its use case, since an app is having to make a call for every single post/comment.  

  4. 18 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

    “Buses are stigmatized, fairly or not, as transportation for poor people.” This sentence does not mean that “only poor people ride the bus”. I was referring to the status symbol of buses as opposed to cars or trains. 

    Amsterdam utilizes the bicycle as a means to transport its masses. They do this by providing dedicated bike lanes throughout its city, especially in the old town. 

    But don't you think it wouldn't be stigmatized if it didn't suck so much?  If it took half the time to get downtown than it does sitting in a car, I'm pretty sure folks would stop caring how poor they look passing all the schmucks in traffic.

  5. that was a fun 40 minutes heading down SH 130 when that storm came through.  Very heavy wind and rain.  Though some people made it more dangerous  by going 30 mph when 60 was more than slow enough

  6. No, they would not. 
    I've never spoken with anyone that would willingly ride a city bus past college, even if some of them probably should due to their income levels. It has nothing to do with time, cost, or speed. These same people would happily ride a train or light rail. Buses are stigmatized, fairly or not, as transportation for poor people. Guess who wants to be considered poor in America? NO ONE.
    People would rather pay for an uber, even if more expensive, to avoid riding a bus. 
    The least expensive mass transit system would be a dedicated lane for bicycles, but no is advocating for that, because no one wants to ride a bicycle 

    How often are you talking to people about riding buses? Even if your anecdotal evidence is true and only poor people rode the bus, well, we have plenty of those who need getting around. I’m guessing the bottom 25% wouldn’t mind not having to be so car dependent to free up some money tied up in vehicle expenses. Or are you saying they’re too proud to admit they’re poor despite working at McDonald’s?

    Also, did you just call the bicycle, the most individualistic means of transportation possible, mass transit?
  7. Aw man, Centennial is gone now? That was my OG liquor source. Burger Tex is still there, right? It's been a few years since I walked the Drag. I should go back and hit all my old spots--Players, Sound Exchange, Quacks, Le Fun, Einsteins, the Cadeau, Tower....

    One maybe two of those are still there…
  8. 1 hour ago, Celery Man said:

    My experience with a sw team in India is that they required highly defined very repeatable chunks of work which still needed a lot of review and rework. Goes without saying that there are dogshit US programmers and great ones in India but culturally I believe the education is much more focused on memorization and application of known solutions rather than understanding the underlying concepts. Like pilot school in Indonesia.

    Yep, and these are going to be the real casualties of AI.  I've never heard anybody who has had to work with Indian SWE/IT teams come away happy, myself included. Most of the time it is tearing-your-hair-out frustration.

  9. 12 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

    - Hard to manage a lot of people when you never see them

    - Cheaper to let them keep working than get saddled with a lawsuit 

    - So do many of the workers, and they probably shouldn't have a job anyway...but quotas!  

     

    I don't understand this position.  Are they working with pen and paper?  Are their tasks not being done via software with easily reviewable metrics?  I manage a team at a software company, all of whom wfh, and there is never a question of who is doing their work or not.  Just look at the numbers.

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    41 minutes ago, Deej said:

    We have dumbasses who have done/said the following things out loud to co-workers:

    - refer to WFH days as their "days off"

    - complain that a three day weekend cost them a work from home day and they should be allowed to replace it with another day

    - rave about how WFH allows them to get more personal stuff done (errands, appointments, etc.) without it eating into their personal time. 

    sounds like you just work at a company full of retards (what does that say about you)

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  11. 16 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    that's a yikes for me, dawg

    hey, I don't want anyone to die.  But I'd rather it be politicians than innocent folks at the mall or kids in a school.  Kind of in a 'the end justifies the means' situation at this point.

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