On: Ask HN: Is it time to resurrect a Usenet clone?

[uLogMicheal]

How do you get the users? The third-party apps had the opportunity to collaborate and start with a massive userbase, but instead they choose to shut down. Odd.

[allarm → uLogMicheal]

Nothing odd about it. These apps are frontend; building a backend of a reddit scale is a completely different task.

[ilyt → uLogMicheal]

Not enough time to spin off an alternative. And I wager most of them thought reddit will back off.

If it was known to be inevitable and unchangeable for last few months I can see few of the apps cooperating to run alternative.