On: Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin

[nols]

For years all it would've taken is a solid competitor with good technology and management and Reddit is gone. Right now Reddit's really the only game in town. If someone were to come along with technology that wouldn't regularly crash and tools to help the moderators moderate and allow the community managers to quickly and effectively respond to problems; and a solid management team to be proactive and keep improving the site (not to mention make a few bucks) then Reddit would be in real trouble.

[eclipxe → nols]

Who wants to tackle this with me? Contact info in profile.

[innguest → nols]

Yeah, because those are all the things that keep IRC alive... not.

You really don't think it's an architecture problem?

Do you really think "all" we need is "good tech" and "good people"? Everyone thinks that, and thinks they have that when they start something.

What we need, I think, is a forum/thread/whatchamacallit protocol, like IRC is that protocol for chat.

Am I crazy?

[bradleyjg → innguest]

It's called NNTP and predates HTTP.

[dagw → bradleyjg]

And it was glorious. And then it died.

[pjc50 → dagw]

.. partly due to lack of effective moderation tools.

[kefka → pjc50]

No. It was thanks to the ISPs dumping NNTP servers.

Back in the dialup days, they had NNTP servers available, pulling nearly all the NGs. As time went by, alt.binaries took over 99% of the bandwidth, along with a nice cornucopia of pirated content. It was rather awesome.

When DSL/Cable took over, those companies axed their news servers, if they had any at all. And your server choice was to use a non-binaries carrying, post limited free server or paid server.

That's how it was killed.