Thousands of subreddits chose to go dark in an ongoing protest over the company's plan to start charging certain third-party developers to access the site’s data.
Wow. Front page of huffpost.com right now. Interesting…
I do think reddit was the one that popularized it though, maybe it would be more accurate to say “combination of nested comments and vote based instead of time based sorting”?
Slashdot’s “voting” was a little less direct and focused on using what it called “moderation” to keep content on the site relevant. I found the write-up, still pretty much unchanged, here.
Here’s a 2004 thread article from kos with straight up reddit-like voting, not only showing the cumulative score but the # of votes, too.
One could make the argument that Reddit successfully leveraged it to attract the traffic away from Fark and Digg at the time. They weren’t just a place to get away from Diggs changes, they were a better place.
I do think reddit was the one that popularized it though, maybe it would be more accurate to say “combination of nested comments and vote based instead of time based sorting”?
I mean, here’s a Slashdot thread from 2005 (https://web.archive.org/web/20020923232012/http://slashdot.org/articles/02/09/10/0517248.shtml?tid=134) from archive.org showing not only voting, but nested comments.
Slashdot’s “voting” was a little less direct and focused on using what it called “moderation” to keep content on the site relevant. I found the write-up, still pretty much unchanged, here.
Here’s a 2004 thread article from kos with straight up reddit-like voting, not only showing the cumulative score but the # of votes, too.
Reddit was founded in 2005.
One could make the argument that Reddit successfully leveraged it to attract the traffic away from Fark and Digg at the time. They weren’t just a place to get away from Diggs changes, they were a better place.
Threaded forums go back to the late 90’s.