• noob_dragon@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Actually sounds like a pretty standard case of feature creep, the bane of all large scale software. A vicious cycle of trying to do too much, failing, and then needing more people to maintain all of the crappy code. All the while they can’t make any actual forward progress on things that do matter.

    Not sure why they had to blow up like that. At its core Reddit should have been relatively simple to create and maintain.

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      1 year ago

      I disagree. Feature creepy has to do with trying to do too much with limited resources. Nothing that reddit tried was super ambitious. It’s stuff that other platforms not only do, but do a lot more of. I think it’s just general mismanagement.