If this was the only thing differentiating Reddit from anything other text reliant information service, why hasn't anybody come along and disrupted Reddit by doing something similar to this?
In fact, Reddit went mainstream when Digg fumbled their 2.0 launch, and just recently Reddit was in danger of doing the exact same thing with their poorly designed apps and new design.
This IPO valuation is based entirely on the value of the user content that will be sold to AI firms. The product is always the users.
Our incessant chasing of the latest shiny thing, it's all so silly. We keep throwing the baby out with the bathwater in our endless, desperate forward motion.
Go on champ. Show us how it’s done.
> side effect of draining the user pool from Usenet
Two different worlds. This is utter fantasy.
The baseline product can and has been cloned by many people. Hacker news is one of those clones. Whipped up with minimal effort in a meme language no one ever used before.
Getting popular is the tricky part.
The only thing that Reddit did – on the interaction level – was replacing the Usenet experience with a visually more appealing and easier to access web frontend. In that regard it's a continuation of Eternal September, with the side effect of draining the user pool from Usenet, leading to the shut down of many Usenet servers world wide because "nobody is using it anymore".