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Ryan Hoover@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
I'm fascinated by reddit and its parallels to Product Hunt's long-term vision. reddit Live seems like a natural evolution, one that could rival Twitter WRT real-time, crowdsourced news. Last year's Boston Bombing investigation is one example of this -- both the risks and potential to increase the speed and breadth of information (@eriktorenberg and I chatt… See more
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Alexis Ohanian@alexisohanian · Co-founder, Reddit & Initialized Capital
Digg v4 stripped the last vestiges of user-submission from the site entirely (which had already been manipulated by a handful of power-users) and turned it into a broken "publishers plug in an RSS feed and users will presumably 'digg' the good content" system. reddit live is a new submission type, like self-posts before it (at the time some did say it "doom… See more
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Dylan Hulser@dhulser · Biz Dev, @Adzerk, Prev: @reddit
@rrhoover I think the biggest thing that we have done and continue to do, is let our users find problems and help them solve it. When we saw that threads were becoming too large and the EDIT 5:, EDIT 6: updates were no longer scaling, we knew that we needed a way to help encourage this and make it a better experience for everyone. In terms of community + use… See more
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Ryan Hoover@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@dhulser "delight users" is a recurring theme in my conversations with @alexisohanian and seems to be engrained in the culture of reddit. Sometimes founders focus on the wrong metrics (e.g. do page views accurately measure engagement and value-creation?) and lack empathy for the user. This might be easy to miss in the short term until people stop coming ba… See more
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