phildeschaine
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Comment · 13 years ago
Lots of people visit /new. They're called "knights of new". The total number of these people is probably far lower than the front page (where _hot is used), but it's how every submission gets its start.
Comment · 13 years ago
I like the idea. Is this targeted at sysadmins... to just have running as background noise? Does this use the Web Audio API?
Comment · 13 years ago
The content in /r/funny tends to remind me of mid-Aughts chain emails.
Comment · 13 years ago
The difference with reddit (and the real genius of the initial vision) is that any user can create a subreddit. Compare this to craigslist where the admins defined the 50 or so static categories at the outset. Reddit, on the other hand, has interesting (and not so interesting) subreddits pop up every day.
Some of my favorites of the last year or two are http://reddit.com/r/ExplainLikeIAmA, http://reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting, http://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful, http://reddit.com/r/futurology, http://reddit.com/r/outside, and http://reddit.com/r/hwstartups. To name just a few. There is basically no way the reddit founders could have envisioned any of those categories, but thankfully, they had the foresight to create a generic, make-your-own-category platform.
The community of reddit certainly has shifted quite a bit, but this ability to evolve organically will keep it from unraveling in the same way as Craigslist has. I think it's a bad comparison anyway.
Comment · 13 years ago
I used to watch his video reviews on GameSpot around 10 years ago. Extremely sad news.
Comment · 13 years ago
Agreed. That might put an end to the endless complaints on reddit and other sites about vertical videos.
The problem is, when you hold your phone horizontally it's painfully obvious to other people you're taking a video. Holding it vertically allows for being more discreet. You might just be texting or something.
Smartphone manufacturers could also solve this problem by somehow auto-rotating the camera internally.
Comment · 13 years ago
Interesting that it was written by his father's lawyer on behalf of his father. Makes me wonder if this is the first contact his father has had with him since this whole thing began.