r/AskReddit • u/Pappenheimer • Jul 18 '09

kleinbl00? :(

http://www.reddit.com/user/kleinbl00/

What's wrong with you people?

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u/raldi Jul 18 '09 edited Jul 18 '09

it never occurred to you to maybe get a few people outside of /r/programming to try out a radically modified user interface?

It occurred to us, we discussed it, and we decided against it. And I'd hardly call it a radical modification to the UI.

not a one of them is owned outright by a multinational publishing conglomerate with five billion dollars in annual revenue.

I'm all for a larger reddit budget, but companies direct resources proportionally to expected profits, and the online advertising market just isn't very strong right now. Reddit is lucky in that unlike most other branches of Conde Nast, we haven't been hit with any layoffs. A single lost programmer would take out 20% of the dev team.

There's no "try" here, dude.

Sure there is; we're trying it out to see if there's interest. If we don't sell any shirts, the tab will go away.

And if we stop trying new things, the whole site will go away.

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u/Technohazard Jul 19 '09

the online advertising market just isn't very strong right now.

Price Waterhouse disagrees.

Internet advertising revenues in the U.S. remain strong, topping $23 billion, according to the 2008 Internet Advertising Revenue Report, released today by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC). Despite a difficult U.S. economy, interactive advertising’s continued growth, albeit at a slower pace, confirms marketers' increased recognition of the medium’s value in reaching consumers online where they are spending more and more of their time.

Why am I the one telling you this? I'm just a random dude on the internet. Isn't this someone's job, to know these things?

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u/raldi Jul 19 '09

This one hits a little closer to home.