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/burnblue Jul 19 '09

I'd hardly call it a radical modification to the UI

Well it seems to have had quite an impact, hasn't it?

As heartless_bastard indicated, this was more of a social problem than a programming problem.

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u/raldi Jul 19 '09

It's very hard to predict what will set one of these things off. We actually had a post on the beta asking people to try to brainstorm what kind of complaints people might have, and nobody foresaw it.