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user-inactivated  ·  3044 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Asshole Theory: An open letter to qiy, as well as everyone I have ever or will ever mute

This thread is strange to me in light of Reddit wanting to view its problems in terms of Eternal September. Eternal September wasn't a problem because there were many new users as such, it was that new users were coming too fast for the existing communities to show new users the ropes, so the existing communities got drowned out. Let's ignore whether Reddit was really all that different before the Digg migration. This whole thread seems to be viewing it as a fault that Hubski handles influxes of users the way Usenet and (implicitly because of the analogy it chooses) Reddit wish they could have. I don't think it is. Hubski's mechanisms might be built to support multiple overlapping communities, but it's the community that exists I stick around for. I like Hubski being the place where every September ends.





kleinbl00  ·  3043 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"Hubski: where Eternal September ends"

lil

user-inactivated  ·  3042 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"Hubski: October"

it's catchier and makes less sense - perfect

user-inactivated  ·  3042 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The Hub for Red October

Edit: Actually, Eternal October isn't that bad.

lil  ·  3043 days ago  ·  link  ·