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by RandallBrown 2947 days ago
About 6 years ago we had a self hosted reddit that someone hacked to hook in to our ActiveDirectory.

It's the best QA/Wiki/Group communication tool I've ever used at a company.

I've thought a few times that you could build a startup on selling a modified version of open source reddit to enterprises. (Not sure how much of reddit is open source anymore though.)
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usmannk 2947 days ago
How does this solution compare to, say, Slack in your experience?
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RandallBrown 2946 days ago
It's much better for threaded discussion.

If I post an interesting article in our team slack room, if people aren't actively discussing it, it gets lost very quickly. The threading in slack never seems to attract people's attention (but that may be just people on my team ignoring it.)

With reddit, you can have discussions and sub discussions, and sub discussions if you really want to.

I actually left that company a couple months after they set up the reddit server so I'm not sure how it ended up being used or if it even was. When I was there we mostly used it for discussing interesting articles or projects that people came across. (Much like you'd use reddit for in general.)

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