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by andrewflnr 2009 days ago
There's no "solution", just like there's no "solution" to "politics". Everyone just has to keep trying really hard all the time so we don't drown in shit. That's it, until the lights go out for good.

As for the next step, it looks less like starting a reddit competitor and more like building individual, independent communities that can stand or (more likely) fall apart from any others.
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hombre_fatal 2009 days ago
Yeah, it's hard for me to envision what the next iteration on Reddit could be. Maybe there isn't one and instead we're seeing a resurgence of forum silos again that's winning back the mainstream.

For example, I was pleasantly surprised to see Discourse have so much success and high profile roll outs (like Boing Boing and Blizzard). It turns out that everyone was ready for a modern revitalization of the forum experience, not that forums were doomed.

I think I'd liken it to the explosion of Slack/Discord popularity. It would have been a mistake to look at the slow death of IRC and conclude "I guess people don't like chatting anymore."

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corobo 2009 days ago
> hard for me to envision what the next iteration on Reddit could be

You mention it in your post. It's Discord. We're looping back to IRC. Give forums another 5 years or so

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mrguyorama 2009 days ago
"Discourse" and "Discord" are two different products. One a slack like chat app for gaming, the other is a forum software produced by that guy from stack overflow
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corobo 2008 days ago
Aye, the parent mentioned both. I don't think discourse looks much like IRC but to confirm I did mean to type discord, the voice chatty one.

Forums (Discourse) are probably next up when we remember forums have great SEO benefits and discord none

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Joseph-Stalin 2009 days ago
discord and twitter, everything is just a messy ocean of piss imo, discord is not an iteration on reddit, maybe some people prefer discord to reddit but it is far from a replacement. It's a big JS-heavy chatroom (almost like new reddit...).
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andrewflnr 2009 days ago
Hmm. Ok, if we're agreed on that, maybe don't use "did you ever pitch a solution?" as a putdown.
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