[notatoad]

reddit basically became everything the founders mocked when they first started it. https://sp.reddit.com/reddit2.html

[tough]

That's why you never sell yourself as the hero,

Or you'll just wait long enough to become the villain

[jefftk]

But modern reddit isn't really very similar to what they're mocking? Here's the joke mockup: https://sp.reddit.com/reddit2mockup.jpg

Open reddit now and there's no silly unusable tag clouds, no top-of-page ads, no 3rd-party ad serving, no gradients, no overdone logo, no tagline, no allcaps headings, no giant voting arrows...

[SilverBirch]

The specifics are different but the trend is the same. Most HN posts from Reddit are old.Reddit.com, you try and view a Reddit page on mobile? Screw you, download the app.they’re doing the exact same thing digg did, the trends are just a decade later.

[bigcloud1299]

Let’s admit modern Reddit is probably half porn and only fans site. I don’t have quantifiable data but the way I see people on Twitter complain about porn on Twitter. I can only assume.

[jefftk]

That's even farther from "basically became everything the founders mocked when they first started it"!

[satvikpendem]

Well, this happens for every service over time, as companies decide to put profit over their users: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/enshittification