[trevor-e]

Building the backend component for a social media site like Reddit is much much much harder than slapping a frontend onto an existing API. And it's en entirely different engineering skillset (distributed systems) that many app developers don't have. You really think they are "oblivious to this"? The reality is it's hard to do.

[madeofpalk]

Building the backend is the easy part. Moderating (as in real moderation - horrific content) it is the actual hard part.