Big loss, I would google stuff like: "Why is there only one Negus in deep space 9?" and more often than not it was a Reddit thread someone submitted 8 years ago with in depth knowledge.
This is huge, hopefully more communities migrate away from Reddit. That platform got way too big for it's britches. Just don't move to Discord, Discord is terrible.
The major problem Reddit has and will always have is "power moderators". Losers with nothing else to do but become janitors and impose their will on very large forums. Imposing their politics, their culture, their sensibilities on 100+ subreddits.
I remember there was one site that had regular moderator elections and cycles baked into it's system. Whatever the solution is, it ain't Reddit.
For public discussion, places like Zulip, Slack and Discord are fucking abysmal since they can hardly be googled and usually have stronger circle jerking in them.
Completely agree. Take for example that guy who wants to remove one word from Wikipedia. He has the hours and hours and hours necessary to navigate those polotiks and then the hours and hours and hours necessary to impose his sensibilities.
I've already described an easy fix to retain every single bit of that knowledge elsewhere: make links to individual topics followable from the web and from search, even if the sub has gone private.
Easy. Fixes 100% of the issues regarding knowledge lost. Mods retain their power over sub visibility for new content but get their balls cut off when it comes to the freedom of knowledge.
This is huge, hopefully more communities migrate away from Reddit. That platform got way too big for it's britches. Just don't move to Discord, Discord is terrible.
The major problem Reddit has and will always have is "power moderators". Losers with nothing else to do but become janitors and impose their will on very large forums. Imposing their politics, their culture, their sensibilities on 100+ subreddits.
I remember there was one site that had regular moderator elections and cycles baked into it's system. Whatever the solution is, it ain't Reddit.