What is Reddit CEO Steve Huffman doing?::Reddit CEO Steve Huffman seems to be preparing the company for an IPO. But is what’s good for the IPO good for the business?
What is Reddit CEO Steve Huffman doing?::Reddit CEO Steve Huffman seems to be preparing the company for an IPO. But is what’s good for the IPO good for the business?
I agree with most of this article except about Discord being Reddit’s main competitor. I think Discord has a distinct enough feel that it’s almost kinda separate from other social media. It’s less so like a platform you make posts on and moreso a big text group with lots of features, which is perfect for some communities but stifling for others.
I don’t really get a lot of what people want to use Discord for. A couple web forums I used (ram by companies, for specific games) closed and they moved to Discord. How is IRC-style chat a replacement for a forum? They’re totally different formats.
While I do like discord. It is like you say a completely different format. Shouldn’t be compared to reddit.
Preference? Being “cool with the kids”?
To be fair, they have Forum Channels.
I honestly don’t know. Another big problem is that Discord is not publicly visible, so people won’t find information on it just by searching for things in a search engine. This means that engagement will be a good deal lower and the information posted there isn’t nearly as helpful, which I view as a strong detriment.
It just doesn’t work for anything other than playing games together IMO.
Works well enough as a group chat / voice call app. That’s what it’s for. Before discord you had to pay for good group voice calls.
Yeah, that’s a pretty dumb comparison. Discord is a chat, reddit is a forum. They’re fundamentally different.