And yes, in a niche sub the idea was to discuss the post, and yes, just as in class or at the local book club, as reddit became more popular soon 80% didn’t read the assignment.
We were talking about tumblrization though. I had intended to make a point about image “content” vs. post or article content, the thing the comments you’re talking about hang off of. Whether for comments or content, there had been more text.
So. I’ve gone and looked it up. Here’s a picture of the home page from Dec 2005:
And yes, in a niche sub the idea was to discuss the post, and yes, just as in class or at the local book club, as reddit became more popular soon 80% didn’t read the assignment.
We were talking about tumblrization though. I had intended to make a point about image “content” vs. post or article content, the thing the comments you’re talking about hang off of. Whether for comments or content, there had been more text.
So. I’ve gone and looked it up. Here’s a picture of the home page from Dec 2005:
- https://i.imgur.com/tsisrVy.jpg
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060104090150/http://reddit.com...
No image thumbnails, no subs, and a lot more article upvotes than discussion comments.
And of course, a post about “signal to noise ratio” and another about “the Flickrization of Yahoo”.