MoronInAHurry

Why is this a problem? Isn't it the nature of federation that a copy of every post gets sent to... a ton of different servers?

Hey, me too! Nice work, team!

Now he's only lying about... the movie industry being interested (there's nothing special about this story, I guarantee that nobody important cares), the whole interaction with his "weed man", and... probably everything else too. Maybe he's staying at a friend's house because he's scared, but that's about the only thing I'd believe at all.

Wow, it's just like being stuck listening to some drunk idiot ramble his way through made up stories about his hella epic road trip!

And then I'm like and then the dude is like and then I'm like and then he's like and I'm like

And they're totally making this totally real story into a movie https://twitter.com/IamShaneMorris/status/113108889397617459...

Neither of those companies lost billions before reaching break-even or profitability.

It definitely seems to be happening here too, I've noticed it as well. Articles about China get very strange activity, including a lot more green names (new users) than you'd see in any other posts.

This seems to just be a standard Discourse forum with about 5 users.

What makes it "Hacker News for Health"? Have you implemented features that make it work more like HN than Discourse usually does?

It's also interesting that the "over 330M active monthly users" number somehow hasn't changed in over a year now. Their site has it here, as "Last updated Nov. 12, 2017": https://www.redditinc.com/#section-3

Their official blog posts continue using that same 330M number: https://redditblog.com/2019/01/23/health-fitness-on-reddit/

The TechCrunch article does as well.

Either their number of active users hasn't changed at all in over a year, or they're actually shrinking and deliberately just staying with an outdated number that looks better.

The top post on notabug right now is "Tampermonkey script for auto-voting on notabug, lets level the playing field". The site has like 10 users and it's already destroyed by bots. Anarchy isn't a good approach to running a site if you want anything useful to come out of it.

It's obviously not very stringent. A lot of the ads they run lately are outright scams, including even advertising Scientology: https://i.redd.it/6cd1ricqc8j11.jpg

By turning their site into this: https://i.imgur.com/TtVAiMN.jpg

That's what a new visitor to reddit.com would see, as of about a month ago.

> It is only a matter of time before they begin to lock out content behind a login page, you can already see the transition today.

They're already doing that, it started a few months ago. It seems to be an A/B test, so if you're lucky it might not be applied to you yet, but it looks like this: https://i.redd.it/4lrxutwazc701.png

This post is from last week, follow the other links at the top to see some previous ones: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/6v65ji/reddit_rede...

You can see the beginnings of it on the new profile pages, for example https://www.reddit.com/user/kn0thing

Reddit's in the process of rewriting their desktop site to use the same stack as their mobile version. So you probably won't be able to avoid it for much longer.