> The best thing that could happen to Reddit, in terms of the website not being shit from a community perspective, is that it stops growing, maybe even shrinks a bit. This will let communities stabilize and become more like villages again, and the site will be better for it.
This is what happened to Tumblr. After the large exodus, the community was a lot smaller, the site got purchased by another company (Automattic, the guys behind Wordpress). They did revert the rule changes that started the whole mass-migration, and now it's again a village with a coherent and shared culture. Smaller than before, but somehow cozier.
This is what happened to Tumblr. After the large exodus, the community was a lot smaller, the site got purchased by another company (Automattic, the guys behind Wordpress). They did revert the rule changes that started the whole mass-migration, and now it's again a village with a coherent and shared culture. Smaller than before, but somehow cozier.