Proposal: Easy ways to fix DN

3 years ago from Taylor Palmer, I do the UX

Taylor Palmer, 3 years ago
That's been attempted a few different times, but it never takes. The new community space would need:
1. Upvoting capability
2. Thread & comment capability
3. API capability (so other sites can reference and display top posts)
4. Profile, karma, etc
That was attempted with Reddit but, for whatever reason, didn't work. What would you suggest?
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- Mike Mai, 3 years ago
  Why doesn't reddit work? The biggest problem I have with DN is that it takes forever to load a page. Links from email newsletter only works 1 out of 10 times. It's super inconvenient.
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  - Taylor Palmer, 3 years ago
    That is annoying (but doesn't happen to me).
    I don't know why it didn't work, but Reddit certainly works for building communities. The only thing it doesn't provide, however, is access for aggregators such as Muzli, Panda, and thenew.im to be able to tap into the flow of information (which represents a large source of traffic for DN).
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- Will Vaughan, 3 years ago
  What was the subreddit that was tried? Don't remember seeing that effort and maybe I wasn't the only one?
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  - Taylor Palmer, 3 years ago
    This was the movement I remember: https://www.reddit.com/r/DesignNews/comments/bk57za/whatsgoingonwithdesignernewsandwhy_this/
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