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I once racked up a ~€500 phone bill by dialing into US-based BBS'es. My parents were furious.

It would be normal for ISP's to give you some free webspace to build your own site, that's how perfectly ordinary it was assumed to be for regular people to be having their own self-hosted sites.

Behold, yesterday's quick 'n' dirty Python project: https://github.com/toonvandeputte/reddit_archive

Huffman has recently made it clear that he wants to monetize user data, so I think that's a good reason to delete it, imho. I can still understand leaving it up as a courtesy to other users, but deleting all your content is a valid action imho.

Just had a go with Power Delete Suite, but the export is kind of minimal, so I think I'll roll my own with the API, while the clock ticks.

We're not there yet, imho, but Reddit definitely feels like damaged goods, and the atmosphere has gotten toxic and polarized. So I think we're going to see a slow decline, unless they somehow get their community management back in order, but the recent comments by the CEO seem to suggest he sees the community as cattle, basically.

Does every issue need to be attached to an epic, though? A simple, well-described bug can be enough on its own, I think? You do need to regularly go through the backlog to re-order it, remove outdated tasks, combine duplicates, etc. for it not to become unwieldy.

My/our approach can be summed up as:

• if it's code-related, however small, it goes in the backlog, with or without an epic, and it follows the normal flow of things. We have weekly reviews where we maintain the backlog, basically.
• if it's not code-related, I personally have a markdown document, where I plan stuff day by day. It started out as a simple way to document the stuff I did so as to not forget anything in the daily standup. But now I routinely use it to jot things down a day in advance or in a special 'must not forget' section. It's proven to be very useful in remembering those little things people ask you throughout the day without jumping on them right away. The bonus is I have a very detailed archive of everything I did spanning literally years by now.

We have a similar epic called 'quality', from the idea that all the little odd jobs and chores have the goal of improving overall quality. Very generic, I know, but it helps to create some focus.

I've been on Reddit for 13 years, and I'm hesitant to remove everything, in case I want to revisit some of my old posts/comments. Is there a way to archive your own content?

I find it especially funny that the forcibly re-opened r/AdviceAnimals is constantly reminding everyone how douchey Reddit is behaving.

There’s a place in the world for Reddit too. It’s grown so hostile the past few years, like I’ve actually had anxiety from it, and I’m a perfectly rational person.

In my experience, this depends on the subreddit. The very big/popular ones tend to be the most toxic, whereas the more niche/nerdy ones are friendlier.

In these past few days, it did surprise me how many people just expect their free content and free moderation and don't even want to be slightly inconvenienced or show support.

I'm also seeing a lot of this, and I don't think it's particularly positive news for Reddit. What made Reddit cool was the quirky stuff, which initially gave it traction. The bottom-up vibe of subreddits being created and managed by the community. These days, most of the Reddit audience is just there for the meme scrolling, they just want their content. They appreciate the moderation, sure, but for them it's just an obvious thing that happens. It's not that kind of users who make a platform like Reddit great. Sure, Reddit can reap the benefits of the environment they built for a while to come, but who's going to create new niche subreddits that feed into the more mainstream ones? Who will create quality original content? Who will moderate the hard-to-moderate subreddits for free, just because they care? Reddit is undervaluing its power users. If they're not careful, they will end up with an advertising platform with no users, or just a generic meme-rehasing-mill. Maybe they don't even care, as long as the money rolls in. I think YouTube is an interesting example of a money-driven platform that still walks the fine line of taking care of their content generators. Not always successfully, and there's a lot to be said against building your entire revenue on YouTube, but they do acknowledge where their appeal comes from. Reddit seems to think that people will keep flocking to them no matter what.