Anybody think right now is a good time for a /r/redditalternatives invite thread?
POSTED: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/c...king_for_a_place_to_spend_your_time_now_that/
Edit: Well shit...
8 years ago by picklefingers
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I think it's time to be careful.
I think post-FPH was the time to be careful, but we dodged a bullet with most going to VOAT. The people leaving due to the d/r/iAMA event might be a little more civil.. if you know what I mean :D
Yeah, what was worrying was the FPH stuff. Now that we are past that phase and they have the voat boat, we can welcome the civil peeps with open arms.
To be quite frank, it's the influx of shitty reddit culture that I'm worried about, regardless of where the users are coming from. There are shitty people all over reddit — not just FPH (and many FPHers were very civil despite everything) — so to assume these incomers will be civil is naive.
In any case, Snapzu has my full support.
I wholeheartedly agree. It's probably the main reason I stopped using reddit outside of a few subreddits, and the Snapzu community is why I like it so much atm. Not even about FPH and other 'bullying' type subreddits, I've just grown tired the general mentality and culture.
That's true, but from what I've seen, site culture doesn't really transfer from site to site. Most users tend to adopt their new sites culture. We just need to be adamant with the type of content we wish to see on the site.
Right, and that's what we've been trying to encourage. The problem is when there are so many new users that the pre-existing culture is overwhelmed, which is why I think we should be careful. That's all.
I really doubt that will happen though with the invite system. Because of the system, it makes a voat/digg like exodus next to impossible. Even if the dump thread absolutely blows up (as in, gets on all or something), it would still keep the new members trickling rather than surging.
One thing that could be done is if there was a LB infront of a bunch of nodes. If the LB detects that you are a current member it sends it through to a bank of servers dedicated to existing members. That leaves non-existing members curiously looking at the front pages battle over a few servers that if they go down, it doesn't stop existing members from continuing to populate the site with content.
In saying that though, if the bottleneck is more the Databases that the front end nodes, then maybe look at replicating across a cluster of databases throwing non-members at specifically configured read focused databases rather than read/write.
I dunno some thoughts for keeping the site up for if we do get another hug of dead from Reddit Exodus 3: The Final Straw
I actually like Snapzu. It seems very chill here. Moreso than Reddit or Voat at the moment.
Glad we got your support. I think if we all lead by example and make sure we create a community we would all like to be a part of we can do a lot to stop this place to be a hateful cesspool.
Yeah. Though, we might need more mods to compensate for the increased number of people.
I think we handled the FPH stuff pretty well not to mention the invite rally we ran gave us a quite a few great and active members.
I'm new here, what's FPH and VOAT? Thanks!
VOAT is another reddit alternative but is open unlike snapzu, FPH is fat people hate a subreddit that was closed recently a caused a lot of people to miggrate off of reddit (dont know if thats right but it doesn sound right)
Yeah VOAT is another Reddit alternative that claims Free Speech, but has seen it's up and downs with hosts due to them not wanting a piece of what has been said on the platform. Not hating, to each their own.
FPH was one of the subreddits banned by the owners of Reddit which caused the first exodus from Reddit a few weeks back. Snapzu and VOAT saw an influx of new users wanting to find a place that was "better" than Reddit.
We are now seeing the second mass exodus from Reddit. I don't know how many more they will have in them from what I'm seeing with the current protests from some major subreddits going private.
Oh, I see. Thanks!
I did a search for "snapzu" on reddit and it looks like we are getting mentioned as the #1 alternative
https://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/commen...scumbag_reddit_ill_miss_iama_excuse_me_wrote/
That's the reason I'm here now. Saw the recommendation for this site and decided to Join. Seems more peaceful here.
Getting mentioned is great, honestly I feel like we aren't being mentioned enough.
Impressive. No wonder we are getting so many new members in this short span of time.
It looks like that mention made top comment. Sweet.
Posted the thread. I consider /u/drunkenninja's green light good enough to convince me haha. If there is a bad reaction, I'll just delete the thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/c...king_for_a_place_to_spend_your_time_now_that/
Looks great. Next time maybe a little less codes so it looks less overwhelming. Can always add more after those are used up in the comments, it makes the whole post a bit more social and engaging.
True. I'll take down half of mine.
Thanks for the code looks like a pretty interesting place.
I think we should do it and the rest of us can chip in our invite codes. Who is willing to start the post?
I can do it again.
Hmm, sure. I see you already posted. I'll chip in my invite codes when necessary.
I've got one up there
https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/c...i/snapzu_alternative_with_a_great_layout_and/
I found this site (although I've heard of it before) through there. I'll be here while stuff is going down on reddit.
Welcome. We are happy to have ya.
Another refugee here and I'm pretty done with reddit in general, so this was a great place to come across in that subreddit.
Well then.... that was interesting. I guess you could say that people found snapzu.
Did you get the "server under maintenance" page? I was surprised I did, but when I went to Reddit and saw how the drama evolved overnight, I am not surprised.
Its been like that for the past couple hours. Check over on /t/blog. They made a post.
Oh thanks, I just woke up so haven't caught up with everything that's happening yet.
As one of the new guys coming over from Reddit, sorry about that! I just want to be somewhere where I'm not afraid that things will suddenly get pulled out from under us!