Chris Slowe

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Jun 10, 2024
Insight
Slowe: Engineering leader output becomes the people, not the code
“When you go through that shift of having to actually, your output is not the software, it's the people who are building the software now. And you become more and more removed from the actual day-to-day software development.”
Chris Slowe Jun 10, 2024 ▶ 6:39 Reddit hit 1M users in 1 year. The key was listening to users—& not doing what they said. | Reddi... · PMF Show
Jun 10, 2024 negative
Opinion
Slowe: CSS remains one of the worst toolkits imaginable
“You know, first discoveries of some of the new kids, the new things that come along with CSS, which, you know, to this day remains one of the worst toolkits imaginable.”
Chris Slowe Jun 10, 2024 ▶ 9:23 Reddit hit 1M users in 1 year. The key was listening to users—& not doing what they said. | Reddi... · PMF Show
Jun 10, 2024 negative
Insight
Slowe: Early co-founder equity disputes signal a lack of trust
“It's a really bad sign. It's a sign of lack of, it's like, it's actually, that's probably, it's like, it's a sign of like immediate lack of trust. It's like, they don't actually trust each other enough.”
Chris Slowe Jun 10, 2024 ▶ 7:46 Reddit hit 1M users in 1 year. The key was listening to users—& not doing what they said. | Reddi... · PMF Show
Jun 10, 2024 positive
Insight
Slowe: Sidebar editing had the biggest impact on Reddit's community culture
“The feature that no one really notices that I think had the biggest impact was We gave mods the ability to edit the content on the side of the page where you could actually explain like the community, just say what it's about, because you had to be able to say…”
Chris Slowe Jun 10, 2024 ▶ 15:57 Reddit hit 1M users in 1 year. The key was listening to users—& not doing what they said. | Reddi... · PMF Show
Jun 10, 2024
Assertion Supported
Slowe: Reddit's core ranking algorithm was mostly unchanged for 15 years
“We had it publicly In the open source version of Reddit from about 2008 till 2017. And honestly, that, that algorithm didn't change markedly for most of the first 15 years of Reddit. So it was a very straightforward setup just based on, like, age of the conten…”
Chris Slowe Jun 10, 2024 ▶ 14:09 Reddit hit 1M users in 1 year. The key was listening to users—& not doing what they said. | Reddi... · PMF Show
Jun 10, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Slowe: Reddit opened user community creation in 2008, producing AMAs
“The real change was in 2008 when we actually opened up the floodgates and just said like, Hey, if you want to, if you think you have a good idea for a community, go make one. And then that was like the initial burst of just like all sorts of random stuff that …”
Chris Slowe Jun 10, 2024 ▶ 14:49 Reddit hit 1M users in 1 year. The key was listening to users—& not doing what they said. | Reddi... · PMF Show
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