Why April Fools' Day sucks and what we did about it at Reddit - Talk at SF Tech Poetics 01/18/18 on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2022.
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Josh Wardle, later the creator of Wordle, talks at SF Tech Poetics about why April Fools' Day in Silicon Valley is often lame. He shares lessons from building The Button and Place at Reddit.
HN points to it as a pre-Wordle look at Wardle's thinking on designing online spaces, and as a brief postmortem of r/place.
“If you found the article interesting, you may like this too!”
3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
Many of the points in the New Yorker article were also shared by Wardle himself in this (pre-Wordle) talk about April Fools Day at Reddit: ▶ this video If you found the article interesting, you may like this too!
in “Josh Wardle created Wordle as part of an ongoing quest to design online spaces” · View on HN
Josh Wardle, the original creator of /r/place in 2017 goes into a brief postmortem in one of his talks here: ▶ this video (around 14min mark)
in “Will Reddit tell us the technical story behind r/place 2022?” · View on HN
see also: Josh Wardle's talk on "Why April Fools' Day sucks and what we did about it at Reddit" – ▶ this video
in “Wordle Is a Love Story” · View on HN