Why April Fools' Day sucks and what we did about it at Reddit - Talk at SF Tech Poetics 01/18/18
Josh Wardle1 HN recommender · recommended in 1 month, 2022–2022
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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.
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3 comments from Hacker News
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!
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)
see also: Josh Wardle's talk on "Why April Fools' Day sucks and what we did about it at Reddit" – ▶ this video