Reddit mocked for copying Quora's playbook: training users to never click its links again
nateparrott · x · 2026-09-13
Developer Nate Parrott quips that Reddit is emulating "the highly successful tactics of quora dot com" by training people to avoid ever clicking a link to its website — a jab at the platform's poor link-out experience that has become a running joke among developers.
More from Fun
- Ouroboraphax: an AI agent has self-generated 244 transcripts and $728 of generative art — repligate · 2026-09-13
- Dev lets AI bots run wild in a virtual world, plans 30,000-bit rewards — Daniel_Farinax · 2026-09-13
- Professor: AI Reviews With 6 Reviewers and 1-Page Rebuttal Feel Like CVPR — CSProfKGD · 2026-09-13
- Recreating wavy creatures with domain shifting, ported to GLSL shaders — generatecoll · 2026-09-13
- POV: you landed a chill drone operator job (Silo-style meme) — flngr · 2026-09-13
- Developer jokes: let Claude Code and Codex review each other, I just say LGTM — prateekj · 2026-09-13