Why April Fools' Day sucks and what we did about it at Reddit - Talk at SF Tech Poetics 01/18/18
Why Hacker News recommends it
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.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2022 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Recommends dejawu · 2022-03 · on “Josh Wardle created Wordle as part of an ongoing quest to design online spaces”
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!
Cites techsolomon · 2022-01 · on “Wordle Is a Love Story”
see also: Josh Wardle's talk on "Why April Fools' Day sucks and what we did about it at Reddit" – [this video]
Cites willmeyers · 2022-04 · on “Will Reddit tell us the technical story behind r/place 2022?”
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)