I'm taking this out of the reddit thread to discuss it directly.
Kienan was moaning about how .win is less searchable than reddit and how searchability is somehow vital to the success of sites.
This is patently false. Search is not what determines the success or failure of a site. Having a compelling, active community that people want to participate in and spread word about is what makes or breaks a site.
Every time a person types in communities.win, or selects it from their bookmarks, that was a LOSS for google. A loss for reddit. That was traffic that reached us, without them. IN SPITE of them. A net lost customer to them.
That is the power of the internet.
The power to look at any site and decide "you're dead to me", walk away, and deny them all power and go directly to the sites you actually WANT to use.
To those of you who still use reddit: I doubt your commitment to the great work of defeating reddit. In my eyes you are a failure by your own choices as a consumer. You give them power OVER YOU by your continued patronage.
The only answer is to walk away, make this the best we can, use it for everything, and BE THE CHANGE WE WANT TO SEE.
The community is still there.
No one is obliged to obey orders from me or to 'follow'.
But you can blow up the infrastructure behind you, lock it down so they have to choose between staying with the kia2 community or using reddit. But the community must move. If that means most of the "community" is proven to be fairweather friends, SO BE IT.
I'D RATHER LEAVE NO VESTIGE BEHIND AND LOSE FAIRWEATHER NUMBERS THAN SEE THE ACTUALLY COMMITTED COMMUNITY BE DIVIDED.
The very thought of such a betrayal of people who have put their trust in me is abhorrent to me.
You sound like Vladimir Lenin. Except that you're not making any revolution.
Here's the deal AoV.
You value quantity with no regard to quality.
I value quality with no regard to quantity.
To me, your behavior is always going to be whorish.
And that's where you lose, because even with the best quality, you're always going to lose if you don't have the quantity.
I bring in the quantity, and then gradually try to improve the quality.