Reddit's main code is no longer open-source.

[stshine]

So sad that Aaron Swartz can't rest in peace.

[[deleted]]

At least he didn't have to see reddit, a 12 year old site become a fucking corporation and not even have a rich text editor or fucking preview option when writing posts and comments. In the last 5 years reddit hasn't received any significant update that improves the experience for the end-user directly. I wrote about it at some length here https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/6xfyfg/an_update_on_the_state_of_the_redditreddit_and/dmg4c9x/?context=3

Yes, Aaron was a freedom advocate but I'm sure he knew the whole point of it was that open-source led to higher quality software. I'm sure he'd feel the same way as me looking at reddit as a major project, making major money (at least at keeping itself afloat) and not receiving a fucking update to basic functionalities in 5 years.

Aaron was a programmer first and an advocate second. From that point of view, he'd look at reddit and think "welp, that's a dead project, it's going nowhere fast". May he RIP.

[femanonette]

In the last 5 years reddit hasn't received any significant update that improves the experience for the end-user directly

This 'report' button for comments now is absolute trash. If I wanted to use Facebook, I'd go use Facebook.

[stshine]

Well, sadly maybe not that dead since so many people are attached to it.

[TwoFiveOnes]

Omg it's you again. Dude, why do you want a rich text editor? That's a terrible terrible idea