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Comment by ransom1538 | Hacker News Reader

Online communities die within months. Reddit isn't worth anything. This is insane - this community can disappear. Look at Digg, myspace, friendster. One wrong TOS update all the users will rebel and look towards the next cheaply made forum.

Disclosure: Worked in this space 10+ years.

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Reddit has a lot of distinctly separate sub communities that grow, start new, and die out individually, and some which even hate others. So I think that helps to protect from "community death" effect. For the other websites you mentioned, they all feel like "one community" each.

really - myspace was one community? Forums don't have 'topics'? wtf. This is insane. This is nuts. Reddit wont be around in 4 years. It will be a total joke like all the other online communities.

> Reddit wont be around in 4 years.

Why not? It was around 4 years ago, and seems to be more or less as healthy today as it was then.

Why the vitriol? Forums are as close to being "cult-like" as it gets. They are effectively a subreddit in the form of a website.

As to the claim of reddit dying within four years, lol! I'll take that bet.

MySpace is a social network based on friends, yes it feels like one community.

Forums have topics, reddit doesn't have topics, subreddits have topics.

Could their users disappear? Of course. But this could arguably be said about any company.

Reddit has over 250 million users. Very very few social apps have that many users.

According to https://www.dreamgrow.com/top-15-most-popular-social-network... only Facebook, YouTube/Google+, Instagram, and Twitter have that many users.

Reddit has also been around for a long time (in internet time) - since 2005. And it's survived many PR fires too.

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