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It should be noted that this post used to say, "My friends over at reddit.com" (https://web.archive.org/web/20051210024226/http://www.aarons...)

Aaron was so sensitive about not actually being a founder of reddit that he thought it necessary to rewrite his own history to erase that fact.

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That seems to be an exceedingly uncharitable interpretation without much evidence.

Well the evidence is my lived experience since I was around then, as well as quotes from Steve and Alexis.

But what exactly would be the more charitable interpretation of him changing the article from "them" to "us" seven years after publication?

That he got fired in that time?

Edit: I don't see the same change I guess? The main difference I see is the removal of "friends".

Original article says "My friends over at reddit.com rewrote their site" and seven years later it was changed to "Over at reddit.com, we rewrote the site".

That article is exactly from when the merge was happening, and one of the reasons to onboard Aaron was to help with web.py. I don't see anything surprising from changing their->we, when he edited it to address the new state of art in Python web frameworks.

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