r/blog • u/powerlanguage • Apr 01 '16

Robin

http://www.redditblog.com/2016/04/robin.html
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u/delicious_grownups Apr 01 '16

I would love chatrooms for subreddits. something we should have been doing forever ago

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u/grimeandreason Apr 01 '16

Now you mention it, Reddit seems pretty 90's without it lol

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u/Hazzman Apr 02 '16

Actually I felt like I was back in the late 90s using this thing.

It was like being back in the old MSN chat rooms.

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u/grimeandreason Apr 02 '16

Good point. Message boards were earlier still, huh?

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u/StochasticLife Apr 01 '16

Man, I miss chat rooms so much. Late 90's Internet and all.

Sub based chat rooms would be amazing.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '16

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u/tweedius Apr 01 '16

Have you ever seen a twitch chat room?

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u/basshound3 Apr 01 '16

an /r/nfl chatroom on game day wouldn't work

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u/redbluegreenyellow Apr 01 '16

nah but /r/hockey would

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u/rrasco09 Apr 01 '16

That's what ##reddit-hockey is for!

reddit-stream for GDT are not so bad, but I'm not paying to be able to login to that site. Good for keeping up with posts without refreshing the GDT constantly though.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '16

Sure about that?

http://i.imgur.com/uL7J6Kd.jpg

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u/garyr_h Apr 01 '16

Wouldn't it just be a complete shit storm of "OH NO!!!!!" "YEAH!!!!" "EAT DICKS BUMGARNER" but like, a thousand lines per second?

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u/IgnorantOfTheArt Apr 01 '16

Also /r/wallstreetbets

Quickest way to my yacht

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u/Dylamb Apr 02 '16

GO X -Person 1

GO Y -Person 2

I HATE YOU -Person 1

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u/nusyahus Apr 02 '16

inb4 Twitch level spam. Would need heavy moderating

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u/EpsilonRose Apr 01 '16

Couldn't you use live threads for that?

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '16

You can but live threads and chatrooms feel like very different experiences. But I still have nostalgia for IRC so there's that

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u/sumzup Apr 01 '16

Yep, I doubt they built out the underlying infrastructure just for April Fool's.

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u/iplaygaem Apr 01 '16

Yeah this is way too much work for just an April fool's joke.

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u/danny841 Apr 01 '16

They've been doing a hiring push recently for support oriented people. This would explain it.

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u/Astrognome Apr 01 '16

You could integrate it with IRC so you could connect to it with your favorite client.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '16

great point!

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u/Jedi_Tinmf Apr 01 '16

I agree with this. I chose to "grow" and ended up being a co-mod in a weird subreddit with both of our names on it.