Imzy is closing down
135 2017-05-24 by liqdom
I just got this email (play this before reading)
Hi liqdom,
We are sorry to say that after nearly two years of building Imzy, it is time for us to shut down the site.
Some of you have been here since our launch into beta and some are brand new. We’ve loved getting to know all of you and seeing you build communities and make new friends. Unfortunately, we were not able to find our place in the market. We still feel that the internet deserves better and hope that we see more teams take on this challenge in the future.
Our final day of operation will be June 23rd. We want to give you time to gather any content you’ve made and exchange contact information with friends. If you have a new home for your community, I recommend creating a pinned post directing members there.
You might be wondering what’s going to happen to your data now. Well, nothing. We have always valued your privacy and we will continue to do so. You can request your data here.
The /Imzy community will open to allow everyone to post. This seems like a good place for us to gather, share memories, and say our goodbyes.
Thanks for spending your time with us. We’re really going to miss this place.
-Dan
212 comments
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n/a snallygaster 2017-05-24
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
IS IT SERIOUSLY DYING BEFORE EVEN VOAT?
n/a MyrLeaf 2017-05-24
That's the problem of having a full team of """geeks""" functionning on frappuccino and Latte from Starbucks, it cost a lot.
n/a IAintThatGuy 2017-05-24
They need meth. Great productivity boost in the short term, get shit fixed, then your senior employees die or go to jail, which leaves you free to hire a younger, cheaper team who mostly has to do maintenance since the heavy lifting was already done. You end up paying them less and you don't have to pay severances to your senior staff. Or do anything like match their 401K contributions, since they'll withdraw early to buy some more meth.
n/a Oxus007 2017-05-24
Who knew a community designed around people who hate community wouldn't thrive.
n/a CaptainMemer 2017-05-24
Where do you think you are right now?
n/a CucksLoveTrump 2017-05-24
Here's the thing: I can stand y'all occasionally. I just can't stand anyone else or y'all most of the time
n/a Oxus007 2017-05-24
a community designed around people who hate themselves.
n/a Titan_Transcendent 2017-05-24
I hate yourself too!
n/a Hellkyte 2017-05-24
So instead of hate fucking we're hate wanking.
n/a Prince_Kropotkin 2017-05-24
you got them there
n/a Greekball 2017-05-24
Is this the time of the month where you get reflexively downvoted.
Does that mean we will have an alt-right purge soon?
The circles I wrote about in my previous account as still extremely consistent.
n/a LSU_Coonass 2017-05-24
me too, thanks
n/a ComedicSans 2017-05-24
I don't hate myself. I'm kinda cool. Everyone else, though...
n/a zahlman 2017-05-24
I thought what we really hated was irony?
n/a Allanon_2020 2017-05-24
cue Fray-How to Save a Life
n/a FrostBittenSalsa 2017-05-24
n/a old_grumpy_grandpa 2017-05-24
A community designed around smugposting
n/a grungebot5000 2017-05-24
smugposting is all i have
n/a FrostBittenSalsa 2017-05-24
We're not even that bad if you compare us to SRD and the Shit [blank] Says subs
n/a grungebot5000 2017-05-24
yes we are
n/a FrostBittenSalsa 2017-05-24
I'm a Sagittarius
n/a grungebot5000 2017-05-24
then you were supposed to be born in australia
n/a FrostBittenSalsa 2017-05-24
Hmm...
/u/AboriginalSalsa...
I like it
n/a ironicshitpostr 2017-05-24
Have you considered effortporting or agendaposting?
n/a grungebot5000 2017-05-24
me??? no, never
n/a a_normal_human 2017-05-24
A community for laughing at how seriously people take their Internet opinions, while zealously defending our own.
n/a Pricee 2017-05-24
The tv show is overrated tbf
n/a ALLGLORYTOSYSTEMD 2017-05-24
voat pulled a donation haul of like $12k and they are rewriting their code to rely less on the expensive ass microsoft stack, so looks like it yeah
n/a razzmataz 2017-05-24
They need a good C# to some better language transpiler.
n/a niexx 2017-05-24
C# is a good language. they just need to make it run on linux, which shouldnt be that hard these days, unless its a complete mess, which is admittedly a strong possibility.
n/a razzmataz 2017-05-24
You have a low bar, fam
n/a justcool393 2017-05-24
Yeah. if they rewrite it for .NET Core it'd probably be better. its better than raddit.me which is written in PHP and documents its security vulnerabilities in the code. :/
n/a EllenPaosFrontButt 2017-05-24
>php in the current year
🅱️OI
n/a justcool393 2017-05-24
Like okay, first off PHP (lol) and then documenting where an security vulnerability is without fixing it for the public to view.
I don't know what I expected though.
n/a niexx 2017-05-24
link to raddit source?
n/a justcool393 2017-05-24
https://gitlab.com/edgyemma/raddit-app
I saw something about timing attacks on the thing for authentication. I really dont want to go to raddit longer than I have to; that means giving my IP to the LWSE people.
n/a niexx 2017-05-24
oh, thats just a very roundabout way of doing account enumeration, which tbf is more of a concern for these people than usual.
most people vulnerable to that kind of thing arent even aware of it so its hardly a mark against them.
n/a maljbre19 2017-05-24
Not a programmer, but how hard could it be? Do they really need 12k? Can't like your typical indian from fiver do it for 20 dollars?
Like fuck just rewrite it yourself, just type in shit like "command: ^ this symbol equates 1 upboat" that's it I fixed it niw give me 12k freedom currency
n/a zahlman 2017-05-24
1/10, only because there probably exist people in the world who actually think like that.
n/a JeansWest_NewJack 2017-05-24
Yes, there called Project Managers.
n/a niexx 2017-05-24
paying indians from fiverr $20 is how you end up needing $12k worth of fixes in the first place.
$12k is like 2 months of a good programmers time in the us lol
n/a Plexipus 2017-05-24
Deus Voat!
n/a Prince_Kropotkin 2017-05-24
I remember reading them saying their server load was over $6k a month. So they staved off death for 2 months?
n/a riemann1413 2017-05-24
what the fuck
for that few of people?
that's ridic
n/a Prince_Kropotkin 2017-05-24
it was in their "closing" statement the other day
n/a ALLGLORYTOSYSTEMD 2017-05-24
It absolutely doesn't cost that much in terms of CPU/bandwidth, I run a site larger than Voat for a fraction of the cost. Their costs come from using a cloud service instead of buying dedicated servers, and for paying licensing fees on their Microsoft stack
n/a MakeAmericaSageAgain 2017-05-24
Didn't know Blacked.com had grown so much. Congratulations.
n/a snallygaster 2017-05-24
I think we should all just take the time to appreciate that Voat pulled in $12k from T_D before running them off the website.
n/a Nomadlads 2017-05-24
They got cashcucked.
n/a OniTan 2017-05-24
I believe it's called financial domination.
n/a ComedicSans 2017-05-24
Lol.
n/a UpvoteIfYouDare 2017-05-24
You have no idea what you're talking about.
n/a grungebot5000 2017-05-24
oh thank god, so they're really not coming back?
n/a thefran 2017-05-24
I find it incredible that communists shut down after burning through stacks of investor capital, but nazis are still afloat cuz they begged for handouts
n/a nmx179 2017-05-24
I wish reddit would die, and then everyone had to go back to making their own webforums again.
n/a old_grumpy_grandpa 2017-05-24
Most people cannot be arsed to make one account for each specific forum that interests them, let alone go and look for forums that could interest them.
Kill reddit, and you are left with 4chan and facebook.
n/a afclu13 2017-05-24
That would suck... A lot
n/a MooseHeckler 2017-05-24
The autism though would be interesting.
n/a freet0 2017-05-24
This is what makes those forums good. The average person has nothing of value to say anyway.
n/a old_grumpy_grandpa 2017-05-24
That is what makes those forums bad. The entry barrier is high enough that the users are mostly hyper-committed autists.
n/a Mircy 2017-05-24
I do not miss that process
n/a HodorTheDoorHolder 2017-05-24
No. It's a great marketing tool.
n/a caffienatedjedi 2017-05-24
I only come to Reddit for the opposite of quality. Those niche forums are better for my hobbies that aren't shitposting.
n/a ComedicSans 2017-05-24
REEEEEEEE.
n/a dis_is_my_account 2017-05-24
I would go to another site that isn't Reddit but then nobody would have to listen to all my bullshit.
n/a ironicshitpostr 2017-05-24
Yeah, I certainly miss those.
My Rig: i7-4770k | CLP-0556 | ASRock Z87 Extreme4 | 2x8GB Crucial DDR3 1600MHz | 2x Zotac GTX 780 | Seasonic M12II 850W | Corsair 200R | Samsung 840 Pro 256GB | Seagate 4TB | Win7 Ult x64 | Seiki SE39UY04
My Cars: 2008 Dodge Viper SRT-10 convertible (summer weekend car), 2001 Ford Mustang GT coupe (winter car & grocery getter) "There is no replacement for displacement."
Click here to hatch my dragon eggs!
n/a theherps 2017-05-24
Jesus thats brutal
n/a lifesbrink 2017-05-24
I bet SRS is having a shit fit.
n/a Neon_needles 2017-05-24
Oh no not imzy... no.... noooooo....whete else are SJW fags going to hang? Tumblr? It's just... not the same.
This is as bad as when DJ AM died. God help us.
n/a Dgenmedia 2017-05-24
hahaha wow, TIL.
but why is it "as bad"?
n/a Neon_needles 2017-05-24
Mods please mayocide this poster now.
n/a Dgenmedia 2017-05-24
you can't mayocide this vanilla bean...
(because I'm black)
n/a Neon_needles 2017-05-24
Gonna need to investigate this. Show pics of your bussy for proof.
n/a Dgenmedia 2017-05-24
i'm not showing my bussy for the cracked out kike
n/a Neon_needles 2017-05-24
Woah rude. It's punks like you that make's incels right all along >:(
n/a Sarge_Ward 2017-05-24
mayo is a state of mind friend.
n/a DannyLee90 2017-05-24
i'm colorblind. i only know i'm mayo because i post to meta reddit.
n/a a_normal_human 2017-05-24
Didn't the anarchokiddies make a reddit knockoff?
n/a Nomadlads 2017-05-24
Yeah it's called Radd.it I think.
n/a SamWhite 2017-05-24
Wow, the consequences of this are going to be huge.
n/a snallygaster 2017-05-24
*consequences will never be the same
n/a CucksLoveTrump 2017-05-24
But who is backtracing my IP?
n/a BlackPeopleEmoji 2017-05-24
Me&Ananymous already backtraced your IP dude. You can't insult Daddy without us at least backtracing your every move.
n/a Nomadlads 2017-05-24
How will it affect bitcoin?
n/a SamWhite 2017-05-24
It's hard to quantify these things, but based on previous experience it might be good.
n/a Dial_A_Dragon 2017-05-24
Are you saying it's good...good, for Bitcoin?
n/a Works_of_memercy 2017-05-24
Patriarchy wins again!
n/a LemonScore 2017-05-24
I don't really care, to be honest.
Actually, Imzy becoming successful and all the leftists moving there would have been great.
n/a ALLGLORYTOSYSTEMD 2017-05-24
u wish bby
n/a Nubthesamurai 2017-05-24
Why go there when raddit.me exists!
n/a Oxus007 2017-05-24
I sat on imzydrama for nothing.
n/a Hammer_of_truthiness 2017-05-24
You've been living your entire life for nothing tbqh famalam
n/a Atimo3 2017-05-24
Aren't we all?
n/a CucksLoveTrump 2017-05-24
That's why you should be drinking
n/a grafton29 2017-05-24
I thought you drank your wife gets rammed by a different guy every week with your """"""""""consent"""""""""".
n/a CucksLoveTrump 2017-05-24
Naw bud it's the same guy and also I sometimes cum on him for teh lulz
n/a Mircy 2017-05-24
Already am
n/a Zachums 2017-05-24
To quote most of the users that used imzy: "And nothing of value was lost."
n/a nmx179 2017-05-24
Imzy had users?!
n/a skivian 2017-05-24
Apparently not enough of them
n/a Maga_Brahmin 2017-05-24
You need to up yourself to higher standards and use an interrobang. Like this: ‽
n/a nmx179 2017-05-24
I'm too busy interrobanging your wife
n/a Maga_Brahmin 2017-05-24
I wondered where she was ‽
n/a ComedicSans 2017-05-24
If you want to speak to her you'll have to go to the back of the queue.
n/a FrostBittenSalsa 2017-05-24
Ding!
Now serving number 184!
n/a CucksLoveTrump 2017-05-24
Jeez Zach, those users had families (probably not)
n/a JasonJewnova 2017-05-24
Families are inherently hierarchical thus definitely haram
n/a IAintThatGuy 2017-05-24
"Families" in the biological sense mean that you're born from a man and a woman. Very heteronormative and patriarchal.
n/a IAintThatGuy 2017-05-24
I think that you need your whole family to reject you before joining the SRS/Imzy crowd.
n/a TheBatarang 2017-05-24
As an imzy user... I totally forgot I had an imzy account until I got the email.
n/a liqdom 2017-05-24
screen snip of the announcement thread http://i.imgur.com/dtaY8EY.png
n/a Oxus007 2017-05-24
Kill me.
n/a liqdom 2017-05-24
http://i.imgur.com/S7EKMl9.png
n/a I_smell_like_bacon 2017-05-24
Do qxhze just hug everyone without enthusiastic consent?
THAT'S RAPE
n/a SmurfPrivilege 2017-05-24
Did they ever open it up to new users without invites? That's the reason I never signed up. Because it never allowed me to preview their content.
n/a liqdom 2017-05-24
I signed up without an invite.
n/a SmurfPrivilege 2017-05-24
What was it like? I'm imagining a TrollX atmosphere across multiple subimzies (or whatever they're called).
n/a liqdom 2017-05-24
Mostly dead as far as I could tell, but today was my first time logging in since I signed up. It's clear what side of the political spectrum the site is on, but it seems really quiet.
n/a yonicthehedgehog 2017-05-24
i signed up for shits and giggles about 8-9 months ago and the place was super dead i imagine things didn't change much since then
n/a baaaaby 2017-05-24
this must be devastating for the 20 people who probably use that site
n/a Penmerton 2017-05-24
ahahahahahaha
n/a Eligaxwy 2017-05-24
Their execution team did a terrible job considering their million-dollar fundings!
I created https://voten.co. It's a real-time reddit alternative.
In about a week it's gonna get a new update that allows to preview site without login. And a new layout design. Would love you guys to check it out.
n/a liqdom 2017-05-24
You're sully? I banned you from /c/anarchism.
n/a Eligaxwy 2017-05-24
Yes! Thank you! I appreciate it!
n/a wwyzzerdd 2017-05-24
Negative Ghost Rider, the pattern is full.
n/a LSU_Coonass 2017-05-24
this is unironically the greatest movie ever made
n/a westphall 2017-05-24
There's some good info, but I'm not clear on one thing: Which side is this for? Is it like Voat, for the alrt-right nazi pedo bronie neckbeards, or is it like Imzy and for crazy leftard SJW furry feminazis?
n/a whoopsforgotemail 2017-05-24
This. Which group of vapid retards is your site catering to? Voat already did nazis and raddit/imzy did commies, so which group do you have left to asskiss?
n/a Eligaxwy 2017-05-24
I believe in spending time for creating features that interests users instead of you know... "drama"! Each group can create their own channel, there's no need for choosing specific sides.
n/a westphall 2017-05-24
No need to take sides? My whole life is a lie.
n/a Nomadlads 2017-05-24
Another social media to crash and burn. I hope you've pocketed your fair share of venture capital money.
n/a DistortedLines 2017-05-24
This is actually interesting, I originally checked to see if its like the rest of the reddit alternatives (shit) but I really liked your site. Good luck and I hope you guys do well.
n/a freet0 2017-05-24
You just reminded me I never started watching the latest season of silicon valley. Thanks!
n/a antihexe 2017-05-24
Did they? I never heard of it.
n/a BlackPeopleEmoji 2017-05-24
(socket.io)[#gt] (nodejs)[#gt] (Oracle® MySQL)[#gt]
That's your first problem.
Your second problem is that there is no demo, which is going to deter people from registration.
n/a thefran 2017-05-24
How were they good at marketing? I hang out with a lot of tumblr lefties and they've learned that imzy exists only because it's shutting down
n/a Eligaxwy 2017-05-24
I say this because I don't any tech publishing site that hasn't covered their PRs! People did check their site, didn't like it enough to stick around; in my opinion that's not lack of marketing.
n/a thefran 2017-05-24
specifically not enough people who would probably be somewhat interested in it otherwise
n/a eberkneezer 2017-05-24
They burned $3 million (ref)
Reddit is looking for a new director of community . Maybe they need /u/kickme444 skillset?
n/a cole1114 2017-05-24
How in the fuck do you blow 3 million on a site like this?
n/a bareballzthebitch 2017-05-24
Helluva drug
n/a Maga_Brahmin 2017-05-24
bath salts or meth
n/a skivian 2017-05-24
Brainwashing all the customer facing admins to make sure that they never offend anyone has to be expensive.
n/a Nomadlads 2017-05-24
I N C O M P E T E N C E
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and they probably pocketed a bunch.
n/a zahlman 2017-05-24
Oi, successfully pocketing that kind of money without getting sued is totally a competency.
n/a antihexe 2017-05-24
3 million over 3 years probably isn't much when you pay people silicon valley wages.
It all likely went to paying developers/admins.
n/a takaci 2017-05-24
They basically over-optimised spending way too much time and money investing in making a scalable solution when they didn't need to. They ended up missing their market because they didn't have a website up as quickly as they should, and lost their audience:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14412034
n/a reseph 2017-05-24
I mean... kickme used to work for Reddit.
n/a antihexe 2017-05-24
that's the joke
n/a mydramaaccount 2017-05-24
Hold your horses guys. There is still a chance that Imzy simply celebrates a more culturally sensitive April Fool's Day, in late May.
n/a Works_of_memercy 2017-05-24
April... person who does, uh, unreasonable things because of character defects such as, such as bigotry, and not, you know, that person's day.
Btw, why is that April, May, June, and July are all girls' names?
n/a nmx179 2017-05-24
They sound pretty
n/a Nomadlads 2017-05-24
I've never met someone named July, maybe Julie or something.
n/a Works_of_memercy 2017-05-24
This guy though.
n/a Nomadlads 2017-05-24
Gamers != people
n/a Works_of_memercy 2017-05-24
There's a nuance, while white gamers are indeed subhuman, korean gamers are golden gods.
n/a freet0 2017-05-24
A LITERAL GOD TASTELESS
n/a MakeAmericaSageAgain 2017-05-24
American white trash moms thought it was cute or whatever.
Roman goddesses
Named after Julius Caesar, so it's a boys name.
n/a HodorTheDoorHolder 2017-05-24
Chinese April Fools Day?
n/a anothertosser221 2017-05-24
At least they can all go to Voat!
n/a phedre 2017-05-24
Please let this happen. It'd be hilarious.
n/a CucksLoveTrump 2017-05-24
Certainly an unforeseen windfall for /r/drama. Racists vs snowflakes. FIGHT!
n/a TNBK 2017-05-24
Flair twins? <3
n/a whoopsforgotemail 2017-05-24
I still think T_D vs. actual nazis was the best we're gonna get.
n/a alien122 2017-05-24
this might actually be good for voat. The people who visit imzy counteract the current userbase of voat. The two groups may nuetralize each other and might just make voat the best place for drama since some retard shot a rich prince in a car in Europe.
n/a sombresobriquet 2017-05-24
Turns out that the people who complain about reddit the most have a really hard time leaving reddit.
n/a Elite_AI 2017-05-24
yes hello
n/a snallygaster 2017-05-24
yes hello
n/a Elite_AI 2017-05-24
Please don't reply to me again.
n/a snallygaster 2017-05-24
no
n/a Elite_AI 2017-05-24
I don't want to speak to you sorry
n/a CucksLoveTrump 2017-05-24
Ok I'm here now bb
n/a Elite_AI 2017-05-24
You always loved to keep me waiting. At last you've come.
;)))))
n/a CucksLoveTrump 2017-05-24
Oh I'll come a lot more
n/a DannyLee90 2017-05-24
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
n/a snallygaster 2017-05-24
hi
n/a Alexlincoln2 2017-05-24
Howdy
n/a snallygaster 2017-05-24
sup
n/a ThatGaymer 2017-05-24
Can someone gimme a rundown on wtf Imzy is i have no fuckin clue
n/a Works_of_memercy 2017-05-24
Here's a quick rundown:
-Rothschilds bow to Imzy
-In contact with aliens
-Possess psychic-like abilities
-Control france with an iron but fair fist
-Own castles & banks globally
-Direct descendants of the ancient royal blood line
-Will bankroll the first cities on Mars (Imzygrad will be be the first city)
-Own 99% of DNA editing research facilities on Earth
-First designer babies will in all likelihood be Imzy babies
-Website admins are said to have 215+ IQ, such intelligence on Earth has only existed deep in Tibetan monasteries & Area 51
-Ancient Indian scriptures tell of two angels who will descend upon Earth and will bring an era of enlightenment and unprecedented technological progress with them
-They own Nanobot R&D labs around the world
-You likely have Imzybots inside you right now
-The Imzy are in regular communication with the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, forwarding the word of God to the Orthodox Church. Who do you think set up the meeting between the pope & the Orthodox high command (First meeting between the two organisations in over 1000 years) and arranged the Orthodox leader’s first trip to Antarctica in history literally a few days later to the Imzy bunker in Wilkes land?
-They learned fluent French in under a week
-Nation states entrust their gold reserves with the twins. There’s no gold in Ft. Knox, only Ft. Imzy
-The website is about 7 decades old, from the space-time reference point of the base human currently accepted by our society
-In reality, it's an ultimate entity existing in all points of time and space from the big bang to the end of the universe. We don’t its ultimate plans yet. We hope it's a benevolent entity.
n/a penorio 2017-05-24
The big enchilada
n/a Works_of_memercy 2017-05-24
Thank you man! I'll post it to the next /r/slatestarcodex fun thread, fo shizzle! For I foresee some butthurt!
n/a headasplodes 2017-05-24
You can't just bogpill me like that without warning bruv
n/a Works_of_memercy 2017-05-24
*imzypill
n/a celocanth13 2017-05-24
You forgot the funky song
n/a Works_of_memercy 2017-05-24
?
n/a Madmantwentyone 2017-05-24
Okay but why did imzy kill Seth Rich?
n/a ironicshitpostr 2017-05-24
Seth Rich was the blood sacrifice necessary to fuel Donald Trump's ascension to President.
It was a final futile attempt at keeping Imzy relevant, in the same way the NRA and gun manufacturers donated millions to elect Hillary and keep the rednecks buying guns.
n/a Madmantwentyone 2017-05-24
Thanks for that but what about the chemtrails to turn us back into our thetan forms to feed our lizard people overlords?
n/a ironicshitpostr 2017-05-24
Dude, chemtrails are just plane exhaust. You sound like a conspiracy nut.
n/a Madmantwentyone 2017-05-24
HOW DARE YOU Imzy killed Seth Rich for leaking the Trump piss tape to the Russians, who hacked Killary's email and
oh god I think I had a stroke
n/a geraldo42 2017-05-24
Reddit alternative. Think of it as sort of the more left wing, curated alternative to voat. No racism and the emphasis was on community rather than content. I never used it but that's the impression I got. Their community managers were all reddit meta users as far as I can tell including a certain /r/drama regular that now denies any affiliation.
n/a zahlman 2017-05-24
You mean, you?
n/a theherps 2017-05-24
>lefties on reddit constantly threaten to take their ball and do it
>the absolute madmen do it
>create imzy, and make it invite only to keep out folks like us
>in 2 years they burn through 3 mil and have to shut down
n/a shitpost953 2017-05-24
I was gunna ping /u/bannedfromimzy but their account is suspended :/
n/a HodorTheDoorHolder 2017-05-24
because he's an incel faggot who doxxed a girl
n/a snallygaster 2017-05-24
when did that happen?
n/a HodorTheDoorHolder 2017-05-24
I don't know but I tagged him as that so I wouldn't forget
n/a Ronocm13 2017-05-24
So what was Imzy exactly?
n/a JasonJewnova 2017-05-24
What in the living fuck is Imzy?
n/a MelungeonQueen 2017-05-24
BID
n/a 18aidanme 2017-05-24
proof that SJWs dont work.
n/a dishragnarok 2017-05-24
Proof that sjws are strawmen used by the hard-right to recruit mallrats
n/a nmx179 2017-05-24
I wish reddit would die, and then everyone had to go back to making their own webforums again.
n/a barkorut 2017-05-24
Here's a short list or remaining reddit alternatives:
Snapzu - Great design mixed with what seems to be a friendly and mature community. Really good content on a regular basis.
Hubski - Shares are used instead of voting to make things popular. I don't like how their front page shows month old things though.
Empeopled - Gives more voting power to experienced users, although I'm not sure if that's a good idea after what happened at Digg.
Hacker News - Lots of programming talk and tech talk. Hosted by a tech incubator so it makes sense about the content.
n/a celocanth13 2017-05-24
How is Hubski still around?
n/a Unicorn_Abattoir 2017-05-24
One of these things is not like the others.
n/a captainpriapism 2017-05-24
its almost as though crazy identity politics arent marketable when you have to start off with them instead of co opting someone elses shit and fucking it up
n/a Prince_Kropotkin 2017-05-24
Thanks OP, I just put on Sheer Heart Attack after clicking the video and my day is a lot better now.
n/a IAintThatGuy 2017-05-24
You can run all the ads you want and get mad traffic on your website, you're not going to make any revenue from people who are too special to work and yet not special enough to get disability. Even more if your platform does not even get good traffic to begin with. Whereas hateful autists is where the money's at. They always seem to have money for weed, tendies, katanas and weird toys.
n/a Madmantwentyone 2017-05-24
The fuck is an imzy and why the fuck should I care?
n/a freet0 2017-05-24
Damn, there goes my dream of imzy.com/The_Donald
n/a grungebot5000 2017-05-24
what the hell's an Imzy
n/a Albert_Borland 2017-05-24
Who did what now?
n/a Nikolasv 2017-05-24
Looking at this photo they had at least 12 staff which was too much for where they were at:
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/yM5yDrmzN93h7PGPRImI_6484CQ=/0x0:900x600/920x613/filters:focal(378x228:522x372)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/49637361/579eac1c-8fcc-4d39-8755-931c72f0ade7.0.jpg
Photo is from this article:
https://www.recode.net/2016/5/20/11715602/reddit-employees-safer-tamer-imzy
They also wasted money on idiocies like pizza parties: giving away pizzas to users:
https://www.imzy.com/imzy/post/let_s_have_pizza_party
Albeit that may have been a sleazy move to get users physical addresses for some other purpose. I lost alot of respect for their userbase that they cheerleaded that and ignored my admonition in one thread that it is probably a ploy to get people's home address and other data.
The people running it simply were not smart enough to succeeded, they had $8 million in funding and they hired way too much staff despite only having less than 70,000 users(and most of those were inactive). They were only out of public beta since October 2016 so they didn't even manage to last a year despite those millions:
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/26/imzy-raises-8-million-series-a-round-opens-communities-platform-to-everyone/
Overall just pathetic... It was just a sjw(I hate that term because their alt-right opponents consider decent behavior as sjw, but it is tbe best way to describe imzy) mirror of Voat, run by people with alot more funding, but who didn't know what to do. I gave them some valueable feedback that they should have noticed on their own, but they didn't do anything about it:
And:
Basically the founders were not smart enough to compete with Reddit. Why would you make the frontpage a video ad of imzy for unregistered users, that is the biggest fail and probably cost them thousands of users at a time when they had decent media buzz? And the second thing people would do if they registered(which most wouldn't with their walled approach) is look at communities that interest them and in my case not only were they dead, but the userbase was already split amongst several competing, overlapping communities.
Overall imzy to me seemed to obsessed with nonsense and not focused enough on the key issue: simply growing. Without enough users a discussion medium is pointless.
n/a MakeAmericaSageAgain 2017-05-24
Who would have thought?
n/a Mrnoone696 2017-05-24
The fuck is an Imzy?