> If the government builds a bridge by using a construction company, no one says the government is capable of building a bridge with zero engineers.
However I doubt people pay much attention to the companies quarrying rock to make concrete, or the engineers designing the axles of the trucks. Any large project is a team effort, but to count tangentially related projects as partitions of another ignores the achievements of those projects (i.e. AWS and Erlang are massive achievements that have, and will, exist regardless of WhatsApp).
So, WhatsApp has 50 engineers modulo any dedicated support staff.
What's wrong with Reddit is the "default subreddit" concept and the difficulty of subreddit discovery. Building in some form of interest based subreddit discovery would go a long way to de-emphasising defaults and (eventually) mitigate much of the vitriol.
There is also something to be said for educating users on the effects of anonymity.
Heh, with some friends I took down the email service board wide for a day via auto-responder. Unlikely you could do that today - most schools are switching to Office365.
However I doubt people pay much attention to the companies quarrying rock to make concrete, or the engineers designing the axles of the trucks. Any large project is a team effort, but to count tangentially related projects as partitions of another ignores the achievements of those projects (i.e. AWS and Erlang are massive achievements that have, and will, exist regardless of WhatsApp).
So, WhatsApp has 50 engineers modulo any dedicated support staff.