This reminds me of the story I read once about Baseball Reference’s old link naming structure.

It was similar to this scheme, but it took the first five letters of the last name, and the first two of the first name. There were variants and workarounds for players with the same letters in their name, and such.

But then there was the result for Jewish player Kevin Youkilis…

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

This is what I’m worried about most, losing those long form communities, and the niche subs. Not just for being on reddit, though, but searching site:reddit.com when I’m looking for info about something.

Yes, there are a multitude of message boards out there to search, but the voting system makes better responses easier to find from reddit.

Even if a lot of us don’t go back to reddit in any real way it’s going to take a long, long time to replace it entirely for the broad range of uses it has, outside of it being a community.