There’s some good advice below. I’m not a programmer (vastly different field), but the most important things you can do are to:

• get to know your technical people; their skills, and their personalities

• trust your technical people when they say something is difficult to do.

These two steps will help you get a lot of ‘good will’ from your team and make them feel like you’ve got their back.

A lot of what you list, particularly the bot playground, are reasons I hated Reddit. What I really hated was that people just spammed a bunch of rote responses and these guys

Lemmy is great, but it takes a while to figure out

Qazimodo offends me every time I look at it. That 005 looks a lot like my drop entr

So much of Reddit was shit like that.

Any form of monetization across the board will inevitably lead to all the shitty aspects of Reddit that most of us despised. Shilling and turning it into a competition for these fucking awards etc.

We can already donate to admins if we like.

Found OPs LinkedIn

I was a huge comment poster on Reddit back in the day. Now I post a lot on here. Kind of a 180.

That blue shark looks like something else. I had to zoom in

Metal base instead of plastic. Reasonably intuitive hotkeys. Cheap ($100)

Drop Entr is a solid choice

Not Op, but thanks for the recommendation. I’ve got chomp right now. It’s all right, but I don’t really love it

I really like the band’s playing; they nail it. The vocalist should jump off a bridge though. I’m not saying that because I don’t like growly vocals, but because Ronnie Van Zandt’s performance in the original is top shelf, and this is not.

There are songs that the vocalist’s role carries, and most Skynyrd songs belong in that category.

I’m by no means a mech keyboard connoisseur. However, I own the Drop Entry and it’s a solid keyboard. It’s ten keyless (doesn’t have number pad). It’s also got a metal base, which is supposed to limit typing recoil (I’m a heavy fucking type). I like it. It fits in my laptop bag nicely and I can take it to the office.

Like all things, there are going to be a core group of people who hype up or nerd the fuck out over a given topic; mech keyboards are the same. At the end of the day, a keyboard won’t be life changing, but it’ll improve your quality of life a tiny bit BC of the amount of time you spend typing