As a very early user of Reddit and a founder and long-time moderator of a popular subreddit, it seems to me that Reddit is cruising towards an iceberg, and it's hard to envisage them turning the ship around at this point. There's so much momentum behind the toxic nature of Reddit now and many of the good moderators are getting fed up and either jumping ship or preparing to, leaving subreddits to be managed by more self-interested and less competent people.<p>Over the years I've created a list of suggestions that I would have made if I had the ear of somebody in authority at Reddit. But that's one thing they've never really done - made it easy for mods, who effectively do a large part of running their website 24/7, without pay, to provide feedback and have real discussions and input with the admins. And it is to the detriment of the website, its owners and its users. I believe that Reddit will fail in the next few years, unless it undergoes radical changes soon. And by fail I mean, it will probably still exist, possibly have more users, but it will be so toxic that anyone with any sense will not go there anymore. The garden is in very real danger of being completely overtaken by weeds.<p>And it's a shame. I really loved Reddit, it helped me on occasions and I also saw it help many other people.<p>But the only reason I personally still use Reddit is because I feel an affinity for the subreddit I created and have moderated for years, and the community I have managed to create, which I am proud to say is in stark contrast to the toxicity of many other popular subreddits.