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Re: Ask HN: Do you still use reddit.com?

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Post by searchableguy »

superasn wrote: post #3

No, I don't know but like Facebook I just stopped using it alltogether one day and I don't miss using it at all. The only thing I use reddit for nowadays is when I'm looking for suggestions like best vpn, best headphones, etc. Instead of just googling these keywords I often use e.g. "reddit usenet providers", etc and I find that the quality of results is much higher than google's blogspam.

I use discord for that now.

Reddit's quality in recommendation is not great when it comes to tech. I was looking for a laptop and suggestions made were better than your average consumer guy but still sucked.

Also for headphones too. Almost anything tbh.

They all end up with American brands whereas there are many nice brands outside of USA or Canada.

There is lot of astroturfing going on. Discord is less prone because usually it's private and split into small groups. Hard work for dem marketers.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use reddit.com?

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Post by switch11 »

Yes

There are lots of cons and a few pros

It's best to think of Reddit as a giant grouping of millions of subreddits

Some very good some good Many terrible some absolutely terrible

1) Use old.reddit.com

the new site is terrible

2) The more niche you go, the better the experience

3) Be prepared for the worst kind of idiots you can imagine. If you end up in a subreddit like that, get out ASAP

4) There are lots of very smart and helpful people. If you are interested in any topic, you will find something devoted to it

5) Be very careful time wise, it's a great time waster and you should avoid things that are negative and/or useless

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use reddit.com?

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Post by ragalaga »

Like others have said reddit is most useful the smaller the subreddit is. I use:

/r/hardwareswap, /r/buildapcsales, and /r/homelabsales as an alternative to ebay

/r/selfhosted, /r/homelab, and /r/datahoarder for new project ideas

/r/sffpc, /r/mechinicalkeyboards, /r/watches for fun

/r/unixporn, /r/firefoxcss, and /r/pop_os for wasting time

/r/deepintoyoutube and /r/youtubehaiku are pretty fun too

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use reddit.com?

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Post by bjohnson225 »

marksbrown wrote: post #19

I lived on ukpolitics for most of the last decade. I can safely say that was the stupidest decision of the 2010s.

R/Unitedkingdom and ukpolitics are both dreadful. The dominant views are completely detached from the country as a whole. And as a bonus it’s depressing as hell to read.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use reddit.com?

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Post by class4behavior »

sfjailbird wrote: post #23
djhworld wrote: post #13

I use it every day. My favourite subreddits are /r/london /r/rust /r/golang /r/UKPersonalFinance /r/Games /r/linux EDIT: and I always use old.reddit.com. The new site is a disaster.

Have they released any statistics about the redesign? Reddit is only usable to me with the old interface. I can only imagine new users will run away screaming, if they only see the new Reddit.

You mean statistics on the old interface? You do realize everyone is using the redesign by default, and the site continues to grow.

Considering that they've recently backported a redesign feature to the old interface, I assume the latter is fairly popular still.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use reddit.com?

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Post by EasyTiger_ »

bjohnson225 wrote: post #34
marksbrown wrote: post #19

I lived on ukpolitics for most of the last decade. I can safely say that was the stupidest decision of the 2010s.

R/Unitedkingdom and ukpolitics are both dreadful. The dominant views are completely detached from the country as a whole. And as a bonus it’s depressing as hell to read.

It’s due to serious amounts of astroturfing

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use reddit.com?

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Post by qplex »

djhworld wrote: post #26
sfjailbird wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have they released any statistics about the redesign? Reddit is only usable to me with the old interface. I can only imagine new users will run away screaming, if they only see the new Reddit.

I honestly could not care less about statistics of the redesign, although user numbers would be interesting The new design is an absolute train wreck, it loads in slowly, feels like you're constantly running through treacle to do anything, let alone it gives my CPU fan a workout just to scroll through a page. The old design runs butter smooth, almost instantaneous. Navigating feels light and quick and it feels functi…

Beside the heavy-ness, I've found the site unusable with mobile browsers because it constantly nags you in various different ways to "try out" their app.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use reddit.com?

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Post by 0xy »

EasyTiger_ wrote: post #36

No. It’s astroturfed to an insane degree, controlled by power-mods with an obvious agenda and I don’t find it a particularly friendly or healthy place anymore.

The power-mods are so obviously controlled by multiple people or agencies that it's insane they haven't been banned.

Some of them literally post 24/7, all content violating their own subs' rules, and usually partisan political junk.

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