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Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by Weebs » Wed, May 26, 2021, 6:37 PM UTC

WORMS_EAT_WORMS wrote: post #4

This is great and I wish this mentality was pushed earlier on reddit. There was a golden era of reddit right before the great Digg migration. Excellent comments, diverse opinions, and really great back and forth being shared of individual's experiences in almost every single subreddit. Today, it's definitely harder to find good commentary and exchange. It's also super heavily astroturfed by political groups in all th…

> There was a golden era of reddit right before the great Digg migration

I've been longing for this lately. Even the more interest specific subreddits have gotten noticeably worse and borderline toxic. It feels like it's shifted from a culture of sharing and discussing niche topics or current events with some goofy humor to a slightly more dignified YouTube comment section

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by thisissidhant » Wed, May 26, 2021, 6:38 PM UTC

WORMS_EAT_WORMS wrote: post #7

thisissidhant wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree. Google Search is much much better. I personally built the list using this way along with other list already created. My idea is to create a catalogue of a lot of subreddits for people to navigate well

I love how you laid this out. It's very nicely done. I think if there was also a way to show and filter by comment activity/frequency/subscribers too (or some other creative metric) beyond the subreddit title it would go miles.

This is a really good idea. I will collect more data points definitely !

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by thisissidhant » Wed, May 26, 2021, 6:38 PM UTC

gj0 wrote: post #10

This is really cool ! This solves a genuinely problem. I remember being stuck at reddit search for long hours while trying to find the perfect subreddit for posting some content. Thanks for this :)

Glad you liked it :)

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by ssivark » Wed, May 26, 2021, 6:45 PM UTC

This is very cool! I’d love to know what kind of data inputs you used for the recommendation engine.

More generally, I think it would be really great to have collaborative filtering services for all kinds of interests (music, movies, books, forums, etc) independent of the mega-platforms which have significant biases in what content they peddle (often optimized so keenly to the point of being adversarial to users).

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by thisissidhant » Wed, May 26, 2021, 6:47 PM UTC

uxamanda wrote: post #9

This is cool! Would be nice to have a "last post" date or number of recent posts. A few I clicked on are dormant. (Also very minor, but looks like https://www.reddit.com/r/figma/ is not a UI/UX subreddit, wasn't sure if there was a place to submit corrections on the site)

Yes i agree, some of the subreddits may be old. Last post will be a good metric for this.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by nikaspran » Wed, May 26, 2021, 6:48 PM UTC

On a related note, let me shill my side-project: https://nikas.praninskas.com/suggest-subreddit/

It suggests subreddits based on what you're already subscribed to.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by tizzy » Wed, May 26, 2021, 6:52 PM UTC

WORMS_EAT_WORMS wrote: post #4

This is great and I wish this mentality was pushed earlier on reddit. There was a golden era of reddit right before the great Digg migration. Excellent comments, diverse opinions, and really great back and forth being shared of individual's experiences in almost every single subreddit. Today, it's definitely harder to find good commentary and exchange. It's also super heavily astroturfed by political groups in all th…

> nothing will beat simply Google searching a topic and typing "reddit" afterwards

This is so true and I’m glad I’m not the only one who does this. I also do this with “forum” at the end of each search nowadays. There’s something very truthful about these opinions and discussions that I find hard to describe. I think I trust these opinions more because they tend to speak from their own experience which is not always one of expertise, but rather of someone like me.

When deciding on getting x vs y, a Reddit post from 5 years ago with even just 10 upvotes suggesting x gives me way more confidence than the majority of reviews.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by lettergram » Wed, May 26, 2021, 6:58 PM UTC

I’ve been thinking a while about making a social media site that doesn’t have boards, subreddits, channels, pages, etc

Instead it would be almost like a stream of consciousness where the system learns your interests and expertise and basically builds a board for you with stories from different topics. Could even be across multiple sites.

It would use something like this: https://insideropinion.com/

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by thomastjeffery » Wed, May 26, 2021, 6:58 PM UTC

WORMS_EAT_WORMS wrote: post #4

This is great and I wish this mentality was pushed earlier on reddit. There was a golden era of reddit right before the great Digg migration. Excellent comments, diverse opinions, and really great back and forth being shared of individual's experiences in almost every single subreddit. Today, it's definitely harder to find good commentary and exchange. It's also super heavily astroturfed by political groups in all th…

> I guess what I'm try to say is nothing will beat simply Google searching a topic and typing "reddit" afterwards to query some super insightful and awesome 5+ year old forum post on whatever the content is.

Better yet, use

    site:reddit.com

Reddit's search really needs some work. It's practically useless for me unless I am using old.reddit.com/.

> There was a golden era of reddit right before the great Digg migration. Excellent comments, diverse opinions, and really great back and forth being shared of individual's experiences in almost every single subreddit.

That golden era is still happening. It's just hidden under a bunch of signal noise.

It helps to take all of the popular subreddits out of your feed and only join more niche ones.

The reality is that humanity in general is experiencing the same "golden era" hidden behind a high noise to signal ratio. There's only so much we can do to filter through it.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by user00012-ab » Wed, May 26, 2021, 7:04 PM UTC

People keep saying how great Reddit is, but I tried signing up to a bunch of my "Niches" and all the posts where just low quality junk; for example every other post in the 3dprinting subreddit is just "MY FIRST PRINT!" or "I BOUGHT A THING!" and for some reason people think it's cute so they upvote it. EDC? here is another picture of my gun! Tech reddit; "here is a link to a medium post that you can't see unless you subscribe!".

And the rest of the posts are just people re-asking the same questions over and over because they can't be bothered to search.

Reddit is just a fire hose of low quality content.