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Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by ALittleLight »

corytheboyd wrote: post #103
user00012-ab wrote: post #20

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…

I say this in jest, but is HN that different? Show HN, paywalled content hits the front page many times daily, fairly predictable top comments. Of course the communities are different, but the bullshitisms are pretty similar

Yeah, hackernews seems much different. There are zero low effort meme posts on the first view pages. There's a variety of interesting content. The comments are thought provoking. The moderation is professional.

I notice now and then a few reddit style comments creeping in at the edges but I take my responsibility to downvote them seriously. (By reddit style comments I mean pointless joke, puns, "this", comment chain type stuff).

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by chakkepolja »

corytheboyd wrote: post #103
user00012-ab wrote: post #20

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…

I say this in jest, but is HN that different? Show HN, paywalled content hits the front page many times daily, fairly predictable top comments. Of course the communities are different, but the bullshitisms are pretty similar

You forgot "very generic comment praising golang / rust on a deep technical post on how to do something specific in golang / rust". This is borderline cringe.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by windowojji »

zikduruqe wrote: post #122
wfawejoiweoif wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"site:reddit.com" is significantly more burdensome to type than "reddit", particularly on phone keyboards. I use DDG, which simply doesn't handle just putting "reddit" at the end of things very well compared to google, and no mobile keyboard makes typing "site:reddit.com" easy given the punctuation and the auto-inserted spaces, so I typically just end up doing "reddit g!" to deal with it and just use google.

Or you can search your topic on Reddit using DDG by “topic !r”

See the grandparent, which rightly asserts that reddit search is bad.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by derefr »

stingraycharles wrote: post #41
TeMPOraL wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't seen a single social media or messaging platform where search didn't suck. Reddit search was bad, after redesign it's just hot garbage. Messenger search is unreliable and near-useless. Facebook search only worked well for the brief moment when they introduced "graph search", but that got quickly killed due to popular outrage. HN's bolted-on Algolia search is the least bad I've seen. And let's not even talk…

I think it’s a combination of “search is hard” and “witty comments / titles make it even harder to search for”. I’d argue most of these sites would be far better off with just using Algolia or Google as their main search engine and calling it a day.

Google even has a Custom Search API that allows a site's backend to treat Google Search as (essentially) its own search cluster, ala ElasticSearch.

Oddly, I've never heard of any actually using this API. Sites that integrate with Google only ever seem to do so by having their search box bounce you to a Google Search page.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by tyrust »

dankwizard wrote: post #128
tyrust wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>It's also super heavily astroturfed by political groups in all the subreddits (on both sides) to try to influence the general groupthink narrative/consensus. It's so disgustingly obvious but doesn't seem to be an issue for the team. I've used reddit for 10 years. I heard this claim before and disagree (still [0]). I subscribe to a couple dozen subreddits, some of which are fairly large (/r/cooking, /r/games, /r/prog…

games leans so far left it's a flat line.

If the line is flat then how do you know which way it's facing?

Snark aside, I haven't noticed it. Examples would be interesting.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by derefr »

mdoms wrote: post #56
grawprog wrote: post #21

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>Today, it's definitely harder to find good commentary and exchange. It's also super heavily astroturfed by political groups in all the subreddits I've found a lot of hobby specific subreddits or ones on niche topics tend to avoid that. Also, less popular niches or hobbies i've noticed tend to have more people that are actually interested in having decent conversations about said topics or hobbies.

I have never found a hobby subreddit worth following. If I look at my hobbies like /r/simracing /r/gardening /r/welding /r/motorcycles an overwhelming (in the literal sense) number of posts are just lazy image posts of (in order of listed subs) a sim racing rig, a pile of vegetables, a nice bead and a motorcycle. A picture of an ordinary part of a hobby is not conducive to meaningful conversations on the hobby. Addit…

If a subreddit is about a visual creative medium, then the image posts won't be lazy, as they will tend to be people's Original Content; and they will frequently spawn good discussions on how to achieve the effects shown. See:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/origami/

• https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelArt/

• https://www.reddit.com/r/Watercolor/

• https://www.reddit.com/r/MSpaintLikeBobRoss/

DIY hobbies also spawn good subreddits. See e.g.

• https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/

And of course, there's the great and under-explored genre of "hobby X but for old people who aren't interested in the fads of hobby X" subreddits, e.g.

• https://www.reddit.com/r/patientgamers/

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by bemmu »

user00012-ab wrote: post #20

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…

Random posts are low quality, but the great thing is you can let others find the good ones for you by coming back to subreddits periodically and sorting by "top posts this week" for example.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by dmingod666 »

People that are complaining about reddit being bad need to know this.

- Join groups centered around a very specific technology / purpose / interest.

- Leave all groups that have a large amount of people in them .

- Leave all groups that are very generic - example: r/programmerhumor, r/politics, r/programming, r/nextfuckinglevel

As a rule of thumb, the more the people and the more generic the group purpose the more political and toxic people will be.

Now my reddit feed has drama turned all the way down, it has interesting things about the things I like. It's not as amusing as before but the people are more chilled out and helpful.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by abhijat »

tornato7 wrote: post #129
stingraycharles wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Reddit's search really needs some work. It's practically useless for me unless I am using old.reddit.com/. I always thought that “Reddit search is bad” is pretty much as old as Reddit itself. I don’t think they ever seriously invested in that, for whatever reason. Here’s a post from 8y ago where people were already accepting that it has been like that forever, and it hasn’t changed a lot ever since. https://www.red…

There's an independently made Reddit search that is leagues ahead of Reddit's own search: https://redditsearch.io/ It's made by the guy who runs pushshift.io - he does an incredible public service by archiving terabytes of social media data into a fully searchable ElasticSearch cluster. Plug for his Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pushshift

I think pushshift is what powers all the reddit undelete websites, because it doesn't register post or comment deletes. So for a true, unrecoverable delete you have to edit your post to empty body or something nonsensical, and then delete it.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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Post by obventio56 »

derefr wrote: post #144
stingraycharles wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it’s a combination of “search is hard” and “witty comments / titles make it even harder to search for”. I’d argue most of these sites would be far better off with just using Algolia or Google as their main search engine and calling it a day.

Google even has a Custom Search API that allows a site's backend to treat Google Search as (essentially) its own search cluster, ala ElasticSearch. Oddly, I've never heard of any actually using this API. Sites that integrate with Google only ever seem to do so by having their search box bounce you to a Google Search page.

We do https://www.thecrimson.com/search/
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