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Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

#91

Post by medstrom »

tsian2 wrote: post #72
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…

This lead me to believe that search must really hard to implement, but then a few days of getting into Sphinx convinced me otherwise. It's kind of like the big sites where you have to load the whole video before it'll start playing (no HTTP partials). They could do better, they just don't.

Um. Example of sites where you have to load the whole video? I've never seen that in my life (I'm 29).

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

#92

Post by workethics »

tyrust wrote: post #64
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…

>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…

> I've used reddit for 10 years.

I believe that's why you think that. I feel that reddit started to go downhill after 2011, which was 10 years ago. So if that's when you joined you wouldn't have experienced what it was like before to feel that way.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

#93

Post by flenserboy »

Reddit has some great individual boards, but it's not always easy to find them. This site, as well as others (https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/ comes to mind), is a nice start on making them more discoverable.

Reddit also brings to mind the old statement on UNIX - "Those who do not understand USENET are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." There will always be room for something like USENET (part of the pre-web days I miss), and Reddit is, sadly, what we have right now.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

#94

Post by na85 »

medstrom wrote: post #91
tsian2 wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This lead me to believe that search must really hard to implement, but then a few days of getting into Sphinx convinced me otherwise. It's kind of like the big sites where you have to load the whole video before it'll start playing (no HTTP partials). They could do better, they just don't.

Um. Example of sites where you have to load the whole video? I've never seen that in my life (I'm 29).

I'm only 35 and I remember this. It was quite common before YouTube.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

#95

Post by tyrust »

workethics wrote: post #92
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…

> I've used reddit for 10 years. I believe that's why you think that. I feel that reddit started to go downhill after 2011, which was 10 years ago. So if that's when you joined you wouldn't have experienced what it was like before to feel that way.

I mean, the site hasn't been unchanged over that history. I've left many subreddits as they became memed-out messes.

Overall, I find that there are plenty of subreddits with focused discussion and decent moderation.

I'd be interested in what you refer to as the entirety of the site going "downhill". You haven't really given me much to reply to in this comment.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

#96

Post by mooreds »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #35
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…

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…

As long as we're piling on about search, here are my two least favorite site searches:

   * meetup
   * AWS docs
Going straight to google for both of these nets better results 99% of the time.

It's probably a cycle at this point. More people use google (or other general search), so these sites optimize for them, rather than invest in the site search experience. General search engines are where the users are coming from.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

#97

Post by Jorengarenar »

tyrust wrote: post #64
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…

>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…

> I subscribe to a couple dozen subreddits, some of which are fairly large (/r/cooking, /r/games, /r/programming), and see pretty much nothing off-topic or political

Well, that's because those have specific topic. It's hard to make something political about cooking. Bit easier in case of gaming (as games being cultural work can be political commentary), I've seen some political discourses on r/programming as well.

But on r/all you will find post from more political subreddits (r/WhitePeopleTwitter, r/BlackPeopleTwitter, r/TwoXChromosomes, r/MurderedByWords, r/PoliticalCompassMemes etc.) regularly. For better of worse the posts consist mostly of content from left-leaning side of political spectrum, although it creates and echo chamber and you will be highly criticized if you try to raise any concerns.

I consider myself to be more on the progressive side, but sometimes when I see some post I have thoughts "wait, this one actually starts to sound like communism again".

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

#98

Post by wfawejoiweoif »

thomastjeffery wrote: post #19
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.…

"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.

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

#99

Post by lacksconfidence »

stingraycharles wrote: post #22
thomastjeffery wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.…

> 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…

> I don’t think they ever seriously invested in that, for whatever reason.

They have recently invested in it, switching to lucidworks[1] a few years ago. Sadly i don't think it changed anyones opinion of reddit search, but it might have saved them some infrastructure cost.

[1] https://lucidworks.com/customers/reddit/

Re: Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

#100

Post by [deleted] »

tsian2 wrote: post #72
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…

This lead me to believe that search must really hard to implement, but then a few days of getting into Sphinx convinced me otherwise. It's kind of like the big sites where you have to load the whole video before it'll start playing (no HTTP partials). They could do better, they just don't.

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