Ask HN: Which are your favorite subreddits? • Hacker News Board

With all the doom and gloom in the UK at the moment, it's nice to go somewhere on Reddit and talk about what supermarket has the best meal deal, dodgy crisp flavours, and excellent examples of queuing.

Re: Ask HN: Which are your favorite subreddits?

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Post by Lordarminius » Wed, Nov 22, 2017, 11:20 AM UTC

Yeah right. I appear to be the only one who visit the NSFW subreddits ;/

Re: Ask HN: Which are your favorite subreddits?

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Post by bpg_92 » Wed, Nov 22, 2017, 1:18 PM UTC

These ones for fun:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/

https://www.reddit.com/r/MemeEconomy/

https://www.reddit.com/r/trebuchetmemes/

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/

Re: Ask HN: Which are your favorite subreddits?

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Post by akbarnama » Wed, Nov 22, 2017, 2:29 PM UTC

https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy

https://www.reddit.com/r/books

https://www.reddit.com/r/anarchy101

https://www.reddit.com/r/astronomy

Re: Ask HN: Which are your favorite subreddits?

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Post by omnipath » Wed, Nov 22, 2017, 3:23 PM UTC

Almost all pokemon related sub-reddits (too many to list).

https://www.reddit.com/r/Marvel/

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/

https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/

https://www.reddit.com/r/justnomil/ (Honestly, some of the most messed up people in normal day to day lives. The mil...)

And a couple of nsfw ones I won't bother naming.

Re: Ask HN: Which are your favorite subreddits?

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Post by whack » Wed, Nov 22, 2017, 6:14 PM UTC

__sharp wrote: post #13

whack wrote: post #11

Shameless plug: I hate visiting my various favorite subreddits manually, so I built a service that automatically emails their top content to you everyday. https://gitlab.com/whacks/daily-reddit/blob/master/README.md

Why not just use reddit as intended, subscribe to only the subreddits you're interested in? Isn't that the whole point of reddit, to aggregate all the types of content you're interested in?

Fair question.

1) I dislike the fact that the Reddit aggregator mixes together all the content from the different subreddits. I like having them segregated, with equal "airtime", on a single screen

2) I dislike the fact that I have to manually visit Reddit everyday, in order to "not miss out". If I didn't visit the site yesterday, then I have to make up for it today by sorting by week, instead of day, which will then show me lots of duplicate content which I've already seen. There's no easy way to just get the top content from day-X

3) This is more subtle: Suppose you visit Reddit everyday at noon, during your lunch break, sort by top:day, and then never visit it again for the rest of the day. This means that you will never see any posts which were posted in the couple hours before noon, because they haven't had sufficient time to rack up the votes. You can miss out on a significant amount of content this way