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Reddit’s year-over-year growth has been outrageous. A year ago I categorized each of the top 5,000 subredddits, and many of them have gained 10x the subscribers since then. For a website that’s been around for this long it’s absolutely unreal.
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Your first phrase answers the second. Humor is only upvoted in HN if it provokes a wry smile.
Too busy changing the world for the better to smile.
How many stars do I have to give my Uber driver till they get paid sick days, paid vacation, healthcare and a pension?
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Why? The worst that will happen is you get downvoted.
You will get rate limited more severely the more downvotes you get. I've also run into subreddits run by very biased moderators who will mark any stories as spam they disagree or competes with their friends. And due to the shadowban system, many people never realize it. That's why I stopped submitting comments and stories on reddit. I only browse it now.
The biggest value gain from Reddit, to me, is the ability to centralize effectively around different hobbies and activities. In the past, if you wanted to find an online community for a movie or a game, you had to find a forum for that community. Finding forums that are well managed and capture a good segment of the community is hard -- and Reddit just becomes a default place to look now. Let's say a new TV show star…
I also appreciate the open nature of Reddit. No account is required if you just want to read, and you don't need to be first "approved" to most subreddits to be able to contribute. No "real-name" policies that often do more harm than good either. While Facebook by default erects walls around content, Reddit by default promotes the free sharing and equal access to information, which resonates much more with the origin…
What I enjoy most about Reddit is the quirky, people just being stupid (in a fun way), jokes and humor around many subreddits and prominent on most that appear on /r/popular.
I don't think people would post as openly if real names were attached. So I really think this fosters/allows for that to happen. It's odd that that was something I loved the most about the early internet too and it seems to be rare now.
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About 6 years ago we had a self hosted reddit that someone hacked to hook in to our ActiveDirectory. It's the best QA/Wiki/Group communication tool I've ever used at a company. I've thought a few times that you could build a startup on selling a modified version of open source reddit to enterprises. (Not sure how much of reddit is open source anymore though.)
How does this solution compare to, say, Slack in your experience?
If I post an interesting article in our team slack room, if people aren't actively discussing it, it gets lost very quickly. The threading in slack never seems to attract people's attention (but that may be just people on my team ignoring it.)
With reddit, you can have discussions and sub discussions, and sub discussions if you really want to.
I actually left that company a couple months after they set up the reddit server so I'm not sure how it ended up being used or if it even was. When I was there we mostly used it for discussing interesting articles or projects that people came across. (Much like you'd use reddit for in general.)
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Well I use the official app. I tried redditisfun but it was pretty much the same. Do you suggest any other app?
Relay is quite good, I have (shamefully) used it for hour-long browsing sessions.
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I think it's okay to some extent but I find that forums definitely are a much better resource and controversial threads or posts in forums don't get buried or hidden by a downvote. Some of the most humorous threads you'll read would have had a -inf rating and thus never seen on reddit. To me, reddit seems a great way for a community to reinforce groupthink. Instances I can think of are forums for motorcycles, cars, p…
> To me, reddit seems a great way for a community to reinforce groupthink. I think this is due to its utterly basic up/downvoting as well as its completely-unenforced TOS which state you should not downvote simply for disagreeing. When you downvote, you should have to specify a reason (such as "offtopic") and one of the reasons should not remotely be "I disagree"
BTW, I think the default downvote reason should be "disagree" because that's the majority use case for it despite what the Reddit designers intended. If a vote was accompanied by more information (offtop, funny, disagree, etc...) then I could tailor my experience better.