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Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

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Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

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Post by ZephyrBlu »

bad_username wrote: post #192
WORMS_EAT_WORMS wrote: post #18

Congrats to them big time. It seriously doesn't get the recognition it deserves as the most impactful social media platform. To me, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, and other social media today is less about connecting people and really about driving targeted and calculated impressions of X to audiences via a user's feed. This is astro-turfed to feel organic and botted to death by everyone because of how much influence it…

> what I find awesome about reddit is its ability to connect people and really have group conversations I am a redditor for 7 years and that was true early on. Today it is not. You can connect and have group conversations only if you subscribe to a certain dominant political and cultural narrative, walk on egg shells, and toe a line. If you don't, you are swiftly downvoted and banned. There is no escape from this eve…

Depends what you mean by small. I think subs with even a few hundred thousand subscribers are generally pretty good, depending on the community of course.

Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

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Post by collyw »

bad_username wrote: post #188
NoPicklez wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you not argue that HN is the same thing, just at a smaller scale? HN is essentially just a front page. Reddit just doesn't tailor itself to one particular type of discussion like HN does. But rather the dominant topics of discussion such as /r/funny frequently dominate the front page due to popularity. Reddit is really what you make of it and if you only subscribe to topics that interest you, it becomes a vastl…

In terms of features and intent HN is similar to Reddit. But HN is miles and miles ahead in the quality of discussion, moderation, and diversity of thought and opinions.

I would disagree on some of those. The quality of discussion is higher provided you don't mind the lack of humour. And the diversity of thoughts and opinions isn't that high because of the strict moderation. If you want true diversity of opinion, but far lower quality of discussion, 4chan is the place.

Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

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Post by clydethefrog »

mberning wrote: post #116
PurpleFoxy wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The much more likely explanation is that no one is using forums anymore. Forum posts still show up in google but they are always from 2009.

I’m not so sure. There are many extremely active forums that exist, particularly for specific hobbies. In my case for example, if I google for “subaru brz forged wheels” I get nothing but vendors and product pages. But if I add “ft86club” to the query a great many forum posts appear. In the past those type of forum posts would appear ahead of vendor pages.

Probably "outdated" forum software that doesn't have much SEO bells and whistles.

Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

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Post by CyanDeparture »

sprite wrote: post #178

They are purposefully making Reddit absolutely terrible on mobile web browsers. They constantly try to force you to download the app, don't let you read full threads without it, etc. It seems it just constantly gets worse and worse.

The mobile web site is particularly awful. The app Apollo - https://apolloapp.io/ - is fantastic for browsing reddit if you're on an iDevice. (I have nothing to do with the apps development, just a fan), it is such an excellent experience I upgraded it to the paid version. Give it a go for a day if you can install it on your device.

Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

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Post by hansel_der »

wtf_is_up wrote: post #179
gogopuppygogo wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to mention the barrier of getting past the /r/popular posts rises when you use the new design or mobile app. The breath of fresh air that is old.Reddit.com won’t last much longer I’m afraid.

I've been a frequent reddit user for 10 years. I don't know if I can continue if they deprecate old.reddit.com and i.reddit.com. The new version is just so bad it's astounding.

same same.

can't help but wonder what the goal of the redesign was...

Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

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Post by brailsafe »

edgyquant wrote: post #165
NoPicklez wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you not argue that HN is the same thing, just at a smaller scale? HN is essentially just a front page. Reddit just doesn't tailor itself to one particular type of discussion like HN does. But rather the dominant topics of discussion such as /r/funny frequently dominate the front page due to popularity. Reddit is really what you make of it and if you only subscribe to topics that interest you, it becomes a vastl…

The minimum karma requirements to downvote goes a long way on HN. I’d say they should add a limit to upvote as well, but that might make things worse idk.

It would curb how easy it is to manufacture a popular post

Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

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Post by eloisant »

NoPicklez wrote: post #147
rkho wrote: post #63

Reddit is an intentionally designed dopamine machine with some areas of usefulness. There are pockets of great, high signal communities on Reddit that have not been unbundled. Discovery, however, is a mess. Some examples of some great subs: - HomeImprorvement is great for repair advice - Keto was helpful in my weight loss journey - Posture for, well, fixing my posture I've also bought and sold various digital and phy…

Could you not argue that HN is the same thing, just at a smaller scale? HN is essentially just a front page. Reddit just doesn't tailor itself to one particular type of discussion like HN does. But rather the dominant topics of discussion such as /r/funny frequently dominate the front page due to popularity. Reddit is really what you make of it and if you only subscribe to topics that interest you, it becomes a vastl…

Because HN is a single place, as opposed to subreddits, it's a weird mix of software developers, founders, investors, etc.

You could basically compare HN to a single subreddit.

Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

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Post by burgerquizz »

which subreddits do HNers find the most useful ? I know there is many subreddit gems but it's not easy to discover them.

I love browsing those where I find excellent advices:

   https://www.reddit.com/r/awardtravel/ 
   https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/ 
   https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/ (I think more human than HN for advices / feedbacks )
   https://www.reddit.com/r/books/ ( found great non-mainstream books to read )

Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

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Post by OscarCunningham »

frakkingcylons wrote: post #135
efrank02 wrote: post #99

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I’ve never spent time on r popular or the main page. If you only spend time in subs Reddit is very well designed and I think less exploitative than other social media

My issue is that you can’t serendipitously stumble upon random interesting subreddits without using the front page.

https://old.reddit.com/r/random/

Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

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Post by leokennis »

rkho wrote: post #63

Reddit is an intentionally designed dopamine machine with some areas of usefulness. There are pockets of great, high signal communities on Reddit that have not been unbundled. Discovery, however, is a mess. Some examples of some great subs: - HomeImprorvement is great for repair advice - Keto was helpful in my weight loss journey - Posture for, well, fixing my posture I've also bought and sold various digital and phy…

I would say that Reddit is an intentionally designed dopamine machine with *many* areas of usefulness. Most of Reddit is pretty great.

One example, /r/formula1 is the huge engaged community that every sport wishes it had. Live race threads are as close to watching the race with a bunch of friends in the room as it gets.

Same goes for most interests: the biggest community about it is probably on Reddit, and most likely the majority of the content on its sub is pretty high quality.

I do agree it can be a chore to find these communities. Especially when their name is only tangentially related to their thing (small example, the subreddit of the 90's show "Friends" is /r/howyoudoin). Reddit definitely needs to have some way to "tag" subreddits, and search on those tags.

Finally, indeed the default Reddit experience is a sort of clickbait dopamine machine of /r/pics, /r/funny, /r/me_irl etc. One the one hand this sucks, on the other hand, it keeps the casual low effort lurker out of your high quality subreddits.

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