Perhaps they got some (dubious?) SEO advice suggesting that splitting subreddits over more registered names would improve their serch rankings and ad rates?
Big Reddit Changes Coming? Conde Nast Purchases 285 Reddit Domain Names
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#12I know the phrase "reddit has become worse over time" is pretty much a meme here on hn but wow has that website been extremely bad as of late. Nothing but rage comics and pictures of pets, and some trolling. Probably a combination of more and more people plus summer vacation for the kids who have too much time on their hands.
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#13This isn't a big move, it's just good houskeeping. First it was hiring developers. Now this, which helps them with SEO, possibly using all these sites as redirects to sub-reddits.
http://www.betabeat.com/2011/06/02/conde-nast-has-big-plans-...
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#14I know the phrase "reddit has become worse over time" is pretty much a meme here on hn but wow has that website been extremely bad as of late. Nothing but rage comics and pictures of pets, and some trolling. Probably a combination of more and more people plus summer vacation for the kids who have too much time on their hands.
Everything is broken into subreddits on reddit and if you learn to select the subreddits that interest you instead of just reading the "rage comic" and "pet picture" subreddits it might be of more interest.
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#15I bet they are registering the subreddit domains to have them redirect to the subreddits. All of them seem like pretty established subreddits. Perhaps they want the subreddits to function more like stand alone websites?
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#16I know the phrase "reddit has become worse over time" is pretty much a meme here on hn but wow has that website been extremely bad as of late. Nothing but rage comics and pictures of pets, and some trolling. Probably a combination of more and more people plus summer vacation for the kids who have too much time on their hands.
Everything is broken into subreddits on reddit and if you learn to select the subreddits that interest you instead of just reading the "rage comic" and "pet picture" subreddits it might be of more interest.
Agreed. My mix of subreddits is article heavy and awesome. I'm always a little surprised when I find myself logged off on the default front page - about 85% imgur links at least.
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#17I know the phrase "reddit has become worse over time" is pretty much a meme here on hn but wow has that website been extremely bad as of late. Nothing but rage comics and pictures of pets, and some trolling. Probably a combination of more and more people plus summer vacation for the kids who have too much time on their hands.
Everything is broken into subreddits on reddit and if you learn to select the subreddits that interest you instead of just reading the "rage comic" and "pet picture" subreddits it might be of more interest.
Rage comics, advice animals, scumbag x, etc have bled over into virtually every subreddit now. It's basically part of reddit's culture.
I've said it before, but you can unsubscribe from a subreddit, but you can't unsubscribe from a culture.
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#18I know the phrase "reddit has become worse over time" is pretty much a meme here on hn but wow has that website been extremely bad as of late. Nothing but rage comics and pictures of pets, and some trolling. Probably a combination of more and more people plus summer vacation for the kids who have too much time on their hands.
I don't see a single rage comic or pet picture when I log into Reddit.
I see stories about technology, computer science, physics, all the programming languages and tools I use, Minecraft, Austin Texas, Team Fortress, etc.
My wife logs into her account and she sees a million stories about crafts.
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#19I know the phrase "reddit has become worse over time" is pretty much a meme here on hn but wow has that website been extremely bad as of late. Nothing but rage comics and pictures of pets, and some trolling. Probably a combination of more and more people plus summer vacation for the kids who have too much time on their hands.
subscribe to truereddit depthhub etc unsubscribe from everything you hate about reddit
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#20Vertical (ie. reddit___.com or _____reddit.com) and Horizontal (ie raddit.com riddit.com etc.) domain securing is standard practice. It does not necessarily mean that those market will be actively brought online, instead it means that those markets will be unavailable for pirates and coat tail surfers. However, it's always fascinating to see these little tactical moves on the part of larger companies.