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Big Reddit Changes Coming? Conde Nast Purchases 285 Reddit Domain Names

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Re: Big Reddit Changes Coming? Conde Nast Purchases 285 Reddit Domain Names

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Post by mindcrime »

jokermatt999 wrote: post #17
gomer wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I haven't seen that at all on the sub-reddits I frequent. Maybe I just haven't been looking hard enough, but I still find /r/machinelearning, /r/semanticweb, /r/compscipapers, /r/csbooks, etc. to be very useful.

Re: Big Reddit Changes Coming? Conde Nast Purchases 285 Reddit Domain Names

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Post by jcitme »

kn0thing wrote: post #24
raldi wrote: post #8

This is a good example of coming to the right conclusion for the wrong reasons. Big things are indeed coming for reddit, but it has a lot more to do with Conde Nast finally investing some money in personnel than the fact that they registered redditgreen.com and redditblue.com. http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/11/reddit-programmer/

This.

I find this rather amusing, that kn0thing would make a post that's essentially the scourge of reddit. Are the reddit admins trying their hand at being a hipster, and /ironically/ posting this? :)

Re: Big Reddit Changes Coming? Conde Nast Purchases 285 Reddit Domain Names

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Post by raldi »

jcitme wrote: post #32
kn0thing wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This.

I find this rather amusing, that kn0thing would make a post that's essentially the scourge of reddit. Are the reddit admins trying their hand at being a hipster, and /ironically/ posting this? :)

It's okay when the replier is, in some way, an authority on the subject at hand. As in, "I, a cofounder of the site this person is talking about, hereby endorse his position."

Nobody cares if it's just, "I, as some random person on the Internet, endorse his position."

Re: Big Reddit Changes Coming? Conde Nast Purchases 285 Reddit Domain Names

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Post by dreamdu5t »

raldi wrote: post #29
dreamdu5t wrote: post #22

How about paying for proper server resources? I mean fuck... it's down every day multiple times.

It's not the servers' fault. Even Google would have terrible uptime if they only had five engineers -- regardless of how many servers they had.

Not in the case of Reddit? As far as I know, Reddit's main issue is constant 502 errors/requests timing out, which to my knowledge would indicate they constantly hit the limits of their webservers or don't understand how to load balance.

Re: Big Reddit Changes Coming? Conde Nast Purchases 285 Reddit Domain Names

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Post by skeletonjelly »

raldi wrote: post #33
jcitme wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find this rather amusing, that kn0thing would make a post that's essentially the scourge of reddit. Are the reddit admins trying their hand at being a hipster, and /ironically/ posting this? :)

It's okay when the replier is, in some way, an authority on the subject at hand. As in, "I, a cofounder of the site this person is talking about, hereby endorse his position." Nobody cares if it's just, "I, as some random person on the Internet, endorse his position."

Why say in many words what could be said in one. I mean ah..

Agreed. :P

The information density is in kn0thing's username, the comment was merely a nod of the head.

Re: Big Reddit Changes Coming? Conde Nast Purchases 285 Reddit Domain Names

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Post by aarlo »

thezilch wrote: post #25
hugh3 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, it's hard to imagine that they could possibly have specific plans for 285 domain names ranging from zenreddit.com to redditsex.com. Oh, and my personal favourite, redditthe.com

Surely you've heard of Mahalo's domain spam?

domain spam?

Re: Big Reddit Changes Coming? Conde Nast Purchases 285 Reddit Domain Names

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Post by city41 »

Macha wrote: post #28
itg wrote: post #12

I 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.

Unsuscribe from /r/reddit.com /r/todayilearned /r/pics /r/videos /r/askreddit /r/politics and pretty much all the default reddits. Suscribe to topic specific reddits ( e.g. /r/haskell or /r/Android ). Enjoy your tenfold improved reddit.

It's difficult to find good subreddits. Even if the subject matter of the subreddit interests you, it possibly only has dozen subscribers and received its last submission months ago. So subreddits are better than nothing, but could be better.

As an aside, I have found browsing reddit.com/r/all has allowed me to discover several neat subreddits I otherwise would have never found. (Warning, /r/all is all subreddits, including NSFW ones)

Re: Big Reddit Changes Coming? Conde Nast Purchases 285 Reddit Domain Names

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Post by est »

city41 wrote: post #38
Macha wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unsuscribe from /r/reddit.com /r/todayilearned /r/pics /r/videos /r/askreddit /r/politics and pretty much all the default reddits. Suscribe to topic specific reddits ( e.g. /r/haskell or /r/Android ). Enjoy your tenfold improved reddit.

It's difficult to find good subreddits. Even if the subject matter of the subreddit interests you, it possibly only has dozen subscribers and received its last submission months ago. So subreddits are better than nothing, but could be better. As an aside, I have found browsing reddit.com/r/all has allowed me to discover several neat subreddits I otherwise would have never found. (Warning, /r/all is all subreddits, in…

> It's difficult to find good subreddits.

That's propably why there are good subreddits.

Re: Big Reddit Changes Coming? Conde Nast Purchases 285 Reddit Domain Names

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Post by est »

itg wrote: post #12

I 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.

As an old saying, don't judge a person by its cover, so, don't judge a website by its default frontpage.
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