Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit

Post by rhodozelia » Wed, May 19, 2021, 2:34 AM UTC

moistly wrote: post #83

zitterbewegung wrote: post #43

I didn't realize that Reddit even recommends you content. And I can't tell the difference between before and after these recommendations are coming in. The blog post feels like one that Youtube made about their recommender system and how it improved but, their recommender system doesn't work. Reddit has been sort of this weird place where they face the issues that Digg and Twitter have and want to slowly transition i…

> It feels like they just want you to use the App so you have to look at their advertisements. I browse using iOS Safari in privacy mode. Over the past few months Reddit has been doing everything they can to discourage that, including blocking me from reading threads by throwing up a non-dismissible modal with the bogus statement “We cannot verify this content yadda”, preventing sub-comment expansion, and screwing wi…

Post by hypertele-Xii » Wed, May 19, 2021, 9:42 AM UTC

ALittleLight wrote: post #105

hypertele-Xii wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What is wrong with 'recommendation service'? Telling dozens of competing recommendation services apart somehow.

RedditRecommendationService. Although, "Recommendation Service" is likely plenty clear if used in a discussion between two reddit engineers.