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Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by count »

michaelpinto wrote: post #8

To me this sums up what Reddit really got right: "The community is the most passionate out there." Towards the end of his time with Digg Kevin Rose seemed to have little empathy for his audience, and the audience knew it when he checked out of the building and handed things over to Jay. The redesign was more about having a solid code base than rolling out new features for the users. And one got the sense that while t…

Actually, I think you've stumbled onto a more important point here.

Digg was primarily oriented around Kevin Rose and his 'posse'. Digg started bombing when Kevin bailed.

Reddit was never about Steve or Alexis, it always seemed to be about the community itself. So, when Steve, Alexis, Jeremy, Mike, and everybody else who'd been there forever 'left', there was nothing to implode - the community was still there and still thriving.

Does Kevin Rose even USE digg anymore? I know most of the original crew still uses Reddit, but just as users, like the rest of us poor slobs.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by michaelpinto »

count wrote: post #81
michaelpinto wrote: post #8

To me this sums up what Reddit really got right: "The community is the most passionate out there." Towards the end of his time with Digg Kevin Rose seemed to have little empathy for his audience, and the audience knew it when he checked out of the building and handed things over to Jay. The redesign was more about having a solid code base than rolling out new features for the users. And one got the sense that while t…

Actually, I think you've stumbled onto a more important point here. Digg was primarily oriented around Kevin Rose and his 'posse'. Digg started bombing when Kevin bailed. Reddit was never about Steve or Alexis, it always seemed to be about the community itself. So, when Steve, Alexis, Jeremy, Mike, and everybody else who'd been there forever 'left', there was nothing to implode - the community was still there and sti…

You're dead on -- Reddit was always about the users, never the founders. Not only did Rose stop using the site when he went away, but he seemed pleased to distance himself when he left. Sadly the new CEO seems to care, but many does he have his work cut out for him.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by Sniffnoy »

masklinn wrote: post #42
fudged71 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's no secret that the Programming subreddit has gone downhill in the past couple years. Plus, when a post gets popular, it gains the attention of the general audience, who often view /r/all. Another good subreddit is /r/todayilearned

> it gains the attention of the general audience, who often view /r/all. It's not that they view /r/all, it's that they have not customized their front page, so they get the default set of subreddits, which I believe is simply the subreddits with the most members.

I think it's the subreddits with the most members, except that mods can set their subreddits to not be on the default front page.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by whacker »

georgieporgie wrote: post #76
paganel wrote: post #67

Unfortunately, reddit has started to hit new and new lows. See this recent highly-voted post for example ( http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/jvhot/i_found_a_girl_... ), where they're making fun of a poor girl's badly photoshopped photos that she dared to publish on Flickr. I've been on reddit since its very beginnings, back when its being rewritten in Python was causing huge discussions or when programming.reddi…

TrueReddit Wow, thanks for that! It's like Reddit, but without all the memes, manipulators, and obvious spammers trying to pump up their karma with reposts. That's the first time in years that I've felt that I gained something in exchange for my time.

Unsubscribe from all the default frontpage reddits:

reddit.com politics pics gaming videos f7u12 askreddit etc.

and suddenly reddit looks much more civilized. The remaining reddits are mostly free of overt spamming and manipulation.

checkout /r/depthhub for real good stuff.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by bostonvaulter2 »

georgieporgie wrote: post #76
paganel wrote: post #67

Unfortunately, reddit has started to hit new and new lows. See this recent highly-voted post for example ( http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/jvhot/i_found_a_girl_... ), where they're making fun of a poor girl's badly photoshopped photos that she dared to publish on Flickr. I've been on reddit since its very beginnings, back when its being rewritten in Python was causing huge discussions or when programming.reddi…

TrueReddit Wow, thanks for that! It's like Reddit, but without all the memes, manipulators, and obvious spammers trying to pump up their karma with reposts. That's the first time in years that I've felt that I gained something in exchange for my time.

I'd also highly recommend r/depthhub

http://www.reddit.com/r/depthhub

Other more niche ones are good as well.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by bostonvaulter2 »

paganel wrote: post #67

Unfortunately, reddit has started to hit new and new lows. See this recent highly-voted post for example ( http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/jvhot/i_found_a_girl_... ), where they're making fun of a poor girl's badly photoshopped photos that she dared to publish on Flickr. I've been on reddit since its very beginnings, back when its being rewritten in Python was causing huge discussions or when programming.reddi…

Yeah, that is bad, but it is in r/funny. Other more niche subreddits are much better, like r/netsec

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by bostonvaulter2 »

jedberg wrote: post #61
Legion wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Comparing Reddit to USENET is probably one of the most insightful descriptions of Reddit I've seen anyone make. It is indeed a big loosely-related collection of communities, from which users choose a la carte their areas of participation. The Reddit my wife sees when she logs in is very different from the one I see, which is very different from the one fans of meme participation (rage comics, etc) see.

People have been calling reddit "Usenet 2.0" for a long time. In fact, usenet was something that often came up in discussions of how certain features should work and what features we should work on.

I don't disagree that some people have been comparing Reddit to usenet, but I've been an active redditor for 4 years and this is the first time I can recall someone comparing Reddit to usenet.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by bostonvaulter2 »

maurits wrote: post #73
ohashi wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you got no value out of the place, I think you were doing it wrong. My city (DC) has a thriving subreddit that meets up probably 2-3 times a week officially to do things - zombie invasion simulations, drinking, board games, go karting, etc. It's been a fantastic way to just get out and do stuff with people. There is a whole subreddit dedicated to 'Barcraft' which brings watching pro starcraft live to bars (like yo…

You gave me a new idea. I have two hobbies, one is a niche, and its subredit is dead in the water. The other is so broad its subredit suffers a bit from the fun&games comments. Which brings me to this. HN is a pretty nice community. What would happen if we make it a subredit, /r/hn? Its a pretty cool place with a group of growing, devoted followers. All is good. So one day, it gets promoted to the default frontpage.…

Apparently the subreddit mod can disable a subreddit from appearing on the default frontpage.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by bostonvaulter2 »

raldi wrote: post #69
tokenadult wrote: post #60

I searched this thread to see if monetization has been mentioned. I see that it has been. Monetization was mentioned as a reason that Digg failed. What way does Reddit have to make money? Does it make any difference to Reddit, if Reddit has no way to make money, how much traffic Reddit has?

Reddit has many revenue streams. In no particular order: sidebar ads, sponsored links, reddit gold (a for-pay set of premium features), sponsorships, merchandise...

I think Reddit could do much better with selling their merchandise, maybe by selling things directly. I don't think I was really aware of the reddit store, it's not very prominent and I don't remember many blog posts about it.

http://store.reddit.com/index.html

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