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Show HN: Subreddit Finder – find subreddits based on a topic

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Re: Show HN: Subreddit Finder – find subreddits based on a topic

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Post by data-leon »

mtmail wrote: post #3

I tried searching for the programming language 'perl' expecting https://old.reddit.com/r/perl/ The results only showed 'LaTeX' and 'me_irl' (a meme subreddit). Good results for 'php', 'ruby', 'node', 'pascal', 'haskell'

Thanks @mtmail for your feedback, will take a look and figure out what heppened to perl.

It might be because of our training data, as perl gets less popular, our training data might simply not having enough good data. : )

Re: Show HN: Subreddit Finder – find subreddits based on a topic

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Post by MauranKilom »

Wait, does https://old.reddit.com/subreddits/search not work? I mean, sure, it gives you a ton of random crap along with meaningful results, but in my experience it casts a wide enough net to have whatever you are looking for covered in the results.

Re: Show HN: Subreddit Finder – find subreddits based on a topic

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Post by imglorp »

Unpopular (?) opinion: marketing is killing the internet for absolutely no value to users.

At one point, we had communities of people, and discussions, and things were ok. Then came a mountain of commercial, automated, focused psyops against users: spaming, shilling, astoturfing, censoring, profiling, brigading, ab testing, engagement tracking, JS, ad auctions, eye tracking and on and on.

Reddit used to be a community and now it's dead site walking.

Re: Show HN: Subreddit Finder – find subreddits based on a topic

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Post by data-leon »

imglorp wrote: post #9

Unpopular (?) opinion: marketing is killing the internet for absolutely no value to users. At one point, we had communities of people, and discussions, and things were ok. Then came a mountain of commercial, automated, focused psyops against users: spaming, shilling, astoturfing, censoring, profiling, brigading, ab testing, engagement tracking, JS, ad auctions, eye tracking and on and on. Reddit used to be a communit…

Fair point, our goal was not to help people spam reddit, instead, I think one should contribute to the community and share their expertise, focus on contributing first.
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