Reddit is taking over Google

Post by rasz » Wed, Apr 17, 2024, 7:34 PM UTC

gary_0 wrote: post #50

jedberg wrote: post #29

To this day, my most public contribution to reddit is that I wrote the code to put the title of the post in the URL. That was done specifically for SEO purposes. It was pretty much the only SEO optimization we ever did (along with a few DOM changes), because shortly after that, Google basically dedicated engineering effort specifically to crawling reddit. So much so that we lost the "crawl rate" button in our SEO adm…

> That was done specifically for SEO purposes. As a human I also like it when I can see what topic a URL points to (eg. when it's being shared on HN, or pasted into source code, etc). URLs that just have an opaque ID or terse filename are not very user-friendly.

    for (let value of document.querySelectorAll('.first a.bylink.comments')) {
     let href = value.closest('.top-matter').querySelector('.title a.title.may-blank').href;
     if (href != value.href && (
      href.startsWith('https://www.reddit.com/') ||
      href.startsWith('https://v.redd.it'))
        ) {
      console.log (href, value.href);
      value.closest('.top-matter').querySelector('.title a.title.may-blank').href = value.href;
     }
    }

Post by csa » Wed, Apr 17, 2024, 7:36 PM UTC

bun_terminator wrote: post #59

haunter wrote: post #16

I still prefer reddit most of the time. Front page (default) subs are highly manipulated (especially anything news, politics, current things etc.) but for hobbies, video games, and sports it's still the best site. Video game discusssions especially because unlike Discord every tip, guide, and walkthrough is archived and searchable. And for sports mostly because it's _insane_ how quickly you get highlights and videos.…

I don't understand how they still have mods. Reddits boss hates them. Everyone else, too. They have 100% a negative impact. The site would be wonderful without moderation as that's already covered by the voting mechanism.

Post by tayo42 » Wed, Apr 17, 2024, 7:37 PM UTC

dageshi wrote: post #42

chomp wrote: post #8

> Responding to a post on X, Google search liaison Danny Sullivan said users not only like seeing "forum content" but that they "proactively seek it out." Nothing cures my imposter syndrome more than seeing so many Google employees completely fail to understand what is happening here. People aren’t tacking Reddit to queries because they particularly like Reddit or because they want to see user generated content, it’s…

That's presumably because very few people will make new websites on subjects when they can make a youtube channel instead. The web has been hollowing out for a while, AI has just massively increased the speed of that process recently.

Post by adamomada » Wed, Apr 17, 2024, 7:39 PM UTC

owlninja wrote: post #61

Solvency wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

every single sub no matter how niche is infested with bots or spam/schill accounts. every single parenting/mom sub is inundated by formula companies. every fan niche like comicbooks is full of bot accounts in training (building up karma with low effort posts and repeat copy posts from previous days from other posters). everything, everywhere.

People always say this but no one ever proves it.

Post by TulliusCicero » Wed, Apr 17, 2024, 7:43 PM UTC

bun_terminator wrote: post #59

haunter wrote: post #16

I still prefer reddit most of the time. Front page (default) subs are highly manipulated (especially anything news, politics, current things etc.) but for hobbies, video games, and sports it's still the best site. Video game discusssions especially because unlike Discord every tip, guide, and walkthrough is archived and searchable. And for sports mostly because it's _insane_ how quickly you get highlights and videos.…

I don't understand how they still have mods. Reddits boss hates them. Everyone else, too. They have 100% a negative impact. The site would be wonderful without moderation as that's already covered by the voting mechanism.