I've said this before and I'll say it again. As companies realize how much people like reddit as a trusted source of information, they will learn how to optimize reddit. Then it will slowly degrade just like google has.
Reddit is taking over Google
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Re: Reddit is taking over Google
#172I 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.…
Niche subreddits are still good, but above a certain size they all seem to become awful. Moderation is a major problem - not just the unpaid nature of it, but because so many of the moderators are terrible at their jobs or just sold out to some other cause. I've found myself drifting away from Reddit in the past year and now actually spend more time on dedicated forums (I was surprised by how many are still out there!)
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#173Great, so now spammers will target Reddit that much more. Give a year, few months even to see way worse Reddit content overall. The solution is federated search, federated forums.
How is that the solution? How does it address the issue of spam?
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#174To 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…
Nowadays the reddit engineers perverted the link system for old reddit users. New reddit users link to posts using a syntax that for old reddit users returns the submit a new post page. Also, just to twist the knife further, old reddit users can't open full resolution images hosted on reddit anymore. Click a link and you get thrown to this url: https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/media/nice_hat/?url=...
You can still view the the full sized image by click and open it in a different tab. It's a bit of hassle but at least it works
Re: Reddit is taking over Google
#175I've said this before and I'll say it again. As companies realize how much people like reddit as a trusted source of information, they will learn how to optimize reddit. Then it will slowly degrade just like google has.
Companies realised that a few years ago, we're well past the point where Reddit started to degrade.
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#176I just want a little plonk button under each result so I can blacklist sites that I am not interested in.
There you go:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-d...
It's VERY convenient.
(usable via greasemonkey / tampermonkey / violentmonkey)
Re: Reddit is taking over Google
#177I 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.…
Niche subreddits are still good, but above a certain size they all seem to become awful. Moderation is a major problem - not just the unpaid nature of it, but because so many of the moderators are terrible at their jobs or just sold out to some other cause. I've found myself drifting away from Reddit in the past year and now actually spend more time on dedicated forums (I was surprised by how many are still out there…
The biggest problem with mods is that normal people do not have the interest nor energy to moderate a subreddit past a certain point, so they end up getting muscled out by weirdos as a sub grows.
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#178Do not worry, Reddit just had a IPO (or is having?), so soon enough it will be just as useless as Google. Once old.reddit is gone, I am gone too. Not to mention google has a head start with dejanews. Reddit is just an over-glorified USENET. When google purchased dejanews all the did wzs ruin it instead of using it for decent information. FWIW I am seeing more posts on USENET these days and many providers are blocking…
> Once old.reddit is gone, I am gone too.
Please don't remove old
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's mind-boggling to me that Google didn't create a spec to work with special partners whereby they could get syndicated data in a format that was easy to ingest, and easy for their partners to produce. Lighting dollars on fire just to serve up pages to Googlebot, when you could just periodically dump a journal of updates to Google, is just crazy imo. On edit: if only there were some way to do some kind of really si…
Also, isn't this illegal? Either Google respected rate limits (which I doubt) or it was a form of a DDoS attack.
Google's entire business model is based on behavior that is now illegal.
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#180I'm not sure why you would promote Quora in search results. They lock non-members out after viewing just one or two answers, and the content on Quora is generally viewed as worse than Reddit (not that Reddit is particularly great...).
Quora used to be decent years ago. But at some point (My speculation), answering on Quora became a thing in India. Something that looks good on your resume or something. After that it went to shit pretty quickly.
What killed Quora for me was that they decided to prioritize quantity of questions over quality of questions, and as I recall, they even set up incentive programs to reward people for asking as many questions as possible.
The site was inundated with repetitive low-effort questions, often with false premises that seemed intentionally crafted to provoke people. The crappy questions drowned out the interesting ones that had previously made me a regular visitor.