Reddit is taking over Google

Post by sorenjan » Wed, Apr 17, 2024, 10:13 PM UTC

mark242 wrote: post #120

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…

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…

Post by mattmaroon » Wed, Apr 17, 2024, 10:25 PM UTC

sct202 wrote: post #132

mattmaroon wrote: post #126

Somehow Reddit has avoided being overrun by bot/affiliate spam and has become a better source of certain types of information. I don't know how. Perhaps some combination of the voting system (effectively outsourcing getting rid of junk) and algorithms. I'm building a photo booth and an example from today: if I search Google for the best budget PC with discrete graphics cards, everything other than the Reddit link is…

The legions of unpaid mods manually reviewing user comments and posts are such an advantage. A lot of people attempt to run their own shill subreddits but they end up being such poor quality and isolated that no one goes to them and they're basically invisible. I feel like one of the reasons reddit search is so bad, is that you actually get exposed to all the low quality subs that way whereas Google just ignores unpo…

Post by robswc » Wed, Apr 17, 2024, 10:27 PM UTC

some_random wrote: post #177

verzali wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Post by seattle_spring » Wed, Apr 17, 2024, 10:32 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 bdjsiqoocwk » Wed, Apr 17, 2024, 10:56 PM UTC

jmclnx wrote: post #119

Do 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…