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Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

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Post by danso »

nailer wrote: post #137
theWheez wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my experience, you get out of reddit what you put in. With an account you can unsubscribe from specific subreddits, which I have done to clean up my feed from angry/creepy/violent stuff and I get posts that I am very interested in, primarily from smaller subreddits about hobbies, sports, cool technology, etc.

I have an account, and am unsubscribed from subreddits I do not like. There's no way to visit /r/all without seeing all the political hate, creepypasta, and violence.

I've been a frequent Reddit user for 7+ years. I honestly don't remember the last time I've ever been to r/all except when some massive drama hits and I want to see what the fuss is about. I'm subscribed to dozens of subreddits so my default homepage is never wanting for interesting content. Because I've unsubscribed from r/news, r/worldnews, r/politics, I never see Reddit discussions on the news of the day. On the other hand, I greatly enjoy the occasional r/politicaldiscussion and r/neutralpolitics thread that show up on my homepage.

And I'm a user who sometimes seeks drama, that is, r/subredditdrama is one of my guilty pleasures. And I still don't get much of a toxic vibe.

That said, I also don't check r/programming very often. The discussions there seem much more blowhard than their equivalent threads on HN. So in other words, there already is a decent alternative to Reddit: HN. Twitter is also pretty decent.

Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

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Post by PKop »

nailer wrote: post #137
theWheez wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my experience, you get out of reddit what you put in. With an account you can unsubscribe from specific subreddits, which I have done to clean up my feed from angry/creepy/violent stuff and I get posts that I am very interested in, primarily from smaller subreddits about hobbies, sports, cool technology, etc.

I have an account, and am unsubscribed from subreddits I do not like. There's no way to visit /r/all without seeing all the political hate, creepypasta, and violence.

Why do you have to visit r/all ?

Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

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Post by nailer »

theWheez wrote: post #150
nailer wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have an account, and am unsubscribed from subreddits I do not like. There's no way to visit /r/all without seeing all the political hate, creepypasta, and violence.

Then don't visit /r/all? I'm not sure what the issue is here.

As mentioned: I'm interested in what's popular.

Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

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Post by PKop »

nailer wrote: post #145
michaelmrose wrote: post #144

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You realize that you can make your own front page called a multi reddit right?

Yes. I want to see popular shit from all all across reddit. Including subreddits I don't know about. There's no way to do that without seeing all the anger/violence/etc.

Filter those ones out?

Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

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Post by yonkshi »

znpy wrote: post #78

Signed up, wandered around, here are my impression. * Nothing fancy, nothing new, nothing impressive. I wouldn't spend time on this site. * The graphical design wasters most of my screen estate. * The side panel overlaps with the content when the window is not in full-screen. * If you register without an email, it is impossible to add one. * Did I mention that 60% of my screen estate is wasted ? * Reddit is open sour…

Generally agree. But correct me if I'm wrong, Reddit hasn't been open source for a long time?

Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

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Post by nailer »

will4274 wrote: post #139
nailer wrote: post #133

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I use the front page because I'm interested in what's popular. But someone's angry "f--k (politician here)" rant isn't my idea of entertainment, even if I don't like the politician, likewise various violence/creepy stuff that makes the front page. Reddit doesn't let me block subs.

It does actually. You can exclude subs from /r/all.

Not according to /r/help:

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/44498b/how_to_hide_or...

> there is no basic Reddit feature which will hide or filter a subreddit from the /r/All page.

Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

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Post by nsuser3 »

nailer wrote: post #137
theWheez wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my experience, you get out of reddit what you put in. With an account you can unsubscribe from specific subreddits, which I have done to clean up my feed from angry/creepy/violent stuff and I get posts that I am very interested in, primarily from smaller subreddits about hobbies, sports, cool technology, etc.

I have an account, and am unsubscribed from subreddits I do not like. There's no way to visit /r/all without seeing all the political hate, creepypasta, and violence.

Look here, you can filter subs from /r/all: http://i.imgur.com/YIEduLP.png

Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

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Post by nailer »

PKop wrote: post #156
nailer wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. I want to see popular shit from all all across reddit. Including subreddits I don't know about. There's no way to do that without seeing all the anger/violence/etc.

Filter those ones out?

Not possible: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14351421
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