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On Hubski, user follow one another, rather than communities, as they do on Reddit. Instead of voting a post up and down, you simply share it. That propagates it to your readers; the more people share it, the hotter that post becomes. sounds like he has created Twitter.
Give users a basic IQ and personality test. Provide different content based upon where they fall.
Steven Hawking could enjoy lolcats and your garbage man might be an ardent reader of philosophy. Stereotyping based on IQ or profession is fairly stupid. Smart people can like dumb things and dumb people can enjoy intellectual pursuits. If you want to pigeon hole people into categories go back to a high school cafeteria.
I always think it's ridiculous when I hear "It's the new reddit" and then see what basically amounts to a Wordpress blog layout. Reddit, digg, HN were all partly successful because of their layout, not in spite of it. I don't want to scroll past the meta of every article today just to see what you have; I want a list of what's happening that is sorted/controlled by the community. And the less images, the better. I li…
I would say that HN is successful in spite of its layout.
It's also not going to attract much attention if you have it open at work.
The problem is that they are using rather primitive forum systems like phpBB and the like.
After using reddit, phpBB is like going to the stone age, imagine if hacker news was on a simple forum system like that.
I know reddit is an aggregator site, but I think they are the strongest competitor to forums, think about it: how hard is it get the gist of a discussion on one of those forums, where you have to scroll through tens of pages on a really popular topic.
my point is: why doesn't reddit create a product that will allow any site to to have their own subreddit style page completely autonomous of reddit.com?
Reddit's beauty is in sub-reddits. Don't like the front page? Just unsubscribe from it, and subscribe to whatever you like. http://forhiremedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/map-of-re...
No social platform is going to disrupt the existing systems until they decouple content and organization. The main issue is that we assume that all 'upvotes' are equal. If a user can select who is in their filter layer (like in Twitter), as opposed to selecting content (a subreddit), there will be a shift away from the cycle of bread and circuses. Hubski may be doing that but only implementing this one graph node dee…
Are you sure this isn't already happening to some degree? What reaches the front page of my account is different from what reaches the front page with cookies cleared. I suspect reddit is already using AI algorithms to filter out what is relevant based on who I upvote, the subreddits I visit, who I interact with, etc...
The reason I like reddit is because of the subreddits. There are, however, really great communities for discussing something really niche outside of reddit. Some of which have bigger communities with even better contributors than reddit. The problem is that they are using rather primitive forum systems like phpBB and the like. After using reddit, phpBB is like going to the stone age, imagine if hacker news was on a s…
Reddit is all about its community - you cannot defeat it with just features alone. And if you've figured out how to reliably build a community from scratch on the internet, well, there's a few billion dollars in it for you...
Reddit is most certainly having its own Eternal September. I can not say I like that community much at all anymore
I'm imagining right now a Reddit with Slashdot's moderation system... but, I continue dreaming.