The only thing I've used reddit for in recent times are projects (like rust) that use it as their official forum. Otherwise, I tend to find that my needs are better filled by independent, specialized forums (RCGroups, reprap, etc), and imageboards like 4chan or 8chan provide endless entertainment value.
Ask HN: Are you working on a Reddit replacement? What is it?
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Re: Ask HN: Are you working on a Reddit replacement? What is it?
#22My Reddit replacement is Reddit, minus all the people who want to leave because of Reddit closing r/jailbait, r/thefappening, and r/fatpeoplehate. It's a pretty cool site, you should check it out.
That's a remarkably unfair characterization of people who have issues with Reddit.
Re: Ask HN: Are you working on a Reddit replacement? What is it?
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Re: Ask HN: Are you working on a Reddit replacement? What is it?
#24I've been toying with making one since I realized Reddit has been devolving into a reactionary, hate filled site. I was thinking about having a gimmick of graph based commenting to prevent the "top post guides discussion" effect. Not sure at how feasible or user friendly that could be.
Someone should make a version of reddit where your upvote/downvote record is what shapes the ordering for you. There should be a global rank and an individual rank that is calculated for each user something like the netflix 5 star system. That way the hateful stuff won't appear unless you upvoted hateful stuff. Liberals and conservatives could both get the content they want going to the same politics forum. It should…
What you are essentially describing, also used by Netflix, is a "collaborative filtering" machine learning algorithm [1]. It is a fascinating sparse-matrix problem that could be applied to many situations dependent upon individual preferences.
Re: Ask HN: Are you working on a Reddit replacement? What is it?
#25Just as a side note: reddit is open source (I belive): https://github.com/reddit/reddit
It's actually fairly simple to get running. I'm bopping around in a private instance right now. Looks like there would be an insane amount of work to re-brand everything, but it's certainly possible.
It's licensed under CPAL, which I am unfamiliar with and do not know if it would allow for commercial use.
Re: Ask HN: Are you working on a Reddit replacement? What is it?
#26I want to put Arc to some serious load testing!
PG and current sys-admins of HN, open the flood gates, put in this ticket for HN development project: "Create sub-HackNewsies".
Also, I think Reddit source code is open source; so people can use that too! A great business idea I think is doing a bannedsubreddits.com/r/{banned}; crawl webarchive.org for the previous archives for all the banned subreddits for continuity...
Re: Ask HN: Are you working on a Reddit replacement? What is it?
#27Is Reddit doomed already?
Without a radical turnaround, yeah, I think so. It feels very much like Digg did back in the day. When your userbase is your main asset and you treat them as a given, bad things happen.
When Digg died it was a combination of unpopular policy and a completely broken v4 upgrade that broke the site for weeks.
Re: Ask HN: Are you working on a Reddit replacement? What is it?
#28Is Reddit doomed already?
Without a radical turnaround, yeah, I think so. It feels very much like Digg did back in the day. When your userbase is your main asset and you treat them as a given, bad things happen.
Except that reedit had the population before digg crashed. There currently aren't any sizeable alternatives to reedit right now, so the same thing can't possibly happen
Re: Ask HN: Are you working on a Reddit replacement? What is it?
#29I've been toying with making one since I realized Reddit has been devolving into a reactionary, hate filled site. I was thinking about having a gimmick of graph based commenting to prevent the "top post guides discussion" effect. Not sure at how feasible or user friendly that could be.
I would love to see a commenting site with strong, pseudonymous identity support, to create a greater barrier to the racist and misogynistic trolls who infest the default sub-reddits currently. Some options: 1. Register with a phone number (do some basic checks to avoid Google Voice, Twilio, etc.) 2. Accounts cost $1, payable either through Payal or credit card. Accounts are tied to the payment credentials. 3. Partic…
> 2. Accounts cost $1, payable either through Payal or credit card. Accounts are tied to the payment credentials.
is that a good idea? If accounts are paid, then "richer" opinions have bigger impact on the site