Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

reuters.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

251–260 of 441 posts

Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

#251

Post by freebuju »

My problem with Reddit is it's algo. The content recommendation is terribly bad. Subscribe to r/pic, r/funny and r/popular then mix these with other high quality or niche subs.

No matter how much upvote, engagement data you give their algos as to your personal preferences,, your front page will always suck. Case in point, when several high profile Twitter accounts were hacked and used to solicit bitcoins from users, none of the threads were immediately visible on their front pages.

And I discovered this borked content recommendation is worser on some platforms than others. E.g reddit front page on a browser sucks 100x compared to their official app. And 50x compared to a 3rd party app. Most of this is eerily intentional. To push you towards using their clients.

Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

#252

Post by jokoon »

57875786 wrote: post #79

Reddit at this point is a native advertising platform (not just the "promoted" stuff; much of the content on popular subs is astroterfing/native advertising too) with some "niche" communities that are always inferior (worse information, less informed members) than the equivalent StackExchange or dedicated website and message board that's been around for decades. It's a garbage website.

You're quite negative

If you compare it to all the current social medias, reddit seems to be fairest of them all. the admins are working quite hard to make sure things are balanced with moderators etc, but it's always a delicate balance.

It's obviously the target of astroturfers, but honestly it's a sign that reddit is actually quite a more organic network compared to others, if it's such a target.

Meanwhile, everybody knows facebook/instagram are less organic and too much oriented towards ads; reddit has much more authenticity, or at least that's how users feel.

I totally agree with your criticism, but it's not really the fault or the website, it's just impossible to prevent astroturfing, it's more of a law problem.

Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

#253

Post by mda »

juped wrote: post #158
comboy wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit is a company that made people moderate their content for free. You don't need to know sub names to get some use of it. I append "reddit" to probably 1/3 of my search engine queries. Especially useful when looking for product recommendations.

This just works because Google is at a more advanced stage of decay into content farm dystopia than Reddit is.

Not Google, Internet.

Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

#254

Post by MagnumOpus »

hansel_der wrote: post #225
wtf_is_up wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been a frequent reddit user for 10 years. I don't know if I can continue if they deprecate old.reddit.com and i.reddit.com. The new version is just so bad it's astounding.

same same. can't help but wonder what the goal of the redesign was...

The goal is explicitly to make the web experience especially on mobile so bad that people are driven to install the app. Apparently an installed app drives engagement and can be monetized better (circumventing adblockers etc).

Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

#255

Post by ZephyrBlu »

optimalsolver wrote: post #249
ZephyrBlu wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

/r/formula1 has useful info, but it feels very cliquey and fanboyish.

I think that's just an accurate reflection of F1 fandom, rather than anything to do with Reddit.

Mmm. That kinda sucks. I started watching some F1 stuff last year, but the attitude on that sub has put me off a bit.

Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

#256

Post by Lutger »

bad_username wrote: post #188
NoPicklez wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you not argue that HN is the same thing, just at a smaller scale? HN is essentially just a front page. Reddit just doesn't tailor itself to one particular type of discussion like HN does. But rather the dominant topics of discussion such as /r/funny frequently dominate the front page due to popularity. Reddit is really what you make of it and if you only subscribe to topics that interest you, it becomes a vastl…

In terms of features and intent HN is similar to Reddit. But HN is miles and miles ahead in the quality of discussion, moderation, and diversity of thought and opinions.

Really impossible to compare. There are very good subreddits, even better than HN, and then there's stuff like r/The_Donald. HN is just a single community, reddit has tons.

It also just depends on your subject of interest and what tone of voice, humor, etc your are appreciative of.

Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

#258

Post by optimalsolver »

collyw wrote: post #235
cblconfederate wrote: post #197

Reddit (and discord) seem to me ripe to be unbundled. They are benefiting enormously from the free labour of moderators, and their network advantage depends highly on google's asinine decisions to block out anything but the top 10 sites on their search results. Due to aging moderators, overcrowded communities and meme fatigue, we re more likely to watch their communities break off independently.

> They are benefiting enormously from the free labour of moderators A lot of people leave Reddit because of the heavy handed moderation and groupthink.

Where do they go?

Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

#259

Post by aurbano »

heterodyning wrote: post #196
somedude895 wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't forget r/askhistorians One of the most well-moderated communities out there with clear and stringently enforced rules that cares about one topic only and allows no soap boxing, low quality comments or toxicity.

I wish there was an archive of r/askhistorians. It looks like they nuke discussion after they get one decent sized answer. I cant seem to find older threads too.

Oh the irony!

Re: Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

#260

Post by patrickk »

DoingIsLearning wrote: post #219
patrickk wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Search a topic through multireddit and you’ll often find users collection of related subreddits on a given topic, e.g. DIY https://old.reddit.com/user/patrick_k/m/diy/

It's a great feeling when you find out something new that you really like! I did not know this was a feature and it is pretty damn cool!

Glad you like it :)

It's a great way to keep an overview on an array of topics. I set them up for a large array of interests of mine, e.g. business (slavelabor, juststart and others), cool PC setups (battestations and unixp0rn), DIY, development, passive income, indoor gardening, cooking, ebikes, streaming tv (Plex, PlexACD, TiviMate).....

If you ever want to see the best ideas in a niche, just sort by > top > this year or all time, and you'll get great ideas and inspiration.

I just laugh when people say Reddit is rubbish, they just don't know how to curate and look properly for the gold on there.

You can also browse multireddits set up by others:

https://old.reddit.com/r/multihub/

Post reply on HN