Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

Post by bulldoa » Wed, May 30, 2018, 9:27 PM UTC

yurishimo wrote: post #289

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I have always been wondering, would people choose to pay reddit instead of getting ads, like 1$ or 10$ a month?

This is effectively what Reddit Gold is. In a perfect world, Reddit would be completely funded through Gold, therefore eliminating the pressure on higher ups to increase revenue through ads or other less than ideal revenue streams. Unfortunately, Gold has not been enough to fund the site (if the sidebar on the front page is to be believed) for a long time.

Post by thiagocsf » Wed, May 30, 2018, 9:27 PM UTC

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I think it's okay to some extent but I find that forums definitely are a much better resource and controversial threads or posts in forums don't get buried or hidden by a downvote. Some of the most humorous threads you'll read would have had a -inf rating and thus never seen on reddit. To me, reddit seems a great way for a community to reinforce groupthink. Instances I can think of are forums for motorcycles, cars, p…

But there is a giant subreddit for all BMW cars...

Post by mistermann » Wed, May 30, 2018, 9:29 PM UTC

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I think it's okay to some extent but I find that forums definitely are a much better resource and controversial threads or posts in forums don't get buried or hidden by a downvote. Some of the most humorous threads you'll read would have had a -inf rating and thus never seen on reddit. To me, reddit seems a great way for a community to reinforce groupthink. Instances I can think of are forums for motorcycles, cars, p…

There are plenty of really shallow forums, and plenty of really close-knit and/or tolerant sub-reddits with good moderators. It's just that the big ones are the easiest to find, and tends to quickly become impossible to moderate in anything but very impersonal ways. > I also dislike reddit because it's hard to remember a name constantly There are tons of extensions/apps for Reddit that lets you annotate/tag users and…

Post by jacquesm » Wed, May 30, 2018, 9:32 PM UTC

icebraining wrote: post #197

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This made me lol at work. Don't know why this is getting downvoted

Your first phrase answers the second. Humor is only upvoted in HN if it provokes a wry smile.

Post by shostack » Wed, May 30, 2018, 9:33 PM UTC

city41 wrote: post #194

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Reddit works because it’s anonymous, information-dense and relatively ad-free. Change any one of those three and the user base will abandon you. It’s been Reddit’s dilemma since the beginning: you can’t monetize a toxic user base that has total freedom. Sure you can try to drive away the toxic users, but it turns out that those toxic users are also pretty influential in non-toxic aspects. I’m still skeptical of Reddi…

> and relatively ad-free The redesign that's currently in beta seems to mostly be driven by the desire to embed more ads. Instead of just one ad at the top of the page, there's new several spread throughout the feed, very similar to Twitter's promoted tweets.