Hubski looks to me more like a HN clone and less like a Reddit replacement.
Ready For a Reddit Replacement?
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Re: Ready For a Reddit Replacement?
#42Re: Ready For a Reddit Replacement?
#43Reddit'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...
Not only that, but multi-reddits as well.
I've just got a bookmarks folder full of my favorite multi-reddits instead of a single Reddit bookmark to the front page.
My Reddit bookmarks folder:
Front Page: http://www.reddit.com/
News: http://www.reddit.com/r/business+economics+entertainment+lib...
Tech: http://www.reddit.com/r/android+androidquestions+apple+bacon...
Music: http://www.reddit.com/r/bass+hiphopheads+hiphoptruth+jazzyhi...
Funny: http://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals+classicrage+comics+fun...
Other: http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism+coffee+dating+design+fitness...
Random: http://www.reddit.com/r/answers+askscience+announcements+bes...
Re: Ready For a Reddit Replacement?
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not about segregation, it's about content promotion. Why should content-promotion algorithms be intelligence agnostic?
it's about content promotion. Why should content-promotion algorithms be intelligence agnostic? Because a "stupid" person might find the same thing interesting as a "dumb" person, hence the upvoting model. People who are inclined to agree are just as inclined to upvote these items, promoting them to a position where other people can consume said content.
And a dumb person may not find the same thing interesting. Do you have any research to indicate one way or the other? If not, why take a position against the notion of intelligence- and personality-based content?
Incidentally, in a sense, that's the old OKCupid model, but instead of LOLcats, it showed you potential relationship partners.
Re: Ready For a Reddit Replacement?
#45Site needs some work, right now it feels more like HN (Similar visual style aside), just one big spread of submissions.
As mentioned, the great part of reddit is sub-reddits, Hubski needs some sort of greater way to sort out and separate content. The proposed following users doesn't seem prominent enough to me yet, though maybe this will change as the site grows.
Re: Ready For a Reddit Replacement?
#46The 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…
Do they have to create a "product"? Reddit is open source, and you can download it if you like, from http://code.reddit.com/ . You could literally build what you are describing on the Reddit platform right now.
Apparently RedditOSS is in shambles, and very difficult to get working. They were looking to address that with the new hires, however.
Re: Ready For a Reddit Replacement?
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does IQ have to do with content? 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.
Is it even possible to have a dumb person who enjoys truly intellectual pursuits? I'm not outright stating its impossible, but I'd like to see a plausible scenario.
You are assuming that your are not dumb and that any of your life pursuits have been the slightest bit intellectual. Consider this, how likely is it that the act of trying to make or prove a point on the internet is stupid and what about the act makes you an intellectual or smart person?
Re: Ready For a Reddit Replacement?
#48reddit is almost entirely in existence due to its community/userbase. it's all it had when digg imploded, and it's pulled them through from dark to the traffic heights they are at now.
thing missing from reddit, despite the forum-like discussion thread part, is that it isn't social. it doesn't promote following users or anything of that nature or has little of those features (one thing that digg has/had)
thing is, currently, the way reddit is/is going -- there's not much that needs to be changed. it covers alot of use cases for alot of its userbase (i.e. I use it solely for submission and upvoting/link popularity tracking, and hardly for anything discussion/forum related)
Re: Ready For a Reddit Replacement?
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Re: Ready For a Reddit Replacement?
#50On 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.
Not Twitter, maybe Sina Weibo, hahaha