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Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got started

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Re: Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got started

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Post by bmarquez »

twostorytower wrote: post #45
qwertox wrote: post #38

I ask myself on a weekly basis when old.reddit.com will disappear. And there is nothing more cruel than the new Reddit, UI-wise. Even Twitter's "threading" of conversations appears to make more sense, even though I have still not figured out how it works.

I know some people at Reddit and sadly it's definitely going to happen.

I hope the Fediverse replacement for Reddit, Lemmy, will pick up in popularity before old.reddit dies.

It makes a lot of sense since each "subreddit" could be its own server.

Re: Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got started

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Post by jasondigitized »

photochemsyn wrote: post #46

I tried Reddit for a while but overall the site is not that different from any incarnation of Twitter. The main difference is individuals vs. subreddits, and if you're careful selecting interesting individuals on Twitter / interesting subreddits on Reddit, you can often find a fair amount of useful content, but the effort is barely worth the bother, it feels like looking for needles in a haystack. If you're just pass…

Well run subreddits are vastly superior to Twitter. By way of example, if you are into homegyms or woodworking or Austin, there are three subreddits dedicated to those topics. I may be missing something about Twitter that allows me to focus on an esoteric topic that isn’t dependent on a inconsistent hashtag denotion. Twitter topics are simply too restricted and opinionated for my liking.

Re: Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got started

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Post by up_your_ass »

photochemsyn wrote: post #46

I tried Reddit for a while but overall the site is not that different from any incarnation of Twitter. The main difference is individuals vs. subreddits, and if you're careful selecting interesting individuals on Twitter / interesting subreddits on Reddit, you can often find a fair amount of useful content, but the effort is barely worth the bother, it feels like looking for needles in a haystack. If you're just pass…

You can try the third-party archive Pushshift for search.

Here's an interface to their API: https://camas.unddit.com

Replacing "reddit.com" in URLs with "unddit.com" or "reveddit.com" is also handy, it lets you see deleted or removed comments.

Re: Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got started

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Post by up_your_ass »

twostorytower wrote: post #45
qwertox wrote: post #38

I ask myself on a weekly basis when old.reddit.com will disappear. And there is nothing more cruel than the new Reddit, UI-wise. Even Twitter's "threading" of conversations appears to make more sense, even though I have still not figured out how it works.

I know some people at Reddit and sadly it's definitely going to happen.

Have they given any hints as to when?

Re: Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got started

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Post by corbulo »

samwillis wrote: post #15

The story of Reddit would make a good TV show, kind of "The Social Network" crossed with "The Crown". So many ups and downs, and many cross overs to other things happing in tech and the wider world. You could easily fill three or four seasons. "The front page of the Internet"

But who would have the guts to be honest about the bad parts?

Re: Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got started

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Post by up_your_ass »

celtoid wrote: post #25

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They've done a full 180° and are against free speech now. If you express certain forbidden opinions or bring up certain controversial topics, then your account gets permabanned. And that's side-wide. Individual subreddits, especially the more popular ones, are even more restrictive.

Re: Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got started

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Post by m348e912 »

qwertox wrote: post #38

I ask myself on a weekly basis when old.reddit.com will disappear. And there is nothing more cruel than the new Reddit, UI-wise. Even Twitter's "threading" of conversations appears to make more sense, even though I have still not figured out how it works.

old.reddit.com and it's imminent disappearance underscores that there is a still need for a user-centric web browser designed to combat user-hostile web ui. Here are some features I think the browser should have by default (without plugins)

Short feature list:

- Overwrite website code and display a user-hostile UI of popular sites like reddit/Facebook (this warrants a whole list in itself)

- offer a reader view of any website including pay walled websites

- easy access to archive a page using archive.today and to view already archived versions

- Right-click anything to download, images/videos/audio, even when sites like instagram and twitter make it difficult to do.

- Bypass field restrictions. Ever seen a password field where you can't paste text for whatever reason. That would not be a thing.

- Tab freeze for tabs not in focus - save CPU and battery energy

- Click the back button and end up at the same place on the page you clicked from instead of having to scroll endlessly to find where you were before

- Use a common user-agent so the browser doesn't get blacklisted by websites

- Accept only essential cookies by default

- Easy right-click and delete of paywall style overlays or other elements

- Ad block may not need to be built-in by default, but the ability to right-click and nuke a banner ad (especially the ones that don't disappear and block text even when you click the "x")

-Respect new lines when posting comments instead of users having to constantly go back, edit their comments, and add new lines to break up a wall of text

Re: Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got started

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Post by stametseater »

photochemsyn wrote: post #46

I tried Reddit for a while but overall the site is not that different from any incarnation of Twitter. The main difference is individuals vs. subreddits, and if you're careful selecting interesting individuals on Twitter / interesting subreddits on Reddit, you can often find a fair amount of useful content, but the effort is barely worth the bother, it feels like looking for needles in a haystack. If you're just pass…

One of the reasons I keep coming back to HN is because the comment search actually works, so it's easy to figure out what sort of things, if anything, has been said here about some topic. It's easy to search a project's name and find that one post from a guy 10 years ago who mentioned it, and also mentioned a better alternative.

With reddit it's not worth trying, even with Google and "site:reddit.com" searches. Reddit's SNR is awful, so you have to wade through dozens if not hundreds of posts of people mentioning the thing but saying nothing worthwhile. Pages of people asking questions relevant to your query, but not receiving any useful response. HN has some people asking questions, but most posts are about people volunteering information. On reddit, it seems like most posts are people asking questions into the void and rarely receiving an answer, and those kind of search results just aren't useful.

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