http://www.reddit.com/r/hackernews/
>submission in this subreddit is restricted to approved submitters.
Feh.
Poll: How many people here use Reddit?
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Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?
#52I think both HackerNews and Reddit are great for both the consumers of content, and the creators too. Without sites like these it would be a lot harder to get the word out about a new site or service. For example, i'm promoting my own creation, meta64.com, and I can do it here without being smacked down and censored. For example, Youtube won't even let people post links. That is ridiculous. Why not just give people a…
There used to be an IM application in the '90s called Odigo that was tied to your browser window - it would create a sort of ad-hoc chat-room based on your browsing. The problem was that it didn't intelligently parse URL paramaters so you had only "this exact URL that nobody else sees because of some hyper-specific stuff in the URL" and "everybody on the same domain" which was worthless for, say, Geocities.
I'm sure somebody is working on a modern web-ish version. You'd want to properly hack it for popular sites to parse URL parameters so that it would create rooms at the correct granularity.
Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?
#53We (rsync.net) use reddit as an advertising venue ... specifically /r/programming and /r/linux ... and maybe /r/sysadmin from time to time. One interesting divergence - a month or two ago we offered this to the HN community: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5640700 ... and then at some point we offered something similar to a decent chunk of reddit ... We get a very, very big response - lots of people took us up o…
Interesting. I saw the link here, but somehow never noticed it on Reddit (I'm assuming you posted to r/programming and r/linux?).
Also, I haven't taken advantage of it yet, because what am I going to do with 50 gigs? I only need like 5 :)
Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?
#54The key to making reddit a bearable experience, and I think most people on HN will agree with this, is honing into specific subreddits that you believe are worth participating in and using them exclusive to the rest of the site. For me it's askhistorians, a relatively small community with ruthless moderation that stomps quickly and decisively on anything that isn't properly cited and maintains a healthy base of exper…
Is there a list of good, high-quality subreddits somewhere? I would like to update my homepage to filter only the best ones.
There should be multireddits these days made for that purpose, but I haven't explored the feature enough to be able to provide the answer.
Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there a list of good, high-quality subreddits somewhere? I would like to update my homepage to filter only the best ones.
Not a list, but if you don't know where to start, check out r/bestof and dive deeper when you like the discussion on a particular subreddit.
Couple of other hints for subreddit discovery: if you find one interesting subreddit, check out its sidebar as many have a related subreddits section there. Also check "other discussions" tab for interesting links to see what other subreddits it has been posted on.
Picking your subreddits is a neverending task, I'm couple of years in and still keep finding new and old interesting subreddits.
Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?
#56I used to reddit a lot before I got hooked on to YC (usually the tech subreddit). I love the format but try to stay away from cat pictures.
Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?
#57I would be interested in hearing about other hobbies / interests / past times / etc have decent subreddits (beyond programming / hacking).
My current obsession is skydiving and r/skydiving is a pretty good discussion forum and link aggregator for the topic.
My previous obsession was starcraft 2 and r/starcraft was very interesting to me.
I've juggled for years and occasionally swing by r/juggling and tend to find interesting tid bits.
Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?
#58I check it out sometime, but most of the time I'm grossed out by the comments and/or content even that on the homepage.
Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?
#59We (rsync.net) use reddit as an advertising venue ... specifically /r/programming and /r/linux ... and maybe /r/sysadmin from time to time. One interesting divergence - a month or two ago we offered this to the HN community: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5640700 ... and then at some point we offered something similar to a decent chunk of reddit ... We get a very, very big response - lots of people took us up o…
I've actually noticed the your advertising. You posted on http://redd.it/1o13ry less than a day ago and http://redd.it/1ngwk1 a little more than a week ago. However, neither of your posts did not seemed highly related to Git. They seemed like a very obvious, unrelated plugs and neither post garnered any comments. I think this might be the reason you did not get much of a response. The posts seemed like ads and people may have just ignored them offhand as they do most advertising. Perhaps you could tweak the advertising copy to contribute more to the subreddits where you post them?
Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?
#60I use it mostly to procrastinate and look at kitty pictures.
I'm subscribed to ruby, rails, programming and the main "hacker" subreddit, which sometime offer nice articles I don't find on HN (I rarely go further than front page).
A friend had a really good experience with a side project that made it to one of the programming subreddit front page and it brought thousands of visits that day.
I think HN still offers more quality, but some subreddit are close.
Just my 2c :)