Poll: How many people here use Reddit? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by bdcravens » Wed, Oct 09, 2013, 9:11 PM UTC

changdizzle wrote: post #23

If you guys are reddit fans, the Reddit Enhancement Suite ( http://redditenhancementsuite.com/ ) is a great free add-on, and allows you some really cool features like tagging, subreddit management and other widgets. As L_Rahman also mentioned in the comments here, customizing your subreddits is key to enhancing your experience. Some cool non-default subreddits I've subbed to are bitcoin, explainlikeimfive, bayarea an…

It actually has a pretty decent command line mode (hit ".", and do things like jump to a Subreddit, type "?" for help, etc)

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by atwebb » Wed, Oct 09, 2013, 9:13 PM UTC

natural219 wrote: post #26

L_Rahman wrote: post #5

The 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.

It completely depends upon your interests, I'm subscribed to a number of music related ones though nowadays I'm wondering why I don't just go back to a message board like AudioKarma...

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by bdcravens » Wed, Oct 09, 2013, 9:14 PM UTC

mumbi wrote: post #13

I check out /r/programming on the occasion. More often than not, I've already seen whatever they have here or somewhere else, though.

I actually like r/programming as almost a "hacker" filter of hacker news, where the posts I'm interested in from HN are typically there, for a longer period of time (days instead of hours) with all the non-programming noise filtered out (Apple, NSA, sociopolitical, YC, SF, etc articles)

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by duaneb » Wed, Oct 09, 2013, 9:17 PM UTC

Fuzzwah wrote: post #57

I 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 int…

/r/askhistorians has excellent quality content, potentially the best of the ask* reddits. Mods are brutal about moderation, leading to few but high quality discussions.

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by busterarm » Wed, Oct 09, 2013, 9:17 PM UTC

wyclif wrote: post #29

Seven-Year Club here. I've been on Reddit since the first week, right after Spez and Alexis got it hacked together. After HN went live, my use of Reddit tailed off a lot. When it became more like 4Chan (after Conde Nast purchased it?) it tailed off even more. These days I never see the front page and rarely comment, only browsing the subreddits.

Sort of similar here, but in my purge of social networking, I'd decided that my reddit comment history might paint me in a negative light and deleted my old reddit account entirely.

I made a new account that I don't comment on and _maybe_ look at the site once a week. HN has almost all of the content that I wanted from there anyway.

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by lsc » Wed, Oct 09, 2013, 9:20 PM UTC

rsync wrote: post #39

We (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 think... that might be the difference between advertising and an actual post by a member of the community. Nobody pays attention to advertising. My big breakout[1] was posted both here and reddit (and I didn't track which got me more customers) but... I don't think I could have paid for that.

Well, that and I think that per-capita, hacker news buys a lot more "cloud services" than reddit does. A lot more. This is the upside to the heavy business slant to hacker news. Most people here have or will at some point try to use a website to make money directly, whereas most of r/sysadmin works for other people. I'd expect you'd pay a lot more per impression here vs. reddit if hacker news supported reddit style ads.

As an aside, hacker news is also much more open to advertising-like posts by members of the community than most technically-oriented communities... which I find kind of weird.

[1]http://uggedal.com/journal/vps-comparison-between-slicehost-...

(and yes, he comes back later recommending linode instead, and I'm sure he would make a different recommendation today, if he re-ran his tests.)

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by mhurron » Wed, Oct 09, 2013, 9:20 PM UTC

seivan wrote: post #27

Avid reader, have yet to sign up.

I can't stand trying to read anything on reddit. The whole experience seems like a pain in the ass.

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by davidgerard » Wed, Oct 09, 2013, 9:24 PM UTC

It's television. Reddit is something you read for utterly mindless entertainment and to relax your brain after a hard day's thinking.

I've tried posting links there and it's mediocre. Might get you links if it's a hit, but you basically have to act like a spammer to get anywhere.

The last thing I got Redditdotted was this http://rocknerd.co.uk/2013/09/13/culture-is-not-about-aesthe... - 80,000 hits on a blog with no advertising or anything that usually gets 20-30 hits a day. (Buy a T-shirt! https://arkadiandreams.spreadshirt.com/shop/designs We're all supposed to live off T-shirts now, right?) But that got on Slashdot first, which is where I think the Reddit posters got it from.

Mind you, BuzzFeed makes Reddit look like bloody LessWrong. If Reddit is BBC1, BuzzFeed is ITV2. Or Dave. Or the deepest most braindamaged high hundreds channels on Sky.

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by mindcrime » Wed, Oct 09, 2013, 9:27 PM UTC

I use both Reddit and Hacker News, although I spend more time on HN. I was also inspired enough by Reddit to create a "reddit like" for enterprise (internal) use. So I voted "use reddit" and "use other".

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by personlurking » Wed, Oct 09, 2013, 9:27 PM UTC

natural219 wrote: post #26

L_Rahman wrote: post #5

The 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.

Not that I know of, but if you like learning and are curious, I'd look into /TrueReddit and any other subs in the sidebar, and /AskHistorians, plus anything in their sidebar.