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Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by jjcm »

wisty wrote: post #66
giberson wrote: post #64

I'll admit to being one of the latecomers to reddit in the last year. I use to avoid reddit like the plague, because I thought reddit was just www.reddit.com (the main page) which the few times I visited was filled with random assortment of stuff I didn't care about. Later, I discovered the true essence of reddit, sub-reddits. Things like r/loseit, r/fitness, r/gamedev, r/ . Now I'm hooked--I visit the sub reddits mu…

You do know you can unsubscribe to the main page, and the other default subscriptions, so your main page is entirely business, world news, programming, and Doctor Who, right?

You can also just bookmark aggregate subreddits, and visit those. Example: http://www.reddit.com/r/hacks+android+iphone+webdev+startups...

Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by intellection »

giberson wrote: post #64

I'll admit to being one of the latecomers to reddit in the last year. I use to avoid reddit like the plague, because I thought reddit was just www.reddit.com (the main page) which the few times I visited was filled with random assortment of stuff I didn't care about. Later, I discovered the true essence of reddit, sub-reddits. Things like r/loseit, r/fitness, r/gamedev, r/ . Now I'm hooked--I visit the sub reddits mu…

http://my.reddit.com shows just your subreddit subscriptions.

Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by EneiMohr »

wisty wrote: post #66
giberson wrote: post #64

I'll admit to being one of the latecomers to reddit in the last year. I use to avoid reddit like the plague, because I thought reddit was just www.reddit.com (the main page) which the few times I visited was filled with random assortment of stuff I didn't care about. Later, I discovered the true essence of reddit, sub-reddits. Things like r/loseit, r/fitness, r/gamedev, r/ . Now I'm hooked--I visit the sub reddits mu…

You do know you can unsubscribe to the main page, and the other default subscriptions, so your main page is entirely business, world news, programming, and Doctor Who, right?

I unsubscribed from the most of the default subreddits, and my reddit life has changed. reddit doesn't seem to a big time waster anymore.

There are great subreddits that are worth checking: askscience, personalfinance, frugal, programming, and lots of that fit your interests with lower signal-to-noise ratio than the main page and the default ones.

Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by awj »

prawn wrote: post #50
mattgreenrocks wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit is the new Digg. Groupthink on an epic scale, linkbait headlines, and hordes of people that want to feel angry about things so they can at least feel something . (Just like old media!) Now, there is some good content on there, but there's way too much crap to wade through in order to find it.

Is there a way to create a customised frontdoor without having an account? I remember reading something about chaining subreddits in a URL, but never gave it a shot. I'm also in the "embarrassed mentioning Reddit" camp, but I do like AskScience and anything like that.

The best you can do is bookmark the link with all of them chained. To construct a custom frontpage, just take the subreddit names and join them together with a '+'

Example: http://reddit.com/r/fitness+programming+iama

Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by dekz »

bad_user wrote: post #68
dekz wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately proggit has become a cesspool, a complete juxtaposition of what reddit once was. I'm not familiar nor certain of a case where this has been turned around? Is it even advantageous for Reddit to attempt to remove the dregs from their site?

It is my belief (and from personal observation) that the bad apples constitute a very loud minority. Punishing just a couple and clearly promoting your values makes a big difference.

I find it much harder to swallow the comments on reddit, at least here on HN there is a guideline which encourages comments which add to the discussion; whereas on reddit, it's a shamble of memes and novelty accounts which depending on the account handle are allowed to be rude/obnoxious/racist.

I find it easier to leave proggit/reddit behind and follow Hacker News simply due to my alignment with the guidelines and the current HN hive-mind (no memes, helpful discussions).

Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by 127 »

vecter wrote: post #65
127 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They do show stupid pictures ("Instead of an ad, here's...") instead of ads that steal my attention for no reason what so ever. The sole reason I'm using adblock. I do not want to, but those damn pictures are so damn annoying that I have no choice. How about not show anything if you are not going to show an ad? Why steal my attention and bother me for no reason at all?

Their revenue comes from ads. They've never claimed otherwise, what makes you think they did?

The "fun" and "lighthearted" pictures are pointless and actively harmful. If you're going to show me ads, show me ads. But if you're not, don't. I'm willing to pay the price of being annoyed by advertising. The "instead of an ad" pictures generate no revenue for Reddit and they constantly waste my time and attention. They are purely a negative thing.

That's the most articulate way I can put my argument. If you still misunderstand, there's not much more that I can say.

Maybe some people actually enjoy the "instead of an ad" pictures. I absolutely hate them.

Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by ketralnis »

intellection wrote: post #72
giberson wrote: post #64

I'll admit to being one of the latecomers to reddit in the last year. I use to avoid reddit like the plague, because I thought reddit was just www.reddit.com (the main page) which the few times I visited was filled with random assortment of stuff I didn't care about. Later, I discovered the true essence of reddit, sub-reddits. Things like r/loseit, r/fitness, r/gamedev, r/ . Now I'm hooked--I visit the sub reddits mu…

http://my.reddit.com shows just your subreddit subscriptions.

No, the front page shows just your subscriptions. my.reddit.com hasn't been different from the front page for years.

Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by troll24601 »

EneiMohr wrote: post #73
wisty wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You do know you can unsubscribe to the main page, and the other default subscriptions, so your main page is entirely business, world news, programming, and Doctor Who, right?

I unsubscribed from the most of the default subreddits, and my reddit life has changed. reddit doesn't seem to a big time waster anymore. There are great subreddits that are worth checking: askscience, personalfinance, frugal, programming, and lots of that fit your interests with lower signal-to-noise ratio than the main page and the default ones.

I can't agree with askscience anymore. subreddits start their reversion to the mean once there's 50-100k users, and they become awful once they're in the default set for new users.

Frankly, it's too much work to find the good ones.

Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by 127 »

amitparikh wrote: post #63
127 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They do show stupid pictures ("Instead of an ad, here's...") instead of ads that steal my attention for no reason what so ever. The sole reason I'm using adblock. I do not want to, but those damn pictures are so damn annoying that I have no choice. How about not show anything if you are not going to show an ad? Why steal my attention and bother me for no reason at all?

Because reddit sometimes does show real ads in that space. And I think this feature was designed with 'fun' in mind -- it's lighthearted! References: http://blog.reddit.com/2010/10/fun-in-sidebar.html and http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/dqse4/fun_in_the_sideb...

What you consider "fun" and "lighthearted" I consider a waste of space and attention. Tell me how it is logically not.
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