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

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by lelandbatey » Wed, Oct 09, 2013, 9:48 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.

I was part of the first wave of "newbies" into the reddit community, part of the very first wave of migrants from Digg to Reddit back in about 2008 (I was 14, I can't believe it).

Through time, I've pretty much kept my participation focused on one particular subreddit at a time. At first it was askreddit, then gaming, then minecraft, then buildapc then tf2. From there I dropped off, using it less and less as I've gotten more and more busy. Now I might visit it once a day, but I'm on HN much more.

It's really jarring to look at /r/all these days. I've never been a fan of image macros, so it's very disconcerting to see that pretty much all top content takes the form of image macros (though somehow the word "meme" has come to be synonymous with "image macro"). However, most of my favourite communities (/r/mechanicalkeyboards!!!) have only gotten more awesome with age.

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by lelandbatey » Wed, Oct 09, 2013, 9:51 PM UTC

telephonetemp wrote: post #71

tommorris wrote: post #41

Yes, for two reasons: news gathering and interesting programming stuff. The programming sections (Python, Scala etc.) are basically Hacker News but without the "OMG we're going to become Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and make meeeelions of dollars" stuff which I couldn't care less about. And there's lots of subreddits which contain links that are of specific interest from different countries and specific interesting c…

> Hacker News but without the "OMG we're going to become Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and make meeeelions of dollars" stuff An interesting thing about Hacker News is that here you can read and talk to people who have become Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and made millions of dollars.

That is one of my favourite things about HN by far. It was a very surreal moment to realize that I'd had a very public conversation/discussion with Paul Graham. That's something I've never seen or experienced on other sites before.

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by TheLegace » Wed, Oct 09, 2013, 9:59 PM UTC

For those that need a political discussion fix. I have found extremely deep debates from both liberal and conservative/libertarian views. /r/NeutralPolitics, /r/PoliticalDiscussion, /r/TrueAskReddit

There are really are thought provoking people on the Internet, they are just impossible to collect all in one place consistently.

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by exo_duz » Wed, Oct 09, 2013, 10:25 PM UTC

Reddit has a lot of information especially if you find your /r subreddit. But as to meaningful conversation I find there are hardly any in the fun subreddits apart from comments like "cool", "awesome" and the likes.

On the opposite end the communities for serious subreddits are very helpful but you have to be in the right groups to be able to get the right answers you require.

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by sosuke » Wed, Oct 09, 2013, 10:34 PM UTC

habosa wrote: post #77

I used to be on Reddit all the time. I had 9000+ comment karma, 1500+ link karma, and I didn't miss many front page posts. Reddit was a productive distraction for me at first. When I was in High School Reddit introduced me to a ton of interesting news, science, and of course funny shit that made me happy. I bought my first Java book because there were so many programming jokes in the comments that I wanted to know wh…

I feel similarly and think I might just subscribe to a Hacker News email digest at this point. Something with filters.

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by pests » Wed, Oct 09, 2013, 10:38 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.

Try finding some multireddits. They are shareable collections of subreddits you can pass around.

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by wyclif » Wed, Oct 09, 2013, 10:45 PM UTC

lelandbatey wrote: post #81

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.

I was part of the first wave of "newbies" into the reddit community, part of the very first wave of migrants from Digg to Reddit back in about 2008 (I was 14, I can't believe it). Through time, I've pretty much kept my participation focused on one particular subreddit at a time. At first it was askreddit, then gaming, then minecraft, then buildapc then tf2. From there I dropped off, using it less and less as I've got…

Oh, yeah. /r/mechanicalkeyboards is one of my faves, too. I'm writing this from an Unicomp Model M clickety-clacky.

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by jpwgarrison » Wed, Oct 09, 2013, 10:46 PM UTC

blhack wrote: post #17

junto wrote: post #2

I generally consume reddit. I participate on HN.

Very well put. I'm the same way. I have "reddit enhancement suite" installed, and "view images" on /r/pics is something I check out every day. The sfwporn subreddits are really beautiful too. This was a thing I made a couple of years ago: http://thingist.com/labs/ipad.shtml (I was trying to think of something to do with an old iPad)

Nice site, I fished out my login for HN to thank you!

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by archagon » Wed, Oct 09, 2013, 10:50 PM UTC

frewsxcv wrote: post #31

natural219 wrote: post #26

Earlier 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.

List your interests/hobbies/favorite things. Chances are, there's a subreddit for each of them.

And going one further, each topical subreddit usually has a couple of higher quality spinoffs. For example, r/gaming vs. r/games, or r/askreddit vs r/askhistorians.

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by frostmatthew » Wed, Oct 09, 2013, 10:53 PM UTC

telephonetemp wrote: post #71

tommorris wrote: post #41

Yes, for two reasons: news gathering and interesting programming stuff. The programming sections (Python, Scala etc.) are basically Hacker News but without the "OMG we're going to become Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and make meeeelions of dollars" stuff which I couldn't care less about. And there's lots of subreddits which contain links that are of specific interest from different countries and specific interesting c…

> Hacker News but without the "OMG we're going to become Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and make meeeelions of dollars" stuff An interesting thing about Hacker News is that here you can read and talk to people who have become Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and made millions of dollars.

That's only "interesting" if you find the entrepeneury stuff interesting. What I initially liked about HN was the links and discussions regarding software development. I now prefer reddit to HN because the appropriate sub-reddits offer much more of that (and without all the "OMG 11 secrets to grow your startup" stuff that I don't find at all interesting).

I posted an article about C++ to reddit a few weeks ago and Andrei Alexandrescu commented in the discussion (multiple times). That was extremely exciting for me, and likewise I imagine many HNers get as (or more) excited when PG comments on something they submit here...but please don't assume that's why everybody is here.