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By targeting recent visitors to a subreddit... they are essentially no longer targeting anyone. I rarely browse the reddit homepage, but I know that most reddi

By targeting recent visitors to a subreddit... they are essentially no longer targeting anyone. I rarely browse the reddit homepage, but I know that most redditors do. And what's on the homepage that most everybody who looks at it clicks through to? Any and every random subreddit you could think of. I have seen /r/bitcoin on the homepage recently. I have seen /r/security on the homepage recently. I have seen /r/rtlsdr on the homepage recently. That's ridiculous. If I want to advertise a SDR to the "rtlsdr" crowd, I do not want to pay for impressions for every single user on reddit who has just recently viewed /r/rtlsdr because they had a quirky post which resonated with people.

JorgeGT 9y ago
To makes things worse, they have also changed the algorithm to promote lesser known subreddits to r/all (or r/popular) more easily [1]. Which is not always good, /r/rtlsdr was unusable for a few days after that... [1] "The algorithm change is fairly simple — as a community is represented more and more often in the listing, the hotness of its posts will be increasingly lessened. This results in more variety in r/all" https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4oedco/lets_all_have_a_town_hall_about_rall/ https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4oedco/lets_...