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Then why is Reddit one of the most popular sites in the US?
by jensvdh 7y ago
Then why is Reddit one of the most popular sites in the US?
- monsieurbanana 7y agoReddit is nothing like old plain forums. What defines Reddit is it's ranking algorithm, it's tree-shaped threads, and it's subreddits. Which are not akin to subforums. Biggest difference being that anybody can very easily create a subreddit and moderate it.
- enraged_camel 7y agoReddit is basically a forum where threads are organized as trees (where the visibility of each branch is based on user votes), and users can create their own subforum.
- flukus 7y ago> it's tree-shaped threads Tree like threads existed on forums long before reddit. But this is one of the reasons I'd say reddit is more like a mailing list or a newsgroup. > and it's subreddits. Again, like a mailing list. > What defines Reddit is it's ranking algorithm This is it's big difference, I'm still not convinced ranking algorithms do more good than harm though.
- monsieurbanana 7y agoI was talking about the differences between reddit and traditional forums, as that's what OP was comparing reddit to. I never said that reddit invented any of those things.
- r00fus 7y agoI had most of this using NNTP clients 25 years ago.
- monsieurbanana 7y agoAnd before Dropbox was invented, people could just bring up their favorite terminal and smash together in a few lines of bash+perl a close equivalent using FTP, curl and SVN.
- dbbk 7y agoThat's kind of a semantic argument. Reddit is, for all intents and purposes, the modern version of the 'forum'.
- monsieurbanana 7y agoTraditional forums are still plethora and I've never seen anyone refer to reddit as "forum". And I personally don't think they are similar at all.