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I disagree. What Reddit brings to the table is: 1. Easy sharing: Subreddits, which are an easy location to share interesting information about a common topic.
by ZainRiz 7y ago
I disagree. What Reddit brings to the table is:
1. Easy sharing: Subreddits, which are an easy location to share interesting information about a common topic. Creating your own website is an order of magnitude harder, especially if you want to allow anyone on the internet to post to it
2. Discoverability: You can easily discover subreddits information related to your interests. Reddit's ability to aggregate the various information sources and present options that users find interesting is the biggest reason lurkers&voters (90% of it's users) keep returning.
- elihu 7y agoAlso, a (mostly) consistent user interface.
- ZainRiz 7y agoWhich contributes to the easy of use/good user experience factor You don't come there for because "it has a consistent user interface". You come there because "it's easy to use!" (and you find it easy because it's consistent, like you said)
- system2 7y agoAs long as you use old.reddit.com.
- cmonnow 7y agoI'm faintly surprised reddit's redesign didn't kill it, like Digg's did.
- Baeocystin 7y agoThere have to be some folks there fully aware of the dark-pattern hell of their redesign, and smart enough to keep old.reddit running to appease the people who appreciate what the old style offers. And I hope they keep it up! Reddit is pretty much the last forum I frequent other than here, and the day they kill off the older version is the day I stop visiting.
- brabel 7y agoDo you know if old.reddit doesn't do the horrible trick the "normal" Reddit does when you hit the browser's back button, where it fucking reloads the page or something so you get up to the top of the page instead of to the part of the page where the link you'd clicked was, so you could go to the comments? Specially on mobile, that makes me hate Reddit!! Trying on desktop, old.reddit seems to not do that.
- jobigoud 7y agoAnd disable subreddits css.
- butterNaN 7y agoYou can just go to preferences and disable redesign, no need to change the url itself.
- andrei_says_ 7y agoKickass moderation by committed individuals who are also experts in the field. See AskHistorians, Science, ModeratePolitics etc. This combined with huge communities results in incredible conversations.
- arminiusreturns 7y agoWithin a narrowly defined range of acceptable debate (see: Noam Chomsky)
- chrisdhoover 7y agoAnd the obverse is r/sanfrancisco with moderation that has turned the sub into a sunset travel pic slide show punctuated by golden gate bridge pictures. What a wasted opportunity for something interesting. And it is leaking into r/bayarea ruining it as well.
- DaveWalk 7y agoInteresting phenomenon. It's eerily similar to r/Boston.
- JDiculous 7y agoI feel like I've seen more of the opposite (piss poor moderation) than the good. This is why on your average subreddit, the average quality of discussion is extremely low, with the top comments being low-effort one liners. In worse cases, sometimes the moderators because straight up authoritarian, censoring opposing views even if they're well-reasoned and thought out (any politics-related subreddit).
- retpirato 7y agoI'm not defending reddit at all, however to be fair certain topics are almost guaranteed to have very heated comment threads, politics for example.
- LoSboccacc 7y agoI wouldn't use science as a paragon for moderation, they were involved in a huge vote manipulation controversy just last year
- bufferoverflow 7y agoYou missed the most important point: 3. Discussions Try discussing anything on a random website. Discussions, just like on HN, are usually better than the linked content.
- semiotagonal 7y agoI've found that Reddit (in terms of content, not UI) has gotten somewhat better in recent years, while most discussion venues have either gotten much worse or gotten rid of commenting altogether. In relative terms, it's superior to most of its alternatives (present site excluded, of course).
- moosey 7y agoHonestly, I have a strong interest in US, Chinese, European, and now Russian politics, and how they relate to the future of the humanity and all life on earth. It is clear that most real innovation happens much more quickly and decisively if centralized under a government that decides to spend a lot of money on research, so those are discussions and reading materials that I have to find on places like reddit. Ultimately, many of the decisions and things occurring today, while political, have deep personal philosophical roots. Discussions in particular spaces regarding that simply can't happen here due to the rules; rules that differ on different subreddits and for each community I agree with. Reddit is the best place to find those, IMO.
- dlcmh 7y agoPlease share some links to those materials. I’m interested in the same.
- moosey 7y agoWhat I would recommend is that you spend some time on reddit and find them for yourself. Reddit has so many well-built communities, that it's difficult for me to suggest some. Even really vile parts of the site are good for understanding propaganda and how it works, and what it's saying today.
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- mpweiher 7y ago> Creating your own website is an order of magnitude harder So let's fix that?
- brabel 7y agoI don't know how much easier it can get than it already is. See https://www.netlify.com/ https://www.netlify.com/ Basically, just put a bunch of html/css files in a GitHub repo, then use the above page to let Netlify publish that on the net... it can even set up DNS for you so you can your own domain. If that's still too hard, you can use a drag-and-drop option: https://app.netlify.com/drop https://app.netlify.com/drop Just drop a folder with your website and you're done.
- oneeyedpigeon 7y agoThat seems appropriate for people who understand terms like “continuous deployment” and “serverless functions”, but I thought we were discussing a far, far more widespread audience. Nerds can set up websites with just an ssh password - we need something for the remaining 99.9%
- yosito 7y agoYou don't even need Netlify. You can host basically any static sites directly on GitHub. I've got one pure HTML/CSS site, six React apps, and two Jekyll sites running on GitHub Pages.
- Kaiyou 7y agoIs there a way for doing that, just instead of using html/css files, you'd use a docker image?
- oneeyedpigeon 7y agoWhat are the best current options for 'creating your own website'? Are we talking primarily blogging, or are we seeking a more general solution? As a geek, my first instinct is github pages, but that’s far from user-friendly, as-is. I guess, if we’re talking about 'creating your own website', we do literally mean any site, not just a limited subset. Clearly, server-side scripting is out of scope, so we're talking content rather than apps - so any form of HTML+Js+css, with a very accessible UI, and lots of 'templates' available for each of the three technologies.
- 1337biz 7y agoAnd 3. Quality Control As problematic as the voting system is, in the end the quality of the contribution is better vetted than any Google result. I often search even for products only on reddit first to get real customer insights and contradicting options than the overoptimized Google and Amazon reviews.