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I know the phrase "reddit has become worse over time" is pretty much a meme here on hn but wow has that website been extremely bad as of late. Nothing but rage

by itg 15y ago

I know the phrase "reddit has become worse over time" is pretty much a meme here on hn but wow has that website been extremely bad as of late. Nothing but rage comics and pictures of pets, and some trolling. Probably a combination of more and more people plus summer vacation for the kids who have too much time on their hands.

gomer 15y ago
Everything is broken into subreddits on reddit and if you learn to select the subreddits that interest you instead of just reading the "rage comic" and "pet picture" subreddits it might be of more interest.
- farnsworth 15y ago
  Agreed. My mix of subreddits is article heavy and awesome. I'm always a little surprised when I find myself logged off on the default front page - about 85% imgur links at least.
- jokermatt999 15y ago
  Rage comics, advice animals, scumbag x, etc have bled over into virtually every subreddit now. It's basically part of reddit's culture. I've said it before, but you can unsubscribe from a subreddit, but you can't unsubscribe from a culture.
  - farnsworth 15y ago
    There are many subreddits where posts/comments along those lines get downvoted hard.
  - mindcrime 15y ago
    I haven't seen that at all on the sub-reddits I frequent. Maybe I just haven't been looking hard enough, but I still find /r/machinelearning, /r/semanticweb, /r/compscipapers, /r/csbooks, etc. to be very useful.
Legion 15y ago
I don't see a single rage comic or pet picture when I log into Reddit. I see stories about technology, computer science, physics, all the programming languages and tools I use, Minecraft, Austin Texas, Team Fortress, etc. My wife logs into her account and she sees a million stories about crafts.
clistctrl 15y ago
subscribe to truereddit depthhub etc unsubscribe from everything you hate about reddit
squidsoup 15y ago
Try a 'reddit reset' - unsub from every subreddit and then hand pick those that you find useful.
Macha 15y ago
Unsuscribe from /r/reddit.com /r/todayilearned /r/pics /r/videos /r/askreddit /r/politics and pretty much all the default reddits. Suscribe to topic specific reddits ( e.g. /r/haskell or /r/Android ). Enjoy your tenfold improved reddit.
- city41 15y ago
  It's difficult to find good subreddits. Even if the subject matter of the subreddit interests you, it possibly only has dozen subscribers and received its last submission months ago. So subreddits are better than nothing, but could be better. As an aside, I have found browsing reddit.com/r/all has allowed me to discover several neat subreddits I otherwise would have never found. (Warning, /r/all is all subreddits, including NSFW ones)
  - est 15y ago
    > It's difficult to find good subreddits. That's propably why there are good subreddits.
est 15y ago
As an old saying, don't judge a person by its cover, so, don't judge a website by its default frontpage.

by itg 15y ago

gomer 15y ago

Everything is broken into subreddits on reddit and if you learn to select the subreddits that interest you instead of just reading the "rage comic" and "pet picture" subreddits it might be of more interest.

farnsworth 15y ago
Agreed. My mix of subreddits is article heavy and awesome. I'm always a little surprised when I find myself logged off on the default front page - about 85% imgur links at least.
jokermatt999 15y ago
Rage comics, advice animals, scumbag x, etc have bled over into virtually every subreddit now. It's basically part of reddit's culture. I've said it before, but you can unsubscribe from a subreddit, but you can't unsubscribe from a culture.
- farnsworth 15y ago
  There are many subreddits where posts/comments along those lines get downvoted hard.
- mindcrime 15y ago
  I haven't seen that at all on the sub-reddits I frequent. Maybe I just haven't been looking hard enough, but I still find /r/machinelearning, /r/semanticweb, /r/compscipapers, /r/csbooks, etc. to be very useful.

Legion 15y ago

I don't see a single rage comic or pet picture when I log into Reddit. I see stories about technology, computer science, physics, all the programming languages and tools I use, Minecraft, Austin Texas, Team Fortress, etc. My wife logs into her account and she sees a million stories about crafts.

clistctrl 15y ago

subscribe to truereddit depthhub etc unsubscribe from everything you hate about reddit

squidsoup 15y ago

Try a 'reddit reset' - unsub from every subreddit and then hand pick those that you find useful.

Macha 15y ago

Unsuscribe from /r/reddit.com /r/todayilearned /r/pics /r/videos /r/askreddit /r/politics and pretty much all the default reddits. Suscribe to topic specific reddits ( e.g. /r/haskell or /r/Android ). Enjoy your tenfold improved reddit.

city41 15y ago
It's difficult to find good subreddits. Even if the subject matter of the subreddit interests you, it possibly only has dozen subscribers and received its last submission months ago. So subreddits are better than nothing, but could be better. As an aside, I have found browsing reddit.com/r/all has allowed me to discover several neat subreddits I otherwise would have never found. (Warning, /r/all is all subreddits, including NSFW ones)
- est 15y ago
  > It's difficult to find good subreddits. That's propably why there are good subreddits.

est 15y ago

As an old saying, don't judge a person by its cover, so, don't judge a website by its default frontpage.