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Ask HN: Does reddit have any competitors?
Basically I wanted to know what are the sites you visit which are like reddit?(or hn for that matter, although hn serves a niche crowd). Are there any?
- TobbenTM 15y agoOther than HN, no. HN gives me everything I need and more.
- ig1 15y agoHN is a top-1000 website, I doubt it classifies as niche any more.
- sid6376 15y agoWhat i meant was a general purpose site.Most people who visit hacker news are programmers/entrepreneurs/designers i presume.
- Toddward 15y agoDigg comes to mind as a watered-down competitor, though I stopped using Digg altogether after the #DiggRevolt and subsequent exodus of their user-base.
- zck 15y agoIt depends how you view reddit. If you want jokes, try Fark or Digg. If you want more technical news, try Slashdot, in addition to HN. If you want a ton of memes, try 4chan. But those aren't all the topics discussed on Reddit. Reddit seems to be unique in that its very large community is fractured; its system of subreddits leads to niche topics being covered better than they would be on other sites. You don't have to set up an entire phpBB forum for your interest in antique nesting dolls, just go and create /r/antique_nesting_dolls . It's simple, fast, and because adding a subreddit to your frontpage is so easy, you can get a lot of eyeballs coming back to your subreddit over and over again. That's the part of reddit I don't see happening elsewhere.
- yolesaber 15y agohttp://www.hubski.com/ http://www.hubski.com/ It is slow, but I find the majority of links in-depth and worthwhile.
- adrianwaj 15y agohttp://www.somethingawful.com/ http://www.somethingawful.com/ I don't visit it, but it is huge. Forums are massive too http://forums.somethingawful.com/ http://forums.somethingawful.com/ Amazing what's out there when you look beyond the echo chamber.