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Show HN: Subreddit Finder – find subreddits based on a topic
- data-leon 4y agoEnter your elevator pitch and find relevant popular subreddits (Safe For Work only).
- mtmail 4y agoI tried searching for the programming language 'perl' expecting https://old.reddit.com/r/perl/ https://old.reddit.com/r/perl/ The results only showed 'LaTeX' and 'me_irl' (a meme subreddit). Good results for 'php', 'ruby', 'node', 'pascal', 'haskell'
- data-leon 4y agoThanks @mtmail for your feedback, will take a look and figure out what heppened to perl. It might be because of our training data, as perl gets less popular, our training data might simply not having enough good data. : )
- unixhero 4y agoMy bet is that the stanzas believe the user is searching for Pearl. Perl is not in the English dictionary.
- dimitar 4y agoWhen looking for 'clojure' none of the results are even related to programming
- MauranKilom 4y agoWait, does https://old.reddit.com/subreddits/search https://old.reddit.com/subreddits/search not work? I mean, sure, it gives you a ton of random crap along with meaningful results, but in my experience it casts a wide enough net to have whatever you are looking for covered in the results.
- app4soft 4y agoInteresting that Reddit's Subreddit Search[0] works with "CAD" query, but Subreddit Finder[1] just returns `Error 500`. [0] https://old.reddit.com/subreddits/search?q=CAD https://old.reddit.com/subreddits/search?q=CAD [1] https://segue.co/subreddit/topic/CAD/ https://segue.co/subreddit/topic/CAD/
- app4soft 4y agoUPD: Seems like Subreddit Finder just fixed, but I don't see in output such relevant subreddits like r/FreeCAD, r/flossCAD, r/SolveSpace, r/LiberCAD, r/QCAD. Even entering "FreeCAD" as query there is no r/FreeCAD in output, but instead there is r/Fusion360.[0] IMO, Subreddit Finder is useless toy. [0] https://segue.co/subreddit/topic/FreeCAD/ https://segue.co/subreddit/topic/FreeCAD/
- LewisVerstappen 4y ago> Safe For Work Only This is an outrage
- imglorp 4y agoUnpopular (?) opinion: marketing is killing the internet for absolutely no value to users. At one point, we had communities of people, and discussions, and things were ok. Then came a mountain of commercial, automated, focused psyops against users: spaming, shilling, astoturfing, censoring, profiling, brigading, ab testing, engagement tracking, JS, ad auctions, eye tracking and on and on. Reddit used to be a community and now it's dead site walking.
- data-leon 4y agoFair point, our goal was not to help people spam reddit, instead, I think one should contribute to the community and share their expertise, focus on contributing first.
- lazyeye 4y agoYeah but thats not going to happen.
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- Bakary 4y agoWhat you describe still exists, and with much more variety than what Old Reddit offered. All it takes is the time to seek out the right subreddits for your interests. Places like /r/askhistorians have no equivalent anywhere else on the internet. The site may crumble under its own weight in the coming years, but it won't be because it offers no discussion.
- imglorp 4y agoSure, we agree the rich discussions are still there holding a low profile. I even moderate one or two of them. The challenge is, as soon as you start systematically introducing psyops into a quality discussion, every message becomes suspect and the quality retreats. What would happen if every thread on /r/askhistorians has someone popping in and saying "I see you're talking about the Battle of Gettysburg! Did you know there's an etsy shop you can buy official artifacts over [here]?" And more to the point, how will /r/historians defend against professionals steering discussions about, eg, slavery or the annexation of Tibet or the religious views of the Signers? I am worried.
- poolopolopolo 4y ago
- latchkey 4y agoIt would be nice if you could track what people search for and end up clicking on and use that to train your data. That said, makes it easier/possible to game the results.
- leonidasv 4y agoSearching for 'soaring' or 'gliders' or even 'gliding' does not show up the biggest subreddit about this topic, which is r/Gliding - as far as I know pretty SFW. But it shows unrelated and even smaller subs such as r/tailwind. Maybe something worth looking into as may affect other topics. (:
- davidkuennen 4y agoOn the other hand googling "soaring reddit", "gliders reddit" or "gliding reddit" shows r/Gliding top of the list.
- keepquestioning 4y agoI would wager upto 10% of all Google searches are [$query + reddit]
- ajgrover 4y agoI would wager that combination is much less than 1% of 1%
- audiometry 4y agoI would take the other side of that bet for whatever amount of money you’d like.
- terhechte 4y agoIs this based on some sort of public reddit dataset or do they scrape all of reddit? I just did some searches but couldn't find any proper / official reddit data dumps. Does something like that exist?
- ksarw 4y agoPushshift comes to mind: https://github.com/pushshift/api https://github.com/pushshift/api There are a couple different clients for it on GitHub
- InsOp 4y agoplease add a "submit" button. I ended up pressing the chat button instead because I didn't find any other button to press after entering my search term
- vilaca 4y agoI searched for k8s and got: r/KSI, r/KIA, r/Jerma985, r/kfeets, r/Drumkits, r/KUWTK and r/motorsportstreams2. Funnily enough r/k8s was not on the list.
- nik736 4y agoDevOps somehow is related to Fortnite.
- driscoll42 4y agoI think a better use is the Map of Reddit (https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-reddit/ https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-reddit/) which shows links between reddit communities. Start from one you know you are interested in and bounce around exploring the nearby community, or zoom out and see the large community blocks.
- data-leon 4y agoBrilliant! Love the idea, I've been thinking of adding a tree diagram or a social graph style exploration tool for subreddit finder, will likely add it soon so people can visualize their relationship and find similar subreddits based on a subreddit they already know.
- sbmthakur 4y agoI searched for notjustbikes and I don't get r/notjustbikes which is a SFW subreddit.
- cercatrova 4y agoHonestly, "site:reddit.com subject" on Google works a lot better than this search engine.
- llampx 4y agohttps://segue.co/subreddit/topic/Genomics/ https://segue.co/subreddit/topic/Genomics/ Not really relevant results.