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I haven’t found reddit to be a reliable source of information for years. Go ahead and price themselves out. Even stack overflow doesn’t make me click “read mor

by b33j0r 3y ago

I haven’t found reddit to be a reliable source of information for years. Go ahead and price themselves out. Even stack overflow doesn’t make me click “read more comments” to show full content of the thing I’m looking for. How many times have I read a comment about a library error, quick scrolled, and found myself now reading some crap about Harry Potter? Reddit is digg is slashdot (and even slashdot kept niche quality standards over time)

hnick 3y ago
I miss Slashdot's 2-dimensional voting system, and meta-moderation system. It seemed to work fairly well, it's just that the submissions got stale over time and the community smaller which is all that matters in the end for this kind of site.
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago
  > it's just that the submissions got stale over time and the community smaller In my experience, the people in that community want to keep it small, and private. They don't want folks not like them, around. A good way to ensure that happens, is treat anyone that raises issues about the way they are treated, like crap. We won't stick around for abuse. The people that are gaming the system, will endure it as "cost of doing business," but the folks that want to get something from the community, won't stick around. I hardly ever ask any questions, anymore, and have absolutely no interest in visiting, just to answer them. At one time, I was quite enthusiastic about SO, but no more. The shine wore off that knob, long ago. They got the community they wanted.
- AJ007 3y ago
  hn really ended up replacing Slashdot for me. Disappointingly, I took a look at /. in the past month and realized I hadn't even loaded it out in 4+ years. Ideal would be hn style sites, decentralized like forums, and managed by individual communities. Then, stick to a standard, unlike the old phpBB, vBulletin, etc, so there can be some level of access by API.
  - jp10558 3y ago
    That sounds like a web based version of Usenet really.
  - resurge 3y ago
    What you're describing sounds a bit like Lemmy [0]. In essence it's a federated reddit. Anyone can host their own instance with its own rules/topic. And each instance can have communities (subreddits). You can subscribe/comment to any of the other instances' "subreddits" from your own instance. [0]: https://join-lemmy.org/ https://join-lemmy.org/
pugworthy 3y ago
Reddit is like Twitter and Instagram - it really depends on who you follow. All three are full of wonderful creative and interesting individuals and ideas that I'm really glad I follow. Also a lot of toxic crap. You wouldn't say radio is useless simply because there is a genre of station you don't like.
- wilkystyle 3y ago
  The parent comment is talking about the presentation, too, not just the content. This situation is more like if all of the radio stations were owned by the same company, were all jam-packed with the same crappy advertisements, and it was quickly becoming evident that the only way to listen to any of the stations would be through the crappy radio offered directly by the company.
  - jp10558 3y ago
    I think this is what FM radio basically is, and def what SiriusXM is. It might also be why radio is less interesting to many than Android Auto or Carplay.
coremoff 3y ago
> Even stack overflow doesn’t make me click “read more comments” to show full content of the thing I’m looking for. this is a symptom of the site redesign/official app (presumably, I don't use it) - you don't see this behaviour in old.reddit or in the unofficial apps (I use Relay Pro).

by b33j0r 3y ago

hnick 3y ago

I miss Slashdot's 2-dimensional voting system, and meta-moderation system. It seemed to work fairly well, it's just that the submissions got stale over time and the community smaller which is all that matters in the end for this kind of site.

ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago
> it's just that the submissions got stale over time and the community smaller In my experience, the people in that community want to keep it small, and private. They don't want folks not like them, around. A good way to ensure that happens, is treat anyone that raises issues about the way they are treated, like crap. We won't stick around for abuse. The people that are gaming the system, will endure it as "cost of doing business," but the folks that want to get something from the community, won't stick around. I hardly ever ask any questions, anymore, and have absolutely no interest in visiting, just to answer them. At one time, I was quite enthusiastic about SO, but no more. The shine wore off that knob, long ago. They got the community they wanted.
AJ007 3y ago
hn really ended up replacing Slashdot for me. Disappointingly, I took a look at /. in the past month and realized I hadn't even loaded it out in 4+ years. Ideal would be hn style sites, decentralized like forums, and managed by individual communities. Then, stick to a standard, unlike the old phpBB, vBulletin, etc, so there can be some level of access by API.
- jp10558 3y ago
  That sounds like a web based version of Usenet really.
- resurge 3y ago
  What you're describing sounds a bit like Lemmy [0]. In essence it's a federated reddit. Anyone can host their own instance with its own rules/topic. And each instance can have communities (subreddits). You can subscribe/comment to any of the other instances' "subreddits" from your own instance. [0]: https://join-lemmy.org/ https://join-lemmy.org/

pugworthy 3y ago

Reddit is like Twitter and Instagram - it really depends on who you follow. All three are full of wonderful creative and interesting individuals and ideas that I'm really glad I follow. Also a lot of toxic crap. You wouldn't say radio is useless simply because there is a genre of station you don't like.

wilkystyle 3y ago
The parent comment is talking about the presentation, too, not just the content. This situation is more like if all of the radio stations were owned by the same company, were all jam-packed with the same crappy advertisements, and it was quickly becoming evident that the only way to listen to any of the stations would be through the crappy radio offered directly by the company.
- jp10558 3y ago
  I think this is what FM radio basically is, and def what SiriusXM is. It might also be why radio is less interesting to many than Android Auto or Carplay.

coremoff 3y ago

> Even stack overflow doesn’t make me click “read more comments” to show full content of the thing I’m looking for. this is a symptom of the site redesign/official app (presumably, I don't use it) - you don't see this behaviour in old.reddit or in the unofficial apps (I use Relay Pro).