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This is a bit old, no? Anyway, I don't need to a recommender, I need a better way to let me affect the weight different subs have on the homepage. I need a way
by krelian 15y ago
This is a bit old, no? Anyway, I don't need to a recommender, I need a better way to let me affect the weight different subs have on the homepage. I need a way to group different low traffic subreddits together so that I won't miss their content among the high traffic ones.
Reddit's old interface doesn't work anymore now that there are so many subs. The fact that there has been so little interface improvements in the last couple of years is pretty sad. I can't imagine browsing the site without RES.
The way things work now only helps to magnify the lower quality trend because the homepage gives undue weight to content from popular subs.
- ebf 15y agoI've noticed this problem lately. Last night, I saw that a large percentage of my front-page was from 1 subreddit. I'm also subscribed to over 200 subreddits. Some of these subreddits never hit my frontpage, and I tend to visit only 10-20 subreddits. This results in the majority of my subreddit subscriptions being useless. I think there could be some interesting UI solutions to this problem. If more people treated the Reddit API like the Twitter API, there could be applications that aren't necessarily supposed to replace the traditional Reddit browsing experience, but to make whole new experiences (e.g. Flipboard).
- stevengg 15y agoYou can only see 50 on the front page as a regular user and 100 if you pay for reddit gold they update every 30 minutes. This is the main reason I removed reddits like r/thewire, r/archlinux and /r/bookclub because they so infrequently get posts its not worth having them clogging up one of my 50 spots.