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What subreddits do you recommend?

by nrbafna 13y ago

huhtenberg 13y ago
This one is oddly fascinating - http://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/ http://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/ There are also these - http://www.reddit.com/r/coffee/ http://www.reddit.com/r/coffee/ http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ http://www.reddit.com/r/chemicalreactiongifs/ http://www.reddit.com/r/chemicalreactiongifs/ There's also /r/startups, but it's plain boring.
- DanBC 13y ago
  > This one is oddly fascinating - >http://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/ http://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/ I love that Reddit. I use it to practice my websearch skills. When I have some knowledge about something I know what words to use, so going to that subreddit gives me a bunch of stuff where I have no knowledge at all, and I need to learn the right words to use.
petercooper 13y ago
There's almost a sub-Reddit for everything so making recommendations is a bit like recommending your favorite bands, but some I particularly enjoy are.. /r/business, /r/coding, /r/cogsci, /r/compsci, /r/compscipapers, /r/etymology, /r/html5, /r/javascript, /r/LifeProTips, /r/programmerhumor, /r/programming, /r/tinycode, /r/wheredidthesodago In a way it's a bit like the new Usenet, at least in terms of being able to pick and choose from so many different topics.
- DanBC 13y ago
  Reddit have said they're opposed to the concept of 'killfiles', which improve the experience for the person using them but not for the group as a whole. Reddit prefers you to downvote comments that shouldn't be there. That can be good when you get the right subreddit. And we used to have DejaVu (then Google) keeping all of Usenet, and it's now available. There have been some important (for computing) announcements made on Usenet and it would have been a shame to have lost those. I can imagine Reddit could get to the point where people make announcements there; and it's gently worrying that no-one is archiving this kind of stuff.
zokier 13y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/ http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/ is reasonably good imho.

What subreddits do you recommend?

by nrbafna 13y ago

What subreddits do you recommend?

This one is oddly fascinating - http://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/ http://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/ There are also these - http://www.reddit.com/r/coffee/ http://www.reddit.com/r/coffee/ http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ http://www.reddit.com/r/chemicalreactiongifs/ http://www.reddit.com/r/chemicalreactiongifs/ There's also /r/startups, but it's plain boring.

DanBC 13y ago
> This one is oddly fascinating - >http://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/ http://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/ I love that Reddit. I use it to practice my websearch skills. When I have some knowledge about something I know what words to use, so going to that subreddit gives me a bunch of stuff where I have no knowledge at all, and I need to learn the right words to use.

petercooper 13y ago

There's almost a sub-Reddit for everything so making recommendations is a bit like recommending your favorite bands, but some I particularly enjoy are.. /r/business, /r/coding, /r/cogsci, /r/compsci, /r/compscipapers, /r/etymology, /r/html5, /r/javascript, /r/LifeProTips, /r/programmerhumor, /r/programming, /r/tinycode, /r/wheredidthesodago In a way it's a bit like the new Usenet, at least in terms of being able to pick and choose from so many different topics.

DanBC 13y ago
Reddit have said they're opposed to the concept of 'killfiles', which improve the experience for the person using them but not for the group as a whole. Reddit prefers you to downvote comments that shouldn't be there. That can be good when you get the right subreddit. And we used to have DejaVu (then Google) keeping all of Usenet, and it's now available. There have been some important (for computing) announcements made on Usenet and it would have been a shame to have lost those. I can imagine Reddit could get to the point where people make announcements there; and it's gently worrying that no-one is archiving this kind of stuff.

zokier 13y ago

http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/ http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/ is reasonably good imho.