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I guess this might get into some special sauce territory, but was there a specific reason why this type of recommendation system was deprecated?
by sinemetu11 12y ago
I guess this might get into some special sauce territory, but was there a specific reason why this type of recommendation system was deprecated?
- Houshalter 12y agoAll the reddit subreddit recommenders I've seen produce garbage recommendations. Outside of a handful of popular, general subreddits which everyone already knows about, everything is niche special interest stuff that you need to find on your own.
- bduerst 12y agoSubreddit specificity is so messily complex that it would be very difficult to do any recommendations based on your own subscriptions. Without reddit's cooperation in categorization (unlikely) it's probably not going to happen.
- jedberg 12y agoAs others already said below, the feedback loop was dangerous. Also it took a lot of resources to calculate and we just didn't have the time to build efficient map/reduce jobs to do it regularly. It was done by hand in Mathmatica.