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The first rule of reddit is unsubscribing from all the default subs and searching for the ones most relevant to your interests. The day I discovered I could do
by sharkweek 11y ago
The first rule of reddit is unsubscribing from all the default subs and searching for the ones most relevant to your interests.
The day I discovered I could do that quickly made Reddit my favorite site on the web (/r/NFL, /r/homeimprovement, /r/television, etc).
I'd love to see a discovery feature similar to that of Pinterest built into the signup process that algorithmically signs new users up for subreddits most related to their interests.
- justizin 11y agoAugh, seriously, I just followed a link from Google through Pinterest and they made me connect facebook and choose categories to read an actual link that I found in a search engine. I used Pinterest some in the early days, but I'll avoid like the plague, now. The worst part is all they did is intercept the search result for someone else's website and force me to give them all sort of marketing data they can sell in order to get it. Gross.
- Anjin 11y agoI hope you are subbed to /r/diy if you read /r/homeimprovement!
- haroldtootany 11y agoYou'd list 'television' as an interest? Yeesh...
- sharkweek 11y agoAbsolutely - television can be an art to enjoy, just like a great film, piece of music or painting. Sure there's plenty of trash, but the good stuff is so worth it.
- jessaustin 11y agoIt's kind of an odd question to ask someone whose nick is "sharkweek", isn't it?
- MBCook 11y ago> The first rule of reddit is unsubscribing from all the default subs and searching for the ones most relevant to your interests. But isn't that really a huge indictment of their ability to run the site? If the users who really like the site I'll do it by avoiding the horridness of the main promoted content, doesn't that signal some sort of failure in their curation or moderation? How does a si but isn't that really a huge indictment of their ability to run the site? If the users who really like the site I'll do it by avoiding the horridness of the main promoted content, doesn't that signal some sort of failure of their curation and moderation? How does a site like that survive long-term?
- Dylan16807 11y agoYou make "main promoted content" sound more important than it really is. The front page is just one page. It could default to being blank. Global curation could help reddit, but the site actually needs very little of it. It can survive without main promoted content at all.
- arprocter 11y agoMaybe the concept of default subs is the mistake? It might be better to ask users a series of questions about their interests when they sign up, and then create each one a personalized list
- Natsu 11y agoMake it decentralized and someday we'll reinvent usenet.