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Ask HN: Useful Reddit resources?

3 points by rayascott ↗ HN
I’ve been ignorant of reddit since it’s inception, but recently I’ve discovered that technologists do make good use of it.

Are there complimentary websites out there that might give more insight into tech or even just generally popular subreddits? Apart from searching for a specific subreddit by name, I can’t seem to find any useful list of tech topics or subcategories etc.

Please post any useful complimentary websites you use to help explore reddit. Thanks.

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KJKingJ
You might find the 'multireddit' functionality useful - it combines multiple user-defined subreddits in to a single 'front page' to browse. For example, I follow the 'it_resources' multireddit created by another user - https://www.reddit.com/user/neztach/m/it_resources/ . It's a useful combination of a lot of IT related subreddits across multiple areas - from networking, to system administration, to security etc. Of course, the challenge is finding suitable multireddits in the first place - /r/multihub contains lists of them, you might find it useful to have a look on there and sort by 'top', or to run a search on that subreddit for a term and sort by top.

The other strategy I can recommend is looking at related subreddits. So if you stumble across a 'good' subreddit that's interesting to you, have a look in the sidebar and see what other subreddits are suggested by the moderators of that subreddit. I find that to be a great way to find high quality related subreddits either with a narrower focus or just on generally related topic. For example, the /r/homelab subreddit recommends /r/networking, /r/sysadmin, /r/datacenter etc...

rayascott
Thanks for your help. I’ve been accessing reddit via my iPad, and didn’t realise there was a sidebar with related subreddit entries, as my iPad has been showing the mobile view, which omits the sidebar.