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Do you guys like or dislike Reddit?

5 points by av1videocodec ↗ HN
There are two contradicting facts: you guys mention reddit often here, yet you guys seem smart. People who use image-boards other than 4chan usually do so because they dislike 4chan; I would infer: People who use news-aggregates other than reddit usually do so because they dislike reddit. I hate reddit (and therefor use HackerNews) and 4chan (and therefor use Lainchan and Lambdaplusjs).

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mikequinlan
>Do you guys like or dislike Reddit?

Yes.

[dead] av1videocodec
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mikequinlan
My reddit consists of

* Subreddits associated with the city and area I live in

* Subreddits associated with software development and programming languages

* Subreddits with cute pictures and videos of cats

I like MY reddit a lot. There are many parts of reddit that are awful.

mikequinlan
Also, I just looked up what "kys" means. If this were reddit, I would block you and never see any of your posts or comments again.
shrimp_emoji
Good thing it's not.

We still have the downdoots for uncritical thought termination, as consolation.

Shut out bad thoughts and let the corporate $$$ spice flow!

retrocryptid
Lol. My response is "No. I do not like or dislike reddit."
EA-3167
Reddit isn't a monolith, the UX is ultimately down to the user. There are subs there like AskHistorians, Labrats and some others which are genuinely excellent communities.

And then there's the rest of the trash.

damnesian
How you use the platform, and the specific tools used to interact with it, are varied, so experiences for otherwise similar users can be radically different.

I like it very much, with restrictions: on the desktop I only use the old experience, and on mobile I only use(d) a third party app that jailed the noise and rabble so I could enjoy my subscribed subreddits almost exclusively. I care very much about interaction with communities and very little about using Reddit or any platform to be an end-all be-all comprehensive news source and efficient time killer.

It's that wide variability that explains (1) how opinion differs so much and (2) why people are up-in-arms about killing 3rd party apps.

electroagenda
I think reddit is not comparable to HN. In reddit you can find forums about any topic, in HN you finf stuff for a tech audience.

I like Reddit and I like HN.

retrocryptid
Data point: I don't really use it, being wholly unimpressed by its UI. But I don't hate it and fully support anyone wants to use it.

In logic diagrams you sometimes see three states: true, false, don't care. I'm in the "don't care" section of the reddit diagram.