Reddit is still in turmoil

Re:Reddit is still in turmoil by xemdetia on Friday July 22, 2016 @11:27AM (#12144111)

I find myself blaming the some of the default sub choices from within the past 4 years. The choices made there created a really frustrating global reddit user experience- it used to be that when you first logged in there was only a dozen subreddits people were looking at. In the last four years the default experience is now up to like 50 subreddits which in my opinion take a very curated and particular view of all that's available which just does not match up to everyone. You just didn't have worldnews, pics, science, gaming and then what you were interested in to be a redditor, it's 50 things + what you are interested in.

So the 'identity' of what was a redditor changed dramatically from the start, and it's left us worse since the a lot of the default subs aren't exposing what was good and are mostly mindless/bandwagon-y in operation. Not to mention that some of the default subreddits that got chosen were poisonous and it changed the tone.

Here is a list of what changed: https://www.reddit.com/r/defaults/

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Re:Reddit is still in turmoil by cookiecaper on Friday July 22, 2016 @12:43PM (#12144725)

reddit's failure to attract different types of people is largely because of the way they use default subreddits. Facebook and Twitter start users off with a blank page and ask about their interests first, and thus, both platforms attract all types of people. When your average person goes to reddit.com and see anti-religious stuff or pro-some-political-candidate first thing, they assume that it's not the place for them and move on without understanding that the experience can be customized by subscribing to specific subreddits, etc.

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