Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web

Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web by visarga on Thursday November 02, 2017 @10:06PM (#15616181)

Subreddits resemble IRC from that point of view - you just need to join the right one.

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Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web by digi_owl on Friday November 03, 2017 @04:04AM (#15617426)

Kinda, but not as real time.

I recall having on the fly conversations about TV programs on IRC.

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Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web by submeta on Friday November 03, 2017 @07:55AM (#15618426)

Twitter! When it comes to the real time aspect I know nothing better than Twitter.

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Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web by throwanem on Friday November 03, 2017 @08:10AM (#15618501)

What makes it so good?

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Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web by submeta on Friday November 03, 2017 @09:22AM (#15618973)

Whatever event happens right now (WhatsApp down? Elections in a country? A TV show running on TV [1]?) go to Twitter and search for it with relevant keywords and you'll find people writing about it.

[1] at least in Germany

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Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web by throwanem on Friday November 03, 2017 @11:02AM (#15619672)

In my experience that's a firehose with no meaningful real-time quality metric available. Perhaps there's something I'm missing.

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Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web by rusk on Monday November 06, 2017 @06:00AM (#15634641)

I wholeheartedly agree. It's great as long as the keyword you're searching for is easily distinguishable. Whenever something happens and I want to find out ahead of the news-cycle it's my go to ...

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Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web by elsurudo on Friday November 03, 2017 @04:40PM (#15622058)

I find it overwhelming. I don't know how to get over that.

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