Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
by slivym on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @03:15PM
(#17190755)
I think the flip side to this is that the communities are becoming so large now that they aren't really a community. I sometimes go on the /r/UK and the level of discussion gets lower and lower as the community dissolves. Rather than getting to know people everyone is just shouting into the void - unaware of who anyone else is.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
by dageshi on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @03:27PM
(#17190902)
r/unitedkingdom is a special kind of terrible because it's essentially all cynicism and politics all the time. It got to the point where a lot of people left for r/casualuk which is basically politics free.
Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
by duxup on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @03:28PM
(#17190919)
The advantage to Reddit is the ability for other communities to just pop up and potentially fill gaps.
Usually once a sub hits a certain level of activity... I leave and look for another one ;)
Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
by citizenkeen on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @03:52PM
(#17191150)
Community fracture is a huge feature of reddit. Something becomes to big, it spins off in to a new community. I rarely go to /r/rpg or /r/programming, but I love /r/genesysrpg and /r/haskell.
Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
by killjoywashere on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @03:18PM
(#17190793)
I think this is more associated with the fact that all communities (real communities) are small. Try a more focused interest group. /r/pathology, for example, is only a few thousand folks, mainly people working at the graduate or post-doctoral level.
Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
by jcims on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @04:18PM
(#17191374)
If you tack /comments on the end of smaller subreddits you get a vbulletin-like effect of bumping the most recent conversation to the top. This can be useful if you’re jonesing for a debate but nothing’s moving.