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Re:Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months by drivebyacct2 on Friday August 26, 2011 @02:53PM (#2929505)
Only posted an hour and already the same, predictable comments. People, please take the time to explore other subreddits. If you stay subscribed to reddit.com, pics, politics and other various default subreddits, you're not going to enjoy yourself (unless you liked digg v4).

Also, I have no idea why reddit defaults to "top" for comment sorting. The experience is much less gimmicky when you sort comments by "best". They're usually more relevant and less meta/jokey. (edit, I appear to have been mistaken on this, I was just sure when I created a new account a while back it had defaulted to 'top'. Oh well, something to keep in mind anyhow.)

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Re:Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months by jedberg on Friday August 26, 2011 @03:58PM (#2929757)
The default is best, but if you've ever sorted by "top", it will remain "top" until you change it back. It's a long standing bug. :)
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Re:Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months by raldi on Friday August 26, 2011 @04:04PM (#2929779)
Actually, one of the new guys fixed that. Hooray for progress!
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Re:Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months by jedberg on Friday August 26, 2011 @05:10PM (#2929976)
Oh yeah! It was in the changelog. I forgot, since I'm no longer responsible for memorizing the changelog. ;)
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Re:Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months by esrauch on Friday August 26, 2011 @04:04PM (#2929781)
Sounds like a long standing feature to me; sticky settings. Anyone who prefers setting X over the default shouldn't be forced to change it every time they view a page.
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Re:Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months by jedberg on Friday August 26, 2011 @05:12PM (#2929983)
The bug was that a GET request was causing an update, which shouldn't happen because then you end up updating your settings just by clicking on a link, usually inadvertently.
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