Why Reddit is broken, and how to fix it

Re:Why Reddit is broken, and how to fix it by abstractbill on Wednesday December 12, 2007 @08:21PM (#88947)

I think it was supposed to cluster users who often voted the same way, and then infer that if a user voted up an article, most people in the same cluster as that user would also like the article.

It never worked for me unfortunately.

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Re:Why Reddit is broken, and how to fix it by soundsop on Wednesday December 12, 2007 @08:54PM (#88956)

It never worked for me unfortunately.

Me neither.

I wonder why it didn't work. They certainly have enough of a dataset to play with by now. I wonder if it's computationally too intensive to continually update each user's results, or too difficult to come up with a good algorithm.

Does this "recommended page" problem bear any resemblance to the Netflix prize problem?

Creating a good recommended page would certainly lure me back to reddit.

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Re:Why Reddit is broken, and how to fix it by rms on Thursday December 13, 2007 @12:00AM (#89007)

I don't think the founders have much of an incentive to change reddit a whole lot. Also, the existing algorithm is definitely computationally intensive: it takes 12 seconds to generate a new recommended page.

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Re:Why Reddit is broken, and how to fix it by dr on Wednesday December 12, 2007 @10:59PM (#88996)

That would be a better strategy if they advertised it well. It would give users a strong incentive to vote on articles.

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