Secret Shuts Down

Re:Secret Shuts Down by Retra on Thursday April 30, 2015 @12:09AM (#9463302)

I wonder if anybody has made a 'choose your own community' site. You choose how many people you're given access to (say, 100, 10K, 100K, 1M+) and the only information you get is from those who are nearest to you in location and interests (based on an adjustable scoring algorithm) and anybody you've previously conversed with.

Smaller communities could make for more specialized content, and everybody living on the edge of a bubble means theres plenty of opportunity for valuing middleman-style culture sharing (AKA reposts.)

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Re:Secret Shuts Down by nostrademons on Thursday April 30, 2015 @12:42AM (#9463401)

Subreddits, right?

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Re:Secret Shuts Down by Retra on Thursday April 30, 2015 @12:47AM (#9463409)

That's a little different...

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Re:Secret Shuts Down by rjaco31 on Thursday April 30, 2015 @04:20AM (#9463873)

Reading your post a few times, I don't really see the difference. Your last sentence perfectly summarizes small subreddits and cross-posts.

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Re:Secret Shuts Down by Retra on Thursday April 30, 2015 @03:21PM (#9467072)

Reddit doesn't prevent more people from joining your sub. If you want a sub of 10K users, and 10M people join, too bad. Secondly, it doesn't filter users based on location. If I wanted to talk to the nearest 100 people, too bad. I have to make a new sub, find those people, and convince them to join.

So really, all of the two things that I suggested are things that reddit doesn't do.

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Re:Secret Shuts Down by lmm on Thursday April 30, 2015 @07:06AM (#9464297)

It's very hard to bootstrap something that doesn't just let people add all their friends (from anywhere in the world).

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