Reddit

newmug

I just registered over with Reddit, but I cant make heads or tails of it! Too many thinks to click, links everywhere, no "user CP" like on Boards, this whole "points" ballsology. Will I ever get used to it atall atall!!!! Anyone else on it?

Israel_Dagg

Same with 4chan

biko

It's like boards, but crap.

DaveNoCheese

On it like a car bonnet

Lightbulb Sun

The layout is complete ****.

nocoverart

Israel_Dagg wrote: »

Same with 4chan

That website freaks me out. I think there's an awful lot more things wrong with 4chan than just it's layout.

EoghanIRL

It lacks a sense of community and the layout is ****e

hidinginthebush

Reddit's alright. Now that you've registered you can decide which sub-reddits you want to view or not (you need to get rid of the religion and atheism ones right away, serious circlejerk). It has a big hive mentality though, I don't tend to comment on it.

I use it for the funny pictures, and the subsequent feeling of superiority when browsing YL/YL or 9gag.

im invisible

jelly bra



am i doin it right?

Where To

Forget about the rest, boards is the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOMyS78o5YI

hooradiation

biko wrote: »

It's like boards, but crap.

This makes the terrible assumption that boards isn't a festering pile of shit

newmug

hidinginthebush wrote: »

Reddit's alright. Now that you've registered you can decide which sub-reddits you want to view or not (you need to get rid of the religion and atheism ones right away, serious circlejerk). It has a big hive mentality though, I don't tend to comment on it.

I use it for the funny pictures, and the subsequent feeling of superiority when browsing YL/YL or 9gag.

How do you do that?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

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hidinginthebush

newmug wrote: »

How do you do that?

Just click on the title of a subreddit, and it'll take you in to all posts submitted there. Then there should be an unsubscribe button over on the right.

There's also a reddit enhancement suite add-on for firefox and chrome that makes browsing a bit easier.

Sky King

Twitter is the one that gets me. It's so disjointed and weird.

It looks like it should be read by a fkin machine.

orestes

hooradiation wrote: »

This makes the terrible assumption that boards isn't a festering pile of shit

And yet here you are.

Planemo

biko wrote: »

It's like boards, but crap.

But at least you can talk about

kpmg girl

over there :pac:

Holsten

I just read Reddit, it feels too big to actually join up and start posting.

hooradiation

orestes wrote: »

And yet here you are.

And so are you.

And with nearly four times my post count I'm curious as to what makes you so determined to continue interacting with people on here.

Self flagellation or simply a lack of redeemable qualities?

FoxT

Reddit is, IMO, better than boards in some ways.

- you can stay on top of all trending stuff there
- there are many good, well - modded forums there

and, they dont cower and run for cover when something like KPMG girl turns up.

OTOH
most of reddit , 99% of it, is utter rubbish, imo.
The 1% is valuable, but you need to work at it to find it. Google is easier.

OTOOH (On the other, other Hand)

Boards is better than reddit in some ways, too.

- When something like KPMG girl turns up, boards will take a civilised position on the issue. Reddit won't.

- Boards has many well -modded, helpful forums, with knowledgeable, committed contributors, on a wide variety of issues.

- Boards has much better layout, threads are soo much easier to follow.

and

- Boards makes a real contribution to the quality of many peoples lives...SSF is an obvious one, but there are threads in PI or TLL, and in other places, where it is clear that many people are helped, inspired, supported.

- Reddit & other sites do this also, I am sure, but boards , for me, is small enough that I feel a certain sense of belonging...which is nice.


-FoxT

hidinginthebush

To add to the above, the one thing that irks me most about Reddit is that it is (seemingly) populated by largely American users. Generally not a bad thing, but there is that over whelming "Support the troops" attitude when anything remotely related to the US military pops up.

the_syco

If you think Boards is bad, don't google lemon party - it makes boards look good!

AlmightyCushion

the_syco wrote: »

If you think Boards is bad, don't google lemon party - it makes boards look good!

I like lemons and I like parties. What could possibly go wrong?

keith16

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I like lemons and I like parties. What could possibly go wrong?

OH MY GOD, THE HUMANITY!

Sky King

Holsten wrote: »

I just read Reddit,.

You just read it, as it were.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Sky King wrote: »

You just read it, as it were.

You should change your first name to Wan.

gerrowadat

Reddit is ok, it's a little easier to keep on top of than AH since you can track where new posts and comments are, and the karma system means bollocks posts sometimes get hidden.


Actually, I found it pretty much unusable until I installed Reddit Enhancement Suite - its a browser plugin that makes the site about 1000% more usable.

r/ireland is ok, it has some pretty bad reddiquette on it (you're supposed to upvote good-quality content even if you disagree with it, but people just end up upvoting and downvoting stuff based on if they agree).

Kylo Ren

People who complain about the layout, use it for more than a bloody week and you get used to it.

humbert

Would it not be better to take up drugs? Also a good way to waste time but you might end up with some interesting life experiences.

Ava_e

Love it, use it a lot . Lots of variety, last year alone it had over 37 billion page views with 260 million comments so it's never boring.

The obsession with karma points gets old very fast though, but choose your sub reddits well and it's happy days.

Also the iPad app alien blue is excellent. Takes away the migraine for the eyes effect you get when using the desktop version.

Tipsy McSwagger

Reddit is brilliant, especially the atheism, wtf, TIL and IAMA sub reddits.

omahaid

Boards gets very repetitive, I mean here is the last thread on Reddit http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=78479893

Reddit is brill imo, moderation is a lot less heavy handed which I prefer. Took me a bit of getting used to it as well OP! TIL is a great subreddit.

Rheo

r/circlejerk is pretty lulzy. And accurate.

Also sticking "le" in front of everything isn't funny.

R0ot

biko wrote: »

It's like boards, but crap.

Mate, don't hate. Reddit has it's benefits where boards does not. The free flow nature of it is refreshing some times and like boards it has it's own trolls also, some being fire retardant like certain ones on boards also.

stevenmu

/r/bestof is a great way to keep track of all the good stuff going on, without drowning in cat pictures.

/r/truereddit has all the interesting articles, insightful comments and intelligent debate that reddit was known for before Digg imploded and took the rest of the site over.

Lately /r/tifu has been the stand out subreddit for me, with very funny posts along with the single best counter on the internet.

/r/Ireland can be good at times, just make sure to bring your pocket fish.

Israel_Dagg

omahaid wrote: »

Boards gets very repetitive, I mean here is the last thread on Reddit http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=78479893

Reddit is brill imo, moderation is a lot less heavy handed which I prefer. Took me a bit of getting used to it as well OP! TIL is a great subreddit.

Boards is sooooo repetitive! I mean, how long ago was there a "interesting facts" thread. Not too long ago! Same with the best username. Same thing over and over. I don't know how guys who are posting here for 10 years stick it!

A reason why zombie threads are locked are that of they weren't the posters who originally posted in the first thread wouldn't post in the new one! The excuse of "the posters view may have changed" doesn't cut as threads like "What height are you?" are locked.

Boards would then die out and the owners wouldn't get money.

Tar.Aldarion

Reddit is awesome because of the good stuff always going to the top/comments/posts and you can filter what you are interested in really easily. Boards has more community but reddit is more interesting reading. If I want to go read something interesting/funny fast I go to reddit, it makes me laugh all day long. There is a lot of crap but you can downvote it/hide it with a click.

It's extremely easy to get around, has a forum for everything you could possibly be interested in with good content and RES is amazing
http://redditenhancementsuite.com/


It gets a lot of good done like this http://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/160avc/thank_you_rstartrek/
Actually gets some amazing things done for charity and helping people etc.

OU812

Love reddit. Finding it a lot better than round here. Probably spend about 60% of the time I would have spent on boards over there now.

If you're getting an app, get the alien blue one instea of the official one. It's a lot better.

Biggins

Its a confusing layout system.
A mess.

whitewave

I love Reddit, but there's so much on it I don't really know where to start, and end up on the same pages the whole time - AskReddit, Funny, WTF...and then Aww, to rid myself of the WTF nightmares.

Apparently there are some seriously f**ked up threads on it though, I think someone posted here about the guy who got exposed on it before?

Zascar

Reddit is good but I don't have the patience to browse it all looking for good stuff. I like www.imgur.com for browsing images.

I also really like www.quora.com - it's a basic questions and answers site, but the answers are really good, often from official or very qualified people on the subjects at hand. Best of all there is none of the your ma, blast it with piss etc.

im invisible

Midnight!

Biggins

im invisible wrote: »

Midnight!

token101

the_syco wrote: »

If you think Boards is bad, don't google lemon party - it makes boards look good!

FFS what else am I going to do now you've mentioned it.

Edit: I saw related searches and left that well alone

Ponster

Some of the 'forums' I'm I'm subscribed to are:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/

http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Genealogy/

http://www.reddit.com/r/trueMusic/

You just need to install the RES as Tar mentioned and then pick and choose the topics that interest you. The format makes a lot more sense when you've done this. For an unregistered first-time user the Front Page just looks like a lot like AfterHours and so can easily give you a bad impression of the rest of the site.


While it is a BBS, I don't really think you can compare it to Boards.ie and say that one is better than the other.

Rubber_Soul

It's a great site once, as others have mentioned, you install Reddit Enhancement Suite. Once you find the smaller sub-reddits that are relevant to your interests it's brilliant

One thing though, if anyone starts posting on there remember you downvote comments that are off topic, not ones you disagree with.

AngryLips

Keno 92 wrote: »

People who complain about the layout, use it for more than a bloody week and you get used to it.

it's the same problem with Android, I've used it but don't get it because it's not iOS

Tar.Aldarion

Zascar wrote: »

Reddit is good but I don't have the patience to browse it all looking for good stuff. I like www.imgur.com for browsing images.

I also really like www.quora.com - it's a basic questions and answers site, but the answers are really good, often from official or very qualified people on the subjects at hand. Best of all there is none of the your ma, blast it with piss etc.

It's easy...think of something you like, type reddit/r/<thingyoulike> and it is a forum about the thing you like. You can subscribe/unsubscribe to whatever you want so you don't have to go through anything at all. The longer you use the site, the better and more personalised it gets.

Ponster

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

It's easy...think of something you like, type reddit/r/<thingyoulike> and it is a forum about the thing you like.

And if your selection doesn't exist such as http://www.reddit.com/r/boardsie then there's nothing stopping you from creating and modding it.

Tar.Aldarion

Another thing for people saying it's hard to navigate, I have all the forums I like across the top, just like boards. ANd I don't have to use a drop down, just click it.

Madam_X

hooradiation wrote: »

And so are you.

And with nearly four times my post count I'm curious as to what makes you so determined to continue interacting with people on here.

Self flagellation or simply a lack of redeemable qualities?

But they didn't express the view that Boards is abysmal like you did. The questions you ask above could be applicable to you - even if you don't have many posts for the length of time you're here, you still have over 3,000 of them. Are you just unable to take moderate criticism without a load of disproportionate venom in return?