Reddit Vs Boards... what a difference!

The One Doctor

Had a first post on Reddit yesterday (different username and not a general topic thread) and wow the difference. Sensible answers, reasoned debate and no stupid comments. What an amazing experience compared to Boards. No professional trolls either!

Opinions?

Whereisgalway

The One Doctor wrote: »

Had a first post on Reddit yesterday (different username and not a general topic thread) and wow the difference. Sensible answers, reasoned debate and no stupid comments. What an amazing experience compared to Boards. No professional trolls either!

Opinions?

Have you link to that!

Professor Genius

The One Doctor wrote: »

Had a first post on Reddit yesterday (different username and not a general topic thread) and wow the difference. Sensible answers, reasoned debate and no stupid comments. What an amazing experience compared to Boards. No professional trolls either!

Opinions?

I’m eating my breakfast Kate

Muppet Man

The One Doctor wrote: »

Had a first post on Reddit yesterday (different username and not a general topic thread) and wow the difference. Sensible answers, reasoned debate and no stupid comments. What an amazing experience compared to Boards. No professional trolls either!

Opinions?

Sounds like your trying to troll boards.ie

greenttc

HATE the layout in reddit, chronological order makes far more sense to me

Sephiroth_dude

Layout is ****e.

pixelburp

Pics or it didn't happen. And needless to say the relative volume of sense depends on the forum; I'm fairly sure we're not talking r/the_donald for instance... Reddit is mostly white noise in my experience

Stheno

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Layout is ****e.

Agreed

mikhail

Reddit skews younger, and has plenty of morons too. Some of the subreddits are good, most are okay, some are weird, creepy, gross, insular, or hateful. It's a big slice of life, astroturfed to within an inch of its life.

o1s1n

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Layout is ****e.

Yeah I find it tends to lead to the most agreeable posts at the top, meaning it becomes a total echo chamber.

Albhabeth

I just find reddit a bit... American? In a bad way.

Paddy Cow

The One Doctor wrote: »

Had a first post on Reddit yesterday (different username and not a general topic thread) and wow the difference. Sensible answers, reasoned debate and no stupid comments. What an amazing experience compared to Boards. No professional trolls either!

Opinions?

Are you sure it was Reddit you were on?

Sephiroth_dude

o1s1n wrote: »

Yeah I find it tends to lead to the most agreeable posts at the top, meaning it becomes a total echo chamber.

Stheno wrote: »

Agreed

I find there's no sense of community either on Reddit and I find it hard to navigate to find what I'm looking for.

Harry Palmr

The post ordering by both chronology and up/down votes means it's an awkward browse.

Then you have the thread ordering by hot, new, controversial etc. So some threads get killed quickly.

loyatemu

The One Doctor wrote: »

Had a first post on Reddit yesterday (different username and not a general topic thread) and wow the difference. Sensible answers, reasoned debate and no stupid comments. What an amazing experience compared to Boards. No professional trolls either!

Opinions?

you know you've posted this on After Hours?

Del.Monte

Reddit second only to Facebook in its user unfriendly interface. Think the Irish Rail website only a hundred times worse. No thanks.

Tom Mann Centuria

I quite like reddit (after not being a fan, you do get used to the weird layout) but it has issues too. Perfectly reasonable comments get blasted into oblivion with down votes, you see the same story/photo on a weekly basis, and sometimes daily basis and it is still very American-centric, including the Irish forums (or reddit equivalent).

Its also just as heavily moderated (in the reddits I visit) as Boards used to be, with less ways to feedback on the moderation (that I've seen, maybe I just haven't found them).

Ready4Boarding

Pros and cons to each. If you’re just looking for general chat and banter on news, reddit is probably better than After Hours. Posters do seem, generally, to be saner and the ranking format means that threads disappear before they become stale. But some of the long-running threads on Boards are often the best and the Boards format means that late comments are still relevant. Reddit discussion is news-driven whereas Boards is more about a general topic of discussion.

Specialist subforums on Boards blow reddit out of the water when the topic of discussion is something technical like Luas extension, etc.

loyatemu

Ready4Boarding wrote: »

Specialist subforums on Boards blow reddit out of the water when the topic of discussion is something technical Irish like Luas extension, etc.

Boards is obviously better for Irish topics as they're all crammed into one subreddit on Reddit. Ditto for anything requiring input from Irish people, such as where to buy some DIY widget or which mobile network to use.

Anything non-Irish I'd imagine Reddit is superior - if I want to discuss the Beatles I'll get a lot more responses on r/beatles than on the Classic Rock forum here.

antimatterx

greenttc wrote: »

HATE the layout in reddit, chronological order makes far more sense to me

You can sort by new if you wish

sk8erboii

greenttc wrote: »

HATE the layout in reddit, chronological order makes far more sense to me

https://gyazo.com/e436716f6c3aff1f63dbdc867b0798e5

Jesus. Old people really dont belong on the internet

BeerWolf

Reddit's format sucks...

Reddit is a great site, but I don't think it's really a direct competitor to boards, in the way that I view it.

Reddit is a great site for general topics or information, but as it's so heavily US-based, it's not great for more specific information or details, and naturally isn't much use for local help or assistance. The order of comments also makes it a bit echo-chamber-y as all you see is what the 'upvoters' on reddit want you to see, as anything that's viewed as an unpopular opinion is dismissed into the oblivion and never to be seen again.

On boards, if I decide to make a random post on a random thread, or update a thread with some new information, it's easily done and easily viewed. Whether you like or dislike the information, it's there to view, regardless.

I tend to spend more time browsing in general on reddit, whereas on boards.ie i spend more time looking at specific forums. However, I probably have made about 10 comments in a year of being on Reddit, so I'm not really one to contribute much, but on Boards.ie I would post a lot more often as I find that giving advice or asking questions generally is seen by more people and I can help more people (or more people can help me) in relation to specific issues.

o1s1n

sk8erboii wrote: »

https://gyazo.com/e436716f6c3aff1f63dbdc867b0798e5

Jesus. Old people really dont belong on the internet

People tend not to read it like that though and only see/respond to the top comments.

Thelonious Monk

/r/ireland is good at some things but the anti brit IRA memes are insufferable after a while. I think a lot of posters there are still in school.

Ready4Boarding

loyatemu wrote: »

Boards is obviously better for Irish topics as they're all crammed into one subreddit on Reddit. Ditto for anything requiring input from Irish people, such as where to buy some DIY widget or which mobile network to use.

Anything non-Irish I'd imagine Reddit is superior - if I want to discuss the Beatles I'll get a lot more responses on r/beatles than on the Classic Rock forum here.

My interpretation is that the comparison is between r/ireland and Boards.ie.

greenttc

greenttc wrote: »

HATE the layout in reddit, chronological order makes far more sense to me

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Layout is ****e.

Stheno wrote: »

Agreed

BeerWolf wrote: »

Reddit's format sucks...

Sort by new. It's honestly not that difficult.

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The One Doctor wrote: »

Had a first post on Reddit yesterday (different username and not a general topic thread) and wow the difference. Sensible answers, reasoned debate and no stupid comments. What an amazing experience compared to Boards. No professional trolls either!

Opinions?

There are plenty of forums on Boards where you'll find your sensible answers and proper debate. You can't judge the quality of Boards on After Hours. AH, quite properly, serves a particular purpose and niche within the myriad of forums.

If you're posting in or reading AH you know rightly what to expect.

TheValeyard

Reddit is pretty awesome. Love the amount of subreddits and comments.

greenttc

Omackeral wrote: »

Sort by new. It's honestly not that difficult.

I know all about the ability to sort in different ways but its still not all chronological when you take into account reply's to comments etc and having to open posts etc, the whole layout is just annoying and badly presented in my opinion

wakka12

Pros and cons to each. Reddit has a much bigger user base and so many more subreddits and contributions because of that. To me though I prefer how much more personal boards feels because it's mostly Irish people posting