Comments on: Reddit for Digg users: A tutorial

By: geekygirl23

geekygirl23 — Sat, 05 May 2007 08:48:53 +0000

Muvy.org sucks ass! Stop spamming your lame ass site here dude, you missed the boat by about a year. Reddit doesn't censor anything, if I want to call you a retarded asshole there I can.

Dipshit

By: loloboy

loloboy — Sat, 05 May 2007 03:17:50 +0000

DUPE

By: Peter Hosey

Peter Hosey — Fri, 04 May 2007 22:54:34 +0000

Random bashing of Bush is in fact popular on Reddit, especially if it's funny.

Well, yeah. Funny does beat random in the how-to-vote-on-your-comment flow-chart. ☺

By: SouldrinK

SouldrinK — Fri, 04 May 2007 22:50:21 +0000

I have been using reddit for a little over a year now - but more in a "leech" sense - I only use the rss feed, and almost never directly visit the site. It's the content and speed at which it reaches the feed that most impresses me. It's a wonderful idea, and falls right into the social-success many companies are finding. It's good to know there are people out there encouraging and helping when they can to make sure the system is as honed as possible! :)

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 04 May 2007 22:41:34 +0000

Muvy.org for Reddit users: Enjoy uncensored content because Muvy is not owned by a mainsteam media monolith like Reddit is.

By: PENIX

PENIX — Fri, 04 May 2007 19:32:05 +0000

I've been a digg user for about a year now. I just started using reddit today. Reddit is considerably more ugly, but much more effective.

By: mike

mike — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:15:19 +0000

> Reddit seems to be taking a cue from Google vs Yahoo! and keeping its simple look. Good plan.

Not really. It's taking its cues from craigslist.

By: Jerry Kindall

Jerry Kindall — Fri, 04 May 2007 17:35:05 +0000

Random bashing of Bush is in fact popular on Reddit, especially if it's funny. People will forgive a lot of random posts if they're funny enough.

I agree that the spartan UI as a feature. Another site that a similar approach has worked well for is MetaFilter.

By: jack

jack — Fri, 04 May 2007 17:35:02 +0000

I didn't understand half of what he said, but i love this site!

By: Byron

Byron — Fri, 04 May 2007 17:11:55 +0000

Reddit's UI attracts the kind of people we want in the community - those who are concerned with substance over appearance.

By: Peter Hosey

Peter Hosey — Fri, 04 May 2007 17:04:31 +0000

It's a feature. I was shocked when I saw the current Digg look for the first time (especially having been a Reddit user for some time at that time). It's sooo cluttered now.

Reddit seems to be taking a cue from Google vs Yahoo! and keeping its simple look. Good plan.

By: Mike Malone

Mike Malone — Fri, 04 May 2007 17:01:14 +0000

Excellent tutorial. I've read the Redditquette page, but it doesn't do justice to some of the "social norms" of the Reddit community that you've brought up here. The non-transparent nature of Digg's moderation system has really started to piss me off lately, and Reddit looks like an excellent alternative.

What are your thoughts on the Reddit UI? I'm not the type of person who would decide whether to use a website based solely on its UI (at least not consciously), but I know a lot of people do. Do you think the Reddit UI is hindering the site's growth, or do you consider the simplicity of UI as a feature?

By: Danny Lockard

Danny Lockard — Fri, 04 May 2007 16:52:20 +0000

Thank you for posting this :-)

By: brant

brant — Fri, 04 May 2007 15:43:10 +0000

Excellent article. I have been using digg and reddit for awhile now, but its been pretty obvious that reddit is the more powerful one.

I will definitely be taking a closer look at "Markdown". I always wondered what reddit used.