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blackfox026  ·  3704 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Any other reddit exiles ?

Not an exile, but I was linked here from a Reddit post and it looked interesting. I'm pretty disappointed in the Reddit mods, though it didn't affect me too much--I've tailored my main page to mostly academic/philosophical/discussion related material to filter out all the racism and asshattery that plagues the front page. There's still a surprising amount of good material there if you know where to look, but I feel like the large communities are just worthless.

I'm hoping JakobVirgil's comment about this scheme leading to fragmentation at larger scales is true. The biggest problem with reddit is that once a community reaches a certain size, it almost invariably loses quality as its content is diluted by garbage. A couple subreddits such as /r/askscience and /r/askhistorians avoided this by moderating heavily, but when you moderate news subreddits heavily you get extremely biased filters on your information.

Anyway, I dig the setup and the users seem pretty friendly. I hope an app comes out so I can waste more time here.





elizabeth  ·  3704 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No app yet, but there is a mobile version: http://hubski.com/m/pub?id=123245

wario  ·  3703 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If someone ever does make an app. Alienblue has to be the model it is so superior to the android ones. Also I think the dark theme on this site is gorgeous so could that be included. I wish I had millions of dollars to donate as I know how hard it must be to get an app off the ground because someone would maybe make an amazing android one and immediately someone would ask for ios.. Then I know I want to use this site on my ipad, so an ipad friendly one would be needed. Lot of work

So...get going, I expect it on my desk by Monday