Many of you reading this post today will have come from Reddit.
If you are looking for thoughtful conversation, you have found the right place. That is and will remain to be our goal.
Many of you might be looking for a Reddit replacement. For some of you, Hubski will serve that purpose reasonably well. For some of you, Hubski will not work well as a replacement for Reddit.
I started Hubski about five years ago with the goal of creating a place where quality discussion could thrive. Three others (thenewgreen, insomniasexx, and forwardslash) are now part of team Hubski. Together, and with a lot of help from the Hubski community, we have come pretty close to achieving that goal.
If you are interested in trying Hubski out, it might be worth reading about our moderation (each user is his/her own mod), about our privacy policy (we log next to nothing), and about our stance on personal content (we welcome it).
Like most things worthwhile, Hubski takes some getting used to. It will take some time to discover all of the functionality, and to get a feel for how the site works. Feel free to ask us and community for tips and clarification.
If you are looking for a place to create or participate in a community like /r/fatpeoplehate, you won’t like Hubski. We want to host content that is worthy of thoughtful discussion. For that reason, we may remove content that only serves for titillation. We have always been clear on that, and we don’t want to pull a bait and switch on any one. That is not a cool thing to do.
Every community site must decide what kind of content they want to host, and they should be clear about it. Our litmus test for content is this:
If the content can be considered to be a topic for thoughtful discussion by a reasonable person, it should stay on Hubski.
Of course, the application of that measure can be debated, but it is up to you to determine if we do a good job at it. If you think we aren’t doing a good job, let us know.
Our servers are under a lot of strain right now, so the site is slower than normal. We are actively working on it.
Welcome to Hubski.
kleinbl00's Top 10 Travel Tips for Redditors Abroad
1) There is no default content. You must build your own feed. As pointed out by usuallymatt, you are following only #newtohubski initially. This can be changed in your settings. I wholeheartedly recommend viewing "badges" and finding topics and users that interest you.
2) Your user experience is highly customizable. Your front page is not my front page is not my style is not your style. Click on your username (upper left) and mess about.
3) Tags are not subreddits. A post can be a part of three different tags, while subreddits are exclusive (but prone to duplication/crossposting - crossposting is not a thing on Hubski). Further, tags have no moderators. Further, nothing has moderators.
4) Because your user experience is likely to be more heavily driven by the people you interact with than the subjects you interact with, it's a really good idea to be civil. The people you are rude to will be rude to you next week and you'll find that nobody wants to chat with you.
5) There is no banning, shadow- or otherwise. Act obnoxiously enough and people will slowly start ignoring you and muting you. In other words, the bigger dick you are, the fewer opportunities will be granted to you to be a dick. Fortunately this takes a while and most of us are forgiving (and muting and ignoring are 100% reversible).
6) LURK MOAR. Seriously. This is a phrase that has largely been forgotten by everyone who grew up after AOL but there's a lot to be learned from simply observing for a while. If you just can't restrain yourself, that's okay, too - all of us have the option to "filter" your posts and comments for the first 48 hours of your account's existence. Don't take this personally. We just find that we can participate on Hubski in subjects other than Reddit when we give you guys a little space. And that's really what we're doing - giving you space.
7) The markup is weird. "markup tips" in the upper right of any comment box will explain what's weird about it, but not why. The "why" is because this is a hobby project, not a silicon valley social media giant valued at a half billion dollars.
8) Clicking on a username will tell you a lot more about a user on Hubski than on Reddit. Click on your own name, for example, and notice that you can actually fill out a bio. You don't have to, but it does underline the point that Hubski's is not a throwaway culture.
9) There are no downvotes and "sharing" is NOT the same thing as upvoting. When you click the dot, it means "I want my friends to see this" not "I approve."
10) Bad URLs will give you Zork references. Fuck yeah, Zork.
Enjoy your stay.