So many people coming to see what the fuss is all about. I don't think there's too much to worry about though. There were quite a few comments saying how much they preferred Reddit or what they didn't like about Hubski. I'm not all sure that Hubski has any appeal to the average "default user" or Reddit. Sure there might be a few extra members but I don't see the place getting overrun any time soon.
This is perfect then. I was getting tired of Reddit's pic-centric attitude. I slowly started to use it more and more for news and general discussion. I'm glad I found this place. It just needs to be a bit more lively here. Looks like a very small community...
Likewise. I'm new thanks to that reddit post but if hubski proves to be a better community for me than reddit, I'll gladly switch and contribute as much as I can.
We have a lot of lurkers and a small group of regular, very active commenters. I don't know why we have so many lurkers, maybe they just join and then sit back. I'm interested to see what will become of this. Before this I think I generally 'knew' everyone who commented regularly on the topics I followed. I am going to have to learn new people and names. I feel a bit trepidatious.
A large part of Reddit's following comes from the viewership of images (obvious popularity of image-based subreddits). Hubski is far more geared towards text and writing as opposed to visual stimuli - that isn't to ignore all of the awesome articles and photos that are posted. I guess it's apparent that Hubski values a textual community over, essentially, an image-based gallery, maybe? That last statement was definitely an oversimplification.
I don't mind pics as long as there's something to them. The thing I like about Hubski is that if someone posts a picture they usually follow it up with something that leads to a real conversation.
reddit is useful in the way that it has so many varieties of subreddits with decent numbers of members. reddit has thousands of different communities, and it is the central hub for many of those communities. Everyone has their own likes and dislikes, and reddit can offer you a place to discuss them. You don't have to subscribe to those default subreddits if you don't want to. That's the beauty of reddit. None but a few subreddits that I am subscribed to have pictures. And most of those pictures are educational. The subreddits I'm subscribed to are generally above average people, and they know how to make a great community. Some examples: /r/programming, /r/startrek, /r/books, and /r/netsec. Those are all great communities. People generally look at the defaults and think that all of reddit is like that. However, that is simply not the case. I like Hubski; it's a great site. However, the only thing I see that Hubski could offer is an alternative to popular subreddits. That's not necessarily a bad thing, though. I joined Hubski for an alternative to subreddits like /r/AskReddit. (I'm so tired of all those pun threads.)
We have #askhubski if you like thought-provoking questions. It's pretty good and it doesn't suffer from the r/AskReddit problems of a) "I want to tell a story so I'm going to ask a question so I can tell you the story in the textblock!" or b) "I'm going to ask an extreme question most of you can't respond to, and the ones who do may just be making shit up." So far we are avoiding circlejerkish qualities. I would like to not see a pun thread here, ever. Those have been beaten to death with me - those, and novelty accounts. Please, please no novelty accounts.
I actually just wandered over here from Reddit, I'm curious to how you found this site. I've been wanting to find smaller communities to be a part of, but I don't know where to look.
Try following different tags that strike your interests. I started following people that posted things I liked in the tags I followed. I think that's a good way to start with the site.
About ... 8 months ago (?) hubski was mentioned at the top of an r/theoryofreddit post and for about two weeks afterward certain parts of the site were a mess. The ignore and mute and so on completely proved their worth and everything equalized, but there was definitely a noticeable effect.
Has there been any lasting effect? Has the site changed much since the last mention? I'm really interested in all of this.
What I see hasn't! What I see is different from what you see, and mk sees, and so on. That's one of the beauties of hubski. Influxes like this have proved overwhelmingly positive, because only the best of those who flood in stay. We got some of my favorite hubski users from that r/tor post.
I remember joining after that r/tor post. I really wished I had put the time into Hubski that I'm putting into it now. I'm really enjoying this place.
I've already been reading more than I ever had without Hubski. I think with Reddit, other time wasting content was too readily available. I unsubbed from pretty much all of the defaults but I still wasn't getting all out of Reddit that I should. I think the main difference now is that Hubski gives me a reason to want to spend twenty minutes reading through an article.
I think the stongest point of Hubski is that the content is quite limited. I can't spend hours scrolling headlines like I did at Reddit. Often enough, after a page or so I've seen most of the content of the day. That means that nearly every post gets my full attention: I want to participate in the discussions, so I want to read the articles. And when I'm out of content, conversation is always possible and encouraged.was too readily available
No, not basically that. It is an aspect of the greater picture, but to reduce my post to that would lose the nuance. The difference is the value I give to a post, not just the value that the post already has. Reddit might have the exact same article, but I give it much more thought here than on there, because I know that it might spawn a good discussion. Simplifying a statement always reduces some quality, but if you simplify too much you might lose it completely.
The good users stayed. There was a huge influx of posts and circlejerking posts that no one really noticed. They all got bored and left in a week but a number of people stayed and are still here and are the best.