It was quite a while ago. It was when Victoria (?) I think who got fired and a lot of redditors as a protest threatened to leave. I and a few found hubski. Though it was big it didn't even seem to make a dent on reddit. No suprise there.
Any of you ex redditors still here? Ever go back to reddit? What do you enjoy the most, reddit or hubski?
I came here from reddit the a couple years ago or so. There are a few things that a larger user base does better than smaller ones, so I retain accounts at both sites. Here at hubski, a smaller group of users means more sophisticated conversations than you'll see on the average subreddit. I do like the encouragement by hubski to subscribe to individuals, though I worry about a future dominated by a handful of users here. The subreddit scheme is something that I enjoy quite a bit. Hubski's tag pages are nice but they are defined by the hashtags that the poster lists at the time of posting. Therefore, less of a unique community grows around and idea like at r/birdswitharms or r/knifeclub.
You can't dominate Hubski if one can also follow tags and unless one follows tags completely dominated by a single person (which is what #russiabynatives turned into: I was certain when creating it that there are more people from Russia signed to Hubski). Also, for as long as I've been here, some tags have been pretty solid, like #hubskioriginalmusicclub or #askhubski/tellhubski. They're not unlike subreddits but are more fluild. On an unrelated note: These turn into Reddit links and their /r/ brethren don't? I don't know whom to shout out to for this particular matter, so - mk? thenewgreen?r/birdswitharms or r/knifeclub
We don't have markdown for subreddit links, but it could be done. You have to do the regular markdown: /r/ImaginaryCastles
I just used the mark up tip with linked [text]...(linkedtext.whatever)
We have had about four big reddit migrations over the last five years. I think the one you are referring to was the largest and by my estimation the best. There have been a couple that were really disruptive. What's cool is that each time we get new functionality on the site based on solving problems that arise. I think we are about due. It's been quiet over at reddit of late.
1,159 days ago I signed up in one of them. It is funny to see so many reddit usernames in there and the quality, or lack thereof, of the thread. I think I have seen one person post here recently that was also in that thread.
I go back to Reddit (it's spelled with the first capital now) for a few things I can't find anywhere else. /r/GetMotivated provides quite an insight into work ethic that I encourage in myself; /r/incremental_games provides an array of... guess what, as well as ideas how to develop them (which is important because I have plans for a few); /r/dota2 gives me the art and, sometimes, the lore... You get the point. I used to spend time with /r/worldbuilding, but I've lost interest over time. It is by far the biggest worldbuilding community I've found so far - there are stokes of it on Hubski, but it's not going to be big - so I might get back to it in time. From what I've noticed, Reddit is about approval while Hubski is about discussion. On Reddit, people make jokes, and they're often really good, but they add nothing to the conversation or to enlighten the conversee. You can't ask on something in a reply and expect it to be answered in a serious manner; the chances are, as far as I'm concerned, 50/50. Hubski has rewired that expectation for me, and it's been a boon for me.
Oh!! That's not when I migrated but I just remembered when I did migrate. It was something to do with Saydrah? I vaguely remember she got a lot of flak from redditors for something or other, I wasn't interested in the "scandal" at all (can't even remember what it was) but someone mentioned Hubski and I ended up liking it soooo... I find it funny how sometimes switching social media is less driven by anger or dissatisfaction and more by just seeing another place and preferring it... I think that's how it should be.
This is similar to how I came here. I was in the Victoria migration, but I didn't know her or even know she existed. The furor helped me see how dissatisfied I was with Reddit, and jokes about "Reddit alternative" surging on Google made me search the same, and I landed here. Just having no downvote option made me like Hubski more, and I'm really happy with the interface and discussions here. I only maintain a throwaway account on Reddit. I don't contribute, but I poke around a bit. Reddit feels like MySpace did in 2008. Everyone is there, and it's kind of garbage because of it. Hubski, then, is Facebook in 2008. A user base that isn't out of control, and a good interface.
What's an SEO? Google just returns "search engine optimization" for me. When Reddit gets on a roll, it's pretty horrible and sexist. I liken it to 4chan but with user names and some minimal moderation.
I still maintain my Reddit account - for the weightlifting/bodybuilding and sport subs that I subscribe too, they're a smaller community much like this so nothing is really lost there. To be honest I read more here, the level of discussion is brilliant and I don't have much expertise in anything commonly discussed here, so I keep quiet and take it all in.
I don't bother to make an account on Reddit but I visit a few of the subs there that align with my hobbies as well as subs about fitness. Well except r/fitness as I find that just the same stuff all the time but I enjoy more specific subs like r/flexibility. I would say I enjoy them equally since whenever I'm on Reddit I only look at stuff that interests me and here I like the quality of discussions.
Same. Kind of. I do have a Reddit account, but I don't post or comment with it often. I just use it to keep track of subreddits that align with my hobbies and interests. While some of them could run parallel to the defaults, they're more specialized.
Sometimes I think about getting an account so I can just follow the subs I want but I don't follow enough to make it worth it really. I find the more specialized ones tend to have better information because the people who really know their stuff are there.
though it was less of a migration and more buying a holiday home.
I love this. "Hubski, your holiday home." lil
Reddit had a native upvote/downvote system since the very beginning. Are you sure you're not confusing it with something else? some other system, perhaps?the native one wasn't introduced until some time after RES's being forcefully disabled IIRC.
I came to Hubski around that time, but not because of anything to do with Victoria. Basically, I got frustrated with the quality of discussion and the more vocally bigoted part of the user base. I don't use my account anymore, but I still browse a few subreddits on occasion.
I'm still here from that migration. There's a couple subs that have lovely communities and I can learn about interests/events in my life. I wouldn't say I enjoy one over the other. Reddit is convenient because of its sheer size and easily digestible content, but the community and discussions are great here. I feel like I can actually make a contribution. Most boycotts seem like silly tantrums a tween would throw, as opposed to a legitimate attempt to shut down something harmful.
I came over in one of those migrations, but still spend a lot of time at Reddit. I spend a lot of time frustrated with Hubski's nonstandard markup (at least Markdown is somewhat of a standard, even if Reddit/StackOverflow/Github all have their own flavors). I also observe that despite attempts at technological differentiation, Hubski's only advantages and disadvantages are those of any smaller user base.